Nigel Farage left ‘disgusted and appalled’ by woke councils after VE Day ‘cancellation’ fiasco

Nigel Farage has said he was “disgusted and appalled” by Lib Dem calls to cancel a VE Day parade on the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe.Dacorum Borough Council in Hertfordshire had sparked fury by shelving plans to commemorate May 8’s Victory in Europe Day.Councillor Caroline Smith-Wright had instead told constituents to hold street parties – on the grounds a military show “just left the elite and people to just, kind of, parade”.Farage, on the campaign trail in Hertfordshire today, said the row “sums up everything I’ve been saying”, and shows that politicians in the county are “woke, the whole blooming lot of them”.”Elect us and we will change the culture – no more work from home [for council workers] to boost productivity and an end to people being paid £200,000 salaries,” he added, warning that the political class in Hertfordshire “is completely out of touch with its electorate”.”If you feel that your council is not working for you, we are the party of change,” Farage told the Welwyn Hatfield Times.And in a direct rebuke to woke activists at Peta, Farage posed with a British bulldog as he campaigned.LATEST FROM REFORM UK:Swinney blasted for becoming Farage’s ‘recruiting sergeant’ ahead of SNP’s anti-Reform summitReform UK poised to become largest party in UK after landmark poll – NINE ministers ‘to lose seats’Farage pledges to be UK’s Elon Musk as ‘Reform audit’ reveals councils ‘taking taxpayers for mugs’The upcoming local elections are due to be a huge test of Reform UK’s real popularity at the polls – a party which has snowballed support since winning five parliamentary seats at the last General Election in July.Its membership ticker – responsible for the infamous Boxing Day bust-up between Farage and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch – indicates that the populist party has attracted more that 220,000 paid-up members so far.Launching the party’s local election campaign last month in Birmingham, Farage promised that Reform was fielding almost a “full list of candidates across the entire country”. It was later confirmed that Reform had put the most candidates up for election with 1,705 standing for election, with the Tories and Labour trailing behind on 1,687 and 1,633 respectively. In the latest polling from More In Common, Reform UK is projected to win swathes of seats across Britain as Labour “haemorrhaging” seats. The latest data has tipped Nigel Farage’s party to secure hundreds of seats in Parliament – more than 80 per cent of which would swing from Labour.Keir Starmer’s party is currently projected to lose 153 seats to Reform, 64 to the Conservatives, 23 to the SNP and five to independent candidates.However, despite the surge in support for Westminster’s newest political party, the three major parties would still be unable to grasp an overall majority in the lower chamber.

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