{"id":296641,"date":"2024-10-14T07:08:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T07:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=296641"},"modified":"2024-10-16T07:45:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T07:45:18","slug":"farages-reform-party-hits-record-high-in-national-poll-as-labour-support-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=296641","title":{"rendered":"Farage\u2019s Reform Party Hits Record High in National Poll as Labour Support Collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kurt Zindulka \u2013 Breibart Oct 13, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Nigel Farage\u2019s right-populist Reform UK party has surged to a record high in a national poll as support for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s leftist Labour government has collapsed just over 100 days after sweeping to power with a large majority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is only a matter of time before Reform leads a national opinion poll,\u201d Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe declared on Sunday following the release of a survey from More in Common showing the highest-ever level of support for the Farage-led party.<\/p>\n<p>According to the survey of 2,000 people, Reform now stands at\u00a021 per cent nationally, the best-ever result for the upstart populist party recorded by the pollster after climbing two points since its last poll.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the governing Labour Party has seen its long-held lead in the polls utterly collapse since it swept to power in July. The survey showed Labour support fell to the same level as the lowly Tories, with both parties now standing at 27 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Times of London<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/politics\/article\/starmers-had-a-shaky-start-now-hes-wants-to-rebuild-rxlsd5k5d\">reported<\/a> that allies of Starmer\u2019s are now privately concerned that Reform could surpass Labour by the time voters head back to the polls next year for local elections.<\/p>\n<p>Farage and Reform have publicly stated that rather than targeting Tory supporters, the party\u2019s principal mission will be to woo voters from the \u2018Red Wall\u2019 working-class areas of the country which have traditionally backed the Labour Party but who mostly voted to leave the EU in the 2016 Brexit referendum over concerns about mass migration.<\/p>\n<p>While Prime Minsiter Starmer vowed to \u201csmash the gangs\u201d of people smugglers trafficking illegal migrants across the English Channel, the stream of boats carrying foreigners to British shores has continued unabated, with around 12,000 aliens arriving since the left-wing party came to power a little over three months ago.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It is only a matter of time before Reform leads a national opinion poll.<\/p>\n<p>Six points off the top&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZXVKaVo6J2\">pic.twitter.com\/ZXVKaVo6J2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RupertLowe10\/status\/1845374287256895860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The failure of Starmer to stem the tide of illegals arriving in the country was listed as the biggest failure of the new government by 22 per cent of respondents, the third biggest reason listed.<\/p>\n<p>Failures on immigration only came behind Labour\u2019s decision to scrap winter fuel subsidies to pensioners amid the ongoing economic and energy price crises which continue to haunt the UK, with 49 per cent listing the move as the government\u2019s biggest failure so far.<\/p>\n<p>In second place, at 32 per cent, was Starmer\u2019s scheme to release prisoners early to deal with the overcrowding of jails and to make room for those who took part in the anti-mass migration riots and protests over the summer following the Southport stabbing that left three young girls dead and several others injured at the alleged hands of a second-generation Rwandan migrant.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the government has been facing a growing scandal surrounding \u201cfreebie\u201d gifts accepted by Starmer and top members of his government from top Labour donors. The prime minister disclosed that since taking over at the helm of Labour, he has taken in over \u00a3134,000 in gifts and hospitality from Labour Peer Lord Waheed Alli for\u00a0\u201cwork clothes\u201d, designer glasses, and the use of the media mogul\u2019s central London penthouse and Soho townhouse.<\/p>\n<p>The scandal prompted leading MP Rosie Duffield to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2024\/09\/29\/leading-labour-mp-quits-party-over-off-the-scale-sleaze-shown-by-starmer-during-donations-scandal\/\">quit the party<\/a>, accusing the government of betraying the party\u2019s supposed altruistic ideals and saying that the \u201csleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the results of the poll, the director of More in Common UK,\u00a0Luke Tryl said: \u201cFrom a public opinion perspective, the first 100 days of a Labour government could be described as disappointing at best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public are fairly united in saying the government has had a bad start, and rate the government\u2019s performance as a D minus. Meanwhile, their poll lead has evaporated and Keir Starmer\u2019s approval sits in the doldrums.\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nearly Six in Ten Labour Voters Back Cutting Migration, Quarter Willing to Vote for Farage\u2019s Reform UK<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vsx46aZAN7\">https:\/\/t.co\/Vsx46aZAN7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1827374783798915362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2024\/10\/13\/farages-reform-party-hits-record-high-in-national-poll-as-labour-support-collapses\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assuming that parliamentary democracy survives in its present form in the UK, then we could be looking at Nigel Farage as a contender for Number 10 in the next General Election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":98196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296642,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296641\/revisions\/296642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}