Jill Lawless – AP May 2, 2025
The hard-right party Reform UK led by Nigel Farage snatched a seat in Parliament from the governing Labour Party and won hundreds of local council seats from the opposition Conservatives in elections that Farage hailed Friday as a turning point towards ending the two parties’ political dominance.
Reform’s Sarah Pochin was declared winner of the seat of Runcorn and Helsby in northwest England by six votes after a recount, defeating Labour candidate Karen Shore by the narrowest of margins.
It was a significant defeat for Labour, which easily won the district in last year’s national election. The special election was held because Labour lawmaker Mike Amesbury was forced to quit after he was convicted of punching a constituent in a drunken rage.
Farage said that “it’s a very, very big moment indeed” that shows Reform can win against both Labour and the right-of-center opposition Conservatives.
“This marks the end of two-party politics as we’ve known it for over a century,” he said.
The Runcorn victory gives Reform, which garnered about 14% of the vote in the 2024 national election, five of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, compared to 403 for Labour and 121 for the Conservatives.
But Reform appears to have momentum. National polls now suggest its support equals or surpasses that of Labour and the Conservatives, and it hopes to displace the Conservatives as the country’s main party on the right before the next national election, due by 2029.
A rebuff to Labour
The local elections held Thursday in many areas of England were a sobering rebuff to Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s center-left Labour government, 10 months after it was elected in a landslide.
Farage’s party is targeting working-class voters who once backed Labour. Starmer’s popularity has plunged as his government struggles to kick-start a sluggish economy. The government has raised the minimum wage, strengthened workers’ rights and pumped money into the state-funded health system — but also hiked employer taxes and cut welfare benefits.
Starmer said that he understood why many voters are discontented.
“My response is: We get it,” he said. “I am determined that we will go further and faster on the change that people want to see.”
A blow to the Conservatives
The results were an even bigger blow to the Conservatives, whose voters switched to Reform in droves.
Reform, which didn’t exist when these areas last voted four years ago, won more than 600 seats in the elections for 1,600 seats on 23 local councils, mostly at the Tories’ expense. Reform won control of several county-level local authorities, including previous Conservative strongholds Staffordshire and Lincolnshire in central England, Durham in the north and Farage’s home county of Kent in the southeast.
Farage told supporters that the Conservatives “are over, they are finished, they have literally been gutted in these counties.”
Reform candidate Andrea Jenkyns, a former Conservative lawmaker, was elected mayor of the Greater Lincolnshire region of east-central England, and Reform also took the mayoralty of neighboring Hull. Labour retained three other mayoralties and the Conservatives won one.
The victories will bring pressure for Reform to deliver on transport, garbage collection, potholes and all the other unglamorous demands of everyday politics.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who could now face a party revolt, said voters, who ejected the party from power last year, “are still not yet ready to trust us.”
Fragmented politics
The results give only a partial snapshot of voter sentiment. Many areas, including London, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, didn’t hold elections. Turnout for local polls is typically much lower than in a national election.
And Reform isn’t the only story. The centrist Liberal Democrats made big gains in south and southwest England by winning more affluent, socially liberal voters away from the Conservatives.
Reform UK is the latest in a series of parties led by Farage, a veteran populist politician who was crucial in taking Britain out of the European Union through a 2016 referendum. He is a charismatic but divisive figure who has said that many migrants come to the U.K. from cultures “alien to ours.
Reform blends Farage’s long-standing political themes — strong borders, curbing immigration — with policies reminiscent of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. Farage said that he plans “a DOGE for every county” in England, inspired by Elon Musk’s contentious spending-slashing agency.
University of Strathclyde political scientist John Curtice said that the results showed that politics in Britain, long dominated by the two big parties, has fragmented.
“Reform is now posing a big threat to both Conservative and Labour,” he told the BBC.
As to whether two-party dominance will continue, “the question mark on that has just got three or four times bigger,” Curtice said.
the day of the extremist parties is over
the UK destroying pro migrant pro jew-jab agenda is finished
the Tory/labour/libdems is gone
whether farage will keep his word to send migrants home is questionable
lies are part of politics, it goes together like politicians and rent boys
I think it’s time for Farage to watch his back from now on!😒
Voices: Poll of the day: As voters turn away from the extremist labour and Tory parties, Britain’s corrupt two-party system is crumbling
Story by Lauren MacDougall •
The overnight results from Thursday’s elections have sent shockwaves through Britain’s political landscape, raising serious questions about the future of the country’s traditional Rothschild two-party dominance.
Reform UK, long seen as a fringe challenger, won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by just six votes, overturning a massive 35-point Labour majority. Nigel Farage’s party also claimed its first mayoralty in Greater Lincolnshire.
The electorate have been shit on for far too long, they demand migrants be sent home, persecution of farmers the sick and elderly must stop
and a reversal of the positive discrimination act where migrants come before our own folk
Nigel Farage doesn;t what to get too cocky as it could be his undoing!😢
Said this many time, and over a very long period of time.
Farrage is an MI6 stodge, just like Starmer, and Corbyn, who did all he could, to help Boris get Brexit done.
