Nigel Farage may regret Reform’s big election win | How To Win An Election
“It's 12 more MPs than Nigel Farage really wants.”
The How To Win An Election team find out who has won the election. Peter Mandelson is “an extremely happy boy”, while Polly Mackenzie looks ahead to how the opposition will take shape. Daniel Finkelstein says Nigel Farage will face a “battle for the steering wheel” in the Reform Party in parliament.
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Labour hasn’t climbed a cliff edge. The Tories have fallen off it. It was always their’s to lose. They did not disappoint.
@TheLucanicLord
15 күн бұрын
Reform have climbed three feet up and are ranting that there's an elite globalist conspiracy to put the cliff upside down.
Labour may have gained seats in this election but their share of support is basically back to where it was prior to the 2019 election. So, more a Conservative collapse than a Labour tsunami.
@thedeester100
16 күн бұрын
Not so much a Conservative collapse but a Reform sabotage job on the Right wing vote.
@alana8863
14 күн бұрын
Not really. There was a massive rise in the share of non-Lab/Tory votes. Quite simply, the small parties have generally done incredibly well, so there is simply fewer votes available for the big two. Add in the fact that if the Libs had been second to the sitting Tory in my constituency, I would have voted for them (I'm a member of the Labour Party, btw) and I would have been one of millions who did vote tactically.
@adriansmusic2445
14 күн бұрын
A win, is a win, is a win :}
@lesleylamy
14 күн бұрын
That’s only because tories change the boundaries,
@chrislaurenceleo
13 күн бұрын
Lots of labour voters voted lib/democracy just to get rid of tories.
Labour won 32% of the vote and 35% this time. Also, a low turnout. The Labour party have a paradoxically extremely difficult majourity that could easily crash next time
@Test_Card_Tom
16 күн бұрын
Who cares? We have 4 Christmas's to enjoy before the next General Election. I wonder if Four-Seat Farage can attend more than a handful of sittings a year?
@johnjamesflashman6856
16 күн бұрын
They did not climb they were given a leg up by the Tories 😂
@jandavies4400
15 күн бұрын
They gotta make it through the next five years first
@tancreddehauteville764
13 күн бұрын
Wrong. 33.8% not 35%.
@simonkramer9463
11 күн бұрын
@@Test_Card_Tom "Five Seat Farage" thank you very much
People voted Labour for only one reason thats to get rid of the Tories, nothing to do with Labour's policies
@WasiuAlatise
17 күн бұрын
A VOTE FOR LABOUR WAS A VOTE FOR KHAN LAMMY ABBOTT CORBYN KHAN OR LAMMY WILL SOON KICK STARMER OUT MASS IMMIGRATION & ILLEGALS WILL FLOOD IN TO DESTROY THE ENGLISH RACE & CULTURE SOONER GOOGLE ELECTION RAID ALLOWED TO TAKE PLACE IN MUSLIM COMMUNITIES SO NOT TO UP SET THE MUSLIMS
@basengelblik5199
17 күн бұрын
That's a weird analysis. Obviously they like Labour policies better than Tori ... do they have policies?
@Chiefmismaker
17 күн бұрын
Exactly, they have no policies...
@Vangough792
17 күн бұрын
@@basengelblik5199what policies 😂
@larrygerry985
17 күн бұрын
I agree, they only got 35% of vote. In 1997, it was 43%
The Conservative vote collapsed and split
Peter Mandelson just makes me want to throw up he makes my skin creep. We here in Hartlepool voted him in thinking he was going to make our town better and thrown it back in our face, he was usless and did nothing for us. I wouldnt believe a word he says.
@tancreddehauteville764
13 күн бұрын
Since when does a local MP make your town better? Dream on.
@DomHorne-t2h
13 күн бұрын
@@tancreddehauteville764 That's why they are there
@nickstone1587
12 күн бұрын
The people of Clacton will shortly know how that feels.
@johnny71c
12 күн бұрын
@@DomHorne-t2h Well said
@johnny71c
12 күн бұрын
@@tancreddehauteville764 You have no concept of what an MP is voted in for. They are there to represent your constituency, they are supposedly there to bring in investment and make things better for the town. Under labour nothing happened and never does. Ben Houchen the Conservative Mayor of Teesside does more for our town than any Labour MP
These people are delusional !
For anyone looking at this with subjective eyes, the biggest issue for any voter of this election must be how unfair this 'democratic' 1st past the post system really is and how it forever favours the big 2 duopoly. Just look at the numbers by actual votes alone. Things need to change to be more representative of the actual democratic vote.
13 MP'S? they only got 5!
@shanghaichica
14 күн бұрын
The exit poll was wrong thankfully.
it will be interesting to see how much time Farage spends in his electorate...
