NIGEL FARAGE: Our victory was seismic and the Reform era is just starting. Here's everything my government would do - from ditching Net Zero to finally tackling immigration.
By NIGEL FARAGE
'Britain is broken. Reform will fix it.’ This slogan captured the feelings of millions of people in recent weeks and there is no doubt it helped Reform UK to become the first political party other than the Conservatives or Labour to win a nationally held election for more than 100 years.
Our victory was seismic. The two old political parties have been shaken to the core. They will have to get used to this new political era because Reform UK is only just getting started.
Yet that slogan did more than secure us scores of council seats across the land, the control of ten local authorities, two mayoralties and the new MP for Runcorn and Helsby following the parliamentary by-election in that constituency.
Beneath the surface, its seven words expressed a collective frustration, serving as a summary of 15 years of lived experience first under successive Tory governments until 2024 and, for the past ten months, under this Labour administration.
The fact is that Britain is broken not just in the sense that its infrastructure seems unable to cope any longer, but at a deeper level because of years of empty promises.
And when people’s trust is shattered, their spirit breaks as well.
The casual lies and careless attitudes of our political class in recent years have let people down. They are sick and tired of being taken for fools or, worse, ignored.
Wherever you go, you will hear the same complaint: nothing seems to work any more. Men and women whose only desire is to do the right thing look back a few years and know in their bones that standards have slipped steadily. This is not nostalgia on their part. This is hard reality.
'The two old political parties have been shaken to the core,' says Nigel Farage
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