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Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley
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@Back2Bataan @DerbyChrisW Fair point, but based on a false premise. Let’s think it through – apologies if this takes a few tweets.

1/ Millions of us opposed the Iraq War, for a variety of reasons, while supporting Vanessa Beeley is a pretty fringe cause in the UK, confined mainly to the far right...
@Back2Bataan @DerbyChrisW 2/ Most of us opposed the Iraq war for good reasons: saw it as a war for oil, or opposed wars in general, or had an anti-interventionist default. Others opposed it coz they saw Saddam as objectively the good guy, out of admiration for his brand of authoritarian nationalism...
@Back2Bataan @DerbyChrisW ...Griffin was one of the latter, a pro-Baathist, and anyone on the left who shared that position should be suspect.

3/ Why does Griffin support Beeley? Because she shares many of his basic assumptions:
@Back2Bataan @DerbyChrisW Beeley shares many of Griffin's basic assumptions: that (((Israel))) &(((globalism))) = the root of all evil, & the Kremlin/Damascus/Tehran axis is key to resisting that evil; that the mainstream media is a tool for (((globalist))) mind control...
@Back2Bataan @DerbyChrisW ...that the mainstream media is a tool for (((globalist))) mind control and we need to penetrate to a deeper (fact-free) truth that reveals the web of (((conspiracies))) of which the world is really composed;...
@Back2Bataan @DerbyChrisW ...that all Sunni Muslims are head-chopping jihadis who need to be controlled by the stiff hand of authoritarian rule; that national sovereignty is the primal political value and is embodied in a fuhrer figure.

Those views are basically fascist. See the problem?
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