Labour has succeeded only in strengthening Farage. The way is now open for Zack Polanski's Greens | George Monbiot

"A poll by the research group Persuasion UK, testing various messages, found that by far the most effective line of attack is highlighting his complicity with corporate interests. The message that hit hardest was that Farage's real loyalties lie with the rich, the powerful, his mates in big business, and his party (actually a business called Reform 2025 Ltd) has taken over 2m from fossil fuel lobbyists, polluters, and climate change deniers He and his rich friends basically are the system."

"But this is a string Labour cannot yank, as it would pull its own roof down. If there is a defining mark of Keir Starmer's administration, it is immediate capitulation to powerful lobby groups, especially corporations and billionaires. This is what explains the otherwise inexplicable: its planning policy, tax policy, competition policy, deregulation policy, AI policy, food policy, its plans to reboot private partnerships in the NHS, its banning of Palestine Action."

"Nor can the government point out the blindingly obvious: that it is not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure, but capital. It cannot tell us that the role of the hard right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful on to powerless people who have only just arrived here. This would mean mentioning capital, wealth and power: topics it avoids like the plague."

A Persuasion UK poll found exposing Nigel Farage's ties to corporate interests and large donations from fossil fuel lobbyists is the most effective attack. Farage's party, Reform 2025 Ltd, has taken over 2m from polluters and climate-change deniers, aligning him with wealthy interests rather than grassroots rebellion. The Labour government under Keir Starmer frequently capitulates to powerful lobby groups, corporations and billionaires across planning, tax, competition, deregulation, AI, food policy and NHS private partnerships. The government refuses to name capital as the driver of housing, NHS strain and wage pressures, allowing the hard right to scapegoat migrants.

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