The Tory wing of the Nazi one party state, are much more naturally aligned with MI6, but Sunak, a Hindu, couldn’t be trusted, and probably rejected many Nazi actions. The truth, Sunak wanted out.
Reform’s policies are beyond bonkers, and some will trigger a massive house price boom, you know, houses that are only worth 25% of their valuation. Well, this boom that Reform will unleash, will see properties worth 10% of their valuation.
Remember, Farrage is a City Crime Cartels member. He’ll do anything to make the City Crime Cartels even more powerful.
The Fail tell us that Farrage pledges to ban WFH, and introduce DOGE style efficiency cuts.
WFH is very efficient. Let traffic, less pollution, less wasted time. Everyone wins, apart from the banks and corporations. Commuting, and the lure of after work entertainment, even if you ride your bike home, pissed, the Met police don’t care.
This is the problem, Farrage has no vision. He wants customers for degree holding buttie makers at Pret, that is Farrage’s vision. What would we do with stadiums of graduates flipping burgers, making coffees, and buttie bashing?
No vision to have these sheeple making flat screen TVs, or computer chips, or components for UK manufacted cars, oh no, we use debt to falicitate the import of widgets, while graduates flip burgers, all because the banks and corporations want it this way.
The Fail tells us that Farrage pledges to ban WFH, and introduce DOGE style efficiency cuts.
WFH is very efficient. Let traffic, less pollution, less wasted time. Everyone wins, apart from the banks and corporations. Commuting, and the lure of after work entertainment, even if you ride your bike home, pissed, the Met police don’t care.
This is the problem, Farrage has no vision. He wants customers for degree holding buttie makers at Pret, that is Farrage’s vision. What would we do with stadiums of graduates flipping burgers, making coffees, and buttie bashing?
No vision to have these sheeple making flat screen TVs, or computer chips, or components for UK manufacted cars, oh no, we use debt to falicitate the import of widgets, while graduates flip burgers, all because the banks and corporations want it this way.
Farage claims he’s breaking the two-party system but in the last election he saved it. When it looked like people were going to vote for enough other parties and independents that the two-party system would be broken and the establishment’s choice Starmer wouldn’t get in, that’s when they called in Farage. After he announced he will stand it tore away enough voters from other parties and independents that it enabled the unwanted Starmer to be installed. It was Farage who enabled that. Every slug leaves a trail and Farage and Starmer left theirs on the 2024 general election.
Would anyone have ever believed that the UK would accept Prime Minister Starmer, who is openly a cross-dressing bisexual, is married and has a male lover, is a fanatical Zionist who places Zionism and Israeli interests before the people he was elected to represent, wholly supports Israel’s genocidal wars, the Zionist Jewish Ukrainian war, and a Zionist One World Government, and covered up and protected pedophiles Jimmy Savile, Royals, and Members of Parliament? The UK is truly run by Demonic Zionist pedophiles. British governments are part of a satanic order that the Jews and Zionists created by accusing fellow Members of Parliament and those they saw as a problem of anti-semitism.
F OFF JONES You BORING Attention seeking ‘Care in the community’ RETARD With your constant BS unfounded Propaganda posts, NONE of which have been proven true. You only make yourself look even thicker than you are to the rest of the community
Farage…a UK Trump?
promise everything then creates chaos so NWO agenda can be slipped in…
acts like a Punch&Judy character…I suspect a cut-out
Coming out of my weeks in hospital, (mostly Jan-Feb), I find I have a visceral hatred of Farage which I did not have before, although I noticed that his laugh and voice are the same as those of Barry Cryer, a phoney Jewish writer of “comedy” that Britain used to suffer from
ban the trolls@
Thankyou for speaking out on that twat carl jones
we cannot understand why his bullshit is allowed here ?
When Rothschild appointed Winston Churchil a second time
for another war, the UKS greatest prime minister ever who wanted to keep Britain out of ww 2, was poisoned in his own home.
Churchill and his home office minister Herbery Morrison saw to it that all material necessary for the war came from jewish suppliers
Morrison after the war set up supermarkets and Peter Mandelson ( pervy-peter )
Churchill gave special dispensation for jews to not serve in the war
Many jews got out of service by going to the jewish doctor and getting signed off with flat feet short sight back aches etc
This was the rise of the jewish gangs, alfi solomons jack spot peter rachman then the kray twins, while our men were fighting germany for jews
the jews ran london and were ruthless, loan sharking forcing women and children into prostitution, and mainly protection rackets, enforcement was by the jews
known as the razor gangs]
Oswald mosley tried to protect the people and was loved by the people
“The hard-right party Reform UK led by”…some f*cking compromised clown. “Hard-right”? They clearly misspelled “Hardy-har-har, right?” That photo at the top, ol’ Nigel showing off the best of classic British dentistry…
Anyone who thinks they’re going to vote their way out of this shit mix is mentally retarded.
@ lewis jones … I forgot to add, wishing you a full recovery, mate, and soon. Seriously.
Umbra Bellator–thanks; the silver lining was that my flat got re-wired and de-cluttered ready for new boiler and radiators while I was away, and it is all done