Farage and his reforms UK shake the British two -party system

After a hundred years of Tories and Labor rulers, the two -party political system of Great Britain may fall. The populist party of Nigel Farage Reform UK chacts a serious challenge to the main groups, but conservatives face an existential threat – they write British and American media.

The UK reform was very successful in the Thursday local elections, and the candidate of this party won the supplementary election to the British parliament; This strengthened Farage's reputation as the main “tipping” of British politics. Above all, however, this means that he managed to shake the traditional, two -party political system – says in the Sunday article by Stephen Castle, London correspondent of New York Times.

A large win of the UK reforms is “a problem for the labor party; for conservatives it is an existential threat”, because “Gang Farage devours a certain part” of the Torage electorate – explains the British “Economist”. On the other hand, liberal Democrats also take away the voices, and the popularity of this party is clearly growing. “If this growth persists (party) becomes as influential as Farage's group,” the weekly points out.

For almost the entire past century, governments in the United Kingdom were changed by Tories and Labor. Now, however, when the importance of the UK reforms, as well as several other smaller groups, the fate of this Duopol is no longer clearly defined – believes the correspondent “NYT”.

“The two main parties received a notification of possible eviction after a century -old use of Downing Street,” comments Robert Ford, a professor of political sciences of the University of Manchester.

The conservative party, which did not yet recover after losing power last year, suffered a catastrophic defeat in Thursday elections, but also the job party candidates paid in this vote for the poor condition of the British economy and taxes raised by their government – explains Castle.

Claire Ainsley, a former political adviser to Prime Minister Keira Starmer, believes that the result of local elections is a derivative of a long -term trend that leads to “a breakdown of traditional class loyalty among voters”, an increase in nationalist tendencies, as well as social fragmentation. Therefore, the voices of the British are now divided between Tors, Labor, UK reforms, central liberal democrats, green and independent candidates.

Of course, this trend will really be tested in nationwide elections, but you can already see that British politics is becoming unpredictable. Tories, whose Eurosceptic, right -wing and populist group of Farage, faces a particularly painful test of popularity, because if it moves too right to get the right to win the UK reform voters, moderate conservatives will vote for liberal democrats, “explains Castle.

In February, the survey of the Yougov center indicated that every fourth British wants to vote at the UK reforms, including every fifth voter of the Conservative Party. “Economist” reminds, however, that Farage has always been an influential figure so far, but he has managed to avoid responsibility for his own policy, and for members of his party even exercising power in the county can prove to be very difficult. “And what is just in the country,” emphasizes the weekly.

In this study, the UK reforms took the first place with 25 % support, ahead of the ruling labor party (24 %) and a conservative party (21 %). The advantage, however, falls within the limits of a statistical error. (PAP)

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