The leader of the Reform Allies in the UK, Nigel Farage, backed his leadership after coming under attack from tech billionaire Elon Musk, who demanded he be ousted as leader.
A flurry of messages over the past week regarding British policy – in an apparent attempt to shift the debate away from its controversial support for so-called “skilled” mass migration to the United States – resulted in Mr. Musk to replace Nigel Farage as chairman of the board. at the head of the party he created, Reform UK.
Despite leading the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union in 2016, one of the most significant achievements of the global populist movement, the world’s richest man said the Brexit leader ‘doesn’t have what it takes’ after Farage rejected calls to allow jailed campaigner Tommy Robinson into the party.
Mr Farage’s allies were quick to point out that under his leadership, after retiring from politics over the summer, the Reform Party had clear momentum in its bid to unseat the country’s two main parties. Westminster establishment. Reformers are rising in the polls and have reportedly overtaken the century-old Conservatives in terms of paid party members, another historic achievement.
Reform MP Lee Anderson said: “Nigel has put his trust in me and I will put my trust in him. We have the momentum, we have a plan and we have a man who can lead us to victory. Support us, trust Nigel and Reform UK and together we will take our country back.
Anderson was ousted from the so-called Conservative Party in February last year after refusing to apologize for claiming “Islamists” had “taken control” from London mayor Sadiq Khan and former leader Labor Party Sir Keir Starmer. He became one of the Reform Party’s first major defectors and its first MP.
The Ashfield MP suggested the controversy surrounding Robinson was a result of the “media stirring things up” as the Reform Party rose in the polls. Anderson agreed with Farage in distancing himself from Robinson, as well as the party, noting that if the jailed activist joined the party it would only serve to foment a media “frenzy” that would “discourage people from joining or to get involved” and would ultimately serve the party. as a diversion from the aim of seizing power in the 2029 general elections.
Fellow Reform MP Rupert Lowe also voiced his support for the party leader, adage: “Nigel is the leader of the Reform Party. He made Brexit possible, and I will always be grateful to him. I look forward to working with Nigel and the whole team to continue to hold this incompetent Labor Party to account, democratize our own party, win the next election and form a reforming government.
While Lowe thanked Musk for helping to bring attention to the Muslim child rapist gang as well as for his “kind comments”. suggesting After taking over as leader of the party, Lowe said: “I just want to do what’s good for my constituency and my country – that’s my only interest.” »
Meanwhile, after calling for Farage to be ousted as Reform leader, Musk also praised Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, for her calls for an investigation into the handling and cover-up of the gang scandal rape of Muslim children. While Mr Farage has been highlighting the issue for more than a decade, previous Conservative governments have been accused of hiding the truth from the public.
In 2020, for example, the Home Office, then under the control of Conservative Secretary of State Priti Patel, refused to publish its findings on the “characteristics” of grooming gangs, saying it was not “not in the public interest” to do so. . Conversely, Mr Farage came under heavy criticism from the mainstream media for showing that the grooming scandal demonstrated the failures of the multiculturalism project promoted by both Labor and the Conservatives.
Badenoch’s stance on immigration, however, appears to be more in line with Musk’s, with the Conservative MP previously boasting of helping to remove “annual limits on work visas”, which played a key role in immigration massive reaching peaks under the so-called conservative regime. governments, despite previous promises to reduce migration to a few tens of thousands.
Similarly, Mr. Musk has emerged as a leading proponent of H1-B visas for the United States, sparking strong reactions from the America First movement. The tech billionaire, whose companies allegedly profited from foreign labor after laying off American workers, vowed last month to “wage war” on anyone who opposed the work visa program.
This would appear to put the Tesla chief at odds with one of the key pillars of Farage’s policy agenda, namely reducing immigration to Britain, with the Reform Party calling for a “freeze” of all non-essential migration during the last elections.
While criticism of mass immigration and multiculturalism was once a third strand of British politics, Mr. Farage’s long-standing effort to steer the country’s debate toward a pro-sovereignty stance has begun to gain traction. According to a recent YouGov survey, around 70 percent of the British population now believe that immigration to Britain has been too high, the highest level ever recorded by the survey institute.
At the same time, the Reform Party has surged in the polls, with several polls now predicting that this new party will significantly increase its presence in Parliament. Bookmakers also predicted that Farage would be the person most likely to become the next Prime Minister.
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