Reform's Farage vows to start preparing for government to make UK 'great again'
- Populist leader offers clearer view of a possible Reform UK government
- Says it would end arrivals of illegal migrants by boat in two weeks
- Farage, a Brexit veteran and Trump ally, says main parties are in meltdown
- Reform UK riding high in opinion polls, though still behind major parties in donations
- Farage suggests next election might come earlier than 2029
BIRMINGHAM, England, Sept 5 (Reuters) - British populist leader Nigel Farage vowed on Friday to start preparing for government, saying the nation's two main parties were in meltdown and only his Reform UK could ease the anger and despair plaguing the country to "make Britain great again".
To a prolonged standing ovation by a crowd at the annual party conference, Farage for the first time offered a vision of how Britain would be under a Reform government: He pledged to end the arrival of illegal migrants in boats in two weeks, bring back "stop-and-search" policing and scrap net zero policies.
Yes, UK, you too can collapse just like the US!
What people see in Temu Trump and Co I genuinely just will never understand
Neoliberalism isn't working anymore as the wealth disparity is too vast to fix. When these assholes start saying they have the answers to all of their problems you get a following.
I get all the theory and everything, I understand the some grifter comes along peddling easy answers and people fall into it. But the Temu version of Trump that is Nigel Farage has such a vibe about him that he'd pick your pocket and then deny it right to your face - while holding your wallet in his hand - that I genuinely don't understand how people trust him even slightly
Oh, it can be fixed. It's just that the major parties aren't yet willing to do what's necessary.
I mean it can theoretically. It's just that our political and regulatory apparatuses are completely captured by the ultra rich. You'll get a few uncorrupt individuals but they're always stonewalled or rendered to a token voice.
Please please please don't be fucking stupid UK...
As someone from the UK I want to say we aren't that stupid but with everything since Brexit I can say sadly we are I just hope Reform siding with Trump's America hurts them since I don't think Trump is too popular in the UK or at least from what I have seen in my personal life
That's the same "in two weeks" that Trump uses for "never."
He promised to leave if brexit was a failure so time to give em the boot
Someone really needs to look more deeply at Farage's links to Russia and at where Reform and Farage are getting their money.
For some perspective from the UK, only about 30-35% of the UK electorate actually support ReformUK, the party this fascist scumbag currently owns.
And a considerable portion of that % are only supporting because they're being lied to consistently by him, his cronies and a sizeable portion of our news organisations.
35% support would likely be enough to deliver that ass clown into power though as our archaic voting system is shit.
30% is enormous for something that should be so obviously wrong.
I agree completely, I just think it's important we contrast this insane information with facts, whilst 30% is a sizeable chunk, 70% of the electorate view him as the complete clown that he is.
30% agree with a complete clown. It was 0% before. I think that's much more alarming.
You may not be familiar with UK politics so I'll be fair here when I say that there has -always- been a section of the general electorate that have supported this kind of complete bullshit being peddled by Nigel.
Previously it was peddled by UKIP, or the Conservatives, or the Brexit Party, and even in some cases certain fringes of the Labour Party.
Can I assume that having another big right-wing party will just divide the conservative electorate? This has happened a couple of times in Canada.
Our other big right-wing party basically committed suicide, and most of their non pensioner voters have since fled to ReformUK, as well as a fairly consistent trickle of politicians defecting from the Conservatives to ReformUK.
If the Conservatives hadn't gone completely insane they may well have split the vote between them, but it all seems to be coalescing around ReformUK at the moment.
It's worth keeping in mind that a large proportion of Conservative voters are pensioners.
FPTP could easily give us fascists who will do to UK democracy what they have to the US.
Yeah that's what I mean about our horrible system of voting. It's pretty fucking tragic. Our current government promised voting reform but they've been wholly untrustworthy when it comes to the majority of their claims thus far so I don't know if we'll see it.
Nigel Farage the embodiment of the shit that won't flush.
You'd think people would be wise to this man's shtick, after the whole Brexit thing. How'd all that work out for ya?
At this point it's just an excercise in "how many times can he get you idiots to fall for it"
So all the fascists are gathered together in one well advertised place? And no-one's doing anything about it? No-one? Really? Fuck!
Too disabled and currently unable to drive. Plus I don't think I have the guts (or indeed resources and technical knowhow) to actually go through with anything dramatic and a failed attempt would be worse than nothing
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And the UK will probably vote these tard-wrangling grifters into power... 😭
Stop. Just, stop.
He wants to be Don Jr. so goddamn badly.