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A Glossary of Right-Wing Terms and Phrases*
*As used EVERY DAY FOR YEARS by right-wing politicians and political commentators, the right-wing press, right-wing YouTubers, the alt-right, the hard-right and the far-right, Spiked, the Spectator, a vast network of Libertarian billionaire funded free-market think-tanks, institutions and ‘charities’, LBC, Times Radio, talkRADIO, and now, Britain’s very own Fox News: GB News.
Asset stripping: “wealth creation”
Asylum seekers: “illegals”
Being polite: “political correctness”
Billionaire: “wealth creator”
Booing the England football team: “free speech”
Bribery: “lobbying”
Challenging bigotry: “woke”
Challenging inflammatory rhetoric: “anti-free speech”
Clapping #NHS workers: “not gesture politics”
Collectivism: “Communism”
Concern about populist nationalism: “anti-British”
Consumer, worker & environmental protections: “red tape”
Critical theory: “cultural Marxism”
Critical thinking “wokification”
Critiquing free-market capitalism: “Marxism”
Deliberately inflammatory rhetoric: “free speech”
Demonising Muslims, migrants or minorities: “free speech/common sense”
Deregulation: “cutting red tape”
Disaster capitalist: “wealth creator”
Epidemiologist: “doomsday scientist”
Facemask: “face nappy/muzzle”
Far-right discourse: “marginalised voices”
Far-right rhetoric “free speech”
Food banks: “uplifting charitable support”
Free-market ideology: “common sense”
Fucking hopeless: “genius”
Good government: “nanny-state”
Government corruption: “doing your best”
Government law-breaking: “doing what’s best for Britain”
Greed: “good”
Health & safety: “bureaucracy”
Helping asylum seekers: “Lefty activism“
Homeless: “lacking self-discipline”
Housing crisis: “housing boom”
Humanities academic: “woke anti-British cultural Marxist”
Identifying structural/institutional racism: “unpatriotic”
Ignoring problems: “making tough decisions”
Ignoring problems: “strategic priorities”
Impoverishing people in Labour constituencies: “Levelling up”
Inequality: “incentivising”
Institutional, structural or systemic racism: “individual racism”
Isolationism: “freedom”
Journalism: “Lefty propaganda”
Low-paid insecure work: “flexible working”
Lying: “rhetoric”
Media literacy: “cultural Marxism”
Migration: “invasion”
Objecting to insults: “snowflake”
Oxbridge Professors “second-rate dons”
Privatisation: “wealth creation”
Profiteering: “outsourcing”
Propaganda: “news”
Protections for workers, consumers, citizens and the environment: “red tape”
Protest: “criminal activity”
Public sector: “inefficient”
Questioning injustice: “virtue-signalling”
Recognising social problems are often connected to class, sex, sexuality, age or ethnicity: “identity politics”
Refusing to help people: “common sense”
Removing pandemic safety measures: “freedom”
Researching the legacy of colonialism: “cultural Marxism”
Right-wing populist nationalism: “patriotism”
Seeking truth: “Undermining our way of life”
Selfish individualism: “freedom”
Self responsibility: “freedom”
Society: “families and individuals”
Student: “woke consumer”
Supporting Palestine: “antisemitic“
Taking the knee: “gesture politics”
Tax-avoidance: “creative accountancy”
Threat to the powerful: “unelectable”
Transfer of wealth from poor to rich: “austerity/neoliberalism”
Unemployed: “work-shy”
Welfare state: “nanny state”
Wishes of minority of total electorate: “will of the people”
Young person: “snowflake”
‘Divide and rule’ has been an effective political strategy for centuries
Anti-racism: “woke”
Art: “woke”
BBC: “woke”
Capitalism: “woke”
Charities: “woke”
Comedy: “woke”
Drama: “woke”
Education: “woke”
Empathy: “woke”
England football team: “woke”
Environmentalism: “woke”
Feminism: “woke”
Human Resources: “woke”
Human rights: “woke”
Ikea: “woke”
Labour: “woke”
Military industrial complex: “woke”
Museums: “woke”
National Trust: “woke”
Progressives: “woke”
Supermarkets: “woke”
Theatre: “woke”
Universities: “woke”