If Reform is far right then Corbyn's Labour was definitely far left. Certainly it is completely incorrect to label Farage "far right", he is nothing of the sort. Overall the most accurate description for Reform is probably right-wing populism.
You can't simply put a label "far right" on anything and everything on the right while, at the same time, claiming that everything on the left is only "mild social democracy" when similar left-wing populism exists if not, indeed, far left.
> Key to the far-right worldview is the notion of societal purity, often invoking ideas of a homogeneous "national" or "ethnic" community. This view generally promotes organicism, which perceives society as a unified, natural entity under threat from diversity or modern pluralism. Far-right movements frequently target perceived threats to their idealized community, whether ethnic, religious, or cultural, leading to anti-immigrant sentiments, welfare chauvinism, and, in extreme cases, political violence or oppression.
I don’t know, that sounds pretty spot on for the current global wave of right-wing populism, including Reform.
What's spot on is the trend to label anything or anyone in favour of cuts to immigration as "far right", and to extrapolate that being broadly "anti-immigration" means being effectively for "racial purity" with Mein Kampf on the bedside table. This is transparently false but insidious and it obviously seems to have taken roots as you show.
It does not help healthy debates on such important issues, but perhaps that's exactly the point.
These parties are not far right for favoring cuts to immigration. They’re far right for harping on about native whites getting replaced and referring to migrants like they’re some sort of infestation.
> In a widely seen video on Twitter former UKIP leader Nigel Farage claimed that new census figures showed that "London, Birmingham and Manchester are all now minority white cities".
> “125,000 illegal migrants have crossed the English Channel in nearly 4,000 boats since 2018. You can use what ever word you like for it, but I think invasion is appropriate — and millions of people agree with me.”
That's being anti mass immigration and populist, not "far right" and I can tell you that outside of Western liberal circles this is considered a mild, if not matter of fact, take on things.
The Chinese even have a term for this Western/European ideology that is self-loathing and accepting of anything on the altar of "diversity" and refusing to face issues such as mass immigration: "white left" (and that's coming from a country ruled by a Communist Party). So, apparently most of the world is actually "far right"...
"In March 2024, the BBC called the party far-right but soon retracted its statement and apologised to Reform UK, writing that describing the party as far-right "fell short of our usual editorial standards" [1] (Can't accuse the BBC of being biased in favour of right-wing politics, I think)
You can't simply put a label "far right" on anything and everything on the right while, at the same time, claiming that everything on the left is only "mild social democracy" when similar left-wing populism exists if not, indeed, far left.