I heard someone mention in 1997 national front used the uk flag, i googled national front and couldnt find much explaining what exactly it was, a racist political group? A brexit like group that was against uk having people from other countries move to the uk? Explain please
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The National Front was / is (it still exists) a union of far right political parties. Think fascists. They were / are fascists. Like not just anti immigration. Think. Only white people should live here. Only white can breed with white etc. Really fucked up dumb and ignorant views.
They were overtly racist, kinda scary to think it was ok to be so openly racist in our recent history (the National Front was for a time the 4th largest party in the 1970’s)
These days the far right is much ‘smarter’ in hiding it’s racist world view, and offer campaigns that are more attractive to the not so far right and people in the centre, and the National Front has fallen in popularity as dumb and ignorant people can better hide their hatred in less openly racist, almost real looking political parties (think the BNP under Nick Griffin offering a more moderate approach)
Yeah it’s a pretty run of the mill European far-right / fascist party. They predate Brexit and it is a mixed bag among that crowd but generally all of the above. Usually eurosceptic, anti-immigrant, and white supremacist.
I say run of the mill bc most countries in Europe have these although they rarely if ever get elected to national or EU parliaments. The term National Front has been widely adopted for parties of similar and different political persuasions, notably in France where it survives as the Rassemblement National, previously called La Front Nationale, which Marine Le Pen led in the last French presidential election.
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They’re an extreme far-right fascist political party for neo-Nazis.
You could read more about them beyond that, but does it matter?
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