Posted on 09/06/2025 8:01:36 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The political pitch sounded familiar: The country is in crisis. The government must slash immigration, crack down on crime, ditch green energy targets and reopen factories to “make Britain great again.”
The words of Nigel Farage to his Reform UK party’s two-day annual convention that ended Saturday echoed themes that propelled U.S. President Donald Trump back to the White House.
Farage, the veteran hard-right politician, hopes a similar strategy can make him prime minister – a once-unthinkable idea that allies and opponents alike are taking seriously.
“If an election were held now, Reform would be the largest party by far, albeit probably short of an overall majority,” John Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde, wrote on the BBC website. “The question hanging over the party is — can they sustain this?”
Farage played a major role in taking the U.K. out of the European Union in 2020, but has never held political power. He has led a succession of small, fractious parties and only became a lawmaker in 2024 after seven failed attempts to get elected to Parliament.
Reform U.K. has just four lawmakers out of 650 in the House of Commons and got about 14% of the vote in last year’s national election. But for months it has led opinion polls, ahead of the center-left governing Labour Party and the main opposition Conservatives, which Reform aims to replace as Britain’s major party on the political right.
“Our country is in a very bad place,” Farage told delegates at the convention in Birmingham, central England. “We are the last chance the country has got to get this country back on track.”
Founded in 2018 as the Brexit Party, Reform now claims to have 240,000 members.
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I prefer Katie Hopkins.
The problem is, the UK doesn’t elect individuals for Prime Minister, they elect parties, and the party chooses its leader. Any individual who wants to be Prime Minister needs to be the leader of a party that has the chance of winning a majority. Farage has that in Reform, which he co-founded.
Farage, the veteran hard-right politician, “
Only to the clueless leftist children at AP. On his best day he is a bit right of center.
Keep tabs on your friends, Nigel! Amazing coinkydinks with center-right candidates falling over dead in Germany—and it ain’t even flu season!
There is only one issue that matters today. Immigration/open borders.
The West is under attack by the unholy alliance of Islam and Marxism.
Or Paul Joseph Watson
I have to wonder if its not already too late.shame I was watching BOB movie and how close they came to losing it all and now all this.To be fair it has been going on since the end of that war.
I had a short conversation with Nigel Farage in the Dulles Airport terminal.
I recognized him as he walked past me. I said, “hello Nigel,” and he stopped to give me about 10 minutes of his time.He was, indeed, cordial.
I have been following his successes with “BREXIT,” and believe he is the real deal! “Why are we controlled by people whom we have not elected?
I am a Nigel Farage Fan!
Nigel Farage is the UK’s LAST AND FINAL hope against the Islamic hoards that are doing their best to overrun the West!
Farage is light years better than Starmer that much is true
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