Runcorn screams for Britain

FUN, FEISTY AND FEARLESS

- Carole Malone

THIS wasn’t just a seismic moment in British politics. It was a gargantuan, gob-smacking, cyclonic moment, one where the shockwaves of it will tear through the ranks of both Labour and the Tories like a tsunami.

Reform’s by-election win in Runcorn and Helsby by just six votes wasn’t just a stupendous win for a party that just a year ago was polling at 5%. This was the raging roar of an angry nation no longer prepared to put up with the chancers, liars and liggers that now populate government.

And what the good people of Runcorn screamed this week was being screamed simultaneously in towns and cities all over Britain, where Reform is now taking hundreds of council seats. And all because of an incompetent government that refused to listen to the people who elected it, a government that promised change and instead brought chaos.

Reform and Farage are now unstoppable. No longer can either be sneered at as farright racists or dismissed by the two main parties as political fly-by-nights.