Could Nigel Farage be heading to 10 Downing Street with his Reform Party’s landslide victory in local elections?
Express(h/t Nita)A new poll suggests Keir Starmer’s local elections wipeout and Indian trade deal have gone down badly with voters, showing yet another astonishing surge in support for Reform UK. Find Out Now have discovered that Reform has shot up by 4 points to a whopping 33%, the highest Nigel Farage has ever polled nationally.
Meanwhile Labour is down one point to 20%, leaving them 13 points behind Reform. However the Tories have suffered a major blow, plummeting three points to just 16%. This means they are just one percent more popular than the LibDems (15%), and less than half as popular as Reform.
Plugging the numbers into a seat predictor, it suggests Nigel Farage would be heading to Number 10 Downing Street with a landslide majority. If these numbers were seen in an election, Reform UK would sweep into power with 365 seats, a majority identical to that of Boris Johnson’s in 2019. Labour would collapse to 97 seats, down 314 seats, while the Tories would be almost entirely wiped out and left with just 23 seats.
Responding to today’s Find Out Now poll, Reform deputy leader Richard Tice said: “RECORD REFORM POLL – 33%. Now 17% ahead of disappearing Tories.”
He told the PA News Agency: “I think Labour and the Tories have spent years cozying up to Farage. I have made clear the only way to deal with Farage is to confront him, which is what we will do in Scotland, and to take a different approach.”
A Reform UK spokesperson described the Conservative Party was in “terminal decline” and said Farage’s party had become “the real opposition to Labour in England, Scotland and Wales”. “The lesson for future elections is simple,” they added. “If you vote Conservative, you will get Labour. By supporting the Conservatives, you split the Reform UK vote. If you vote Reform UK, you get Reform UK.”
The findings also appear to support Farage’s argument that his party’s success in the May 1 elections signals the end of Britain’s two-party system – and could “supplant” the Tories as the main opposition to Labour.
Panicked politicians in the country’s two main parties have come under pressure to win back disillusioned voters, including calls for the Government to backtrack on its controversial change to the winter fuel allowance.
Scottish First Minister John Swinney said this week that there was a “very real possibility” that Farage could be the UK’s next Prime Minister, describing it as a “fearful” prospect..
Will the monarchy, media, and political elite try to shut down Farage?
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Andrew Blackaddersays
Farage talks a good game but he panders to the muslim population as he even said he cannot get elected without their support plus he called Tommy Robinson a thug and a racist.
His main spokesman is a bloody muslim so that should tell you all you need to know about him.
Some former members of Reform have left and criticize him.
The UK is a key base for Moslame strength globally. If the British turn the tide against Islam, which looks impossible to me, it will have a ripple effect all over Europe. Moslames will have no place to hide.
“Can you publicly criticise islame and moslames in India?”
It varies a lot. I can’t start a blog like BareNakedIslam in India. Open criticism of the “Prophet” can land you in jail.
However, indirect criticism of Muslims and their holy book is tolerated ever since Modi became Prime Minister. As long as the criticism is restricted to Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. But it better not include other Muslims such as Iranians or Saudis.
This is because India’s government does not wish to offend Iran or Saudi Arabia. Recetly, a right-wing retired Major of Indian Army, Major Gaurav Arya, was castigated for calling the Iranian foreign minister a “son of a pig.” The Iran embassy raised a protest and the Indian government distanced itself from those remarks.
If the Moslames are low value and insignificant, such as the Rohingyas or any illegal Bangladeshis living in India, it’s perfectly all right to criticize and condemn them.
But if I criticize the petrocracies of Saudi Arabia, or UAE, and I’m a mildly famous person, I could get arrested.
It worries me that the chairman of the reform party is a muslim named Muhammad Ziauddin Yusuf. It also worries me that Nigel Farage, leader of Reform, called mass deportations of illegal immigrants a “political impossibility”, distancing the party from advocating for deportations. So even if they get in power I wonder if anything will actually change.
He donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to Reform and I presume that is how he got to be Chairman of the party. A simple google search of “Muhammad Ziauddin Yusuf” will provide hundreds of references. I wonder what his agenda is.
Who cares? Farage’s islamopandering is as disgusting as all the rest of the British politicos. If it were Anne Marie Waters I’d have a different opinion, but it’s not.
Islam IS the greatest threat to Britons today, it’s steadily eliminating their freedoms, one at a time and moslames, as well as their useful, traitorous tools, have arguably created a police state in the UK in the 21st century.
I believe Farage has even deprecated Tommy Robinson, so F*Ck him.
Farage talks a good game but he panders to the muslim population as he even said he cannot get elected without their support plus he called Tommy Robinson a thug and a racist.
His main spokesman is a bloody muslim so that should tell you all you need to know about him.
Some former members of Reform have left and criticize him.
So, there is no one who can lead Britain out of the mess it’s in?
The UK is a key base for Moslame strength globally. If the British turn the tide against Islam, which looks impossible to me, it will have a ripple effect all over Europe. Moslames will have no place to hide.
Outside of a military coup and military dictatorship I don’t see not-so-great Britain becoming an islamic state in everything but name this century.
Can you publicly criticise islame and moslames in India? Or is it considered hate speech and criminalized?
“Can you publicly criticise islame and moslames in India?”
It varies a lot. I can’t start a blog like BareNakedIslam in India. Open criticism of the “Prophet” can land you in jail.
However, indirect criticism of Muslims and their holy book is tolerated ever since Modi became Prime Minister. As long as the criticism is restricted to Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. But it better not include other Muslims such as Iranians or Saudis.
This is because India’s government does not wish to offend Iran or Saudi Arabia. Recetly, a right-wing retired Major of Indian Army, Major Gaurav Arya, was castigated for calling the Iranian foreign minister a “son of a pig.” The Iran embassy raised a protest and the Indian government distanced itself from those remarks.
If the Moslames are low value and insignificant, such as the Rohingyas or any illegal Bangladeshis living in India, it’s perfectly all right to criticize and condemn them.
But if I criticize the petrocracies of Saudi Arabia, or UAE, and I’m a mildly famous person, I could get arrested.
How disappointing — especially consider the unbelievable barbarism f’ing moslames have visited on Hindus across the Indian sub-continent.
It worries me that the chairman of the reform party is a muslim named Muhammad Ziauddin Yusuf. It also worries me that Nigel Farage, leader of Reform, called mass deportations of illegal immigrants a “political impossibility”, distancing the party from advocating for deportations. So even if they get in power I wonder if anything will actually change.
Tell me more about this chairman. I never heard of him before.
He donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to Reform and I presume that is how he got to be Chairman of the party. A simple google search of “Muhammad Ziauddin Yusuf” will provide hundreds of references. I wonder what his agenda is.
OK thanks.
Who cares? Farage’s islamopandering is as disgusting as all the rest of the British politicos. If it were Anne Marie Waters I’d have a different opinion, but it’s not.
Islam IS the greatest threat to Britons today, it’s steadily eliminating their freedoms, one at a time and moslames, as well as their useful, traitorous tools, have arguably created a police state in the UK in the 21st century.
I believe Farage has even deprecated Tommy Robinson, so F*Ck him.
God, I hope so.