Posted on 05/04/2025 2:11:29 AM PDT by RandFan
It's been a whirlwind couple of days for Reform UK after the party won 677 seats out of around 1,600 in local elections in pockets of England.
But while party leader Nigel Farage is setting off fireworks and basking in the post-election success, both the Labour and Conservative parties are taking time to reflect.
Both main parties suffered significant losses at the polling booths. The Tories shed 676 seats, most of which were scooped up by Reform or the Liberal Democrats. Meanwhile, Labour claimed just 99 seats - though the party has held on to three mayoralties.
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Reform won the special election by SIX VOTES. It was the closest special election since the War.
Amazing what straight up, hand counting paper-only ballots can do.
No trickery involved for once...
The sentiment in the UK is bad. There are more than 800 comments to this story.
My son wouldn’t fight to protect those lot in London and boaters. Why the hell should he or other young people ? This place isn’t worth it . It’s no longer ours
I agree. I never thought I would say this but I would never fight for this country now. The UK is gone. Well done ALL you useless so called politicians
Why would anyone fight for a country that goes on to prosecute them for war crimes whilst letting off terrorists. Did my 22 years but would not do so now.
Yeah the sentiment isn’t good at all. I guess this is a blow back from their policies they never considered while they push war with Russia.
Very angry Britishers.
They should be.
As so should we...
If the Tories get their act together and work with Reform then the leftist UK hating Labor party is outside looking in. (For the time being)
Maybe wishful thinking as to many greasy, deadbeat, something for nothing 3rd world type have been allowed to come in both legally and illegally.
there this gem
Yerr but no but, North East Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, 12 hours ago
Get sent into the meat grinder for the sake of cheap oil, gas, or politics, then dumped by the system, treated as a third-class citizen, and hounded to the grave? No, thanks.
Looking at the positive possibilities ... since GB has no freedom of(from?) religion statutes that I know of, expelling the muslim primates should be considerably easier than it is here in the USA.
Farage says he will absolutely deport but there’s a long list
We need to start with those coming on boats
That’s nice but too little too late. There’s no saving England from itself. They went full retard with the last wave of misery washed up on their shores.
Those recent ones coming on boats it’s a straight-up Invasion.
Please laugh or scoff at the term which Freepers have used for years but what else can you call it?
The scale is smaller but it’s the same deal.
You’re absolutely wrong and too pessimistic. We change things through the ballot box and it that’s how it will happen
I can’t tell you when
Now the councils they won need to kick out the illegals and send them all back to London. Then put a “sink the boats” plank in the platform.
Farage is now a big player politically. He can effectively - as their leader - run some important, albeit municipal stuff.
But the prize is becoming PM in a few years
Can they now elect a new Prime Minister?
All those celebs and libs fleeing the US for sanctuary in Jolly Ol’ England will have to pack up and flee again.
Maybe Germany?
(There’s something hugely ironic about those in fear of Nazis potentially moving to Germany.)
Thier Ecnomic Platform is still statistics, but thier is no true small government Party hardly anywhere in the World.
Statist.
Real masculinity in GB died 80 yrs ago. Their secular souls, tired from two wars, checked out in generations of dependent ambivalence.
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