@kassistwisted
17 күн бұрын
No one should be allowed to run for a seat in a constituency where they don't live and have never lived. How can you represent an electorate you've never met, haven't been part of? Dsgusting "lord of the manor" British thinking. Get real! The man lives in FRANCE!
@larrygerry985
17 күн бұрын
0 mins
@baltasarnoreno5973
16 күн бұрын
I'm sure he will be assiduous in attending to the single mums and unemployed of Clacton at his surgeries, and provide sterling help in sorting out their problems with housing benefit claims, Universal Credit and overpriced food banks.
@bikergirluk8059
16 күн бұрын
…maybe he’ll set up office in a local pub
@markussmedhus9717
16 күн бұрын
@@bikergirluk8059 One that doesn't serve milkshakes.
The Torys still dont accept they are finished these boomers are so thick.
@alana8863
14 күн бұрын
I'm a boomer and I know they are doomed. So sad they are finished. Hahaha!
Our Labour MP lives in London, two hundred miles away from a where the sheep voted her in!
Are you all discussing today's election?
Times Radio: The Blairite safety net.
@alana8863
14 күн бұрын
It's Murdoch's Tory radio station. You have to be pretty Right-wing to think otherwise.
@CrankCase08
13 күн бұрын
@@alana8863 The Tory government has been Blairite ever since David Cameron.
Peter - Nigel is leading a new party. He offered a contract. Didn't you read it?
@timhandley7408
17 күн бұрын
and as usual like Brexit filled with people of no experience in governing When are you clowns going to learn
@edmurth
16 күн бұрын
I did, it was a you can have your cake and eat it manifesto that would have made Liz Truss look intelligent.
@alana8863
14 күн бұрын
The man who said Truss's budget was the best since 1986? Farage now offers you massive tax cuts (mainly for the rich, but ignore that bit!) and better public services! Free unicorns anyone?
@greghiggs5375
14 күн бұрын
@@alana8863 Yes, at a cost of around £90 billion. He doesn't say where the money is coming from.
@user-qd8bk5xh4w
13 күн бұрын
@@greghiggs5375Richard Tice has explained where the money is coming from many times during last few weeks, have you not listened!!!! CUTS the right places, cutting waste and rip offs by the banks raking in billions in interest etc etc, I worked in the NHS and gosh there is waste, would leave more money to pay our nurses and doctors and better patient care
Mandy , no one is protesting !
He has nothing to regret! And should be second in parliament am so pleased we had so many votes !
What on earth are you on about Fiddlestein! This is a threat to you and the likes of you! Well done Nigel and Reform!
@markussmedhus9717
17 күн бұрын
Nigel the Nationalist who spent his post-Brexit time in the US extolling the virtues of nationalism.
@baltasarnoreno5973
16 күн бұрын
We now get to see what a useless gobshite Farage really is. Nobody noticed while he was on the other side of the Channel as an MEP in Brussels. Now we get to see him close-up.
@Chiefmismaker
16 күн бұрын
@@markussmedhus9717 Well the voters don't agree with you. What do you personally think he has done wrong?
@markussmedhus9717
16 күн бұрын
@@Chiefmismaker Peddling conservative grievance culture. Are you one of the affluent few who actually benefitted from Brexit? Large Farge seems to forget his nation of origin is sickly dependent on trade.
@rogerphelps9939
16 күн бұрын
@@Chiefmismaker Plenty. Promoted Brexit. Ignorance of global warming. Bad immigration policy. I don't think they have any other "policies.2
The Conservatives moved towards the centre and they lost?
The Times = cope
Labour have no mandate from the majority. Remind them of that every day.
@nickstone1587
10 күн бұрын
The system definitely stinks but none of you minded when it delivered Boris and Brexit on around 30% of the electorate. At that point you all said "you should have gone out and voted, then." Well, we did. Looks like you should have taken your own advice.
@baldrickscunningplan6154
9 күн бұрын
@@nickstone1587 Clown. According to official election commission. 75.7% voted in the Brexit referendum of which 52% voted yes. 30%??? Go back to school and learn how to add up.
DID Reform have a big election win? I listened all night on Radio 4 and I didn't get that impression!
This is a typical view from an old school politician like Mendelson, who can't stand the idea that the country is fed up with the same old run-of-the-mill out of touch career politicians. The people want to try something different. Reform offer such an alternative and the Conservatives might just find out what their complacency cost them, but I very much doubt it.
@alana8863
14 күн бұрын
People want to have their cake and eat it. It's easy for small parties to promise this. Reality hits hard when you have to run a country. Reform are offering everyone a free pony and unicorn rides. I'm sorry, but give any economist those economic 'proposals', don't say that they are Reform's, and you'll be shocked at how economically illiterate the proposals are. Farage praised Truss's budget as the best since 1986 (the Thatcher/Howe one). The markets were being asked to fund unfunded tax cuts. Farage got his answer. Time he was held to account for all his lies.
