Francis Foster
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And to your point, this is something you see across Europe, across the political spectrum, by the way.
You see populist left parties rising very quickly and populist right parties.
Where are the populist left parties?
Well, the party with the biggest momentum in the UK right now is the Green Party.
That's right.
Yeah.
And also, it's not just about political parties.
It's also now increasingly about influencers.
If you start a YouTube channel in Britain now talking about how you've been screwed by the rich and the billionaires and tax the rich and all of this, you're going to do extremely well because there is ample ground for that sentiment, which is rising very quickly.
Yeah.
And likewise, on the right, you know, the... And by the way, both of these can be somewhat true.
Inequality is a problem.
On the right, of course, mass immigration, the way that we've had in Britain, bothers a hell of a lot of people, as I think it does probably in your country, although it's different here.
And those are things that are creating these, on both sides, a rising populist tide, I think.
And that speaks very much to what you're saying.
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
Now we're disappointed.
yeah well it speaks to your point doesn't it about when people don't feel that they have the power and particularly in the uk um a lot of people feel that voting a certain way and even electing parties that say they will deal with certain problems doesn't actually produce the results and i imagine based on your analysis that would be like francis says quite a dangerous place to be right
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