Labour Cabinet Minister Smears Nigel Farage as a “Fascist”
Nigel Farage would be a fascist prime minister, the Culture Secretary has suggested. The Telegraph has more.
Lisa Nandy accused the Reform UK leader of trying to scapegoat people with “different-coloured skin” because he has “no answers” to Britain’s problems.
In an interview with Sky News, Ms Nandy refused to be drawn on reports that she had told Cabinet colleagues there was a prospect of a fascist government led by Mr Farage.
But she suggested she would use that term, adding: “I’ve got a lot of experience of living with the consequences of othering and people who are trying to divide us from one another.
“And I guess I would just say that if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, in my experience it usually is a duck.”
Mr Farage, whose party has a large lead in the polls, has previously been likened to Adolf Hitler by figures on the hard Left, including Zarah Sultana, the Your Party co-founder, and John McDonnell, the former Shadow Chancellor.
Reform has also claimed that it is increasingly seeing examples of schools comparing its policies to fascism.
Speaking to Sky News’ Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips, Ms Nandy was asked if it was true that she had warned colleagues that there was a “prospect of a fascist government” under Mr Farage’s leadership.
She replied: “Well, you wouldn’t expect me to repeat what we said confidentially at Cabinet. But to be really clear about what I think about Reform and Nigel Farage, I think we’ve been here many times in history before, certainly when I was growing up in the 1980s in Manchester.
“I come from a mixed race background. I’ve seen this playbook before, where people try to scapegoat and demonise other people, try to pit us against one another and divide us from one another, try to make people feel people who are somehow different to you pose some kind of threat.
“And they do it for one reason and one reason alone – because they have no answers to problems that the country faces. It takes this country to some very dark and dangerous places, and I think we should have no truck with it at all.”
The Culture Secretary, whose father is Indian, added: “The truth is that it’s not migrants, in the end, it’s not people with different-coloured skin who are responsible for the problems that this country has.
“It’s one group of people and one group of people alone – and they’re the people that he’s welcoming with open arms to his own party.”
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Well, I lived in a communist country for the first 24 years of my life.
The term “fascist” was widely used by the communist dictatorship and in general it meant “something we really don’t like”.
The irony of it was that at the same time communism enthusiastically adopted the fascist mindset, methods and practices.
Yes, just like Marxist Ethnic Indian Lisa Nandy’s Marxist Ethnic Indian father Dipak Nandy, a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist immigrant from India who was showered with honours and high posts in Britain, had two English wives, but still complains about racism, just like his Marxist sprog.
And just like her Marxist Ethnic Indian father, she scorned to marry one of her own Ethnic Indian group, but held out for a WHITE SPOUSE, like almost every Third World Ethnic in high positions in western society and government. They ALL seem to have a racist attitude toward their own Ethnic group, and insist on finding a WHITE SPOUSE to marry, as a status symbol. Like a kind of Fashion Handbag.
And then they accuse all the White People of “racism”, when they themselves practice it against their own Ethnic group. Their own Egregious Hypocrisy needs to be called out.
It’s the Indian Caste System on display.
The British tried to stop it when there, but p only with partial success – old habits. Now we have imported it along with all the cultural shyte from Barkistaan.
Yes, just as the British tried to stop the Thuggee Gangs of Hindus, Sikhs & Muslims from murdering Indian travellers, and just as the British Protestant missionaries tried to rescue little children from sex slavery in Hindu Temples devoted to KaliAllah, and just as the British brought life-saving quinine from South America to help first British troops and then Indians throughout the land, and just as the British brought marvellous things to the ultimate benefit of Ethnic Indians, and left all those marvellous things behind when the Indians told them to leave.
In contrast, Indians/ Pakistanis/ Bangladeshis/ Sri Lankans have no intention of leaving the West.
It’s not only the Indian Caste System, but all Third World Ethnics, including Ethnic Africans, seem to scorn marrying within their own ethnic group, and hold out for a WHITE SPOUSE, especially those who are given high positions in the West.
The irony of it was that at the same time communism enthusiastically adopted the fascist mindset, methods and practices.
They did nothing of this sort. If at all, it was the fascist who readily adopted the communist mindset, methods and practices. But this doesn’t make any sense, either. Communist totalitarian regimes predated fascist totalitarian regimes by quite some time. But neither fascists nor communists invented the notion of a repressive state based on the assumption of hostility of sizable parts of the population which is to be broken by violent means. Iran is certainly neither communist nor fascists. But its leader still largely govern based on a similar set of tried and trusted recipes.
Yes. Fascism evolved out of Socialism but neither are characterised solely by oppression – that’s just necessary to impose the ideology of collectivism and empowerment of the State at the expense of individual sovereignty and a directed economy to serve the State rather than the individual.
Both Greece and Rome were oppressive regimes – neither Socialist nor Fascist. Theocracies are of necessity oppressive – eg Roman Catholic Church which led to the Protestant revolt against it.
