Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
September 2019
Reference:
https://institute.global/policy/narratives-hate-spectrum-far-right-worldviews-uk
Understanding how to identify, define or tackle nonviolent extremism – or simply separate it from divisive rhetoric – remains a grey area. This report helps policymakers better clarify this space, by creating a spectrum of ideology for the modern British far right.
The far right is a growing threat to the UK. This report turns to the messaging of four far-right
activist groups in the UK, exposing the key ideas that underpin their activism. It compares their messaging to that of a convicted far-right extremist, to gauge the extent of ideological overlap between the violent and nonviolent manifestations of the far right.
The manifesto of terrorist Anders Breivik is emblematic of extreme-right ideology and is the
comparison point for the groups studied this report. In July 2011, Breivik murdered 77 people in Norway, in one of the most notorious terrorist attacks in recent years.
Four main themes form Breivik’s warped worldview: victimisation, opposition between the West and Islam, anti-establishment sentiment and the justification of violence. These themes show a consistent ideological framework that forms the basis of a spectrum of ideas, from mainstream to extreme, that can be applied to other actors on the far right. This report will explain in further depth these findings.
