Has anyone written a history of the Tory Right's returning infatuation with far(ther) right currents across the Channel which are clearly more illiberal and anti-parliamentarian than they will ever be, but who seem useful/interesting as continental buffer?https://youtu.be/QJ5lw4VeKpo
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Also this though, which clearly challenges the idea that Tories ever had a hegemonic current which was openly anti-parliament:https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/conservative-parties-and-the-birth-of-democracy/919E566A69893DA8E25F845349D5C161 …
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Indeed, Ziblatt makes the same point - although I do wonder whether Home Rule moment could ever have produced anything like Italian or German fascism at home, leaving out Black & Tans abroad etc
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The advantage UK had was fascist-types were sent to administer colonies. Italy and Germany didn't have that safety valve.
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Leaving out Libya, Ethiopia and (earlier) Namibia?
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But I take the point that Britain could enact its fascism in a bigger imperial valve than 'revisionist' powers could.
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Yeah, the sheer scale of the British empire meant that it was a great place to send all sorts of militarists and authoritarians.
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