A document from Prevent, the official scheme to stop radicalisation, includes believing in socialism, communism, anti-fascism and anti-abortion in a list of potential signs of ideologies leading to terrorism.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/07/socialism-anti-fascism-anti-abor
As someone proud to call themselves a socialist, I'd better hand myself in now. And Keir Starmer ought to be on the look-out if he is elected because Clause 4 of the Labour Party constitution describes it as a democratic socialist party.
But I suppose this just goes to show how far to the right the country has moved, and not surprising in relation to Prevent given the appointment of William Shawcross to lead a review it led to a boycott of the review because of his alleged anti-Muslim and rightwing views.
EDIT: "alleged" is the wrong word given the following from Wikipedia, but how can a person with such views have anything to do with Prevent? Sadly, it follows a pattern of the Tories in recent years appointing to public bodies people with very right wing views.
In 2006 Shawcross warned of "a vast fifth column" of Muslims in Europe who "wish to destroy us"; we should not shy away from labelling the problem "Islamic fascism".
In a 2010 article for National Review Shawcross described Britain as a "mere piece of the bland but increasingly oppressive Bambiland of the E.U., promoting such PC global issues as gay rights (except in Muslim lands) and man-made climate change." In the same article, Shawcross described Labour's "'multicultural' ideology" as a "catastrophe" and implied that Labour's immigration policy was designed to "dilute Britishness".
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