Birmingham, UK
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Over the 30 years of politics and surrounding it, Nigel Farage was like a barometer. It measured the UK’s political situation and scored voter pressure points. Now he resembles the weather itself.
His emerging reform British Party won four parliamentary seats in last year’s general election, but Brexit’s Maverick architect Farage has since struck the Labour government in the struggle to set conditions for British political debate and control illegal immigration.
Since the election, reforms have sought to be converted from protest votes to governable.
The reform ambitions were fully exhibited at the annual party meeting in Birmingham this weekend. As he is scheduled to give his keynote speech on Friday, Kiel’s deputy prime minister Angela Rayner resigned after a scandal over failing to pay sufficient property taxes.
His zeal to strengthen Farage’s image as prime minister of reform David Bull avoided Farage’s speech three hours ago, “At the time of the national crisis… we should hear from our leaders.”
Farage told his enthusiastic audience, “Even though Labour’s promise to bring about a new, different kind of politics, this is bad, if not worse than before.”
The next election is not scheduled until 2029, but Farage, supported by the recent weather-making powerhouse, said, “There is a possibility that a general election will take place in 2027 and we must prepare for that moment.”
Rebels have historically struggled to beat the British two layers held by workers and conservatives. However, this time it could be different, said Luke Trill, director of the polling company, said it would be more common.
“The range of possible outcomes is greater than previous points in history,” Trill told CNN. “Voters’ volatility means that I wouldn’t be surprised if Farage was prime minister after the next election.”
The British political conference is usually a stolen issue, but in Birmingham, reform was in party mode. The young man wearing a “Farage 10” soccer jersey served a beer immediately at 10am on Friday as members loaded up a couple wearing Union Jack shirts.
Pride in his “make England great again” hat, 17-year-old Danny Leggett said that he is appealing to him because he is “happy with a pint.” He is a charismatic person, unlike the “robot” starme.
Leggett is not sure when Britain stopped becoming great, but he believes it happened after World War II. Many of the British rights are certain that victory in the war is somehow fake. Although Britain’s global status subsequently declined, Germany eventually regained its economic strength.
Farage said that the British decision to leave the European Union, the dream dream of Fringe, which helped him build the flesh, was another such victory, and the revolution was betrayed.
“We left the European Union, did they not deliver Brexit?” he said in his speech.
Jackie Dudley, one of the 900 reform councillors elected in the local elections in May, said she abandoned the Conservatives because she couldn’t deliver a “real” Brexit.
“We didn’t get Brexit! If so, there was no problem with ECHR now,” she told CNN, referring to the European Human Rights Treaty.
The UK has left the EU but remains a member of the ECHR – Farage’s latest scapegoat. Farage vowed to leave ECHR if elected. He says that the UK will allow migrants who are considered illegally in the country to be deported. Critics say leaving the treaty, which is part of British law, has a wide range of consequences.
Throughout the meeting, the Trump-style slogan “Detain and Deport” was used sparingly and loudly cheered among the speakers.
Before last year’s general election, Farage said the outcome was a natural conclusion and the real battle would be the next vote. He declared reform as “real opposition” in Britain.
Starme could have rebutted this by pointing to Yuho’s 121 seats at a very large number of seats. However, this spring he said Farage was “real opposition” and that it would be to raise reforms from outsider status to major workers’ rivals.
Since then, workers have appeared to be dancing to reform songs. The priorities have taken a more strict stance on immigration and have posted on social media about the measures they are taking to block illegal arrivals.
In trying to attract voters for reform, Labour risks alienating its own progressive foundations, Anand Menon, a professor of European politics at King’s College London, told CNN.
“Immigration, the biggest concern of British voters right now, is not good for labor. That’s good for Nigel Farage,” he said.
“It looks like the tail is waving the dog,” he warned. “It seems there are no principles in labor.”
For some voters, this helps to reinforce Farage’s central appeal: his credibility. “He says it is,” one reform member at the meeting said. “He’s a real big deal,” another said.
Westminster had only a small bridgehead, but reforms had only a few high profile politicians to unfold. There is Bar Anderson, who is sure the UK has “been softened.” The former party chairman, Zia Yusuf, is now a more refined Zia Yusuf of the Trump-style “Government Efficiency Ministry.” And then there is Andrea Jenkins, mayor of Greater Lincolnshire. He arrived on stage singing a song he wrote about “Insomnia.” (The Labour Party has given her a “sleepless night,” she explained.
However, the meeting still feels like a one-man band. Everyone is here for “Nigel.” This is one of the rare politicians that the British public feels they know by their first name.
Everything appears to be going in a “Nigel” way, but he is in unknown territory. It took Faraj eight times, 30 years to win a Westminster seat. His ability to accept his losses and return every time will thoroughly lick the wounds, making it what many Brits call “good sport.”
But if Farage is a good loser, he is also a terrible winner. He was miserable about it as his Brexit dream came true. His politics prey on the railings and frustration of “establishment.” What happens if he gets that?
Already, Farage has a bold promise he may have a hard time maintaining. In his speech, he promised to bring asylum seekers to the British coast “within two weeks of winning government” in order to “stop the boat.” The economist warns that his low-tax, high spending program will surprise the bond market.
But for the members of the reform, those fears are for another day. Finally, they feel that there are politicians in the UK with a few agencies. “Computers say no,” a technocratic priority governing the government said pollster Trill “is a can’t party – we can control borders, tackle crime, cut your taxes, and remove waste (government)”.
The meeting had an atmosphere of the end of the day. The members appeared to unite in two beliefs. The UK is broken, and only “Nigel” can fix it.
As she finished the song, Jenkins asked the joyous crowd to stand and chant in unison. “Nigel will become prime minister. Reforms will save Britain.”
That’s emotion. England is not as destined as he says, but if he becomes a Savior, his voters need to believe it.
“Our country is undoubtedly the most dangerous place of my life,” he said crucially. “We’re the last chance this country has to get this country back on track.”
Farage may have been preaching to the modified ones, but it was not difficult to imagine memberships from the Birmingham Conference Hall (all Tweed and Turquoise) that would have attracted new apprentices elsewhere.
