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So the far right did really very badly indeed in the UK's various elections on the 6th of May. That's a good thing.

Except, perhaps it's not. If you were a person who hates foreigners and who believes in an imaginary white, male history of England who are you going to vote for in 2021? That's right, you're going to vote for a populist party – a party which gives you facile, wrong answers to complicated questions – a party which is unashamedly English nationalist (but, you know, a little bit socialist too) – a party which has successfully driven more nasty foreigners out of England than anyone in living memory – a party which is already blaming those foreigners for the resulting damage – a party which promises to deal with the gypsies, with the intellectuals, with the judges.

That's right: you'd vote for the fascists johnsonist tory party. Which is the party you did vote for: it turns out, in fact, that the far right did rather well on the 6th of June.