And here we are in the UK and the Fourth Reich next door – oppressive because the elites want to cling to power in the face of “populism” and the citizenry turning against them and won’t shut up and do as they are told.
Communist/Fascist… tomayto/tomahto.
They are two sides of the same coin.
Two sides of the same coin…
I’ll wager she doesn’t even know what facist is, what it means and who first said it!
(Facist party of Italy coined by Musilini in the inter war period. to evoke national unity, promising strong leadership, state power, and militarism to counter instability, economic crisis, and revolutionary movements. Hitler and Musilini were socialist,..left wing!)
Hitler and Mussolini were hard-right anti-marxists and the clueless babbling of the fans of Ayn Rand is just that — clueless babbling.
National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) the nazi party, far left dressed up in right wing clothing!
In Hitler’s own words, the NSDAP adopted red as colour for their posters during their (early) Munich period “to provoke the left¹” He was also already allied with members of the monarchist far right as early as 1923, when Ludendorff joined the so-called beerhall coup whose intent was to end up as march on Berlin similar to Mussolini’s march on Rome.
Ad nauseam repetition of this nonsense doesn’t cause it to become true.
¹ ... um dadurch die linke Seite zu reizen, zur Empörung zu bringen,
Mein Kampf, p. 542
How odd then their ideology so closely resembled Marxism – and both Socialists.
National Socialists the clue’s in the name.
To be fair, she seems to know what she’s talking about with this ‘playbook’ she mentions and the government she’s part of are sticking to it pretty rigidly.
In the other matter, as far as I can tell, she actually suggested Farage is a duck, didn’t she? 🦆
Not many would argue that Nandy isn’t quackers.
Yawn
She needs to have a chat with the impressive and redoubtable new Reform UK leader of Kent County Council who is proud of being of mixed race parentage and of this country. What a contrast with this so-called Culture Secretary who can only spout resentful cliches about “othering”. Reform’s donations will have enjoyed a boost today, but Nandy probably struggles to understand the meaning of counter-productive.
There is nothing “impressive and redoubtable” about the Ethnic Indian woman bizarrely chosen as the Reform leader in Kent, which her fellow Reform council members have reportedly come to regret, as she’s turned out to be yet another Third World tyrannical bully who has abused her position of power over White People.
Idiot woman.
Just imagine her and Burgon producing offspring together. Mince squared.
She is so self unaware, it’s the Labour Party that has created the divisions in society in their support for all the ..isms they have created over the years, of course when you create an .ism you simultaneously create an opposition simply because it is divisive. They have been so hell bent on creating minority voter groups and in the process they have alienated most of the electorate.
Othering people is bad, yeah, like othering covid sceptics.
Sure that she was never involved in that.
Never interrupt the enemy when they are making a mistake.
Priceless, isn’t? Othering Nigel Farage and blinded as she is by her own prejudices she can’t even see it.
She’s fully onboard with the horrendous trans ideology and famously stated that rapists should be allowed to do time in women’s prisons because “Transwomen are women”. Therefore, she’s a disgusting, traitorous biatch.
https://thecritic.co.uk/i-spoilt-my-ballot-because-women-dont-have-penises/
DCMS: The government has no business dabbling in cultural or sporting activities. Running, as it does, it’s own biased media outlet is understandable though not on a pay for it twice basis (once through general taxes and then again through the TV licence).
Scrap the DCMS. If football and other sport can’t support itself, then tough. Likewise theatre, dance, opera, sculpture, painting or embroidered tents.
Why the Hell the DCMS is represented in Cabinet is beyond me.
Oh not a chance… the polite name for the Dept for Censorship, Propaganda and Mind Control – seem to be central to governance everywhere in the early 21st C!
Far far beyond any justifiable role that the state should play in our lives
Another marxo-fascist promoter of the total-control state accuses an opponent who promotes freedom and personal independence of being being like herself. Fantastic.
Jeff, I don’t know if the term “marxo-fascist” is your invention but you were the first person I heard it from and all I can say is that it is one of the most concise, descriptive and accurate way of describing these people.
Both the German style national-ethnic and the Leninist style gangster-communist system are just different implementations of the same totalitarian mindset.
It’s not my invention, I’m afraid – I borrowed it from a commenter on The Spectator. At the time I was reading James Gregor’s The Faces of Janus – Marxism and Fascism in the 20th Century, and I realised that coinage marxo-fascism fits the contemporary Left (the madleft, as I call it). Gregor read all of Mussolini’s writings, and shows that fascism is a derivative of Marxism, and that Mussolini’s idea of the “vanguard party” was the same as Lenin’s.
Thanks for providing that insight— very interesting!
Both political systems were dictatorial, in case of the Nazi because Hitler believed fate had chosen him as natural leader of the German people and in case of Lenin, because the Communist party bestowed temporary emergency powers onto him to deal with the problem of trying to establish Marxism in a rural country and also, of the violent counterrevolution (the so-called Whites who fought against the Marxist Reds). After having acquired roughly similar powers, albeit in a completely different way and for entirely different reasons, both dictators employed similar methods which were also similar to the method tyrannical¹ governments have employed since times immemorial and still employ today.
