If a recent YouGov poll holds, the United Kingdom could be in for an electoral dust-up of epic proportions - or, we might say, of Trumpian proportions.
In the poll, Nigel Farage's Reform Party is expected to gain a near-majority in Parliament, with the remaining Tories likely to join Reform in establishing a majority coalition. Watch this Sky News analysis:
This could put ReformUK leader Nigel Farage in the Prime Minister's chair.
The scale of Labour's crisis was laid bare today as a megapoll found Nigel Farage on track for Downing Street.
Reform would make the biggest surge in British political history if an election was held now, according to the YouGov research.
Although the party would be slightly short of an overall majority with 311 MPs, that would almost certainly see Mr Farage become PM.
Meanwhile, Labour would lose more than 250 seats on its current tally - and the Tories would slump into fourth behind the Lib Dems, with just 45 MPs.
The huge survey used a technique known as MRP to project results for all constituencies, based on the characteristics of their voters.
Here are the results:
Note that the Daily Mail story, while speculating about the election, barely mentions Mr. Farage and contains no comments or feedback from Mr. Farage or any Reform Party member. That's as obvious a job of the media freezing out a candidate as we've seen lately, and this is the Age of Trump, when such things are routine.
Reform is poised to take the reins anyway. This could be, as someone once said, a big freaking deal. And the United Kingdom, if there is to be a United Kingdom, needs a course-change, and right the heck now.
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Nigel Farage, a key ally of President Trump, is just the guy for the job. He was a key voice in Brexit. If Reform captures a near-majority and is able to make common cause with enough Tories and disenchanted Labour PMs to establish a majority, he has already laid out some things he wants to do. These include an end to what he calls "non-essential" immigration and withdrawing the United Kingdom from the European Convention on Human Rights. That last part sounds ominous, but in practice, what it would do is to make it possible for the UK to pass stricter immigration laws and to step up the deportation of people in Britain illegally.
Sound familiar?
The current Prime Minister, Labour's Kier Starmer, has vowed to make the next election a contest between Labour and Reform. A quick look at the video analysis above would appear to indicate that much of Reform's growth has been at the expense of Labour, as well as the Tories. That might make this a long haul for Labour - and maybe a start on the road back for the once-Great Britain.
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