Posted on 08/04/2025 3:16:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
There’s a political revolution bubbling in what once was the motherland. The Reform UK party, founded just seven years ago as the “Brexit Party,” may now be poised to win power in Britain’s next election.
How significant the party’s rise is cannot be overstated. A poll earlier this year showed Reform leading the Conservatives and the Labour Party for the first time ever. Note here that the former can be analogized to our Republicans and Labour to our Democrats. Given this, the result is much like the Libertarians or Constitution Party out-polling the GOP and Democrats in the U.S. It’s breathtaking and historic.
This shift is inordinately driven, too, by white working-class voters. In fact, more than half of this group is planning to vote for Reform, according to The Telegraph. And what is driving their “rage,” as the paper puts it?
Rage, Rage, Oh Rage Is All the Rage
A clue can perhaps be found in calling the phenomenon “rage.” This is much like when, in the U.S. some years ago, the media would talk about “angry white males.” It reflects disrespect. The idea is that these people don’t know what they’re doing; they’re enraged, hysterical, irrational — and probably racist, too. (In fairness, The Telegraph article is sympathetic to the working class. That it uses such terminology bespeaks of how conservatives fall into the trap of using the lexicon of the Left.) Yet while there is anger, these voters aren’t blinded by rage. Rather, many have their eyes wide open. And what do they see?
Try this on for size. U.K. authorities have a history of ignoring the beating, terrorizing, and sexual abuse of thousands of indigenous British girls. Why the blind eye?
Wokeness — the perpetrators were Pakistani Muslim gangs.
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It sure has taken the Brits a long time to get pissed but at least they finally are. Being jailed for speaking out has certainly had a chilling effect on dissent.
Well, they are also disarmed.
Yep, pretty tough to shoot your way out with sticks and protest signs.
“Well, they are also disarmed.”
I wonder when chefs scissors will be the only option. Garden hoes, hammers, tire irons...
The Brits have no choice but the Reform party. The Conservative party is more liberal than our RINOs.
Then they will bludgeon, pummel, and pierce their way out, but make no mistake, the English are learning to hate again. The West is awakening.
The trick is to keep the nutcases out of the movement, that’s what Oswald Mosely couldn’t do.
No kidding, they can’t even have most knives legally.
A long time ago, Eric Sevareid commented that 3rd parties (in the USA?) do not become major parties, and major parties do not become 3rd parties for very long.
There is a small sample size.
Federalist - fielded candidates 1816, wiped out 1820.
Whig Party - founded 1834, first president Harrison 1840.
fielded candidates 1852, wiped out 1856.
Republican - founded 1854, first president Lincoln 1860.
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