Extremists would not need to create an authoritarian state in Britain: Starmer is doing that for them | George Monbiot

The UK government must do all it can to prevent the disaster that has befallen several other European nations.

If it fails to meet people’s needs and keeps echoing far-right talking points, we could go the same way as Italy , the Netherlands , Hungary , Finland , Sweden and Austria .

Reform UK poses as patriotic while grovelling to foreign interests, and this could be its undoing.

Farmers blocked the road with tractors where the prime minister was speaking, drowned his speech with their horns and forced him to flee.

Thames Valley police explained: “No arrests were made or necessary. The protest has reached its conclusion and the group are now dispersing from the area’ It is unimaginable that a climate protest of this kind would be allowed to reach this “conclusion” It would have been immediately broken up with mass arrests and long sentences.