I know its Politics but Farage resignation is a fascinating move, clearly decisive and bold and brought about by a relentless media…
Nutstuff Thoughts.
British politics has just become infinitely more interesting. Nigel Farage’s decision to resign and stand as an independent is vintage Farage, taking the fight away from Westminster, the media and party machinery and putting it directly before the electorate. It is a bold gamble, but it also exposes Reform’s biggest weakness. If one man can walk away and leave the entire movement in doubt, then perhaps it was never a fully formed political party in the first place. As I argued recently in my Daily Mail piece, the right only wins when it unites. Tonight there will be some very quiet smiles in Camp Kemi because, whatever anyone says publicly, a weakened or fractured Reform fundamentally changes the electoral arithmetic. At the same time, every ambitious figure on the right will now be recalculating. Rupert Lowe and others in Reform must decide whether their loyalty is to Nigel Farage the individual or to Reform the party. Those are no longer necessarily the same thing. Politics is a ruthless business. Ambition, influence, ministerial office and the chance to shape government have a habit of concentrating minds. Whatever happens next, today’s decision is about far more than Nigel Farage. It is about whether the British centre right continues to divide itself into competing camps or finally learns the lesson that has repeatedly kept Labour in power. History suggests that oppositions rarely lose because the government is loved. They lose because they cannot stop fighting each other.
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