- 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.
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.
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.
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