Reform UK Deputy Leader wants to scrap the Equality Act

I think that UKIP/Brexit/Reform whatever the Farrageite party is called at any particular time only had any real power through leveraging the Tory Party. The Tories were frightened by them, but now the Tories are a basket case they have very little power, they are just one more lunatic fringe party.

Martin said:

I think that UKIP/Brexit/Reform whatever the Farrageite party is called at any particular time only had any real power through leveraging the Tory Party.

And that's exactly what they did to create the shambles that is Brexit. We neglect them at our peril.

But they do not have any real leverage on the Labour Party. Leveraging a party that is not in power has very little effect. They have proven to be potentially dangerous, but I think that, like in the 1930s when nation after nation (nations with little democratic history for the most part), fell under the heel of Fascists, there are too many fundamentally decent people in the UK for them to make the headway that the Front Nationale/Rally Party has in France, for example.

I hope so too, France is so tied to it's cultural traditions and it's idea of Frenchness that it seems ungovernable and it pushes people to polar opposites. Things that we take for granted as being availalbe here are not there, like it's illegal to have DNA tests for anything other than disputed paternity or medical reasons, theres no tests for ancestry reasons, because it's seen as seperatist and anti-French cohesiveness.

I think the Dutch and the Germans have problems with the whole EU project, so do many French for that matter, I think they resent the amount of money that the wealthier northern countries send to the poorer southern countries. Maybe their governments weren't as cynical as ours were? Our's only seemed to und stuff in thier own heartlands and left much of the North, Wales, Cornwall and Scotland to be funded by the EU from development funds. I remember not so long ago when it seemed like every new road, or infrastructure, or redevelopment project outside of the M25 seemed to be funded by the EU. Thats probably why infrastructure and redevelopment are in such a critical state now, because they've not been funded by our governments for so long.

I hope so too, France is so tied to it's cultural traditions and it's idea of Frenchness that it seems ungovernable and it pushes people to polar opposites. Things that we take for granted as being availalbe here are not there, like it's illegal to have DNA tests for anything other than disputed paternity or medical reasons, theres no tests for ancestry reasons, because it's seen as seperatist and anti-French cohesiveness.

I think the Dutch and the Germans have problems with the whole EU project, so do many French for that matter, I think they resent the amount of money that the wealthier northern countries send to the poorer southern countries. Maybe their governments weren't as cynical as ours were? Our's only seemed to und stuff in thier own heartlands and left much of the North, Wales, Cornwall and Scotland to be funded by the EU from development funds. I remember not so long ago when it seemed like every new road, or infrastructure, or redevelopment project outside of the M25 seemed to be funded by the EU. Thats probably why infrastructure and redevelopment are in such a critical state now, because they've not been funded by our governments for so long.