Please stop calling the UK government far right

Throwing the term around so casually is offensive to those who have had to live in countries with far-right governments.

Social media platforms such as TikTok have provided teenagers and young adults all over the world with a voice on political issues. Social media can be a useful outlet for political opinions, particularly if you are still too young to vote. But, among young British users of social media, there is growing a popular “eat the rich” ideology which is slowly contributing to terms such as “right wing” and “far right” becoming interchangeable. Reddit threads and TikTok feeds are booming with young people expressing their disapproval for the current Conservative government in the UK. In all fairness, it would be hard to expect anything different after the numerous mistakes this government has made over the COVID pandemic. These included locking down too late, introducing schemes such as “Eat Out to Help” which essentially subsidised wealthy and middle-class people to go out to the sorts of restaurants young people mostly can’t afford anyway, failing to source adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers and an utter failure to help or support students who found themselves unable to go to university for much of a year.