r/europe • u/AlfredsChild England • 2d ago

News Reform takes shock 15-point lead over Labour as Farage dreams of winning power

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/reform-shock-15-point-lead-labour-farage-power-3887857
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u/RedstoneEnjoyer Slovakia 1d ago

Isn't it kinda fucked that your only hope is that this movement fragments before elections?

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u/RandyChavage United Kingdom 1d ago

Our only hope is lung cancer, Nigel Farage is a smoker

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u/Manoj109 1d ago

And unlimited booze.

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u/MA-SEO 1d ago

We can always speed that up.

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u/kerouacrimbaud United States of America 1d ago

A gofundme to send him ten thousand packs of his favorite death sticks?

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u/Logical-Brief-420 1d ago

As a Slovak you shouldn’t be surprised at a countries political situation being fucked, you live that reality.

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u/RedstoneEnjoyer Slovakia 1d ago

I am not talking about how politics are fucked.

I am talking about the fact that their only solution to combat Farage is to do nothing and gamble on his party imploding.

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u/Ok-Web1805 Ireland/UK 1d ago

The real issues are a broken voting system and a media constantly pumping out poison.

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u/Alakozam 1d ago

Happened in Canada. Thank fuck Maga Lite lost.

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u/Ok-Sun-8754 1d ago

Not really… the boats issue is quite important but it doesn’t merit anywhere near as much attention as it does. What about the NHS, for example?

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u/Coolkurwa 1d ago

Nope. Thanks to years of anti-immigration rhetoric and the polarization of politics, Britian is now just a one-issue country.

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u/No-Factor-2813 1d ago

So solve it instead of pretending it isn't there

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u/Coolkurwa 1d ago

Who's pretending it isn't there? Every political party talks about nothing else, to the detriment of everything else.

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u/ViscountViridans 1d ago

Essentially he knows that Reform UK’s platform is the democratic will of a plurality of the people and his last hope is for there to be no agent to carry out that will.