‘Farage is about to pulverise stuttering Starmer thanks to 1 simple thing’

Nigel Farage has seen off plenty of adversaries over the years. For much of his political life he was a lone voice howling into the wind.

But for most of the past decade he has been front and centre of the seismic changes happening in this country. He single-handedly delivered the Brexit referendum in 2016, humiliating David Cameron and ultimately triggering his resignation in the process; he defeated his old foe Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, and he sloped off in 2019; he has outlived Theresa May, Boris Johnson Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak and reduced the Conservative Party to a political sideshow.

But his biggest scalp is set to come this week when he sees off Sir Keir Starmer.

The astronomical rise of Farage is hard to quantify but, put simply, he is the only politician able to speak fluent human. And at the moment that makes his stock priceless.

The contrast with those inhabiting Westminster and pulling the levers of power could not be more stark.

While Labour is run by out of touch human rights lawyers unable to explain what a woman is and, worse, unwilling to legislate to protect them from attention-seeking men who pretend to be them, the country has grown increasingly angry.

It is just one of many examples as to why voters have become exasperated with what is on offer.

Labour, as the party of government, is now widely seen as an administration that puts the interests of others before its own people.

Ask most and they likely will say, in no particular order, failure to tackle illegal immigration, a historic high tax burden, and the great betrayal of everyone from farmers to small business owners, pensioners to the working classes, and parents of private school pupils, as proof. Ideologically driven and dogmatic, rather than principled and measured.

A government that has quickly earned a reputation for rewarding the feckless and idle but doing nothing for the strivers and savers.

As Britain’s streets are overrun by violence and fear, Starmer stutters and dithers. A leader he is not.

When he does step outside the cosseted Westminster environment, he is heckled. Most football matches now bear witness to X-rated chants referencing his name and what people think he is.

Former City trader Farage, meanwhile, might not have much in common with them at first blush but he has become a working class hero to those failed by a party they thought fought for them.

How else can you explain how the corduroy-wearing Kent native is so warmly embraced by former colliery workers in Barnsley, for heaven’s sake?

Is it any wonder patriotic hard-working people, the vast majority who have played by the rules and lived a quiet life under the law, feel Labour is the “party of welfare, not work”.

Cowardly Starmer has limped on despite a catalogue of crises entirely of his own making.

But he is shackled, beholden to activist backbenchers with the party so centrally controlled that its hierarchy is unwilling to remove him. Dissent from within is quickly crushed by the socialist iron boot.

But as Farage knows while impotent Labour MPs might be unable or unwilling to remove him, there is a power far greater and it rests with the hitherto voiceless people who have flocked to his side.

He is the political Pied Piper of millions who have been left disaffected and deeply dissatisfied.

He recognises that May 7 is a referendum on Starmer and this failed Labour project.

The oblivion that awaits will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and the fallout too much for the party to ignore.

It also inches Farage and Reform UK a step closer to Downing Street.

People will call him an opportunist but his instincts are impeccable.

He knows voters want a back to basics approach to fixing the things that matter to them but have been neglected for too long.

And he knows how to win. Brexit proved that.

Reform UK won’t say it explicitly, but they are running on a Britain first platform with a message stolen from Labour.

Farage truly believes things can only get better.

And on Friday, once the local election results are all in, we’ll get the clearest indication yet as to whether he is our PM in waiting as Starmer gets his comeuppance.