Britain Facing Political Earthquake – American Free Press
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By Nick Griffin The political elite in Britain are just waking up to the fact that they face potential electoral annihilation over the next four years. The last week have seen major opinion polls showing [...]
By Nick Griffin The political elite in Britain are just waking up to the fact that they face potential electoral annihilation over the next four years. The last week have seen major opinion polls showing an extraordinary rise in the popularity of Nigel Farage and his new party, Reform UK. Click the Link Below to Listen to the Audio of this Article For months now, the Reform Party has been snapping at the heels of the Conservatives, who in turn were still well behind the Labour government, despite the growing unpopularity of the Keir Starmer regime. Just a couple of weeks ago, Reform pushed the Tories into third place, but now they have leapfrogged Labour as well. A "YouGov" poll put Reform ahead for the first time, with 25%, one point above Labour, and four ahead of the Tories. Then a "FindOutNow" poll put Reform on 29%, four points ahead of Labour and a staggering 11 points in front of the Tories. Things are even worse for the old parties than this suggests. The "FindOutNow" poll is weighted against people who didn't vote in the last general election. They are only included in the final headline calculation if they say they are "definitely" going to vote this time. This is because past voting behavior is generally more predictive than declared intentions. Generally,—but not in this case—because the last general election saw a drastically reduced turnout of just 59.7%. This was nearly an 8% drop from the previous contest, and it overwhelmingly reflects the disgust of people who had voted for Brexit (in a 72% turnout), only to find the entire political class trying to weasel out of delivering the promises of Brexit. A vote for Reform is their revenge. Further, the broadcast media's relentless dismissal of Reform voters as ignorant fools and bigots has led to the phenomenon of "shy" Reform voters, who will not tell a pollster of their intention to vote for the new party. In addition, there are two factors which have scarcely come into effect yet: So far,…