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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[@paulleigh7792]

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]

Reform have climbed three feet up and are ranting that there's an elite globalist conspiracy to put the cliff upside down.

[@ianbarnes8593]

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]

Not so much a Conservative collapse but a Reform sabotage job on the Right wing vote.

[@alana8863]

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]

A win, is a win, is a win :}

[@lesleylamy]

That’s only because tories change the boundaries,

[@larrygerry985]

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]

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]

They did not climb they were given a leg up by the Tories 😂

[@jandavies4400]

They gotta make it through the next five years first

[@philcal2000]

it will be interesting to see how much time Farage spends in his electorate...

[@kassistwisted]

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]

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[@baltasarnoreno5973]

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]

…maybe he’ll set up office in a local pub

[@markussmedhus9717]

@@bikergirluk8059 One that doesn't serve milkshakes.

[@garyb455]

People voted Labour for only one reason thats to get rid of the Tories, nothing to do with Labour's policies

[@WasiuAlatise]

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]

That's a weird analysis. Obviously they like Labour policies better than Tori ... do they have policies?

[@Chiefmismaker]

Exactly, they have no policies...

[@Vangough792]

@@basengelblik5199what policies 😂

[@larrygerry985]

I agree, they only got 35% of vote. In 1997, it was 43%

[@JonnyGertmunger]

people did not vote for derty evul Labour feelth - they voted against derty evul Tory feelth

[@Stanleyknif3]

The Torys still dont accept they are finished these boomers are so thick.

[@alana8863]

I'm a boomer and I know they are doomed. So sad they are finished. Hahaha!

[@johnny71c]

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.

[@nowisthetime6093]

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.

[@zog97xy]

13 MP'S? they only got 5!

[@shanghaichica]

The exit poll was wrong thankfully.

[@rolandrothwell4840]

The Conservative vote collapsed and split

[@Chiefmismaker]

Are you all discussing today's election?

[@buggerypit4056]

These people are delusional !

[@thornbird6768]

Mandy , no one is protesting !

[@CrankCase08]

Times Radio: The Blairite safety net.

[@alana8863]

It's Murdoch's Tory radio station. You have to be pretty Right-wing to think otherwise.

[@Chiefmismaker]

Peter - Nigel is leading a new party. He offered a contract. Didn't you read it?

[@timhandley7408]

and as usual like Brexit filled with people of no experience in governing When are you clowns going to learn

[@edmurth]

I did, it was a you can have your cake and eat it manifesto that would have made Liz Truss look intelligent.

[@alana8863]

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?

[@roguefox5171]

The Times = cope

[@JaneSoole]

DID Reform have a big election win? I listened all night on Radio 4 and I didn't get that impression!

[@johnf3885]

The Conservatives moved towards the centre and they lost?

[@pedromancenithe3rd]

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]

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.

[@Chiefmismaker]

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]

Nigel the Nationalist who spent his post-Brexit time in the US extolling the virtues of nationalism.

[@baltasarnoreno5973]

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]

@@markussmedhus9717 Well the voters don't agree with you. What do you personally think he has done wrong?

[@markussmedhus9717]

@@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]

@@Chiefmismaker Plenty. Promoted Brexit. Ignorance of global warming. Bad immigration policy. I don't think they have any other "policies.2

[@antonoat]

Camp fest going on here!

[@andrewprickett9000]

Got to 1.49 of this stopped watching

[@breadring]

BS.

[@Terencetembre1001.]

Why the upbeat music , they should have been playing the funeral march.

[@alana8863]

Because Reform got a few seats? Indeed.

[@clintcumberland1664]

Im a bit disappointed thought reform would done a lot better 😢

[@lesterfalcon1350]

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]

First passed the post system is very flawed

[@lesterfalcon1350]

@@PjRjHj Well if it's good enough for Belarus!

[@lesterfalcon1350]

Proportionally seats should be Lab 220, Cons 154, Ref 93, LibDem 79. Green 44. SNP 16, PC 5, Others 39

[@ingridwilkinson3187]

Conservatives should have brought in PR when thy had the chance

[@desperateliving22]

Farage is going to have to do some work now as opposed to being a lazy grifter

[@JupiterThunder]

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]

@@JupiterThunder I can't argue with your devotion to a charlatan

[@markussmedhus9717]

@@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]

@@JupiterThunder Wrong. He hardly ever turned up to the European parliament. Just a wide boy.

[@thornbird6768]

He was retired , my Dad's retired , is he a lazy grifter , retir3d people deserve to kick back and relax .

[@robertwilliams2323]

This Station is on par with the BBC and LBC. . Extreme far left.

[@czerwonadupa9547]

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"

[@user-un9wj6jg1x]

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]

Corbyn was the real hero of Brexit. His faint praise for Europe was epic.

[@elainepettis5075]

Blah blah blah blah blah. Yawn yawn yawn

[@antonoat]

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]

@@antonoat 😘

[@Woodzta]

A bit disappointed that Reform won any seats at all. Oh well, still a good result overall.

[@JupiterThunder]

It was Reform that defeated the Tories, not Labour. Labour are still on the vote share they had in 2019.

[@robertwilliams2323]

Typical far left comment.

[@fionnolamorris94]

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]

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.

[@puma55792]

NICE ONE NIGE 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

[@Ksmith47]

Moor lies !

[@angusmacmillan5365]

Labour has inherited a poisoned chalice.

[@redlightmax]

Labour has inherited a battered chalice - now they have a few years to fix it.

[@jimseltzer2002]

And it will start doing its work straight away. Within three months Starmer will be unpopoular with nearly everybody.

[@TooDarnSoulful]

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]

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.

[@donnaweetch7589]

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]

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]

You sound like a MAGA Repugnican.

[@BenJ2020]

Once labour mess up the next 5 years it's reforms to take

[@markussmedhus9717]

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]

No way.

[@shanghaichica]

The conservatives will have sorted themselves out by then or at least be an alternative if labour don’t do well.

[@rogerphelps9939]

@@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]

@@rogerphelps9939 yep they will crash the country faster than liz truss crashed the economy.

[@williamford8027]

Peter Mandelson frendof epsteinon that island

[@JamesMackenzie-sx2bu]

Quick answer: Trusting in the UK voting system

[@diligentmindz]

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!

[@lawrencenewman9941]

Define far right. Everyone on the planet is waiting for your answer.

[@markussmedhus9717]

"Anti-semite" Mate Israel is a straight-up apartheid colony state co-sponsored by perfidious Albion.

[@Dude0000]

@@lawrencenewman9941 Marx is ‘Far Right’ according to their own dialectic.

[@paulmillard3252]

What are you saying? Racists have won the election.

[@FaceFcuk]

Bahahahaha hilarious 😂everything is waycist bahahahaha hilarious 😂

[@philipellis4530]

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]

You know Starmer supports Ukraine too right? 😏

[@LeeLee-ke6cd]

We ❤ reform

[@alana8863]

Both of you? Nigel hates you.

[@PauloQuadros-hh2dt]

🎼🎶⚔️🎶 Nigel 🛡️ Farage 🎶⚔️🎶🎼