Argumentative Penguin
1 min readJan 27, 2025

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One cannot be a neo-fascist for raising issues, one can be a neo-fascist by agreeing with the main thrust of fascism - and that's certainly not what you're doing here. What I would say is that the far-right is starting to appeal to the economic-left/red wall voter. Socially conservative but fiscally socialist. This is because the left has abandoned their position on the socialism and thrown social conservatism under the bus. That's a problem and it needs discussion. Nobody ever got better at discussion from being called a fascist and it's indeed a gross simplification of what I said.

My original comment was intended as a warning - that if these discussions aren't handled sensitively, and if those involved in the discussions don't enter into them with good faith, then it's very likely to inflame the right, or the socially conservative left. I don't think the answer is to have a national inquiry. I was training social workers this morning and reading SCRs in preparation, it's a paperwork exercise. What we need to do is start properly funding social services and reverse the austerity cuts that have killed front-line work. The situations that arose in Rotherham and elsewhere can be mitigated against, but that argument should be made fiscally rather than socially - without anyone feeling like they can't say what they think.

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Argumentative Penguin
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