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Bullish Farage Predicts Six Million Votes as Early Counts Show Surprising Reform Performances
Breitbart ^ | 07/04/2024 | Oliver JJ. Lane

Posted on 07/04/2024 5:59:12 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

“This is going to be huge”, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage predicts as the first results of Britain’s intense night of election results begins.

The first seats for Britain’s next Parliament have been declared and while they have all undeniably been Labour stronghold areas that the party was expected to win, one object of surprise has been a repeated story of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party coming in second every time.

While there is no escaping Britain’s electoral system, where the number of votes any given party gets nationally very rarely — if ever — is reflected in the actual power they get in terms of seats, it would still be an incredible coup — and real bragging rights for Mr Farage — if he walks away with the second highest number of votes tonight.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: farage; reform; surprising; votes
Well how about that. Good for Nigel
1 posted on 07/04/2024 5:59:12 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It would be interesting if Reform got more votes than the Tories.


2 posted on 07/04/2024 6:05:39 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff

Most of the pollsters claimed that Reform was not getting a second place finish tonight.

They look likely to be proved wrong.


3 posted on 07/04/2024 6:07:28 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The U.S. needs a MAGA party.


4 posted on 07/04/2024 6:17:02 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: ChicagoConservative27

With respect to each seat, either the Conservative or the Reform candidate should have dropped out before the ballot got set based on which one was polling lower.

Instead, the UK will get Communism Light.


5 posted on 07/04/2024 6:26:33 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

The U.S. needs a MAGA party.


We have one.


6 posted on 07/04/2024 6:33:35 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: Jane Long

Really? I see no evidence of that.

L


7 posted on 07/04/2024 6:40:26 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I haven’t been following this closely, what does this 3rd or 4th place get him?


8 posted on 07/04/2024 6:47:48 PM PDT by Reno89519 (I'll go out on a limb: Trump & Gabbard 2024 or Trump & Sanders 2024)
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To: Nextrush

4th place at best... and the original exit polls that gave Reform 13 seats appear to have been off and now it looks like they’ll get 5 at the most. Farage did win a seat though after 7 previous attempts.


9 posted on 07/04/2024 9:30:35 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

The Tory racism propaganda at the end of the campaign probably dragged their vote down a bit.


10 posted on 07/05/2024 3:27:32 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

Even on GBN they were referring to Reform as ‘far right.’ Hard to climb out from behind that sort of nonsense.


11 posted on 07/05/2024 5:51:35 AM PDT by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

“Lepers”


12 posted on 07/05/2024 9:22:59 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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