Hope For The UK? Reform Party Dominates Uniparty In Sweeping Local Elections

In July of 2024, the Labour Party and Kier Starmer won general elections with the British public seeking to punish conservatives for not following through on their Brexit promises and stopping mass open immigration.  One of the primary reasons why the Brexit movement was a success was because it attempted to address growing concerns among UK natives that their ties to the European Union had trapped them in a prison of progressive politics including carbon taxation, declining personal freedom, economic crisis and mass immigration from the third world. 

Starmer would take his narrow win and go on to expand the very same policies that UK citizens voted against.  He helped to flood Britain with migrants, primarily from Islamic regions, and as the public took to the internet and the streets to complain, he enforced draconian censorship laws to silence them. 

It’s amazing how quickly things can change in less than a year. In 2024, the Reform Party won around 14% of the vote share.  This week in local elections they won 30% of the vote share, crushing Labour and the Conservatives and winning 677 council seats.

Labour lost 187 seats and Conservatives were stunned with a 674 seat loss. Nigel Farage has hailed Reform UK’s gains in Thursday’s elections as “unprecedented” and “the end of two-party politics”.  The party also won two mayoral races and added a fifth MP to its ranks in the Runcorn. 

UK voters are sending a clear message to the political elites that their progressive agenda will no longer be tolerated.

Local council elections are held every four years (though not all seats come up for a vote at the same time), and are designed to fill local government posts dealing with issues from housing to potholes.  The Reform Party upset in council seats is a sign that Farage is on his way to becoming Prime Minister. 

Conservatives and Labour, long considered a “Uniparty” alliance that never actually changes the system while they pretend to be opposed, has consistently referred to Reform as an “extremist” or “far-right” organization (much like MAGA in the US).  Writing in The Times, Keir Starmer argued that the lesson learned from the elections was not that the country needed “ideological zealotry”, but that the government needs to “crank up the pace on giving people the country they are crying out for…”

Labour members claim that their losses are due to the sluggish economy and cuts to social welfare policies, such as cuts in winter fuel payments to pensioners.  In other words, their solution is to buy off voters with more benefits.  They continue to pretend as if the mass immigration problem, high taxes and censorship are not factors.

Nigel Farage, though opposed to mass immigration programs, has not come out to fully endorse deportations, which is what helped give Donald Trump his landslide White House win in the US.  Some critics say Farage does not go far enough in his solutions for saving the country.  Only time will tell, but there are certainly visible cracks in the armor of the uniparty system and this may portend much needed changes in the UK and perhaps the rest of Europe in the near future.