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Posted on 05/04/2025 5:10:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The old politics is gone – and it’s not coming back.
‘Historic local elections’ are three words you don’t often see next to each other. But last night was surely the exception. While many of the counts are only really getting started, the picture is already crystal clear: the two-party cartel that has squatted over British politics for 100 years is crumbling – and Nigel Farage’s insurgent Reform UK is the party rising from the rubble.
There’s the Runcorn by-election, a Labour safe seat snatched by Reform by six votes – the first time a Faragist party has won a by-election from a standing start. There’s the Greater Lincolnshire mayoralty, won by Tory-Reform defector Andrea Jenkyns by a whopping 104,000 votes to Labour’s 65,000. Reform ran Labour incredibly close in North Tyneside (Labour won by 444 votes) and Doncaster (by 698 votes). Even in the West of England mayoralty, Reform came a shock second, pushing the Greens, who all but run Bristol, into third place. Council results are only now starting to trickle in. But already you can see that, as Farage is often fond of saying, ‘something is happening out there’.
Reform has undoubtedly raised its game, setting up local branches, signing up more than 200,000 registered supporters, transforming itself from an electoral pressure point on the Tory jugular to a distinct and durable electoral force, capable of reaching deep into Old Labour territory. If it succeeds in securing swathes of new councillors following the counts over the coming days, it will gain both local representation and hundreds more door-knockers, leafleters and canvassers.
But campaigning nous counts for little unless there is a political opening to exploit. And boy have they been handed one by Labour and the Tories. In national polls, a woke technocratic Labour Party and a disoriented, identity-crisis-hit Tory Party now don’t even make up 50 per cent of the vote combined. Their respective electoral bases have frayed to such a degree that even our first-past-the-post voting system, which has traditionally propped up the duopoly by forcing insurgents to rack up high vote shares if they want to break through at all, isn’t saving them. As pollster Peter Kellner notes: ‘The tipping point for a party such as Reform is no longer 30 per cent. It’s probably around 25 per cent.’ Which just so happens to be where Reform UK is already.
This is all the product not of one electoral cycle, but a decades-long tectonic shift. The old parties, these relics of the 20th century, have long ceased to know who or what they are for, beyond winning power. Their deathly grip over politics has for many years been sustained by a lack of alternatives and a disaffected electorate. Keir Starmer’s sand-castle majority last summer – won on a historically low turnout and a historically low vote share – was merely the most extreme example yet of this hollow set-up. But the tide is already coming in on him.
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Can Reform reverse the islamist invasion?
I think they can reverse a lot. They need to roll back their welfare state, & make the invaders pay for themselves instead of the rest of the population. That might discourage some. And enforcing monogamy would help, too.
I truly believe that Islam can & should be outlawed in the west. It just takes the backbone to get up & speak the truth about it. Nigel isn’t the guy to get that done, but maybe his success will encourage others.
There is only one party; islam. England as we know it, has been destroyed.
Like the U.S., the U.K. had evolved into a Uni-Party system. Being unable to change either system from within, they had to create a separate party.
Unless the West treats Islam for what it is, a terrorist organization, there will be no reversal. History has shown repeatedly that when Muslims gain a certain level of political power in a nation, there comes a time when so-called 'moderate Muslims' are dominated and directed by those who apply the Koran as it's written. I.e., the Koran directs its followers to murder, torture and imprison the infidel. Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Nigeria ... were once nations where Christians could live in relative peace. Islam has made these nations a hell-hole for Christians. Unless/until the West ousts Islam and its followers from its nations, we will have the fate of nations where Christians once lived in relative peace but not anymore. Look at the impact of Islam on France and Britain today.
Centuries ago, Spain got it right. Centuries ago, western Europe got it right. Spain expelled its Muslim population, which was undermining Spain's Christian government and people. The Crusades and past Popes who saw Islam as anti-Christian terrorists got it right! Charles Martel got it right!
The UK has a large betting industry for sports, politics, etc., I wonder if you could get odds on how long before Nigel Farage is involved in a major scandal, he personally is charge with some type of crime and his party gets put on a banned list for any future elections.
Recent history suggests that any reform or populist nationalist political party in the west the becomes a danger to the status quo gets involved in a scandal, gets outright banned or the leader is thrown in jail.
The U.K. is being destroyed the same way as was the Roman Empire - from within as the body-politic absorbed people from the empire into the heart of the empire.
Well George Bush (R Kuwait) got it wrong. Iraq was conquered, but no attempt was made to Christianize the population. A lost opportunity.
Wait until MI5 declares the Reform Party an extremist group, a la Germany’s AfD.
Has Austria apologized yet for the cruel way they broke the siege of Vienna or pulled down statues of Jan Sobieski?
Maybe this is finally getting their attention:
“The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has projected that the UK population could grow to 70 million in two years and could increase to 73.7 million by mid-2036, including net international migration of 6.1 million.”
All they have to do is look around to see how much of their country has been overtaken by mass 3rd world migration, aided and abetted by their own lefty politicians.
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Reform UK is pro - Welfare State.
Bingo. Tories and Labour will have Reform arrested.
I’d agree Farage isn’t the guy to really get it done. I see him as a typical opportunist politician. He saw weakness in the two parties and has exploited it - while having harsh words for the man who has actually done more than any of them to represent the working class, but he’s sitting in prison for exposing the corrupt judiciary and media without even having had a jury.
I assume that we’ll see alignment with Tories/Labour to marginalize Reform. Similar to Germany with the AfD.
They’ll infiltrate it and destroy it from within.
Do you think the Brits will ever get rid of the NHS? They love it because it's "British" even though it's crappy.
Do you think the Brits will ever get rid of the NHS? They love it because it’s “British” even though it’s crappy.
I remember that creepy 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony that celebrated the NHS.
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