al_yrpal wrote:Its funny how so many British people want to Remain closely associated with so many countries where the openly racist far right is increasingly resurgent. Austria and France in particular are relatively rich and very influential with large far right political parties. AFD in Germany and open racism in Hungary.
I'm perfectly well aware of this. But the far right groups in each of those countries are mainly a threat to the people of the country itself. Remaining in the EU would not have put us more at risk. Indeed we are more at risk from home-grown far right individuals.
On the other hand, my feeling is that if we had voted Remain, there would not have been so much of a resurgence in these European extremist groups since 2016. The Leave vote was in effect an incentiviser - as it has been to such groups in this country. After all, we're all aware that UKIP - up until 2016 a mostly single-issue movement, has acquired a far more sinister complexion since then...
Being more closely associated with European countries, even those which do have problems of this nature, means that Britain's security service can work more closely with the corresponding security services in those countries, to counteract these threats. By leaving the EU we sacrifice that.
Sorry - I wasn't planning for this thread to become another EU debate. But the topics of far-right extremism and the Leave/Remain issue are to some extent interlinked. So the thread drift is relevant.
