The principle of making employers pay sufficient wages to ensure sustainable tax take (as well as ensuring a sustainable retail and service economy and the avoidance of exploitation of ‘low cost’ workers) is a fundamental principal of the left, not the right.
How is the EU subscription socialist? Whether right or wrong, how is it socialist?
Now, I do see your point about ‘Far right’ being used to describe anti-immigration feeling, justifying ‘far-left’ to mean ok with immigration. What has happened is the far right bodies who are jumping on the xenophobic bandwagon are not singing from the same hymn sheet as the British politcal ‘Right’ at all (not any more – see earlier comments on the liberalisation of the country over the decades).
The extreme right wing movements don’t have any underpinning of socio-economic or political thought beyond the self-absorbed ramblings of ‘Mein Kampf’. Having a philosophy of academic thought and rigour contributing to political action is something that itself implies a degree a liberalism in terms of openess to ideas. This is a characteristic of the British right, left, and very particularly the far-left, while the boot-wearing saluting far-right are an emotive reactionary movement divorced from all of this. So you are not comparing apples with apples – whatever the reasoned arguments for and against immigration.
I agree there needs to be less confusion over tags, be it ‘far right’, ‘lefty’ or whatever.
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