Nigel Farage has set out his plans for the next five years after establishing a “bridgehead” in Britain’s Parliament and outlined the biggest threats to Western democracy.
Speaking to Ben Bergquam of Real America’s Voice, who has been covering the British election alongside Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, Farage cited the “closing down of free speech” and the teaching of “self-loathing about our nation, our identity, our culture, our history” in schools and universities.
“I don’t really blame the hard left for this. I blame conservative cowardice,” Farage said. “In this country over the last 14 years, the needle has moved sharply to the left on every single social and economic issue. Conservative cowardice is, actually, what has allowed the extremists on the left to bully us,” he stressed.
Speaking to @BenBergquam, Farage said the greatest threats to Western democracy are attacks on free speech, far-left propaganda in education, and a culture of “self-loathing” – and “conservative cowardice” in failing to stand up to any of it. pic.twitter.com/0GIO5dENIf
— Jack Montgomery (@JackBMontgomery) July 5, 2024
REFORM REPRESENTATIVES.
Mockery and swift ejection met hecklers attempting to disrupt Farage’s post-election press conference—tipped off by “reporters” known for “working with Antifa,” suspects Kassam.
Three other Reform Members of Parliament (MPs) joined Farage on stage: Reform chairman Richard Tice, former Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson, and former Brexit Party representative Rupert Lowe, who intends to donate his MP’s salary to charity.
A fifth Reform candidate may win in the South Basildon and East Thurrock constituency (electoral district). A full recount is underway as of the time of publication. It was initiated by Labour, complaining of mistakes in the initial count after the Reform candidate won.
GOING AFTER LABOUR.
At the presser, Farage stressed the public showed “absolutely no enthusiasm for Starmer’s Labour whatsoever,” referring to now-Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party. Despite winning a large legislative majority, Labour actually won fewer votes than in 2017 and 2019, and the lowest overall share of the vote of any party to win a parliamentary majority.
Some see Reform as a party of disgruntled Conservatives. However, Farage emphasizes that its “priority now is to go after Labour votes”—especially those of old-fashioned Labour voters who are “very patriotic” compared to the party’s woke, mostly middle-class modern incarnation.
ELECTORAL REFORM.
Farage says electoral reform is a priority objective, with Britain’s first-past-the-post voting system producing perverse results. Tice said Labor has only around twice as many votes as Reform, but 100 times its representation in Parliament. The Conservatives have similar overrepresentation. So do the Liberal Democrats, who are receiving dozens of seats on a significantly lower share of the national vote than Reform.
WIDER WORLD.
Discussing international politics, Farage says he is grateful for Donald Trump’s support. He predicts Marine Le Pen’s National Rally will perform well in the second round of France’s legislative elections on July 7.
He says he disagrees with Le Pen on economics, characterizing her approach as “big state.” However, he says her party is a much better option than the extreme left, which placed second in the first round of the French election, with Emmanuel Macron’s globalists falling to third place. He also says he understands the sentiments Le Pen’s party expresses “about La France, about their culture, their identity, the no-go zones.”
