The Brexit Party Continues to Surge in the polls for the European elections as Change UK fall behind Lib Dems.
- Nigel Farage is continuing to smile after the latest polls for the EU elections continue to show the Brexit Party leading the way.
- Despite only being launched last month, the Brexit Party quickly stormed to the top of the polls – and the latest set of figures show their support has only increased.
- According to YouGov, Mr Farage’s party are now polling on 30% – an increase of 2% from the previous poll.
2,000+ turned out in Newport for the Brexit Party.
“This wasn’t like party conferences, there was noise, excitement, and the number of selfies and pictures should show the regard supporters hold their candidates in.” https://t.co/xrWPflfql1
— Michael Heaver (@Michael_Heaver) May 2, 2019
Rising Brexit Support
Party Positions
The above table represents the official party position. Most Tories (Conservative) do not favor Theresa May’s pathetically negotiated withdrawal agreement.
Many in the Labour party favor remaining, a referendum, or even leaving.
Both the Tories and Labour splintered mightily over Brexit but Labour fared better, at least for now.
Change UK is a group of pro-Remain misfits of former Tories and former Labour who left their parties in disputes over Brexit.
They have little in common other than a foolish desire to remain in the EU.
In the next UK general election, most of the Change UK supporters will be voted out of office.
Pro-Brexit Support
Support for pro-Brexit parties is seemingly overwhelming 68%.
Appearances deceive. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn favors a customs unions, an arrangement even worse than remaining.
Unless the EU makes a special deal, a customs union would limit the UK’s ability to make trade treaties on it own, tie the UK to many inane EU policies, make the UK pay fees for single market access and give give the UK no say in EU policies.
It’s crazy to back such a state of affairs, but that is the official Labour position.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Well, in the local elections, it appears the stay in Europe “Liberal Democrats” were the big winners.
It is amazing that the pro-Brexit parties are doing so well, it illustrates the reality of the UK that being “little Englanders” and somewhat xenophobic is the true nature of the Brits (and I’m one of them! British that is!).
It would seem that the UK is heading towards a hard exit after all — granted these are polls, still with these kinds of margins…Abstentions will also be an important factor because those who don’t participate are essentially saying that they don’t care about Europe.
Votes are unhappy and want a radication change of direction, damn the consequences, the Americans have more or less done that, so have the Mexicans — for the past 50 years the middle class has been squeezed out of the system getting less and less of the pie, the poor have always been more but they are more numerous now. Nearly 50% of all the benefits of economic growth in nearly all OECD economies goes to the top 1%, and nearly 80% of all benefits go to the top 10%.
Inequality has consequences — it may not end where they think it will end, but they are nevertheless ready to punt
“Nearly 50% of all the benefits of economic growth in nearly all OECD economies goes to the top 1%, and nearly 80% of all benefits go to the top 10%.”
That’s the purpose of central banking. And of removing all and any restriction, or how much the privileged can steal from the rest by way of debasement.
Your comment is disrespectful to all those who voted to leave the EU ! Sovereignty and democracy have nothing to do with xenophobia, antisemitism, homophia or whatever … Just like a parrot, you repeat the sayings of mainstream media !
Isn’t it enough we try to keep up with one corrupt government? I enjoy this site but I’m in wonder over the fascination over UK and Europe. You can’t drain the swamp, you can’t kick Brussels out of the UK, so sit back relax and enjoy the show.
The surge toward Bexit would be greater/faster if Great Britain had freedom of speech, right to bear arms, and freedom of the press. Brits are 300 years behind the civilized world.
I’m curious: where is this “civilized world” of which you speak? Not in the West, I fear, with its online censorship, fake news, and deep state. And as for the “right to bear arms”, are you really suggesting an armed insurrection of the people with their semi-automatic handguns and 22-caliber popguns against the government with their expensively armed military?
Right to bear arms is not restricted in civilized countries. Hence, civilized governments don’t need expensive militaries. Rifles, artillery and other such kit, behind every blade of grass, is all the defense any country needs.
