Populist party led by Nigel Farage beats establishment parties in election shocker

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Governments don't get it that citizens are sick and tired of their countries being flooded by migrants especially now that the cost of living is crazy. Rents have skyrocketed, food is very high, gas is high on top of that they bring in people that don't want to integrate and demand welfare.


The right-wing Reform UK Party saw a series of electoral wins early Friday after it secured parliamentary, mayoral and several local election seats in what leader Nigel Farage said is proof that Reform UK is "now the opposition party to this Labour government."

Farage, who predicted earlier this year in an interview with Fox News Digital that there would be a "political revolution," said the centurylong, two-party system that has dominated British politics was "now dead" after both the liberal Labour Party and Conservative Party saw losses in a Thursday election.

Reform UK secured a fifth parliamentary seat after Sarah Pochin flipped the Runcorn & Helsby constituency, which is, according to Reform leaders, considered Labour "heartland."

"Victory in Runcorn & Helsby proves we are now the opposition party to this Labour government," Farage said on X. "With this and other results tonight, it’s clear that if you vote Conservative you will get Labour. But if you vote Reform, you get Reform."

The race for the Runcorn & Helsby seat was the most closely watched race and required a full recount, after which it was confirmed that Reform secured the seat by just six votes.

Farage championed the victory as "a small margin" but "a huge win."

The Labour Party — which is led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer — currently holds 403 seats in Parliament, followed by the Conservative Party, which holds 121. Liberal Democrats hold 72 seats, while Independents hold 14. The remainder of the 40 other seats are divided between 11 other parties, including Reform.

Andrea Jenkyns also snagged the mayorship for Greater Lincolnshire, which has for years been dominated by the Conservative Party.

Reform UK's deputy leader, Richard Tice, reportedly told Times Radio on Friday, "It’s certainly a political earthquake because up and down the country in some 650 elections, give or take, voters have voted and the votes are coming in against the main two parties."

According to Farage, the rise in Reform UK supporters suggests the Conservative Party — which he was a former member of but left in the 90s and eventually started the Brexit Party before changing the name to Reform UK in 2021 — is losing support.

"You're witnessing the end of a party that's been around since 1832," he told reporters, according to a Reuters report.

 
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Governments don't get it that citizens are sick and tired of their countries being flooded by migrants especially now that the cost of living is crazy. Rents have skyrocketed, food is very high, gas is high on top of that they bring in people that don't want to integrate and demand welfare.


The right-wing Reform UK Party saw a series of electoral wins early Friday after it secured parliamentary, mayoral and several local election seats in what leader Nigel Farage said is proof that Reform UK is "now the opposition party to this Labour government."

Farage, who predicted earlier this year in an interview with Fox News Digital that there would be a "political revolution," said the centurylong, two-party system that has dominated British politics was "now dead" after both the liberal Labour Party and Conservative Party saw losses in a Thursday election.

Reform UK secured a fifth parliamentary seat after Sarah Pochin flipped the Runcorn & Helsby constituency, which is, according to Reform leaders, considered Labour "heartland."

"Victory in Runcorn & Helsby proves we are now the opposition party to this Labour government," Farage said on X. "With this and other results tonight, it’s clear that if you vote Conservative you will get Labour. But if you vote Reform, you get Reform."

The race for the Runcorn & Helsby seat was the most closely watched race and required a full recount, after which it was confirmed that Reform secured the seat by just six votes.

Farage championed the victory as "a small margin" but "a huge win."

The Labour Party — which is led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer — currently holds 403 seats in Parliament, followed by the Conservative Party, which holds 121. Liberal Democrats hold 72 seats, while Independents hold 14. The remainder of the 40 other seats are divided between 11 other parties, including Reform.

Andrea Jenkyns also snagged the mayorship for Greater Lincolnshire, which has for years been dominated by the Conservative Party.

Reform UK's deputy leader, Richard Tice, reportedly told Times Radio on Friday, "It’s certainly a political earthquake because up and down the country in some 650 elections, give or take, voters have voted and the votes are coming in against the main two parties."

According to Farage, the rise in Reform UK supporters suggests the Conservative Party — which he was a former member of but left in the 90s and eventually started the Brexit Party before changing the name to Reform UK in 2021 — is losing support.

"You're witnessing the end of a party that's been around since 1832," he told reporters, according to a Reuters report.

Meanwhile, AfD are now listed as extremists.
 
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Meanwhile, AfD are now listed as extremists.
The thread is about England and Farage, I can see why they call you a troll here. But everyone knows that Afd is extreme right, nothing new, yet the Germans are still voting for them and they tied for first. The Germans are fed up wit migrants that won't integrate or evolve.


Six weeks after voters in Germany went to the polls for the federal elections, there appears to be growing dissatisfaction with the outcome, as more Germans shift their support to the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

According to the latest survey from Insa on behalf of the Bild newspaper, the AfD has soared to a record 24 per cent support. This puts the upstart party on par with the election-winning ‘Union’ of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), which collectively also now stand at 24 per cent in support.

This represents a dramatic switch from the February elections, when the Union received 28.5 per cent of the vote, compared to 20.8 per cent for the AfD, meaning that the CDU/CSU has lost the support of one in six of its voters since the election.

“The Union is crashing dramatically. There has never been such a loss of approval between the federal election and the formation of a government,” Insa chief Hermann Binkert said.

After winning the election, CDU leader Friedrich Merz immediately entered into coalition talks with the Social Democrats (SPD) despite voters clearly rejecting the leftist party at the ballot box after years of failed governance under outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

The SPD currently stands at 16 per cent in the polls, followed by the Greens and The Left, both of whom stand at 11 per cent.

 

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Farage was a Brexit proponent, promising a fantasy that everything would be great.

Nigel is also very ugly, he looks like one of the villians from the game dishonored.
 
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