UK’s Anti-immigrant party snatches 676 Councillor election seats and 10 councils from Conservative party in local elections.
Party leader Nigel Farage says Reform controlled councils will get rid of Diversity, equality and Inclusion and anyone working in those jobs should go look for new employment fast.
The noose keeps tightening round immigrants necks in the increasingly racist West. First it was the UK anti-immigrant riots of Aug 2025 where black people were attacked on UK streets by white mobs, then we had Trump and his racist rhetoric and now this.
Sensible Nigerians living in the West will not be blamed if they think of coming back to Nigeria but is that even feasible for them with the state Nigeria and its Government are currently in
Or will it be like jumping from frying pan to fire
Seems like they are caught between a rock and a hard place. Iwaju o see lo, ehin o see pada si. (To go front no dey feasible and to turn around and go back is not a better option either.)
Farage claims Reform UK local election gains ‘beginning of the end’ for Tories
Fri, 2 May 2025 at 6:58 pm
Nigel Farage claimed he had broken the grip of Britain’s two main political parties as Reform UK gained an MP and swept to a string of victories in England’s local elections, making deep inroads into Labour and Conservative heartlands.
On a sobering day for Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch that brought immediate recriminations, Reform took hundreds of councillors from the struggling Tories and won the Runcorn and Helsby byelection by just six votes ahead of Labour.
In further signs of fracturing political loyalties, a BBC projection of how the voting would have looked in a UK-wide election put Reform first on 30%, Labour on 20%, the Liberal Democrats on 17%, the Conservatives fourth with 15% and the Greens on 11%.
An increasingly jubilant Farage said his hard-right populist party had now supplanted the Conservatives, as he pledged that Reform-run councils and mayoralties would block asylum seeker accommodation and, in a direct echo of Donald Trump, dismantle equalities programmes.
“We’ve dug very deep into the Labour vote and in other parts of England we’ve dug deep into the Conservative vote, and we are now, after tonight there’s no question, in most of the country, we are now the main opposition party to this government,” Farage said.
Speaking at a later rally, Farage said the elections marked “the beginning of the end of the Conservative party”.
Reform won in Runcorn and Helsby with a 17-point swing away from Labour, overturning a majority of more than 14,000. Its candidate Andrea Jenkyns, the former Conservative minister, easily won the new mayoralty of Greater Lincolnshire, and the party also took the mayoralty in Hull and East Yorkshire.
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By late on Friday, Reform had taken control of 10 councils – Durham, Kent, Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, North Northamptonshire, Doncaster and West Northamptonshire – with a gain of 648 seats.
The Tories lost all 15 of the councils they were defending.
While moving from a protest party to one with responsibility for policy and delivery could bring risks, Farage used a victory rally in County Durham to pledge a pushback against equality and diversity programmes and allowing council staff to work from home.
“I would advise anyone who’s working for Durham county council on climate change initiatives, or diversity, equity and inclusion, or thinks they can go on working from home, I think you had all better really be seeking alternative careers very, very quickly,” he warned.
Farage also said Reform would resist asylum seekers being accommodated in Reform-run areas, while Jenkyns called for them to be placed in tents. “I say no to putting people in hotels. Tents are good enough for France, they should be good enough for here in Britain,” Jenkyns said, an apparent reference to the makeshift camps used by asylum seekers along the French coast.