Nigel Farage, who has reversed his decision to skip the July 4 elections in Britain and returned as leader of Reform UK, formerly the Brexit Party, is now Conservative voters’ top choice to replace Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as Conservative leader. Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, favored to win the upcoming elections, also faces internal divisions.
Polls show 17 percent of Conservative voters want Farage to lead the Conservatives, who are expected to lose to the left-wing Labour Party by a landslide on election day. This puts him ahead of progressive globalist Cabinet member Penny Mordaunt, at 14 percent, and far ahead of former leader David Cameron, at eight percent. Suella Braverman, the migration-skeptic former Home Secretary, brings up the rear at seven percent.
‘NET MIGRATION AT ZERO.’
Reform UK was polling in third place even before Farage announced his return as leader and his decision to stand for Parliament. He is already outflanking the Conservatives from the right, pledging zero net immigration.
“We cannot go on as we are. We have to limit numbers. Our lives, our quality of life in this country, is being diminished by the population explosion, and if that means that in some sectors there would be shortages, what that then means is that wages would go up, and we’d start to encourage people to learn skills rather than heading off to university and doing social sciences,” he told the BBC.
The Conservatives, who have presided over record-breaking legal and illegal immigration, are also trying to run on reducing immigration but have pledged only an unspecified, annually-changing cap on visas, informed by pro-migration technocrats.
“We cannot go on as we are, we have to limit numbers.”
Reform UK’s new leader Nigel Farage tells @MishalHusain ‘net migration at zero would be the target’ for the party.
#R4Today— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) June 4, 2024
LABOUR STRIFE.
The Labour Party, though expected to win the election comfortably after 14 years in opposition, is facing its own internal difficulties.
Like the U.S. Democratic Party, a substantial portion of Labour’s activist and supporter base is far further to the left on Gaza and race politics than the official positions of party leader Sir Keir Starmer. Seven local politicians, all Muslims, have resigned en masse over Sir Keir’s alleged mistreatment of parliamentary candidates Faiza Shaheen and Diane Abbott and insufficient support for “speaking out against injustices in Gaza and criticising Israel.”
Such disquiet threatens Labour in areas with a substantial Muslim population. George Galloway and his Workers Party defeated Labour in a by-election (special election) in the grooming gangs hotspot of Rochdale earlier this year by mobilizing the Muslim and radical left vote on Gaza.
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Nigel Farage, who has reversed his decision to skip the July 4 elections in Britain and returned as leader of Reform UK, formerly the Brexit Party, is now Conservative voters’ top choice to replace Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as Conservative leader. Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, favored to win the upcoming elections, also faces internal divisions.
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