Farage is going to have to do some work now as opposed to being a lazy grifter
@JupiterThunder
16 күн бұрын
That's the last thing he is. He's toiled for 30 years to promote his ideas, if he was a lazy grifter he'd have joined the LibLabCon Uniparty.
@desperateliving22
16 күн бұрын
@@JupiterThunder I can't argue with your devotion to a charlatan
@markussmedhus9717
16 күн бұрын
@@JupiterThunder People who go against the grain tend to not do so well when it comes to building bridges. Populism causes world wars more often than they make X country great again.
@rogerphelps9939
16 күн бұрын
@@JupiterThunder Wrong. He hardly ever turned up to the European parliament. Just a wide boy.
@thornbird6768
16 күн бұрын
He was retired , my Dad's retired , is he a lazy grifter , retir3d people deserve to kick back and relax .
Why the upbeat music , they should have been playing the funeral march.
@alana8863
14 күн бұрын
Because Reform got a few seats? Indeed.
NICE ONE NIGE 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
Got to 1.49 of this stopped watching
You wish!
Reading some of the MSM quotes on here by people that can't accept a different point of view to theirs brings to mind the saying "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall"
Reform has a voice in Parliament.🇬🇧.Labour wont stop the boats.......
@nickstone1587
12 күн бұрын
Nigel's probably not there to promote anything but himself. His opening speech was pretty solid evidence of that. Everyone else managed to be kind and gracious, but he got straight on with his little act. It looked pathetic in the context of every other speech but, naturally, GBeebies trimmed it from that context. It worked.
@HazelBulyka
11 күн бұрын
@@nickstone1587 he just tells it like it is. This country needs a wake up call and I believe the Reform party will provide that.
@nickstone1587
11 күн бұрын
@@HazelBulyka maybe twenty years ago I'd have agreed - but in the interim he's proved himself to be no better than any of the others. He's not interested in fixing anything. He reminds me of that old Harry Enfield character who'd just sit to the side saying "you don't wanna do it like that!" Let's see how Starmer pans out. I like that he's put experts over politicians into cabinet roles. Dull is probably what we need, after a bunch of 'characters' dragged the country through the mud.
Dribble
Camp fest going on here!
England regrets Nigel Ferages' Birth
@raymondo6665
13 күн бұрын
Silliest comment on KZread. Take a bow.
@DistractedTrader
12 күн бұрын
@@raymondo6665 Aw Raymond.
@raymondo6665
12 күн бұрын
@@DistractedTrader Second silliest comment. Take another bow. BTW who is Nigel Ferage?
@DistractedTrader
11 күн бұрын
@@raymondo6665 Aw raymerndo
@raymondo6665
11 күн бұрын
@@DistractedTrader Going for broke 😂
Why are we so vague on this immigration issue ? we have two options we control the UK immigration and the numbers or we don't. The poltiical class are not bothered to do it, some have to admit they do not want to do it. Until it does get sorted then REFORM will continue !
@alana8863
14 күн бұрын
I notice that all Reform supporters know all the answers - and they're all easy. The rest of us know that the fertility rates are so low that we are increasingly short of workers, the number of disabled and elderly are growing at speed and need care and health provision as well as income. The rest of us know that as climate change causes more flooding, droughts, and fires, vast numbers of climate migrants will seek to move from places that can no longer sustain them. So there will be even greater problems with those fleeing from those areas. The rest of us know that Brexit enabled us to be unable to return migrants to safe countries (well done if you voted for it!), that finger-printing agreements and exchange of information with other EU countries was dumped by Brexit (well done if you voted for it!) and that far more migrants were going to come to Britain illegally once you ended free movement because of Brexit (well done if you voted for it!). Fool me once, shame on Farage; fool me twice, vote for Reform.
Peter Mandelson frendof epsteinon that island
More fool anyone who simply voted Labour as a protest. You voted for high taxes and beating clapped out services into the ground. I voted with my heart - for the nation to survive and thrive, for us all white, black and brown Britons together, for the NHS, jobs and housing, for our youth, the elderly and everyone in between without the extra strain and pain with the illegals. I voted Refom and look forward to getting it - eventually.
@markussmedhus9717
16 күн бұрын
Much good the leader of the Reform party did for the NHS. Your crummy island nation would be wiped out by the common cold centuries ago if not for immigration.
BS.
