
Is there a new elite?
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The New British Politics
Author Matt Goodwin claims the country is being reshaped by a small group of activists in power. He points out that these radical progressives, as he calls them, are on both the left and right of politics. The new elite belong to a university educated minority who have gone to Oxbridge or Russell Group Universities. They're becoming radically progressive in the way they see issues like migration, gender identity, history, culture. So could this be used as a dog whistle to embolden those with more extreme views? I don't think it's fascism, but what you can say is that this is a tried and tested strategy that's been used century after century.
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