Nigel Farage could all but end any hopes Rishi Sunak has of keeping the keys to No10, according to a top pollster. JL Partners co-founder James Johnson, who formerly worked in Downing Street, revealed that Mr Farage could singlehandedly doom the Tories.
This comes amid fevered speculation that the former Brexit Party leader could lead Reform UK into the next general election.
The party’s current leader, Richard Tice, said this week that he was “very confident” Mr Farage will play a role for Reform UK as he eyes a return to frontline politics.
Speaking to GB News, Mr Johnson said Mr Farage could boost Reform UK’s support by five percent in the polls if he returned.
The pollster explained: “Farage leading Reform gets them from 10 percent to 15 percent, or eight percent to 13 percent, and that makes a big difference.
This needs to happen. No deals this time. Remove as many Tories as possible. The Conservative party needs to die and if Farage returning is the stake through the heart, then that’s a good thing. Okay, so the likely outcome is a Labour government. I think, playing the long game, we have to endure that.
They’d have a much bigger chance of crushing the Tories, so to speak. But I’m not sure that they necessarily get any seats. That’s not a reflection on Farage but it’s a reflection on the reality of the electoral system.
Being a realist, I don’t expect any seats, but the damage to the Conservatives will be severe and that is what we need to happen.
I hope that many, many others agree with you, Longrider.
I too agree.
For decades its been a case for so many voting for what they are told by a corrupt and bought media is the least dangerous of two parties that should have died 25 years ago.
Look where doing that has seen us end up, so many voting the same way they’ve done for years and continually being amazed they got the same result, equals lunacy.
I don’t want Labour either but i’m not going to be frightened…operation fear yet again…by some smug tory telling me that unless i vote for him then the other twat, indistinguishable from that particular twat, will get in, i don’t want any of those twats i want them all to sod off and never darken our lives again.
A plague on all the bastards, i hope Reform cause the long overdue painful death of the fake tory party, please God don’t let Farage pull the rug at the last minute like last time.
“It’s going to be an interesting election: the party that deserves to lose versus the party that doesn’t deserve to win.”
https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-a-perfect-summary-of-politics-today/
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Shouldn’t worry about seats, just slash and burn.
One hit won’t see the BluLab off. Farage will have to stick around long enough for the Tories to accept that their only future is right of centre.
It would be a sublime irony if the party that ‘allowed’ us a Referendum about leaving the EU (and then did very little to implement the result) failed to heed the movement towards ‘populism’ currently upsetting The Powers That Be in the EU.
Here is the caliber of thinking that we have governing us at present. Over at Not a lot of people know that, one commenter gave us his account of how he wrote to his Conservative MP, quoting facts and figures from Gridwatch which showed the increasingly precarious state of the UKs electricity supply. He wrote back as follows:
“You’re right to highlight the total inadequacy of the renewables sector at the moment; and the threat that a hasty forced march to Net Zero could pose. I remain hopeful that a genuine market-led solution will emerge, by which the abundance of free energy in nature translates into low-cost energy for consumers, supplanting more expensive hydrocarbons through the ordinary process of the market.”
Absolutely away with the fairies, his solution to the looming crisis is basically just some wishful thinking. Anyway, how are free markets going to apply with the government’s thumb constantly on the scales? Interestingly, the MP in question didn’t want his name disclosing, which to me seems highly irregular.
I had similarly vacuous replies whenever I contacted Kris Skidmore, which is why I’m happy to see him go. The by-election will be a waste of time as the boundary changes will mean that the seat is disappearing anyway. Given this, Reform UK are not fielding a candidate.