Im a bit disappointed thought reform would done a lot better 😢
@lesterfalcon1350
17 күн бұрын
I think that's because there has been a lot of 'we can shout louder' making them look more prominent than they are. Hopefully though it will help form a case for a call for proportional representation. I'm no fan of Reform, but I would gladly see them get more seats, if it meant others do too. A big part of their success I think is due to people not feeling they are being heard, and PR would be a great way to fix this and our whole system.
@PjRjHj
17 күн бұрын
First passed the post system is very flawed
@lesterfalcon1350
17 күн бұрын
@@PjRjHj Well if it's good enough for Belarus!
@lesterfalcon1350
17 күн бұрын
Proportionally seats should be Lab 220, Cons 154, Ref 93, LibDem 79. Green 44. SNP 16, PC 5, Others 39
@ingridwilkinson3187
17 күн бұрын
Conservatives should have brought in PR when thy had the chance
A bit disappointed that Reform won any seats at all. Oh well, still a good result overall.
@JupiterThunder
16 күн бұрын
It was Reform that defeated the Tories, not Labour. Labour are still on the vote share they had in 2019.
@robertwilliams2323
15 күн бұрын
Typical far left comment.
Moor lies !
@raymondo6665
13 күн бұрын
Who's Moor?
Farage conned the public over brexshit, but only with massive help from the weak Cameron. You can con a few people all the time, but all people only some of the time!
@gdutfulkbhh7537
17 күн бұрын
Corbyn was the real hero of Brexit. His faint praise for Europe was epic.
@elainepettis5075
16 күн бұрын
Blah blah blah blah blah. Yawn yawn yawn
@antonoat
16 күн бұрын
Farage didn't con anyone, the conservatives did and Blair's cons cost hundreds of thousands of lives, get real and do some homework!
@user-un9wj6jg1x
16 күн бұрын
@@antonoat 😘
All the conservatives need to do is close our boarders and help uk citizens…they could of put THE UK FIRST in 14 years they didn’t …few more years reform will show how to make this country safe and great again
@markussmedhus9717
16 күн бұрын
First off, it's borders and not boarders, so education has already failed you. Second, what borders? Are you referring to that utter nonsense in Ireland?
@rogerphelps9939
16 күн бұрын
You sound like a MAGA Repugnican.
Quick answer: Trusting in the UK voting system
Once labour mess up the next 5 years it's reforms to take
@markussmedhus9717
16 күн бұрын
Traditionally the far right has a bad rap when it comes to the economy. But it's gonna be fun to watch the brits flounder further.
@rogerphelps9939
16 күн бұрын
No way.
@shanghaichica
15 күн бұрын
The conservatives will have sorted themselves out by then or at least be an alternative if labour don’t do well.
@rogerphelps9939
15 күн бұрын
@@shanghaichica Yes. If you read the Reform manifesto it will become crystal clear to you why they must never be allowed anywhere near the levers of power.
@shanghaichica
15 күн бұрын
@@rogerphelps9939 yep they will crash the country faster than liz truss crashed the economy.
Labour has inherited a poisoned chalice.
@redlightmax
16 күн бұрын
Labour has inherited a battered chalice - now they have a few years to fix it.
@jimseltzer2002
15 күн бұрын
And it will start doing its work straight away. Within three months Starmer will be unpopoular with nearly everybody.
Last night, France rejected toxic divisive politicians. Farage's brand of politics is old hat.
This Station is on par with the BBC and LBC. . Extreme far left.
It’s an ironic twist when we have racists on the far right winning seats, and an antisemite on the far left retaining his seat. We couldn’t be more divided with racism as a common theme!
@markussmedhus9717
17 күн бұрын
"Anti-semite" Mate Israel is a straight-up apartheid colony state co-sponsored by perfidious Albion.
@Dude0000
16 күн бұрын
@lawrencenewman9941 Marx is ‘Far Right’ according to their own dialectic.
@paulmillard3252
16 күн бұрын
What are you saying? Racists have won the election.
@FaceFcuk
16 күн бұрын
Bahahahaha hilarious 😂everything is waycist bahahahaha hilarious 😂
@jimseltzer2002
15 күн бұрын
The racists are the Islamists and their apologists and enablers in Labour.
What a shame, Sunackers won't be able to hug Zelensky any more, the person we all know as a warmonger, one of the other reasons why Rishi regularly popped over to Ukraine was he felt good as he was taller. Nigel was right, the US is instrumental in the conflict in Ukraine, they own over 40% of their land and are striving to own the rest, luckily Putin being a master of chess won't allow that.
@bikergirluk8059
16 күн бұрын
You know Starmer supports Ukraine too right? 😏
We ❤ reform
@alana8863
14 күн бұрын
Both of you? Nigel hates you.
🎼🎶⚔️🎶 Nigel 🛡️ Farage 🎶⚔️🎶🎼