In a continuing series, we see some of the oldest and most venerable political parties of Europe dying. This week it’s the Tories, but Labour isn’t far behind. The onslaught of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party is incredible. From Matthew Goodwin’s essential Substack:

There were two big polls in recent days, which are fascinating for different reasons.

The first, from Ipsos-MORI, who traditionally downplay support for Reform, put the insurgent party on a shocking 34 per cent of the national vote, well ahead of Keir Starmer and the Labour government, on 25 per cent, and nearly 10-points ahead of Kemi Badenoch and the Tories, who are now all the way down on 15 per cent.

Astonishingly, as I pointed out on X, just 40 per cent of the British public now back one of the two big parties that have presided over all the economic and cultural chaos we see around us today — mass uncontrolled immigration, broken borders, two-tier policing, the mainstreaming of woke ideology, and more.

It gets worse for the current government:

Just 19 per cent of Brits — not even one in five — feel satisfied with Keir Starmer’s leadership, a prime minister who only last night was forced by his own MPs into a humiliating climb down on welfare reform.

With a net rating of MINUS 54, this makes Starmer one of the most unpopular prime ministers on record.

And this is not just about Starmer, by the way. His Labour government, too, is now wildly unpopular, with just 16 per cent of Brits satisfied with the direction of the government. It is, put simply, one of the most unpopular governments in history.

The British are now going through governments the way Leonardo DiCaprio goes through girlfriends. There’s always a fresh one that’s about to be dumped and forgotten. Farage’s formidable political talents, and his ambition to be a man of consequence, have contributed their share. But this is a sign of a fundamental sickness in liberal democracies in the age of globalization. The traditional parties have lost touch with their own voters in nation after nation. France has already chucked its Republicans and its Socialists. Now the U.K. is on the verge of kicking the Tories and Labour into the dustbin. Who’s next?