Tories took eye off far right as UK riots loomed

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1. “previous Tory government had successfully monitored public health disinformation related to the pandemic which served as a “rallying cry for conspiracy theorists” but had overseen a drop-off in focus in other areas of threat from the far-right.

   “It was through the lens of public health that they looked at [the far-right] and went to great lengths to look at that threat, but it was only through that lens,” the official said. 

   They added that in the past “Conservative and Labour governments alike have kept an eye on the right wing, the Nazis. Most recently there was a huge drop in the amount of time resource dedicated towards that.”

   The official said that part of the reason for what they described as a “drop off” in monitoring was ideological. “There are civil servants in the Home Office that care about violence from any source. But it’s fair to say that the last government, particularly by the end, weren’t really as interested in the extreme right wing or far-right.”

   edit: Took ten mins for this article to get botted, they’re not as fast as the ones on the larger subs but they get directed here eventually.

2. UK electorate voted against the far right, they had a little tantrum, I don’t think anyone was seriously hurt. The end.

   All the right wing have is nonsense. They’re still banging on about farage, irrelevant, changing the election system, irrelevant, and now they’re bringing the riots up that fizzled out weeks ago? Can we move on?