@GeofCox@climatejustice.social
Post #3885656
2026-07-17 06:42 UTC
RE: https://mamot.fr/@wwwcdorg/116930309676207928
In France, the extreme right promises to defend the European Social Model and “high-quality public services” - but where they have won control of local councils the evidence is that they have done just the opposite...
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@ReggieHere@mastodon.social 2026-07-17 08:53
@GeofCox@climatejustice.social All far-right parties are essentially conservative parties that pretend to support working people, usually as a pre-emptive means of preventing those working people supporting socialist and social democrat parties that might actually change the economic status quo. The current batch of dubiously-funded far-right parties in Europe fit the pattern perfectly.
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@junesim63@mstdn.social 2026-07-17 08:36
@GeofCox@climatejustice.social Just as Reform UK has done over here. They promised to reduce local taxation and instead, Reform controlled local councils have some of the highest council tax rises.