I’d argue this was a step further and this is very clearly fascism.
We‘ve been gradually gaslit into a situation where we are led by a billionaire oligarch elite who fly around in their vanity helicopters entirely at our expense whilst securing multi-£bn deals for their private and heavily obfuscated businesses paid for by our taxes and all the while they demonise and scapegoat the most vulnerable in society. Rishi Sunak in a luxury helicopter paid for by us vilifying and shitting on refugees, the homeless, the disabled, the working poor, the unemployed, trans people, the mentally ill etc whilst producing fatuous arguments to secure further contacts for his family business and Tory oligarch donors.
I’d bet my house the current ‘prioritise defence/security/weapons’ classic fascist rhetoric leads directly into his pockets. Everything that shameless parasitic grifter does leads there. This simply staggering degree of corruption is yet another indication of fascism.