Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, has explained the British electorate is not poised to usher in a leftist government because it is embracing leftist ideology but because the ruling Conservatives (Tories) have comprehensively betrayed their base.
War Room host Stephen K. Bannon asked Kassam, a reform advisor to Brexit leader Nigel Farage, why the Brexit vote in 2016 did not “immediately not spawn a populist nationalist movement” comparable to MAGA in the U.S.
Kassam noted that Tories “usurped” Brexit after the referendum—even though most Tory lawmakers campaigned against it—and “really slow-rolled the whole thing.”
“The reason that the United Kingdom right now is pulling to the left, is pulling to the Labour Party, is not because there is this great feeling that, ‘Oh, [Labour leader] Sir Keir Starmer, this bureaucrat and his Cabinet of mostly DEI appointments, can come along and improve the country,” he explained.
“No, this election is a repudiation of the Conservative Party, of the Conservative Party’s arrogance, of the lockdown measures during Covid, of its anti-Brexit, you know, forced Brexit behavior,” he stressed.
Britain is not pulling left “because there is this great feeling that, ‘Oh, Sir Keir Starmer, this bureaucrat and his Cabinet of mostly DEI appointments, can come along and improve the country,” says @RaheemKassam, calling the election “a repudiation of the Conservative Party.” pic.twitter.com/UbkgXyS8eZ
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Kassam said this is why Farage is “gambling” on a political comeback, seeking to break into Parliament knowing that Labour is likely to alienate the public as badly as the Conservatives have over a four- to five-year term.
“He’s got a chance then to come in and say, look, you thought the Conservative Party in government doesn’t work, [Labour] really doesn’t work, and that will lead, I think, to a major major shift,” Kassam said.
“You can sense it, you can feel it,” he said of the political mood, predicting things are “shifting” and that it will take just “one more election cycle to get there.”
