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    3 months ago

    Farage’s Britain

    Farage holds no office and his party has 8 MPs. Almost half of them hadn’t run as Reform candidates, but instead jumped ship from the Conservatives. By comparison, Labour has 404 MPs. The fasc-friendly media would love to market Reform’s success in 2028 as inevitable, but it’s just as likely that they’ll do well in the 2026 mid-terms (which are for local government positions), then fall on their faces in 2028 once people see how fanatical and incompetent they are when they’re in office.

    Also, there’s a (small) chance that Labour will unwedge its collective head and pass much-needed laws reforming foreign funding of election campaigns and transparency of party donations. If they do so, Farage will be fucked.

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      8 days ago

      Sorry it took so-long for me to reply: I’ve still got something like 700 notifications to get through…

      I said Farage’s Britain, & the recent elections there have demonstrated that his-party’s the one mopping-up.

      That is what I meant.

      His kind’s Britain, & that’s increasing.

      It is normal in times of stressful-change, for the population to go reactionary.

      That’s just human nature.

      The younger ones, the more woke ones, go the other way, but the whole political-process selects-for DarkTriad types, & … that has consequences.

      Starmer’s apparently willing to sacrifice Britain for sake of his-ruling-his-party…

      That’s a problem…

      That helps Farage’s mission gain traction…

      Which itself is part of the whole multidimensional-mess…

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