How Nigel Farage continues to decline

Seriously a year ago, Nigel Faraj seemed ready to stay on the sidelines of British policy. “Do I want to be a deputy? Do I want to spend every Friday over the next five years in Clacton?” Reflect on the British exit campaign from the former European Union.

Soon after, he announced that he would not stand in the general elections in the United Kingdom because he was very busy helping Donald Trump to win the presidency of the United States.

But Faraj, as often, is the opposite of the path. It ended in the victory over the Clautton headquarters in Essex in 2024. The amazing performance of the UK Reform Party in Local elections on Thursday It is now suggested that he may go further – it ended as the British opposition leader or even the Prime Minister.

Another modern British politician can coincide with Faraj’s talent for renewal. While Trump’s allies, like Canada to forbid Australia Peter DatonTheir proximity to the American President, Varage is flourishing. Heavy smoker and drinking with a til of 31 -year -old lunch meals is the great survivors in one way or another.

Fifteen years before this week, Farage died almost a plane crash, when the tail of a light plane he was using in a campaign was concluded in a sign of the UK independence party. The accident left him in severe pain for years.

Politically, Faraj survived various internal battles and attempts by six conservative leaders to destroy it. However, even with the acquisition of the UKIP case, the former mineral dealer felt frustrated by “having to deal with low people every day” and the impossibility of gaining decent money.

He retired from the party’s policy on several occasions, including after a referendum of Britain’s exit from the European Union in 2016 (“I want to return my life”) and again in 2021 when Britain officially left the European Union (“It has ended … I achieved the only thing that I started doing: to achieve the independence of the United Kingdom.”

He found new vehicles: after leaving UKIP, he created Brexit, then repair. Recently, he ignored an invitation from Elon Musk to replace him as a reform leader, and won an internal battle with one of its other deputies, Ruert Lowe. He also stood up to his repercussions of Trump, who is not very popular in Britain.

Perhaps the electoral profession in Farraj had really ended if the Conservative Party had attracted it after a referendum of Britain’s exit from the European Union.

“The biggest political mistake committed by the Foundation in the past twenty years was not a counterpart in 2016,” said Join Tueller, former Farage’s former adviser.

“He could not create a British exit party from the European Union if he was in the House of Lords … because of the short vision, they left it free. Boy, will they regret it now.”

Faraj’s flexibility condemns something for national circumstances, something for his opponents and something for his special gifts.

He has the ability to speak directly and attractive, and sometimes with Humor. Often he can seem to enjoy. In a victory march in Kent on Friday, joking if it was, given the previous lack of reform of female candidates, he had a problem with a woman: “I faced this problem all my life!”

His attractiveness has been particularly noticeable since the departure of politics on the front lines of Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister of the Conservative Party, and to a lesser extent, Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labor Party leader, who had the ability to attract crowds. No Sir Kerr Starmer, Prime Minister, nor conservative leader Kimi Badnouch has the ease of Farraj in front of the camera.

“He is very lucky in his opponents,” Taller said. In the 2024 elections, “Part of the reason we achieved is that the press was very grateful because they had something fun to write about, instead of (Rishi) Sunak versus Starmer.”

Slow growth and increasing migration expanded the audience of Faraj’s radical message. His separation from the Conservative Party (which was a member of the Margaret Thatcher) was allowed to evade the chaotic reality of Britain’s exit from the European Union.

One of the paradoxes of the British Party regime today is that the vast majority of the voters say that Britain’s exit from the European Union was wrong, but the pro -Brexit reform leads opinion polls.

The variable media environment also benefits from the margin. For years, Farraj critics have paid attention to him by the British Broadcasting Corporation. But now he has other ports: it is presented from the time of Primetime on GB News, the news channel that reaches 3M per month, and has a strong presence on Tiktok, where its videos about migration and radiance can raise more than 300,000 views.

After years of trying, Varage may seem to reconcile his political and financial ambitions. Since his election last July, 864,000 pounds of pounds of external work – including 331,400 pounds to present it to GB news and 280,500 pounds to promote a gold deal.

Moderate politicians have found it difficult to photograph Farage as a touch -out. With the repercussions of Brexit and Trump, at least these critics have new materials. Starmer Farage mocked the United States often so that it should appear “in immigration statistics.”

In the past, Farraj was alive for the dangers of international allies. He did not sit, for example, with the leader of France, right -wing Marin Le Pen in the European Parliament.

Its current strategy is in difference with Trump in foreign policy issues, such as Ukraine, but embrace the local agenda, which may resonate with angry British voters. “Let’s be a British dodge!” He said to Friday, referring to the MUSK costs team.

His speech is still exciting. He recently criticized politicians to celebrate Islamic festivals, but not Easter: “No one seems to want to stand and say this is a Christian holiday. Well, I say that.”

Among the most popular British politicians in general: 27 per cent of voters have a positive opinion about it, and 65 percent are not favorable, according to Yougov.

If the results of elections were deduced on Thursday at the country, the reform would have won about 30 percent of the votes, compared to the Labor Party by 20 percent, liberal democrats in 17 years, 15 in 15, and Greens in 11, and the BBC expected. At this level of support, the first voting system, which is historically restricted, can push it to power.

Farage is smaller than Starmer, one year away from Boris Johnson. If the following elections were held in mid -2019, the last possible date will be Farage 65.

If he wins, he will be the oldest Prime Minister since Winston Churchill in 1951. He was also a member of the Westminster Parliament for a shorter period than any Prime Minister recently. Everything will be largely unlikely – just like many other parts of the Farage CV.