If you want to understand the techniques Farage uses ...

Farage is popular because the left have failed, it is a phenomenon being played out across Europe.

Galaxy

Farage is popular because the left have failed, it is a phenomenon being played out across Europe.

It's not the left specifically that has failed> It's the neo-liberal economics, adopted by 1st world countries as 'orthodoxy',that has favoured the wealthy and lead to ever increasing inequality.

Where do 'revolutions' , whether initiated from the left or the right, succeed'? In countries where there is a huge gap between wealth and poverty. The disadvantaged being the most numerous, the sheer weight of the numbers of the disadvantaged can bring demagogues of left or right to power.

In this instance, the left has failed; only the right is promising relief. It could easily be the other way round.

It is also a disconnect between the ruling class/ institutions and the working class, it is becoming a gap that is just as destructive as the gap in terms of economics.

And yet they just don’t see it Galaxy 🤷🏼‍♀️

I think that if people had decent pay and working public services (and clean beaches) they wouldn't mind the class differences so much. It's the 'bread and circuses' technique.

But that will never happen under the current economic orthodoxy.

Farage uses a classic technique: complain that everything is broken/gone to the dogs, find some group to blame (he seems to have moved on from the EU to immigrants) and offer his smart Party as the solution, Politicians have used it before. You can think of examples, I'm sure. Some people call the rush to the smart Party a manic defence: it feels like the right thing to do but it's not a solution to the real problems and usually ends in tears. Real problems require carefully worked out and negotiated solutions which takes real effort and time.