Not everyone that votes for Reform are racist; but all racists vote for Reform.
“I just spent four days in Hungary, a conservative country criticised by elites across the west. I saw no crime. No homeless people. No riots. No unrest. No drugs. No mass immigration. No broken borders. No self-loathing. No chaos. And now I’ve just landed back in the UK.”
It wasn’t unusual during the 1930s to hear credulity like this from flatterers and scribblers returning from the east. Such reveries would usually draw on utopian ideology. A new civilisation was being built; the riddle of history had been solved; it was important to spread the good news.
But what’s Matthew Goodwin’s excuse?