¹ From the Greek tyrannis: Entirely discretionary exercise of power by some individual who isn’t a legitimate king and typically, acquired his role by violent means.
It’s always the same with these Third World Ethnics: no matter how many top positions, university grants or Cabinet Ministries in the government they are handed on a silver platter in the West, you only have to bide your time and wait, because sooner or later they will all TROT OUT THE RACE CARD, and start whingeing about their Eternal Victimhood at the hands of the Evil White Man, in whose countries they CHOOSE to live.
The Message of the West should be:
“Dear Third World,
We owe you NOTHING. Stop whining & Get Over It!”
And how about a thank you for kick starting a civilised lifestyle
Absolutely!
The race card reflects the moral and political bankruptcy of the madleft, and always comes out as a last, desperate resort.
Yes, and the Race Card is also brought out by Third World Ethnics who claim to be “Tory”, “conservative”, “right wing”, or “patriotic”.
Sadly there are a lot of white people who encourage this- I hold them more responsible for the problems we have
You cannot accuse the Leader of KCC of that since she has faced accusations of being anti Islamic herself. She is also partly of Caribbean extraction. Generalisations are not useful here and do a disservice to people who do not fit this description.
You mean when the Ethnic Indian/African woman claiming to be “a Kentish girl through & through” was shouting, swearing & muting her fellow Reform councillors who dared to try to discuss or disagree with her tyrannical decrees, and then when this video of her trampling upon democracy was exposed by The Guardian, she ordered a witch hunt against the “rebels” and expelled about nine of them? She’s turned into a Tinpot Dictator, just like other Third World Ethnics in government accused of bullying white staff. Power goes straight to their heads, especially the females.
‘Suck it up’: Exclusive footage reveals tensions inside Reform UK council
Reform UK expels Kent councillor after alleged video leak – BBC News
There is a great deal more to this than you realise and Linden has my full support. She has risen and continues to rise to great challenges, including the taxi bills for schoolchildren and having hundreds of paperless, privileged invaders dumped in Kent every day. Considering the political earthquake that changed the regime at KCC overnight, she has done well. She is patriotic and loyal to Reform. It’s either my impression or the Guardian’s – take your pick.
There’s only one totalitarian ideology in the West today, it’s oppressing women, homosexuals, murdering Jews and dissenters – it pretends to be a religion but we should call it out for what it really is.
You mean the political death cult of Islam?
I will not submit.
I would take any criticism from Lisa Nandy as a badge of honour, she is a Marxist and a total irrelevance.
I looked up ‘Lisa Nandy’ in a dictionary and it said ‘thick bitch’.
She always wears an expression of bafflement as if everything in life confuses her feeble brain.
Leftists have long accused the right of doing exactly what they themselves are blatantly guilty of.
Classic narcissist move.
Classic projection
The “establishment” will obediently continue to smear Farage to keep his public support high.
Meanwhile he will continue to pack Reform UK with the dregs baling from failed Tory and Labour so that when elected Reform can continue to destroy Britain as instructed.
A childishly simple and transparent playbook but it’ll work on a lazy and uneducated electorate.
What is a facist?
Is it someone who cancels elections to hang onto power ?
The Marxist theory of fascism is that it’s just capitalism developed to its ultimate consequence. Hence, everybody who isn’t a Marxist/ communist is either a fascist or a proto-fascist.
This is what you do when you have no argument. You attack the arguer. Usually with “nazi” or “fascist” or “climate denier” name calling and the chucking of mud in the hope some of it will stick.
And the mud sticks less and less these days.
Fascism: is collectivism, empowerment of the State over the individual, central economic planning and control, representatives of the State, private capital, and organised labour (corporatism) plan and regulate economic sectors to serve the interests of the State, oppression of dissent.
That’s an exact fit for Labour bearing in mind Fascism is rooted in Socialism, differing only how it operates.
‘That doesn’t describe Reform UK or Nigel Farage, but is also a fit for the Faux-Conservatives, Lib Dems and the Green loonies.
Fascism is not rooted in socialism. Socialism was a political phenomenon in Germany from the middle of the 19th century onwards and culminated in the formation of the socialist party of Germany, the SPD, which eventually adopted Marxism as political ideology.
As I already pointed out last time: All of mankind is collectivist¹ and Ayn Rand and her disciples are just a small minority of 20th century first world basket cases.
¹ Another nice example of that: The Aztec empire was constantly at war with its neighbours in order to acquire captives because state religion decreed that human sacrifices must regularly be made because otherwise, the sun wouldn’t keep rising. Like all states which grew from cities warring with neighbouring cities, the Aztec Empire obviously also had mandatory military service.
“All of mankind is collectivist”
True – but isn’t the key question the degree of that? The extent to which the collective dictates to the individual.
Lisa Nandos is wrong, I have never heard any Reform politicians make fattist remarks, I would be very surpiesed if she is not miscaken.