Last week’s results of the local government elections in Britain prove that Trumpism is irrepressible.
The same issues on which Trump campaigned and which resonated with American voters are what British voters endorsed on May 2 to give Nigel Farage’s Reform Party a historic victory. Like the 77 million Trump voters, they want control of borders and immigration, alleviation of the cost of living and energy supply, ending of government waste, and upholding of British culture and sovereignty by putting Britain first.
Having held barely 30 seats in councils before May 2, Farage’s party now has 677 and controls 10 of the 23 council regions in which elections were held. Voters rejected the Tories, who lost 679 seats ending with just 317 while the Labour Party was reduced to only 99 seats.
As was the case in the US where the mainstream media opposed Trump, Farage’s Reformists were subjected to disparagement and dismissed as a hard-right, one-tune party.
Reprising the role it played in Trump’s election, social media accounted for the success of the Reformists. Farage has 2.2 million followers on X compared to Prime Minister Starmer’s 1.9 million.
Further proof that the writing is on the wall for Starmer’s Labour Party was the result of the by-election in the Runcorn Helsby constituency of Liverpool. Rated the 16th safest Labour seat with a majority of 14,700 in the election held just ten months ago, the Reformists reversed that to clinch victory by six votes.
Like the Democrats in America who have learned nothing from their losses in the 2024 election, Starmer mistakenly and incredibly claims, “the result proves that Labour needs to go further and faster in delivering change” (quoted on X).
His refusal to recognise the rejection of Labour’s globalist, un-British policies is facilitating a Trump-like upheaval in British politics. Like the Democrats, Labour faces a long relegation to the opposition benches along with those Tories who fail to form a coalition with Farage’s Reformists after the next election, which is likely to be sooner rather than later.
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