Farage's Reform UK Party support surges, wins closest ever by-election

good luck Nigel

This is just what the UK needs. Time to stop the boats, repatriate those who do not belong and have a sensible immigration policy.

Now that is a face I would love to punch !

So where are all the posters telling us what this means and that it’s really only about Trump, like on every other foreign election article?

Worth keeping an eye on but local elections can throw up these kinds of results. Immigration in particular is an issue that can’t be ignored.

I remember a UKIP and BNP ‘surge’ in the past. Didn’t amount to much.

Reform got 6 seats in the last General Election. For the next, if Reform are still around and Farage can hold his seat or still be arsed to be an MP, I wouldn’t expect much change. This is Farage’s show, without him, you are largely left with empty suits and headbangers.

Keep an eye on the turnout.

People across the world want change, especially less corrupt inefficient Govt. Fewer believe Govt. has solutions but rather is the $PROBLEM destroying society

good luck Nigel

Good luck with what?

Farage isn’t short of a few quid and doesn’t do a lot of work.

Hope the Reform councilors do well.

Worth keeping an eye on but local elections can throw up these kinds of results

and by-elections

People across the world want change

Oh wait!

Canadians just voted the Liberals in again.

What’s your prediction for the Australian election?

Change?

Now that is a face I would love to punch !

He’s certainly no George Clooney but he’s pretty good with a crowd. He’s a shyster though.

The leaders of the major parties aren’t exactly charismatic.

What makes you think Farage and Reform are not corrupt? Local elections are of little importance to the general flow of politics.

In last year's general election, Reform won a single Farage seat. Will need a few hundred more to win parliament.

Farage, with his cloth cap, cigarette, pint of beer, and horse racing, will only ever be a fringe player.

So where are all the posters telling us what this means and that it’s really only about Trump, like on every other foreign election article?

I’ll explain because you clearly don’t know. Farage is a joke, small fry. Stick to what you’re best at.

One swallow does not a summer make. That being said, if they take more seats, then we'll be well on the way to relegating Brexit to the second stupidest thing we've done in recent years.

Stick to what you’re best at.

Could be tricky, given that he's not good at anything apart from creating a massive fantasy world in which he's a combination of Gordon Gekko and Rambo.

Mr Kipling

This is just what the UK needs. Time to stop the boats, repatriate those who do not belong and have a sensible immigration policy.

Who do you think they are?

People across the world want change

Won by 6 votes. Six. Pop the champagne it’s a landslide lol. Will the UK be joining BRICS next nostradummas?

I don't know much about Farage, but I do know that Keir Starmer, his cronies, and his policies are ruining the country. Anyone would be better than him. England is being taken over by Muslims and the Starmer govt is giving them special protection and lots of money as well. The double standard of justice is shocking. It's no wonder the people voted against him. He doesn't seem to care about all the crime and violence against British women or about the colonization of his country by the Muslims. If he's not careful, Britain will suffer under Shariah Law in the future! You will have the call to prayer broadcast over loudspeakers 5 times a day and any Christians still left in the country will suffer greatly. Muslims, when they get in power, are not known for allowing religious freedom.

Farage is probably the closest British politician to Trump, but it never blossomed into the political relationship he had hoped for, and he has little influence on Trump.

In last year's general election, Reform won a single Farage seat. Will need a few hundred more to win parliament.

Due to the very unfair first past the post system. They actually won 5 seats with nearly 15% of the vote. Labour won 441 seats with 34% of the vote.

Immigration or rather too much immigration is the biggest problem facing the UK. It increases the burden on education, law and order, housing and the health service.

Farage is a racist. Anyone who voted for him is racist.

Disgusting.

Go figure, Trump seems to get on well with him.

Immigration in the UK has fallen in numbers this year. There seems to be no easy solution.

In the year ending June 2024, there were 38,784 detected irregular arrivals, 26% fewer than in the year ending June 2023, and 81% of these arrived by small boats.

I don't know much about Farage, but I do know that Keir Starmer, his cronies, and his policies are ruining the country. Anyone would be better than him. England is being taken over by Muslims and the Starmer govt is giving them special protection and lots of money as well. The double standard of justice is shocking. It's no wonder the people voted against him. He doesn't seem to care about all the crime and violence against British women or about the colonization of his country by the Muslims. If he's not careful, Britain will suffer under Shariah Law in the future! You will have the call to prayer broadcast over loudspeakers 5 times a day and any Christians still left in the country will suffer greatly. Muslims, when they get in power, are not known for allowing religious freedom.

I think someone's found DailyMailEditorialGenerator.com

 It increases the burden on** education, law and order, housing and** the health service.

