Starting from today, we are producing video shorts with and for The Canary.
The target is Reform.
The aim is to beat fascism.
About once a week, we will produce a 2-minute video highlighting why Reform's economic policies make no sense and will harm those whom Reform wishes to appeal to the most.
There should be enough material to keep us going for some time.
And if you see those shorts, or our own that we are also now planning to create, please do like and share them. That's the way to get the message out there, and it is a key role you can play.
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I am not sure what Reform economic policies are, although they are not hard to guess. Superb idea to highlight them as they are then very much open to question
Might this adroit expansion of the width and depth of coverage go some significant way tio allieviate the concerns expressed in your previous article on the spread of far right poison?
It may be a start…
I read a book by Kerry Mendoza a few years ago. Quite good.
According the the book Fraud by Holden, the Labour Together group tried to target the canary.
Should be a useful cooperation.
But why? The readership will be the hard left and they will all be anti reform anyway. You need to target the middle ground, maybe twitter?
I do that as well.
Wherever we might be on the political spectrum, good arguments grounded in reality are always useful.
A great idea to share with the Canary.
When will the mass of people begin to realise that alternative media like the Canary and Declassified, Bylines etc etc are now the only real source of investigative journalism regarding the power structures which rule us?
But it may be best to be cautious about using the F word – it would be too easy to be seeing to call all potential Reform voters ‘fascists’, which could be counter productive.
Noted
There are more than that, Private Eye and The Lead, to name two.
Agree great idea re Canary, solidarity and collaborations are the only way through.
Re fascist point maybe use a term such as ‘shambolic’, which is what fascist politicians and policy tends to be, thin, shambolic, chaotic, etc
(it’s the industrialists and institutions who are usually the substance behind the swivel eyed fascist loons. See 1939’s Germany and USA.)
That way the people attracted to strong armed fascism are not distanced by the term fascist, and your regular audience can see the fascist point any way.)
I get most of my news from substack. Which is not ideal. I look out for Steve Rosenberg on YouTube.
No one can question your application to the cause.
Meanwhile, I will struggle on this year trying to deliver 55 new affordable homes for the town I work in (and they need much more than that).
Keep going!
Left bias, yes. But highly factual and therefore unrealistically credible
Who does Reform wish to attract? We know from the 2024 and research last year that Reform is winning the votes of a surprising number of relatively comfortably off, older, middle class ‘middle Englanders’. Admittedly these Reform voters tend not to live in the areas where support has translated into electoral success – the left behind coastal and Northern communities.
The political scene has evolved quickly since 2024. The ‘further-right’ parties, Advanced UK and Restore Britain, have emerged and will extract from Reform, particularly in those left behind areas.
So today , the reason for the student debt on loans being so high is the cost of educating children with send need
And I’ve a preprepared post form 2 of your sources.
The wealth report page
And MMT.
Ans I add in the quantitative easing monies .. as such a shocking amount
As the city analysts re so greedy they want to warn Reeves, about the 6 billion being used to clear the accumulated cost the government caused by defunding and acadamisation. Some who have taken up to 30%
And I’ve been posting that .. as if they want to make the reason for their encouraging hate on disabled kids…people need to understand about the money.
The kids are the canaries..hundreds do thousands or canaries now are beyond a warning that there is a problem
I’m part way through the schools white paper ..
Got to read the children wellbeing and schools bill again…
So I will be looking for your post and keeping up the message ..
I use BlueSky as my main social media forum. I’m discussing Reform with someone with the handle ‘DebateMe’, so I am. The user is a hard line Reform lover who refuses to see any fault with Farage or Tice or any other if the millionaires in that company’s directorship. It’s amazing how far down the Reform rabbit hole some people really are.
I note the Canary reaches 8 million users so from my perspective even if only 10% watch the shorts that’s a big number and, who knows how many likes and share and how many might explore your blog and YouTube.
Reform are simply the latest, and maybe not the last iteration of the right wing rump that has existed for centuries in this country.They have always punched well above their actual weight because they own a lot of stuff; businesses, media outlets, financial institutions, etc. The Conservative party are now a sub-section of this rump and are hoping to eventually distance themselves from the Conservative party that governed so disgracefully for 14yrs.
We need to make it clear to people that there is not the width of a fag paper between politicians who represent the rump and the ‘Money’ that underpins it for self- preservation purposes.
Really pleased to see this. The Canary has a good reach for credible, reliable popular/investigative journalism from a left perspective; but I suspect many of its readers – like me – can see what is happening but struggle to really understand exactly where we are, how we got here, why; and what, realistically, we can and must do to get ourselves out of this mess. I learn so much from reading your blog – and the comments – and absolutely believe that the broader the audience you can reach the better.
It’s past time we all start to educate ourselves, and find ways of standing together on our common ground, if we are to fight fascism. For me, that starts with calling what we are living through now by its real name: you are one of the few serious people with a public platform (who actually understand the term) unafraid to do exactly that.
I can’t see how your collaboration with The Canary can be anything other than a positive step forwards. And, from the bottom of the heap, thank you for continuing to fight for a better world for all of us.
Thanks