EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

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Thought the article gave an interesting perspective on how the far right/nationalist parties are making gains, and to a certain extent consolidating those gains as well. Not just in relation to the UK and UKIP, but also to some of the countries we think of as being much more socialist than we are.

I don't see the UK lurching to the far-right. UKIP have 1 mp, and the Conservatives, which it would be pretty difficult to argue as being far-right, have a very slender majority.

In the rest of the EU, yes, nationalism is on the march again. And given how high unemployment is in the non-UK/Germanic areas of the EU, the next economic downturn, combined with the reduced need for workers due to the advance of AI/automated manufacturing and services, could lead to the far-right gaining a lot more control.

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cornelius_blackfoot in reply to @606

This is why I put far right/nationalist, there are a load more conservative mps and voters who fit into the nationalist viewpoint than they do far right, but there's a load of overlap and grey area in there.

I'm not sure how you believe that nationalism isn't on the rise here, when we're debating a referendum which would take us out of europe and into an unknown future because an older generation are raising the specter of immigration and a beholdness to foreign european powers...

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