When I was a kid in the UK (and to give you an idea, we're talking mid 80s), my local doctor's name was Dr. Khan.

He was a fine doctor.

At my school, most of the students with the best academic results were from Asian families. Indian in particular.

Won by 6 votes. Six.

every vote counts, huh?

every vote counts, huh?

Apparently not if you're a "stop the steal" type. Or a supreme court justice circa 2000, Bush vs. Gore.

For someone who thinks America rules the world and that no other countries are of any relevance, you sure like to stick your nose into other countries' business, don't you?

Perhaps you're subconsciously jealous of the fact that most countries can have fair elections without the need for intimidation, lawsuits, and stacking the highest court in the country. And most of them can have it all done and dusted inside a day.

Trump's policies are hurting the rest of the world. Starmer less so. No one outside of the UK even knows who Farage is.

In the year ending June 2024, there were 38,784 detected irregular arrivals,

This is a smoke screen. Of course the small boat economic refugees should be sent back but they only account for a small minority of new immigrants. The largest number are overseas spouses of "British" nationals. Mostly from south east Asia. A burden on hospitals, schools and housing.

Nigel Farage LIVE: Reform UK’s Deportation Announcement | Farage | Starmer | Badenoch | UK Election

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqRyumSEl0k

Farage is one of the most gifted political communicators in generations.

The eye contact.

His body posture, the gesturing, conveying emotion, subtle articulation, the emphasis on silence, the deliberate pauses.

Every rhetorical trick/technique is deployed effortlessly seamlessly.

Reform's Sarah Pochin beat Labour's candidate by just six votes. Labour won the seat in last summer's national election with a majority of almost 15,000 votes.

I read Labours 15th safest seat.

So how does this equate for my UK family?

Well, every member of my UK family, over pension age, encouraged to invest in their retirement when “working age” is now being ruthlessly exploited.

Present/past governments punitive use of “fiscal drag” economic policies.

The failure to increasing the value of tax thresholds, 'freezing’ increasing people's taxable income without tax rates actually increasing.

Resulting in, the most venerable being 'dragged' into paying tax, or into paying tax at a higher rate

Farage has time, plus four. years to politically consolidate these gains. As sure as night follows day he will.

It is so patently foolish to simply sneer at the fellow

He was a fine doctor.

Take a look at the BMA publicized list of doctors struck off for malpractice in the past few years.

You will notice a pattern.

It is estimated that 20-25% of all UK spouse visa applications are rejected, resulting in disappointment, worry, uncertainty, and a significant loss of money for those affected.

In the year ending December 2024, the UK granted 86,000 family-related visas, which include visas for spouses and partners.

You won't automatically get the right to live in the UK through marriage to a British citizen. You must apply for a Spouse Visa to live in the UK with your partner.

In 2020, the UK was ranked second from bottom among 56 countries for ease of family reunion by the Migrant Integration Policy Index . Alongside the income and savings requirements, it typically costs £11,062 to apply for and renew a spouse visa.

Farage wants limited Govt., understands private sector is the engine creating real solutions and wealth, not Big Socialism Govt. busy destroying society from within.

Go Nigel, as the British need Far More Common Sense!

Britain most certainly does not need Farage and his far-right political party, hopespringseternal.

Farage, the man largely responsible for the disaster that is Brexit.

The majority of British voters will never forget that Nigel Farage in Mr Brexit. He is a one-man non-starter band. There are, Farage-watchers say, two Nigels: Nice Nigel and Nasty Nigel. 11 times Nigel Farage had a blazing row with his colleagues.

There has never been an essential moment in time for UK government to emphasise on the importance focusing on both “ends” of the political spectrum.

The aspirations of the UK youth culture, a solid grounding in education,

At presnt drowning in a world of social media driven fakery of YouTube “influencers”, of reality TV short-termism.

Secondly government failure to protect old age in retirement.

Farage's Reform UK Party as skilfully exploited a political vacuum of Labour/Tory incompetence,

Of a definable criminal complacency, negligent,

It is past time to pull heads from where the sun doesn’t shine,

Take heed or Reform could will continue to secure the nations confidence to the next election.

Farage has time, plus four. years to politically consolidate these gains. As sure as night follows day he will. 

It is so patently foolish to simply sneer at the fellow

Nonsense. He’s been in politics for 4 decades and always been a gurning agitator who achieves little.

Farage has time, plus four. years to politically consolidate these gains. As sure as night follows day he will.

It is so patently foolish to simply sneer at the fellow

I watched the Brexit debates and he was the best performer - even if what he was flogging was a steaming pile and led to the disaster we call Brexit.

