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Permalinkmaking some headway in the polls. Mr. Farage and his fellows are gaining
confidence and are starting to put out policy proposals - and one set of
policies, on illegal immigration, looks broadly familiar.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage unveiled a sweeping four-point plan on
immigration on Thursday, promising a crackdown on illegal migration and
the appointment of a new Deportations Minister under a Reform-led
government.
Speaking in Dover, the symbolic heart of Britains migration crisis,
Farage declared: We will bring a total end to all asylum claims from
people who come here on travel visas or as students, while reaffirming
his pledge to take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights
(ECHR) and repeal the Human Rights Act.
We have our own "Deportations Minister," although we don't call him that;
we call him the Border Czar, that being the famous and dedicated Tom "The
Hammer" Homan. I would suggest to Mr. Farage that, should the Reform Party
win big enough to propel him into the Prime Minister's chair, he could do
a lot worse than to send his Deportations Minister over to the United
States to confer and compare notes with Mr. Homan.
Oh, and Mr. Farage should find the Deportations Minister a cool nickname,
too.
Reform is pulling ahead of Labour and the Conservatives in at least one
poll.
Farages announcement marks the clearest signal yet that Reform is
preparing for government, following a dramatic surge in polling that
places the party ahead of both the governing Labour Party and the main
opposition Conservatives. A poll by Find Out Now released this week puts
Reform at 28%, with both main parties trailing at 20%. Such numbers would
see Labours dominance shattered and Reform storming into government.
Remember that the Brits use a different system than we do; we form
political coalitions before elections, and we call them political parties.
Both of our major parties have divisions; the Republicans have some right-
leaning libertarians, some social-issues conservatives, fiscal/budget
hawks, and so on. The Democrats have kooks, bigger kooks, and really,
really kooky kooks.
But the parliamentary systems have several parties, and after the
election, the parties form a government based on who won how many seats.
(This is a gross oversimplification.) And unless Farage's Reform party
wins an outright majority, they'll have to make some deals with the
Conservatives.
Here's another bit that sounds familiar:
Indeed, YouGov tracking suggests nearly half of Britons now believe
immigration has been mostly bad for Britaina stark shift since 2019.
Reforms focus on border control, ECHR withdrawal, and deportations of
illegal migrants reflects this changing mood.
Could Nigel Farage be Britain's Trump? Well, he may be - but first, he has
to win.
I suspect, sadly, that it's probably too late to save the United Kingdom.
Nigel Farage wants to Make Britain Great Again (MBGA doesn't have the ring
that MAGA does, but bear with me), but the unchecked influx from the Third
World has gone on for quite a while now.
Nothing's impossible, though. I suspect if anyone could set Britain back
on the path, it would be Nigel Farage.
Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has
virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't
needed to secure our border, just a new president.
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