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Nigel Farage and Reform UK are here to stay - an expert explains.
National World - LocalTV
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14/08/2024
Interview with politics expert Dr Steve McCabe.
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I don't support street violence, I don't support thuggery in any way at all, but I'm worried
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not just about the events in Southport, but about societal decline that is happening in
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our country.
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Law and order folks on our streets is breaking down.
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But one thing I would say about the recent disturbances and the riots, call them what
00:23
you will, in Britain, is that there's an underlying tension and a sense of being left
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behind, if I should use that expression, of the, dare I call it, the white working classes.
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And quite clearly, that's the terrain that reformer get to work upon, albeit, of course,
00:43
if you remember their provenance, they came out on this.
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It was the UKIP party, which of course was formed by a certain Nigel Farage, in dissolution
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with Europe in the early 1990s as a consequence of the Maastricht Agreement.
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I think the history is important, because what it tells us is that Nigel Farage may
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be many things, and of course, his brand may have been slightly tainted by his stance on
01:05
the riots.
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But I do think that, of course, he's a very calculating creature.
01:10
He will trade upon the sense that things are not going to change that radically.
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The Labour Party have already said this, and of course, that's the background to this,
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that will people feel tremendously better off, if I use that expression, by the next
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election in, we believe, 2029?
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And I suspect not, that there'll be some sort of changes.
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And of course, that's where reform UK will sort of, that would be their battleground
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and territory.
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The big question is, will they sort of become the second party?
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It's entirely possible, given the sort of trajectory.
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But dare I say, trying to sort of predict what's going to be happening in five years
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is so, so difficult.
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But what I can probably say with a fair degree of confidence is, reform UK are not going
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to go away, because that's the nature of Nigel Farage.
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He's had his moment in the sun, as it were, but he's not going to go away soon.
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