He has talents but he’s a self-promoter and and full of it. He’s a heckler at heart. There’s no guarantee he’ll run again in Clacton. If something better comes along he’ll off in a flash. He’s used political parties as a platform for himself - good at it though.

Talking about what Farage will do or will be in four years is a bit ridiculous given his past.

He’s no spring chicken either.

Bob Fosse

Both the present Labour government, fourteen years of Tory rule, have failed to secure any creative perceptible future for working class families.

Even students leaving higher education are unlikely to prosper outside of a UK house/flat share, let alone start a family.

Fundamental political economic change is inevitable.

Our South of England business teams/employees didn’t hesitate to relocate to New Jersey when presented with the opportunity.

Even when harshly warned of the risks.

All saw, for whatever reason, no future in the UK.

So it’s good to see every vote mattered. Also good to see your team lost to a friend of Trump.

Interesting that you presume to know my political affiliation in regard to the UK.

While I lived there, I only ever voted for the same party, and it wasn't Labour. It was the Green party, as they were the only party I thought actually believed in what they campaigned on. And where I lived, they actually did very well.

See, you only like the idea of Farage because he reminds you of Trump: he's a racist, populist, opportunistic piece of sh*t, and he knows how to attract the flies to swarm around him.

I would imagine a brief analysis of Reform voters and Trump voters would demonstrate that they have a great deal in common, little of it positive.

Farage wants limited Govt., understands private sector is the engine creating real solutions and wealth, not Big Socialism Govt.

Oh wait!

He was in full voice on nationalizing the Scunthorpe steel plant the other day.

Both the present Labour government, fourteen years of Tory rule, have failed to secure any creative perceptible future for working class families.

This is the kind of thing which is going to lead Reform to get more and more influential.

Conservatives spend 14 years wrecking the country, Labour are in power for under a year, and everyone's blaming Labour for not being able to fix everything in that time.

This is like going to your doctor who says "you have a serious illness, but given time we can fix it". Then, when you don't feel better the next morning, you go off and ask a homeopath or something who says "oh yeah, we can fix that in a week", charge you a fortune, and actually make you feel worse.

I don't know if it's a social media thing, but nobody can think in terms of more than a few days ahead anymore. I remember reading Bill Clinton's autobiography. When he took office, he said that he could fix the mess left by the previous lot, but that it would take time. Fortunately, enough people seemed to be willing to give him that time, and IIRC he left office with a surplus.

Still, if the voters want to vote Reform in, they will. And they'll live with the results, just as the US is doing now.

So it’s good to see every vote mattered. Also good to see your team lost to a friend of Trump

Dear me.

Some can’t compute the idea of more than 2 choices. Can get confusing. Fuses blowing.

While I lived there, I only ever voted for the same party, and it wasn't Labour

I gave generally voted Labour in General Elections but couldn’t vote for them in 2005 after that Iraq bloodbath.

I generally voted for independents in local elections but given the centralization of power in England in particular ( a bit less so these days ) it didn’t amount to too much anyway. I once voted for my dad’s mate running on fair treatment for local dockers.

Jimizo,

Farage's Reform UK, his political soothsaying, fortune telling, connot ever produce vilable economic fiscal monetary stability.

For a UK social structure ravaged by pandemic, unprecedented cost of living crisis.

Governments must make unpopular choices, sometimes cruel, socially unjust, rightly or wrongly.    

Conservative governments have callously betrayed future generations.

Labour is floundering, employers’ national insurance constitutions need to be reviewed, reversed.

Direct income tax policies, yes election promises be broken, all must be fundamentally reformed restructured.

Farage's Reform UK, his political soothsaying, fortune telling, connot ever produce vilable economic fiscal monetary stability

This is part of the the point.

He isn’t about policies. He’s an effective heckler. He finds the fault lines and dances on them without offering practical solutions.

The benefit of knowing you don’t have a good chance of winning is that you don’t have to offer practical solutions.

Heckling is easy.

Some dude,

Farage's Reform, any political party for that matter, can ever simply, with an electoral magic wand, feed the electorate a "basket/bowl" full of fake promises pledges.

Conjure up economical prosperity, social justice out of thin air.

Leadership in government is delivering economic pain,

It is balancing reality fairly, being seen to do so.

Admitting mistakes.transparency in decision-making.

I would gladly agree to not post in your country articles if all you non Americans stay out of mine

To be fair, you left the US. You have less skin in the game.

There is a fair argument that those who voluntarily leave their country of birth shouldn’t have the right to vote there. Not my view but I can see the argument.

Or perhaps their comments on it should have less weight.

Plus, on forums such as this, it’s hard to know who’s being honest about where they are from, what they do, how much money they make, what qualifications they have etc.

Not a great argument from you here.

Stupid is alive and well in Runcorn, also.