Posted on 02/18/2025 8:46:45 PM PST by Olog-hai
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has cemented its lead in the polls and has begun to pull ahead of the Westminster establishment parties, according to a survey from YouGov.
Just over seven months after the leftist Labour Party swept to power in the UK following the collapse of the neo-liberal “Conservatives”, Nigel Farage’s insurgent sovereigntist-populist Reform party has begun to entrench itself as the preferred party of the British voter.
According to a poll conducted this week from top survey firm YouGov, Reform UK has increased its lead over other parties and now stands clearly on top at 27 per cent, compared to 25 per cent for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour, and 21 per cent for the faltering Tories.
Commenting on the results, Nigel Farage’s deputy, MP Richard Tice remarked on X: “Reform pulling ahead further from Labour [and the] Tories, despite all the nonsense spouted by increasingly desperate opponents. Only Reform UK can get [the] U.K. growing again [and] make people better off.” […]
The survey from YouGov also found that for the first time in its polling, Nigel Farage has pulled ahead of Prime Minister Starmer outside of the margin of error in favorability rankings. …
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That’s great for them, but Starmer doesn’t have to call an election until 2029. The UK system really sucks. At least we get House and (some) Senate races every 2 years.
Not really a big deal. Without a no confidence vote there won’t be an election for Parliament for 4+ years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_DOKRDRJzA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9orBYaED54
Does it matter? I may be mistaken but thought I read that Labor will hold power for 5 full years before the next election. Unless there is a major no confidence from inside the party or coalition.
There could be an early election it’s not set in stone
MEGA, make England great again
More WINNING, I don’t know if my heart can take much more.
If they had a different kind of king, then Parliament could be dissolved on his order. But Charles seems to very much like what “Sir Keir” is doing.
There are Council elections in May and Welsh and Scottish elections next year.
It is entirely possible for Reform to win the Welsh election and become at the very least the senior coalition member of the next Welsh government.
Scotland they will gain a significant presence at the expense of the Tories and Labour, unfortunately the SNP will probably be the primary beneficiaries of Labour’s misfortune, although they are also useless and have lost a lot of core supporters over the trans issue so it is possible some SNP voters will defect to Reform because Labour and the Lib Dems are pro-Trans cult, the Greens even more so and the Tories are stigmatised in Scotland.
The King is a constitutional monarch, he can’t wield executive power except on the advice of the PM.
I doubt even the residual power exists. Even when the Royal Prerogative was exercised in 2019 to prorogue Parliament in 2019 the Supreme Court nullified the order, and that was WITH the PM’s advice.
Also, the act repealling the fixed term parliament act to allow the early dissolution of Parliament against specifically states that the King must dissolve Parliament on the advice of the PM.
That means that the Supreme Court would undoubtedly rule against the King making a unilateral decision to dissolve Parliament.
In reality, the Supreme Court rules the country now and any decision requires the sanction of the Supreme Court. A complete abbheration in the old constitution of Britain.
I presume you never heard of reserve powers?
No, I am well aware of the concept of ‘reserve powers’, but I believe that they are a legal fiction.
The precedent was already set by the Supreme Court on the use of the Royal Prerogative requiring their permission to be valid.
If King Charles unilaterally dissolved parliament, the Supreme Court would almost certainly nullify it.
I suppose in the theory that the military, which swears loyalty to the monarch and their heirs and successors, could decide to foce the issue by obeying the monarch’s command to enforce the dissolution and call new elections but that would have its own issues as their funding (and salaries) requires the permission of parliament, so their wages would likely be stopped if they tried to launch a royal coup and you can bet the civil service would enact that cessation of payments.
Precedent is not law. And a parliament without any checks on its power is a totalitarian oligarchy, a constitutional crisis in and of itself.
A monarch worth anything would exercise reserve powers when needed and the courts would back him up. But like I mentioned earlier, the reigning monarch likes what this PM is doing.
The courts wouldnt back him up. They hate the Tories and they hate Reform even more. And they keep making rulings favouring illegal immigrants. The judges are the ones who rule the country now.
Who knows. They may ban Reform because after all, it's a "far right" party.
It wouldn't surprise me.
You can vote for the Tories.
But what's the point?
Well, I have no doubt they wouldn’t back up Charles if he became so bold, which he shows no signs of becoming.
Too many people on the ground are talking civil war though.
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