{"id":90185,"date":"2026-02-17T08:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=90185"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:44:36","slug":"dont-doubt-it-fascism-has-support-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/17\/dont-doubt-it-fascism-has-support-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t doubt it: fascism has support in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of my piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/17\/robert-lowes-challenge-is-real-do-we-want-a-politics-of-care-or-of-hate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published this morning<\/a> on Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain and its profoundly racist and toxic views, this opinion poll's findings are worth noting:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-90186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-17-at-08.45.07-550x517.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-17-at-08.45.07-550x517.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-17-at-08.45.07-319x300.png 319w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-17-at-08.45.07-768x722.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-17-at-08.45.07-425x400.png 425w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-17-at-08.45.07.png 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lowe gets 10% support.<\/p>\n<p>Some of that came from Farage.<\/p>\n<p>Some from the Tories.<\/p>\n<p>Together, these three toxic parties have 48% support.<\/p>\n<p>Do not doubt that fascism is possible in this country.<\/p>\n<p>Politics in the UK is now about the quite literal fate of millions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of my piece published this morning on Rupert Lowe&#8217;s Restore Britain and its profoundly racist and toxic views, this opinion poll&#8217;s findings are<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/17\/dont-doubt-it-fascism-has-support-in-the-uk\/\"><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":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fascism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90185","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=90185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90192,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90185\/revisions\/90192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}