Not even the MSM can deny just how consequential the multiple electoral victories obtained yesterday by a surging Reform UK in Britain’s local elections were.
In the runup to the vote, many were already bracing themselves for the ‘Reform-quake’.
The Independent’s political editor David Maddox reported on the eve of the vote:
“Unlike previous local elections this is not just an indicator on how well or badly a government is doing or even how the main opposition is doing. This is about whether we are on the cusp of something new in British politics.
In the next 24 hours, we will know if Nigel Farage’s Reform is a phenomenon in the polls and nothing more, or a party ready to break through as a major force.
We will learn a lot about whether Farage is a potential prime minister in waiting.”
The vote came, and it’s now an undeniable feature of British politics that Nigel Farage is set to become a major contender for next Prime Minister, after Reform UK’s massive gains across England, with stunning victories that redraw the political map.
It is projected that Reform got over 30% of the votes, way ahead of the incumbent Labour with 20%.
The populists won the Runcorn and Helsby and the Greater Lincolnshire mayoral runs, seized majorities in Staffordshire and Durham – in a campaign where they inflicted sharp pain on both Labour and the Tories.
Celebrating with our 49 new councillors in Staffordshire.
Vote Reform, get Reform! pic.twitter.com/NAyeHouwmK
— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) May 2, 2025
As a result, the MSM has to report on their ‘big gains’, as the party ‘tallies victories’ in its ‘election rout’ led by the ‘Trump with a pint’ who ‘humiliated Tories and angered Labour’.
BBC reported:
“[Reform] won 677 of around 1,600 seats contested on Thursday across a clutch of mainly Tory-held councils last contested in 2021.
Reform seized control of eight authorities from the Conservatives, including former strongholds Kent and Staffordshire.”
“The party has also won control of Doncaster, the only council Labour was defending, and Durham, where Labour was previously the largest party.
Reform also displaced Labour in Runcorn and Helsby, where it won a tightly-fought Westminster by-election to make Sarah Pochin its fifth MP.”
In post-war Britain, no one has ever beaten both Labour and the Tories in a local election before.
These results are unprecedented.
— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) May 3, 2025
Reform can and will win the next general election. https://t.co/ds4uae1B8y
— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) May 2, 2025
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