Could Britain end up with Prime Minister Nigel Farage? On the one hand, we wouldn’t put any more money on it than, say, the New York Times was prepared, on election eve in 2016, to put on Donald Trump. On the other hand, feature what’s happening as Britons prepare to go to the polls to select their delegation to the next European “Parliament.”
That vote is set for May 23. Had Prime Minister Theresa May and her Conservatives honored the Brexit referendum of 2016, Britain wouldn’t have to participate in the blasted EU election. Voters decided, after all, to leave the EU, and a departure date of March 29 was all set. Mrs. May, though, betrayed the referendum. And now Britain has to elect a delegation to sit in the EU “Parliament.”
In that election, the party polling at the head of the field is the Brexit Party. It was founded at the last minute by Nigel Farage. He’s the former head of the United Kingdom Independence Party who led the campaign for Britain to return to being a sovereign country. In the aftermath of his victory, though, he quit UKIP because it was taking on a xenophobic tone.
That’s something on which to pause. Offhand, it’s hard to think of any leader in Britain, or many elsewhere, who quit his party over a point of principle against xenophobia. Yet Mr. Farage did that, having concluded that UKIP was too focused against Islam. Instead, he became
It’s an amazing situation. The new Brexit Party is ahead of both Mrs. May’s governing Tories and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labor Party. “Massive” is the word Politico’s headline writers are using for the gains pollsters predict for the Brexit Party in the May 23 vote. The Guardian is headlining a poll finding that Mr. Farage’s Brexit Party may win more EU election votes than the Tories and Labor combined.
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See Also:
(1) Brexit: The conditions are ripe for the biggest backlash imaginable
(2) Brexit seems to be rising as a second U.K. tidal wave
(3) Tony Blair warning: Brexit Party popularity could rise EVEN MORE before European elections
(4) Blair slapped down! ‘Your analysis of Brexit Britain is 10 years out of date’
(5) Farage reveals revolutionary way Brexit Party is pulling ahead – ‘Manifesto equals lie’
