Off Topic The threat from the Far-Right (or left)

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Perhaps the main parties need to get away from their little extreme focus groups and actually listen to the vast majority who are the silent class.

Maybe this is where people like you get a false picture ….
Our investigation into X's algorithm has found that far-right content is pushed onto users as soon as they make an account.

We made a profile - Bob Smith - and were immediately confronted with a post deriding the “tens of thousands [who] arrive illegally on boats” which then sucked poor Bob Smith into a rabbit hole of hate-filled posts.

Data from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) reveals that hateful content on X has skyrocketed, with abusive posts about migrants in the UK rising from half a million in 2023 to more than two million so far in 2025.

I can certainly attest to worrying amounts of far-right content popping up on my own X feed (despite not interacting with any such content I must hastily add) and understand now why many people are moving to other platforms such as Bluesky.’


 
Maybe this is where people like you get a false picture ….
Our investigation into X's algorithm has found that far-right content is pushed onto users as soon as they make an account.

We made a profile - Bob Smith - and were immediately confronted with a post deriding the “tens of thousands [who] arrive illegally on boats” which then sucked poor Bob Smith into a rabbit hole of hate-filled posts.

Data from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) reveals that hateful content on X has skyrocketed, with abusive posts about migrants in the UK rising from half a million in 2023 to more than two million so far in 2025.

I can certainly attest to worrying amounts of far-right content popping up on my own X feed (despite not interacting with any such content I must hastily add) and understand now why many people are moving to other platforms such as Bluesky.’

Not doing them much harm.
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There us so much bollocks on here about Farage, it's unreal, till you know him and his team, it's all just what the BBC want you to believe.
Yeah he's not actually the Farnborough born private school educated son of a stockbroker the press make out. It's a little known fact that he was born and brought up in Barclay Court flats near Roker Park, his dad was an unemployed shipyard worker and his mam waited on in the Wheatsheaf pub. Young Nigel sold programmes outside Roker Park on Match days to help put food on the table and became a staunch Sunderland fan even though he couldn't afford to go in the ground and sat outside listening to the roar of the crowd until sneaking in for the last 20 min when the gates opened.
 
Yeah he's not actually the Farnborough born private school educated son of a stockbroker the press make out. It's a little known fact that he was born and brought up in Barclay Court flats near Roker Park, his dad was an unemployed shipyard worker and his mam waited on in the Wheatsheaf pub. Young Nigel sold programmes outside Roker Park on Match days to help put food on the table and became a staunch Sunderland fan even though he couldn't afford to go in the ground and sat outside listening to the roar of the crowd until sneaking in for the last 20 min when the gates opened.
Sounds very similar to the story we got about Starmer.
 
Another 1000+ arrived yesterday on boats across the channel. All fleeing from war torn France.
At a conservative cost, this would equate to a minimum of £365m a year, just for those.
Not to mention the government estimate of 1 million illegals immigrants already here.
I can’t guess on how much it costs the taxpayer. My calculator doesn’t have enough noughts.
No wonder the “far right” are making their voices heard.
 
Another 1000+ arrived yesterday on boats across the channel. All fleeing from war torn France.
At a conservative cost, this would equate to a minimum of £365m a year, just for those.
Not to mention the government estimate of 1 million illegals immigrants already here.
I can’t guess on how much it costs the taxpayer. My calculator doesn’t have enough noughts.
No wonder the “far right” are making their voices heard.
Your family need the nhs