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Posted on 05/08/2026 9:18:42 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Forget Keir Starmer’s future as prime minister, the story so far of the elections in Britain is Nigel Farage’s apparent future as prime minister.
His Reform UK party has surged spectacularly in the 40 local councils that have declared results so far in England. Perhaps most eye-catching of all is the party’s strong performance in the northwest of England and the Greater Manchester area.
In Tameside, the backyard of would-be Labour leadership contender Angela Rayner, Reform took 16 of Labour’s 17 seats. In Wigan, the home patch of culture secretary Lisa Nandy, Reform took all 22 of Labour’s seats.
Those early results may not translate perfectly into the overall picture, but as it stands Reform seems to be achieving a vote share in or around 30 per cent. Its rivals – Labour, the Tories, the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats – can’t get out of the teens.
If Farage can hold those proportions and take them into a national general election campaign in a couple of years’ time, then under Britain’s first-past-the-post system, he would be firmly on course for Downing Street.
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The conservatives will screw it up again. They always do.
Now the press will turn Farage into the second coming of Oswald Mosley.
But none of these are MP seats, so aren’t they overhyping this?
“We’re only makin’ plans for Nigel…”
Just as the UK parties came together in World War Eleven to form a wartime unity government, I think the Tories, Labour, Liberal Democrats and Scottish National Party would unify in a wartime government in 2029 to fight Reform. If Farage does not get an absolute majority of the seats he will be squeezed out. And I even expect them to all drop out but one in each district so the anti-Reform voters won’t split their vote..
And if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Nigel Farage = GWB.
Rupert Lowe = Cromwell.
we only want what’s best for him
But none of these are MP seats, so aren’t they overhyping this?“
They sure are. Labour still holds all the real power.
“And if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”
Do you know how many times I heard that as a kid?😄
Lord, protect him, I pray.
I wholeheartedly agree.
In my view it is a simple case of elitism or statism versus populism and representative self-government.
The Brits showed populist leaning with the Brexit referendum and it REVEALED how entrenched the elites were.
It took the ambition of tried and true elitist like Bojo to embrace Brexit for no good reason but only so he could realize his personal ambitions.
Here in America Trump with a populism movement was able to beat the rigged system that uniparty had established decades earlier.
But even though in his first term he was given a populist mandate to build a wall the uniparty quashed that mandate the second he was inaugurated.
In his second term, Voter ID might not have been the mandate that building the wall was but it was favored even MORE broadly than building a wall was and we all see the entrenched power of the uniparty/statist party.
Trump was able to beat the rigged system in the US, it is highly unlikely it can be beaten in the UK.
That is what has happened in France and Germany, all the other parties have said they will never work with the AfD or Marie Le Pen’s party to form a coalition government, it’s unlikely either party will ever gain an outright majority so they will never get a chance to govern even if they are the most popular party in the country.
Hahahahahaha...you're very smart to pick that up and use it here. Made me genuinely laugh out loud.
XTC! I saw them in NYC. They were the warmup band for the Cars.
A modern Cromwell would be terrifying. Thomas was responsible for implementing the absolutely vicious dissolution of the monasteries, ushering in hundreds of years of intense religious persecutions in England. Oliver was just as vicious, and his conquest of Ireland was extraordinarily brutal.
Forcible removal of more than a million young men who will violently resist isn't for pansies.
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