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Trump!!! This only shows that the essential support in from geopolitical point of view. This maybe seemed log- DOSSIER
a significant part of the population was not a support ical when the emergence and the partial success of the
of the political idea, but only support to change the po- parties National Front (led by Le Pen) and Podemos was
litical order. analyzed, however the euroscepticism showed political
energy which clearly can no longer be affected by the,
The neW righTisT populism still, geopolitically weak russia.
If things seem too complex already, the analysis of
Let us take the United Kingdom as an example. While
the new political movements is becoming complex the establishment of the Labour Party, led by the po-
now. Namely, at the same time, and one can say that litical stars Tony blair, Gordon brown and Alister Kem-
this even preceded the changes in the left-wing, new bel, was facing difficulties with the entry of the radical
political radical movements emerged in the right wing. leftist doctrine through Jeremy Corbyn, the establish-
being an autocratic right-wing with techno-managerial ment of the Conservative Party, led by the charismatic
approach, on the wave of populism, on the rule with a David Cameron, relatively carelessly enjoyed the fruits
firm hand, and on the periphery of the civilized society, of the stability of the british right wing. The political
the axis Putin-orban-erdogan emerged, thereby, more experiments, which included and still partially include
or less, marking the line of impact through the balkan the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) rep-
and eastern europe. These autocratic movements, at resented a ground for political training, identification
the time, and now as well, are usually analyzed through and hunting of populist attitudes or political entertain-
the prism of the local and the regional political move- ment, than a real threat for the position in the right
ments, taking into consideration that it is a matter of wing. however, when Farage and UKIP won excellent
countries that arose from different type of transitions results in the european elections in the United King-
and specific circumstances that followed their devel- dom, the conservatives realized that the party is over
opment. Later, when the radical right-wind started to already and that they must have more serious attitude
penetrate on the wings of euroscepticism, and deeper in regard to the political messages of the electorate for
on the european continent, the analysts started to seek change of the paradigm in the right wing. From this
the answer for the new movements in the strengthened point of view, this had disastrous results, with populist
russian impact and change of the distribution of forces flirtation of David Cameron with the voters, with in-
consistent politics of the relations with the european
Nigel farage, radical british Eurosceptic, President of uKIP, one of the Union. This is actually how the referendum brexit was
leaders of the movement for success of the referendum brexit scheduled as Cameron’s pre-electoral flirtation with the
increasingly radical right-wing voters and the emotions
photo: (thereveillenwu.com) related to euroscepticism. When the surveys showed
danger of his success, the political elites bother in the
wing within Turkey, United States left wing (including the radical Corbyn0 and in the right
common position could be wing, understood that the situation has become real-
ly serious, and that the euroscepticism threatens not
only to shake the position of the United Kingdom vis-
à-vis the world, but also to change the overall political
order in the country. They firmly stood in the defense
of the order, however obviously their flirtation lasted
too long. The political clown Farage, supported by the
predictable political tactician boris Johnson, managed
to achieve success at the referendum and currently the
United Kingdom is facing one of the greatest political
crises after World War II. From geopolitical point of
view, there are numerous analyses which explain the
success of Farage and Johnson with support and rus-
sian impact, however maybe this made sense while
these political doctrines had negligible role and impact.
brexit’s success is still an excessive displacement of the
voters’ focus, something for which it is illogical to as-
sume that it can be achieved with manipulation or a
conspiracy.

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