I tagli al welfare hanno alimentato l’ascesa dell’estrema destra e del populismo, afferma il massimo esperto delle Nazioni Unite
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/21/welfare-cuts-have-fuelled-rise-of-far-right-and-populism-top-un-expert-says
di PurchaseDry9350
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My issue with this conclusion is that it correlates 1 percentage point of income inequality with 1 percent opinion poll score for populists, but presents no solutions to income inequality, preferring instead to talk about welfare spending and state intervention which to be frank have facilitated the problem.
When welfare steps in not because people have no income but because their earned income isn’t enough to cover living expenses, the issue of income inequality isn’t addressed because the state is filling the gap for employers allowing them to pay unliveable wages and supporting income inequality.
The solution there isn’t to increase welfare spending its to get wages up. People feel scarcity because they have far higher costs for necessities and way less dispisable income than they used to twenty years ago. None of those issues are addressed by welfare spending either.
What’s the UK’s benefits per person compared with the rest of the world? Is every other country essentially Nazi?
Mass immigration has fuelled far right and populism across Europe and will continue to do so.
No the UN along with Mass Immigration with EU and other heads of state has on that point.
On Energy costs again UN and EU and Uk have all made policies which hike prices up.
Also the framing of “far right == extremists” is proof of the double standard concerning perspective of causes.
Note also the UK and monetary system via government spending has been a root cause with a need to lower spending and raise taxation in tandem to all the above. Multiple governments over decades have failed to address this and it has to happen especially when all the above retard economic productivity which is required if you print buckets of money QE for fancy naming and the knock on loans, bonds and financial markets…
I see no one trying to DESCRIBE ACCURATELY the problem as opposed to to obfuscating it via agitprop.
We all will be better off not working soon it no longer pays to work hard the taxes are insane and yet more incoming
Firstly I do think this would be a good left wing response to the current situation.
If people really could genuinely feel their standard of living getting better then they would be happy with that government.
Of course trash economic performance and personal misery leads to anger at political elites, rightly so.
Secondly I find this study very unconvincing, for instance
“Our data covers the period from 2002 to 2016, in which both support for populist parties has risen from 13% to above 20% and the market income inequality Gini increased from 45 to 49 on average.”
I mean this is literally the period covering the great financial crisis in which in the UK for instance a Labour government keen on welfare switched to Conservative austerity.
I think there’s way too many confounding variables to really say that the correlations are actually causation and that reducing wealth inequality would roll back populism.
Thirdly I think a lot of people are mad about not being listened to and lied to at elections and theyre mad about cultural issues and getting routinely gaslighted by the elites and the left that those things don’t matter.
And money won’t fix that.
Congratulations… you’ve just worked out what the left has been saying since the 1930’s
Isn’t that an irony, because if the far right were in power, welfare would be drastically cut to levels not seen since the Victorian period.
Welfare cuts fuelled rise of party that wants to cut welfare expenditure
Not forcing the super wealthy to contribute towards society and pay their fair share in tax has caused all of this