"I am back as leader of the improvement Party. Not only for these elections, but for the full 5 years (the maximum word of Parliament – cars). The reason is 1 and it's simple – We already know that the Conservative organization will be in opposition, but it will not be an opposition, they are incapable to do so.” – With these words Nigel Farage announced his Come backto a first-tier policy in the function of organization leader and candidate for MP in the parliamentary election.
The large Return
Changing the decision of the most celebrated British Eurosceptic, who initially rejected the anticipation of moving (because of taking a occupation in the American run Donald Trump), became the darkest dream of the Tories ruling since 2010, fighting in this election not for triumph but for survival. 1 of the oldest political parties in the planet (which dates back to 1834) has been eroded for a long time, as I described in another articles published on the portal:
Third British Prime Minister A.D. 2022. emergence of Rishi Sunak Government
Broken promises, scandals and economical collapse origin widespread discontent in British society. The power was gained by the centre of Keira Starmer (whose figure I besides described in 1 of the Articles). The minute of the breakthrough opened up the anticipation of getting the wedge into the concrete British political scene, which Farage had dreamed of for decades.
Although the final result of the improvement organization – only 5 seats despite 14.3% of support and 3rd place in terms of the winning votes is disappointing, Nigel Farage has reached his point. As an MP, he becomes a full associate in the Westminster policy, from which he can start the game again if not for leadership, it is for the government of souls on the British right.
The prefect-robber and the rebel broker
Born in Farnbourough, historical Kent region (located present at the southeast end of the Greater London agglomeration region) Nigel Farage displayed both leadership and boldness in preaching controversial views in his school days. erstwhile the manager of prestigious Dulwich College decided to disqualify Farage with the prefect's school position, he met with a protest of teachers accusing the future leader of UKiP of racism and fascism. Not only the pedagogues, but besides the graduates of the institutions shared in these supporting accusations, as well as those who declared that Farage was provoking views and questions (to which he himself admitted), but there is no way to blame him for his extremist attitude. As the manager said: “I did not dig into this rudeness, but the staff was sick of his impudence and rudeness. They wanted me to expel him, but I saw the possible in him, I appointed him prefect, and it turned out I was right.[1]It’s okay. ”
After leaving the school walls, the future Eurosceptic champion became a professional stockbroker. The remnant of that time is simply a love for business suits in striations, present found mainly in films depicting the financial environment of that time, like Wilk from Wall Street or American Psycho. Nonconformism was manifested by public drinking beer and smoking cigarettes.
A MEP in the service of Her Majesty
1999 brings Farage a mandate in the European Parliament to renew in all subsequent elections until the United Kingdom leaves the European Union. He marked his patriotism in different ways – choosing a area with the number 007 (James Bond license) for his office or utilizing the British flag as prop (for which he was disabled during the speech).
What peculiarly distinguished the English comparative is his sharp speeches. 1 of the most celebrated was on January 24, 2010, erstwhile Farage called the president of the European Council Herman van Rompuy as a individual with "wet cloth charism" (which, however, is simply a metaphor that is crucial as much as the "victim of fate", and which omitted most translations into Polish), questioning his choice as a individual unknown and unelected in the general election. At the time, the president of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, in consequence to his refusal to apologise, suspended the British in the rights of the deputy for 10 days.
Leading the group, he promised that it would cease to be a organization to 1 issue (exit from the European Union), which he had never achieved in practice. The majority of the decree (one-mandate electoral districts) stood in the way, which, unlike the proportional (party lists) ruling in the EP election, promoted 2 major parties – Conservatives and Labourists, and Welsh, Scottish and North Irish national groups. Although the UKiP won the 2014 European Parliament elections, the organization gained only 2 seats in the UK Parliament election a year later. no of them included Nigel Farage, for whom it was the seventh consecutive defeat in the fight to sit in Westminster.
Brexit
The bitter defeat rapidly lulled Prime Minister David Cameron's declaration of convening a referendum on UK membership in the EU. The British were to talk publically for the first time since 1975 about the island's participation in European integration. The force of Eurosceptics both with the UKiP and with the inside of the Conservative organization has brought effect.
Farage’s individual satisfaction, however, was only partial. In the referendum campaign, he was placed on a side track in relation to the main Eurosceptic Committee of Vote Leave, whose faces were made by Minister Michael Gove and then Mayor of London Boris Johnson. On the another hand, this allowed the unscrupulous Englishman to conduct his own agitation, focusing primarily on the slogans of extremist restrictions on immigration.
"I fear that brexit has proved that our politicians are almost as useless as the Commissioners in Brussels. We have dealt with this completely wrongly, and if we look at simple things, specified as corporate income tax, we are displacing business from our country. possibly now that we have regained control [after leaving the Office], we regulate our own businesses even more than erstwhile we were members of the EU. Brexit failed.[2]“ – he agreed with the bitterness of Farage in an interview with the BBC in May 2023.
The Idealist and His Program
Nigel Farage's worldview is an eclectic conglomerate of various ideas, including classical British liberalism, neoliberalism Thatcher and Reagan from the 1980s, “healthy” conservativeism from Gilbert Keith Chesterton's works, democratic and anti-bureaucratic populism (understood as a dichotomy of the people versus the elite) and yet nationalism.
The second was inspired by Enoch Powell's attitude, a conservative politician who warned against the effects of immigration in the 1960s, including the celebrated I'm talking about Blood Rivers.. Powell visited the school Farage attended in the last year of his education. Both gentlemen had the chance to meet a decade later erstwhile acting as run volunteer Farage was driving the aged Powell's car to the UKiP candidate's election rally. This event was jokingly compared by writer Fintan O’Toole to the “Apostolate Succession”, noting that “There is no specified thing as farevism – it is simply a heated powellism. Farage's gift was to transform the alternatively extraterrestrial personality of Enoch Powell into a mundane, bluffing English man."
These views were reflected in subsequent UKiP programs and the last improvement organization election manifesto (established with the Brexit Party's transformation, which Farage founded in 2019). Among the reformers' demands are the almost complete "freezing" of immigration (with fewer exceptions for people with the most needed qualifications for the UK, e.g. medical staff), the ruthless fight against illegal immigration, the exit from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights or the abolition of subscriptions to the BBC, considered dominated by the liberal-left media elite.
The Future
Farage and his organization seem to be at the tallness of their popularity in national politics today, which is mainly at the expense of the losing support of the Conservative Party. Whether the reformers can actually outrun the tories in the number of parliamentary mandates obtained, the fight for the future of the British right begins. It will be all the more fierce as Farage will personally take a place in the home of Commons, where, as in the European Parliament, he will benefit from his rhetorical skills, targeting both centre-right competition and the fresh central-left government. 1 thing seems certain – “Bad Boy of Brexit” cannot be forgotten.
[1] Channel4News, Nigel Farage schooldays letter reveals deals over fascism, https://www.channel4.com/news/nigel-farage-ukip-letter-school-concerns-racism-fascism (accessed 05.07.2024).
[2] The Telegraph, Nigel Farage: Brexit has failed due to ‘useless’ Tory politicalians,https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/05/16/rishi-sunak-news-latest-brexit-braverman-migration/ (accessed: 05.07.2024).
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