Telegraph: 14th July 2025: Lord Goodman looks at the problems Nigel Farage could face with the blob if he did become Prime Minister
"In England’s fractured five-party system – featuring Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, Reform and the Green/Islamist/far-Left movement – a hung Parliament is certain sooner or later, in any event. Especially once Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are factored in, with their nationalists and unionists.
"This explains why Labour is likely to form a new government after the next election – even if it exhausts its stupendous parliamentary majority, the second largest since World War Two, in much the same way that it is exhausting the nation’s finances.
"For in a hung Parliament, one must have allies. And Labour has more potential partners than anyone else: the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish Nationalists, Plaid Cymru, Northern Ireland nationalists, Greens and Islamists.
"None of these may want to join a coalition government with Labour if one is offered. But they will surely be even more unwilling to form one with parties of the Right.
"Meanwhile, the Conservatives and Reform would have only – a few Ulster unionists apart – each other as potential partners, if one assumes that the Liberal Democrats won’t work with either. Which would be bigger?
"Perhaps by the next election the party of which I’m a member, the Conservatives, will once again be the main party of the Right – especially in the event of a crash in the markets that leaves other parties, with their promises of higher spending and lower taxes, over-promised and under-prepared. But as I write, it looks unlikely. It is no longer absurd to imagine Reform as the larger of the two Right-wing parties in parliament. What would happen next?"
The so-called blob can’t be blamed for everything, but Farage ought to be wary of those who seek to bury him.