The only capabilities standing armies provide, over and above those provided by a constitutional militia, are offensive ones. They’re purely a tool for warmongering. Both against foreigners, and against their own country’s civilian population. Whichever one of those the ruling junta fancies, at any given time.
>I’m curious: where is this “civilized world” of which you speak?
The US.
The deep state is clearly losing, and online censorship is their heavy final gasps.
Here’s the thing. If somehow a militant dictatorship, an overbearing lawless government, were to begin to take hold in the US, it wouldn’t be two lines formed … citizens with guns vs an organized military.
It would be citizens with guns knocking on the doors of the families of the organized military. Sooner or later this organized military needs to go out shopping for food during their off hours. A rogue military that is contrary to the constitution cannot function inside the US as a place to reside when there are more guns than people.
And you’ll notice we don’t have no-go zones and mobs of sharia-demanding immigrant rapefugees scaring the citizenry. That is an impossibility in the US, only because of our guns.
WILD WEST everywhere!
Problems solved and the Shangrila is here!
Would be great if the Brexit party could keep growing until next elections, and win outright. Aside from the specific issue of Brexit, it may pave the way for the “anti bailout” party, the “End The Fed” party, the “Constitutional Carry” party, the “Throw the Bums Out” party, and other single issue, crosscutting parties, whom the leeches have thus far managed to split down the middle over irrelevant idiocies like same sex bathrooms.
Voting for one of the mainline multi issue parties, obviously doesn’t work in any way whatsoever, considering neither one of them has turned out to be a better choice than Kim’s communist party since at least 1900.
So, perhaps the way to Make Democracy Great Again, is to stop attempting to bite over too much at one time, and focus on one issue per election. Knocking down the totalitarian prison the progressives have spent a century and a half building, one stone at a time.
One of the best comments I have seen in quite some time. Instead of agreeing on everything, agree on one thing and then get it done and then move onto the next thing. Don’t let them divide and conquer us into perpetuity.
Conservatives are the DEFINITION of totalitarian although progressives are swinging full circle to meet them. Conservatives want to tell you who you can marry, what you put in your body, which race/religion is best. Progressives are becoming just as fanatical. Seems like they’re using the same playing but are just different teams.
Consider Soviet Union, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Romania, Nazi Germany, to mention a few “Progressive” hell holes. Most obvious common features are mass murder and famine. Don’t mention. Conservative and “Progressive” don’t belong in the same sentence, as there is no comparison to the horror. If you think that today’s “Progressives” in the West are somehow different from those that gave us the bloodbath of the 20th century, you are sorely mistaken. They just haven’t caused enough social unrest to necessitate murderous behavior nor screwed the economy up enough to bring on mass hunger. But, they are making good progress on both fronts.
As for me, I’m more a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. Let people live their lives, but let them pay the consequences of their foolishness. Peace!
Don’t forget gun control. It works great for tyrants. Just look at Venezuela for the latest example
Conservatives, in the American context, are Jeffersonian. About as far from totalitarians as you’ll find anywhere over the past 500 years. It’s hard to get totalitarianism out of the very few, strictly enumerated, powers government is granted. Doubly so when not one single one of them, includes barring anyone who wants to, from stocking up on whatever armaments he darned well pleases.
If you’re talking about the Fox News crowd, that’s a different world altogether. The Republican party turned progressive with Teddy Roosevelt. And has, consequently, been useless for anything but target practice ever since. Ron Paul and likemindeds excepted.
Could have been an interesting idea before we found ourselves in this mess, but “one issue per election” means we’ll run out of time far before we fix our myriad issues. At this point I’m hoping to make it past 11/20 before our banker friends lose control of the giant ponzi.
May be something to consider once we’re digging out of the rubble, though. Nearly everyone would agree this two party system is for the birds.
Great post, but just try going back to 1990, the year the Soviet Union collapsed. When the whip was removed, the party just got going.