Show Notes
Labour must take on Farage and the UK's new blackshirts but where is Andy Burnham?
Hundreds of anonymous men turn up at Dover dressed in black shirts and balaclavas; Reform leader and Brexit con artist Nigel Farage threatens to scrap the House of Lords, purge the civil service and judiciary and use emergency decrees to pass sinister legislation if he ever takes power; women hecklers are beaten with a crutch during a Farage conference speech and grabbed by their hair by thugs and dragged out of the hall - but the silence in the face of these outrages from the Labour government is deafening.
Nick Cohen says that Labour must take off its kid gloves in dealing with Farage and co and take on the forces of the radical right full on. Nick argues that Burnham cannot make the same mistake as Keir Starmer and flunk these crucial challenges to democracy and true British values for fear of upsetting voters who are currently attracted by Farage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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