Nigel Farage has taken over the leadership of the Reform Party in the UK. The BBC describes him as far right.
But is he?
It is now fashionable to describe Nigel Farage as an ‘extremist’, ‘far right’ or ‘fascist’ politician. Last month, Dame Margaret Beckett denounced his ‘brand of extreme right-wing politics’; this week, Armando Iannucci tweeted: ‘Any vote for Farage on Thursday won’t be seen by him as a protest...
Like I said it is the goto cry of the left leaning media, Margaret Thatcher was apparently the most right wing loony ever, in her day according to the media.
Now history shows she actually was a very progressive left leaning politician, she closed down coal mines that were being subsidised massively as they were well past their used by dates, she was the first politician to bring up the issue of emissions and global warming on the world stage, yet she was a right wing loony.
Another case of ingrained hatred passed from one left wing loony to the next.
It is only a passing phase IMO.
Why Margaret Thatcher did more than any major politician of her time to legitimise environmental concerns.
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The last 35 years have been a period of intense and continuous international negotiations to deal with climate change. During the same period of time humanity has doubled the amount of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. There has, however, ...
In 1989 Margaret Thatcher, the then Prime Minster of the UK, gave an address to the United Nations (UN) outlining the science of climate change, the threat it posed to all nations and the actions needed to avert the crisis. She summed up by saying: ‘We should work through this great organisation and its agencies to secure world-wide agreements on ways to cope with the effects of climate change, the thinning of the ozone layer, and the loss of precious species’ [
1]. This sentiment was echoed in similar speeches by George Bush Senior, President of the United States, including one in 1992 when he outlined his ‘Clear Skies’ and ‘Global Climate Change’ initiatives [
2].
These political speeches occurred because in the 1980s the threat of climate change had finally been recognised. This was in part due to the upturn in the global temperature record, the so called ‘hockey stick’ through the 1980s [
3]. This led to the rediscovery of the underpinning science of climate change that had been essentially carried out and settled by the mid-1960s [
4]. Our increased knowledge of how changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) controlled past climate change and significant improvements in supercomputer modelling of our climate system added to our knowledge of anthropogenic climate change [
3].