The UK’s far right thinks about lots more than Brexit
CNNEditor’s Note: David Toube is the political director of Quilliam International, a think tank based in London that specializes in researching counter-extremism. CNN — The deep social and political divisions exposed by the UK’s Brexit vote present both an opportunity for the British far right – as well as being a challenge to it. Indeed, only this week, Neil Basu the head of London’s Metropolitan Police’s counterterrorism operations, said that Brexit had the “potential to divide communities and set communities against each other,” and that amid this “febrile” atmosphere there was the possibility of a “far-right drift into extreme right-wing terrorism.” While Basu makes an important point, it’s worth putting the state of the UK’s far right under the microscope. Brexit does not explain the rise of the Gilets Jaunes in France or the Five Star movement in Italy: both of them organizations which defy classification as far right or far left. Their failure to establish a cohesive and powerful mass movement, led by the far right, indicates that they are yet to reap the political dividend from Brexit.
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