Door de moord op Charlie Kirk is het een beetje tussen de plooien gevallen: Reform UK, de rechtse partij van Nigel Farage, won eergisteren zomaar even vier van de vijf tussentijdse verkiezingen op één dag.
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Huge boost for Nigel Farage as Reform win 4 by-elections in major blow to Keir Starmer
The Party's momentum shows no sign of stalling as they sweep to victory in council elections across the country.
By Christian Calgie, Senior Political Correspondent
07:44, Fri, Sep 12, 2025 Updated: 10:16, Fri, Sep 12, 2025
Nigel Farage will be delighted this morning as he wakes up to discover Reform UK has won a swathe of new council seats in overnight by-elections. Reform stormed to victory in a whopping four separate elections, suggesting the party’s momentum shows no sign of slowing down.
Mr Farage’s candidates took the Illtyd seat in the Vale of Glamorgan with 31.3%, from a standing start after not competing when it was last fought in 2022. Labour crashed by 22.7 points into fourth place, having won last time. In the Stotfold ward of Central Bedfordshire council, Reform won with 30.8% of the vote, pushing the incumbent Labour Party into third place.
In Newmarket East (West Suffolk), Reform took its third seat from Labour with 29.7% of the vote, again pushing Sir Keir Starmer’s party into fourth place.
However their most sweeping victory came at the expense of the Tories in Walsall, where the Pelsall ward by-election saw Reform storm into first place with a whopping 45% of the vote.
This represented a 31.3 point rise in their vote share, while the Tories collapsed by 24.1 points.
Reacting to the Bedfordshire win, Reform’s recent defector Nadine Dorries delighted at her new party winning in her old constituency.
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Volgens een recente peiling zou Reform UK 400 zetels behalen als er nu nationale verkiezingen zouden zijn:
New poll reveals Reform growing its lead & Nigel Farage would win 400 seat landslide at next election
We weten dat onder het Tories/Labour-regime jaarlijks 12.000 worden opgesloten omwille van onwelgevallige commentaren in de sociale media. Ook het groeiende protest tegen het migratiebeleid van de Starmer-regering maakt duidelijk dat de Britten dit linkse fascisme niet meer pikken. Er is een ongeziene landslide op komst aan de overkant van het Kanaal.