Thankfully, the British people seem to mostly loathe the Nazi-saluting billionaire – they aren’t dazzled by his overt displays of villainy in the same way Americans appear to be. 16/ - ThreadSky

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heidicuda.bsky.social • 31 days ago

Thankfully, the British people seem to mostly loathe the Nazi-saluting billionaire – they aren’t dazzled by his overt displays of villainy in the same way Americans appear to be.

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heidicuda.bsky.social•31 days ago

But then again, the lesson from the US is that the supervillains don’t have to be loved by a majority to take over a country. They can do it with their filthy lucre.

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heidicuda.bsky.social•31 days ago

So I guess this is my plea to Great Britain to not sleepwalk into fascism the way America did.

We had a judicial coup. We have Christian supremacists. It’ll be different country to country, but the threat of Putin-aligned oligarchs remains stark.

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heidicuda.bsky.social•31 days ago

After the election of Joe Biden in 2020, there was a belief that we were out of the woods, that Trump could finally be prosecuted and that the worst was behind us. But the last four years was merely an opportunity for these brozillas to grow stronger.

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heidicuda.bsky.social•31 days ago

The writer and publisher John Mitchinson, in an interview with my podcast, told me that the biggest danger is complacency and urged people – and the Labour Government – to take control of their destiny.

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heidicuda.bsky.social•31 days ago

“They need to understand the historical moment they have inherited,” he said. “It’s a crucial moment in our history.”

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heidicuda.bsky.social•31 days ago

There’s the great W B Yeats line: ‘The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity’, well we have to change that polarity around… we have to say, ‘Look, don’t be fooled….

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