Populism terrifies globalist politicians

Western Daily Press, 18 October 2024, p. 17

In the recent International Investment Summit, where Sir Keir Starmer revealingly appeared on the same platform as the former Google CEO and also the chief executive of pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, the Prime Minister is reported as describing populism as "railing against the open values so many of us hold dear". 

Such an extraordinary claim is either delusional or disingenuous – and I’m not sure which.

"Populism", first and foremost, advocates the sanctity of the nation-state, not one-world government and unaccountable international institutions (unlike our globalist leader Keir Starmer who, when asked to plump for "Westminster or Davos?" in a journalist’s vox-pop, tellingly plumped for Davos). 

Populists also commonly challenge the relentless, culture-war attacks on humanity waged by anti-human and trans-humanist tendencies obsessed with polarising "identity politics" and stultufying political correctness.

Populists also tend to believe in genuine free speech, not the state- and corporate-driven censorship and silencing of anything and anyone daring to question mainstream narratives.

So it is populism that is a fierce defender of "open values", directly contrary to Starmer’s claim. The reality is that populism transcends the left/right political bun-fight, and attracts support from right across the political spectrum. 

That is why its popularity is on the rise across the Western world; and it is why globalists like Starmer are terrified of it, deliberately misspecifying it as "far right", and doing everything they can do demonise and smear it at every opportunity. 

Richard House

Stroud, Gloucestershire

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