Brexit champion Nigel Farage, who led the United Kingdom Independence Party to victory in the European Parliamentary Elections in 2014, has done it again. As leader of the grassroots Brexit Party, which only officially launched on April 12, easily won the 2019 version, as both the establishment “Conservatives” and Labor suffered humiliating defeats. With some votes still being tabulated in the proportional representation election, the Brexit Party appears to have captured 30 or so seats in the 73-member U.K. delegation to the Brussels-based European Union. The Brexit Party campaigned on leaving the EU on a no-deal, World Trade Organization basis so that the U.K. can once again resume its status as an independent country.
With Conservative voters, among others, crossing over to vote for it, the Brexit Party probably could have won a few more seats had some voters not wasted a ballot on the imploding UKIP.
According to the New York Times, Farage “is one of the country’s most divisive politicians but also one of its most effective communicators.” Farage is probably one of the best orators on the entire planet let alone in the U.K.
“Farage, who as UKIP leader persuaded [PM Theresa] May’s predecessor, David Cameron, to call the Brexit referendum and then helped lead the campaign to leave the EU, has said that failure to implement Brexit would show Britain not to be a democracy,” France 24 explained.
The Brexit Party won in nine of the 10 regions, and even picked up a couple of seats in pro-EU London, making the upstart group the largest party in the EU parliament.
The U.K. actually voted last Thursday, but officials held the results because most of Europe voted over the weekend. Populist euroskeptics also won in France, Italy, Poland, and Hungary, and made gains elsewhere across the continent.
The EU elections in Britain were never supposed to happen. “Conservative” Prime Minister Theresa May vowed about 100 times that the country would formally exit the EU on March 29. She also proclaimed that no deal was better than a bad deal, which was implicit in the Lisbon Treaty Article 50 vote by the British parliament, the House of Commons, that started the withdrawal clock.
May went back on both promises, and most recently even back pedaled on ruling out a second referendum, in a fourth attempt to get her flawed withdrawal agreement through Commons.
Given her failure to even convince the Reman-dominated parliament to vote for the deal that she “negotiated” with the EU, May announced on Friday that she was stepping down as PM and Conservative Party leader.
The deal May inexplicably pushed, opposed by rank-and-file Conservatives (a.k.a. Tories) and described as a Brexit in Name Only or a surrender document, left the country trapped in the EU in a fundamental betrayal of the June 2016 Brexit referendum.
Both the Tories and Labor promised in the June 2017 general election to deliver Brexit.
As a result of the EU election results, the Labor Party could also boot out its far-left leader Jeremy Corbyn, whose position on Brexit is and was ambiguous.
Further from the New York Times:
“The elections also looked set to deal a crushing blow to the opposition Labor Party as it lost votes to two center-left opponents, the Liberal Democrats and Greens, which both took a clearer position against Brexit and supported a second referendum on the issue…The Conservative Party’s dire performance will increase pressure on those campaigning to succeed Mrs. May to take a hard-line approach to Brexit that could result in the country leaving the European Union without any agreement. By contrast, Labor’s setback is also likely to spur recriminations and prompt calls for it to push more explicitly for another referendum on Brexit.”
Some of the Conservative candidates vying to replace Theresa May as PM claim they are willing to leave the EU on October 31 without a deal, but “would prefer a deal.” This suggests, unfortunately, that Sellout 2.0 could be on the horizon.
Early last month, about 1,000 local Conservative officials got clobbered in municipal elections. Some voters stayed home, others voted for alternative parties as protest votes, or just scrawled pro-Brexit messages on their ballot papers rather than selecting any candidates.
The London-centric globalist media in the U.K. is spinning the EU results as a victory for the combined pro-EU voting bloc. That fails to take into account that both the Conservatives and Labor positioned themselves as pro-Brexit in one form or another.
Prior to the election, Brexit Party candidate Ben Habib expertly responded to the tired premises from the mainstream media:
A test for the Brexit Party’s strength domestically is coming on June 6 when a special election takes place for a vacant Commons seat in the Peterborough area.
Nigel Farage, who of course won reelection as an MEP, has declared that the Brexit Party will compete in the next nationwide election. Although scheduled for 2022, it is more likely that it will occur this year given the current instability in parliament, especially if the politicians fail to deliver a “proper,” as they say in the U.K., Brexit.
With the gains by the Greens, Human Events editor Raheem Kassam argues that the populist movement must develop some kind of climate policy “which does appear to be a concern for the electorate.”
Currently, however, the Green movement is socialism masquerading as environmentalism.
Kassam also claims that “The upcoming Peterborough by-election will be a test of mettle for the Brexit Party, especially given its lack of on-the-ground infrastructure…In other words, Peterborough is make or break for the Brexit Party. And it is just around the corner.”
Check back for updates.
Update: Watch/listen to Nigel Farage discuss the EU election results on LBC radio.
