Posted on 05/24/2025 6:22:40 PM PDT by RandFan
Nigel Farage will this week outflank Sir Keir Starmer by committing to scrapping the two-child benefit cap and fully reinstating the winter fuel payment.
The Reform leader will appeal to Left-leaning voters in a challenge to Sir Keir in a speech launching his biggest attack yet on the Prime Minister.
His intervention is likely to spark a fresh wave of demands from Labour rebels for Downing Street to speed up planned policy shifts on both fronts.
Sir Keir is open to scrapping the two-child benefit cap but Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, is understood to be resisting an immediate announcement until she can set out how it would be funded.
Removing the cap entirely, combined with reinstating winter fuel payments for some pensioners as announced last week, would cost the Treasury as much as £5 billion, making tax rises more likely.
No 10 is reportedly considering a plan to reinstate the payment to all pensioners then recoup it from the richest through their tax returns.
Mr Farage will use his first address since Reform’s local elections triumph to warn the Prime Minister that traditional Labour voters are turning to his party.
He is expected to say: “Starmer is one of the most unpatriotic prime ministers in our history and this past week has been evidence of that.
“The Prime Minister is out of touch with working people, he doesn’t understand what they want and how they feel about the big issues facing Britain.
“It’s going to be these very same working people that will vote Reform at the next election and kick Labour out of government.”
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Labor is on the ropes I would say and Farage has momentum.
Starmer is a Soviet in disguise his early demise would be a good thing IMHO.
The polling puts Farage in the lead that is certain this kind of stance could solidify and expand his lead.
It doesn’t take much to outsmart Starmer. The only problem is he’s got 4+ years left to screw the UK up even more.
“Smart politics ?”
Not really, the smarter thing is to follow the EU and find a reason to jail him, or disband his party, or put bullets in him - you know, to “Protect Democracy” there.
I was going to say, I’m surprised Farage hasn’t been taken out yet.
He wants to Nationalize Stelle. Europe is taking far gone into Socalism
Thier isno such Animal as Small Government Conservatism
In Europe.
Buying votes seems to be the number one priority of both sides.
I suspect that was tried with his plane crash.
That could be expedited by a vote of no confidence.
CC
“Buying votes seems to be the number one priority of both sides.”
I don’t recommend a vote-buying war with either Democrats or Labour.
True, but across the western world we are in the everything-must-go-don’t-miss-out stage of civilizational collapse.
Yes it could but is unlikely. These leftists never give up power willingly. The UK will have to descend into near chaos, where the back benchers in Labor are either shamed or forced to resign or call for new elections. For now Labor is using some typical tactics like paying lip service on immigration and subsidies for the retirees while cracking down on non-violent dissent It’s a real mess. They will do whatever they can to keep power. By 2029 it will probably be too late, or, the blowback will become truly horrendous.
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