{"id":86572,"date":"2025-10-09T07:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=86572"},"modified":"2025-10-09T07:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:14:01","slug":"right-wing-equivalents-to-the-fascists-of-the-thirties-are-back-on-the-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/09\/right-wing-equivalents-to-the-fascists-of-the-thirties-are-back-on-the-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Right wing equivalents to the fascists of the thirties are back on the march"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Peston reported <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Peston\/status\/1975583604005593449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Heseltine's words<\/a> to a meeting of the European Movement at the Tory Party conference yesterday as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Heseltine has just addressed a packed meeting of the European Movement at the Tory conference.<\/p>\n<p>He does not show the restraint of most party leaders in his critique of Farage and Reform:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cright wing equivalents to the fascists of the thirties are back on the march: Le Pen in France, AfD in Germany, Fdl in Italy, Vox in Spain and conspicuously Reform in this country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Much of President Trump's language in America coincides with words here in Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem which needs a solution although recent events here have cast a dark shadow\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We must make clear that we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Nigel Farage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We have to deal with President Trump for the next 3 years. we don't need his mouthpiece anywhere near Number 10.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Heseltine spoke the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Why won't others?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Peston reported Michael Heseltine&#8217;s words to a meeting of the European Movement at the Tory Party conference yesterday as follows: Heseltine has just addressed<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/09\/right-wing-equivalents-to-the-fascists-of-the-thirties-are-back-on-the-march\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,96,14,16,203,106,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-conservatives","category-corruption","category-ethics","category-fascism","category-politics","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86574,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86572\/revisions\/86574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}