Battle of Britain: Is Reform’s Rise Driven by White Working-class “Rage” — or Righteousness?

By Selwyn Duke

There’s a political revolution bubbling in what once was the motherland. The Reform UK party, founded just seven years ago as the “Brexit Party,” may now be poised to win power in Britain’s next election.

How significant the party’s rise is cannot be overstated. A poll earlier this year showed Reform leading the Conservatives and the Labour Party for the first time ever. Note here that the former can be analogized to our Republicans and Labour to our Democrats. Given this, the result is much like the Libertarians or Constitution Party out-polling the GOP and Democrats in the U.S. It’s breathtaking and historic.

This shift is inordinately driven, too, by white working-class voters. In fact, more than half of this group is planning to vote for Reform, according to The Telegraph. And what is driving their “rage,” as the paper puts it?

Rage, Rage, Oh Rage Is All the Rage

A clue can perhaps be found in calling the phenomenon “rage.” This is much like when, in the U.S. some years ago, the media would talk about “angry white males.” It reflects disrespect. The idea is that these people don’t know what they’re doing; they’re enraged, hysterical, irrational — and probably racist, too. (In fairness, The Telegraph article is sympathetic to the working class. That it uses such terminology bespeaks of how conservatives fall into the trap of using the lexicon of the Left.) Yet while there is anger, these voters aren’t blinded by rage. Rather, many have their eyes wide open. And what do they see?

Try this on for size. U.K. authorities have a history of ignoring the beating, terrorizing, and sexual abuse of thousands of indigenous British girls. Why the blind eye?

Wokeness — the perpetrators were Pakistani Muslim gangs.

Oh, and the victims weren’t Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s and the rest of the posh set’s lasses.

They were the working class’ daughters.

Meanwhile, some indigenous Britons are sitting in jail, or have otherwise been punished, for expressing “anti-immigrant” views.

And, yes, many of them are working class, too.

Britain also has been plagued by a spate of “knife crime,” and the perpetrators are inordinately non-indigenous “Britons” (e.g., migrants). In fact, The Telegraph just published a Sunday piece on how, despite authorities’ contrary claims, people know crime is rampant.

Meanwhile, when the pseudo-elites finally do make a hit series about the obvious problem of “knife crime” and murder, they make the perp a 13-year-old indigenous white boy. What’s more, they behave as if the fictional show is a documentary, acquaintance with which is necessary for escaping ignorance.

Oh, the 13-year-old in question — cute little Jamie on the show Adolescence — is also working class.

See a pattern?

Ever Get the Feeling They Don’t Like You Very Much?

Then there’s this, from the Telegraph article I cited first:

In the recent wave of hostility to asylum seekers being housed in hotels, for many working-class voters it is the very idea of hotels being used. For many, hotels are a luxury they could never afford. In numerous communities, hotels are where life’s biggest moments are celebrated: weddings, christenings, anniversaries and so on. The idea of people receiving long-term stays in such places for free creates a deep sense of injustice.

So the big picture isn’t hard to grasp. It can be analogized simply. It’s as if two parents have four kids, and then invite two other children into their home. Only, the new additions are ill behaved, rude, disruptive, and presumptuous, and sometimes bully the biological children. The parents also let the adopted kids get away with gross misbehavior while punishing their own progeny for minor transgressions. Moreover, when their “native” children then complain about the injustice, they’re demonized and punished further. Would it be shocking if these suddenly spurned kids became bitter?

Why, some might even worry they’d go all Menendez brothers on their folks.

Damage Control

The working class is taking aim at the establishment, too. And the pseudo-elites are responding — but not with remedy. As The Telegraph writes:

Compare the Labour Government’s approach to disorder outside migrant hotels last summer, following the Southport murders, with how they are handling protests and disorder now.

… On August 4 last year, Sir Keir Starmer, the newly elected Prime Minister, began his statement on the riots by saying, “I utterly condemn the far-Right thuggery we have seen this weekend.” In conclusion, he added, “I won’t shy away from calling this what it is: far-Right thuggery.”

… This summer, as protests spread across the country, Labour politicians are going out of their way to show they understand protesters’ concerns about mass immigration.

For example, Starmer’s spokesman said that “high levels of immigration over the last 10 years, including illegal immigration […] have had an impact on our social fabric and social cohesion.”

And the working class may now want to say, in unison, “Thanks, Captain Obvious.”

Playing the People

There’s a game being run here. It’s a bit like a doctor merely telling you, repeatedly, “These bacteria have invaded your body and are causing your symptoms.” But whether the first visit, second, or last, he never actually prescribes a cure.

Might you not start getting the feeling that he doesn’t really care if you live or die?

When politicians feign sympathy and merely state the problem — or that they “understand” how you feel about the problem — without offering the cure, it’s because they’re part of the problem. They don’t want to administer the remedy, so they instead hope to capture your vote by connecting with you emotionally. And when voters fall for this, they’re part of the problem.

Mississippi is the poorest U.S. state — and Britain is poorer than Mississippi. Can it really afford to take any more disruptive, entitled, dependent children into the family?

A short video on the U.K.’s working-class revolt is below.

                   This article was originally published at The New American.