Nigel Farage's British Reform Party has now overtaken Britain's traditional party, the Conservative Party, in membership, surpassing a historic milestone weeks earlier than expected.
The most recent published figures for the Conservative Party, which is certainly Britain's oldest political party and perhaps the world's oldest political party, totaled 131,680 paid members in November. Nigel Farage's Reform Britain – which he calls Britain's youngest political party – overtook this figure late Thursday morning after a jump in registrations on Christmas Day.
At the time of publication, membership continues to grow, reaching 132,200 members.
Brexit Party leader Mr Farage, who returned to the party earlier this year after another failed attempt to leave frontline politics, won his first seat in the UK parliament in July. for a moment. “
Commenting on overtaking the Conservatives, he said: “The youngest party in British politics has just overtaken the world's oldest party. Reform Britain is now the real opposition.”
A countdown to reform, which outstrips the Conservatives in the number of people who can be persuaded to give up their hard-earned money to support the party, was announced earlier this week, with a live ticker for party members broadcast. As we said at the time, the crossover is likely to take place early in the new year, and the advancing timescale suggests we'll see a further surge in sign-ups.
According to reports at the time,
British bookmakers see Mr Farage as the frontrunner to become the next prime minister.
Indeed, Reform Britain is Britain's fastest growing political party. It had 30,000 members in early June, and had grown to 100,000 by late November, less than a month ago. Most members pay £25 a head to the party, but Mr Farage last week launched a special plan for young voters, welcoming those under 25 to the party for a special £10 fee.
This led to a new surge in registrations, with 1,000 new members in just 48 hours by Saturday. The party's membership reached 118,000 by Sunday, and today's live tracker puts the membership at 121,096 at the time of publication.
Much focus has been placed on the conflict between the Conservative Party and the Reform Party, which has been the default party of British government for 70 of the past 100 years, but perhaps more importantly in the coming years it will be It would take away the. Also the left-wing Labor Party.
centrist/globalist i-paper splattered For example, on Christmas Day, about the growing electoral threat Mr Farage poses to Labor. The report shows that while Labor's support ratings have plummeted, this trend has continued more or less throughout the year, and although the Conservative Party's polls are stubbornly low, polls show that reformers are in favor until 2024. He pointed out that it has been shown to be consistently increasing.
They said that British politics is now essentially divided into four camps, quoting British opinion poll guru Sir John Curtis as saying: “2024 is the year in which reform exploded on the political scene, registering a notable increase in support.” In the months leading up to the election, significant progress was made during the election campaign and further progress since then. .
“As a result, Britain's traditional two-party system now appears to be facing its greatest threat since the creation of the SDP in 1981, and all eyes will be on what reform will look like in 2025.”
