Posted on 10/27/2025 8:30:33 AM PDT by RandFan
Who really won the by-election (Specia election) in Caerphilly (Wales)? I know officially it was Plaid Cymru, and I wouldn’t want to diminish that funny little party’s glee. Congrats, etc. But the true victor was a far newer party. An angry party. A party of the fretful and anxious. A party so fresh it doesn’t even have a name yet. I say we call it Not Reform.
I think it is pretty clear that it was this nameless entity that propelled Plaid Cymru’s Lindsay Whittle to victory last night. That this seismic upset was fuelled less by a burning enthusiasm for the petit-bourgeois nationalism of those Welsh breakaways than by a growing middle-class angst over Nigel Farage. And in that sense, Caerphilly really has prepared the ground for the next general election.
No one can deny what a hand grenade in the body politic this by-election has been. It is brutish proof of the withering of the two big parties. Labour has dominated this part of Wales for decades and yet last night its vote share plummeted by 35 per cent. It got 3,713 votes. There are Monster Raving Loonies who’ve got more. As for the Conservatives – 690 votes! That’s the numerical territory of bored housewives who run on single issues, like fixing potholes (in the road)
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Doubtless there will be websites, etc. to see who you vote for if against Farage in your district.
Will it deny him a majority in a future Parliament? I dont know. It's possible but it depends on the quirks of the system.
The next election in the UK will be unbelievable and a blockbuster!
Unwarranted criminal charges will surely be filed against Farage at some point. I expect those charges will have something to do with young girls. And like I said...entirely unwarranted.
If the voters (not the parties or politicians, the voters) decide to elect communists and people set on destroying the country just to give the finger to Farage, well, I guess they’ll get what they’re voting for and it will be their choice.
LOL.
He has to be careful any little slip they dont need an excuse do they!
Even if he is careful they can do it.And very probably will.
you’re right
The enemy is dastardly
FDS
One needs to look at the split by age and sex to see what is going on.
Bkmk
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