The local council elections held last week in Great Britain produced, not surprisingly, a very significant result. The victory of Nigel Farage's Reform UK party, accompanied by his former colleague Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain party, as two similar in their conservative path. The result was not at all surprising in the sense that the polls put both new parties in the lead for a long time, at the expense of the two traditional parties, the Conservative and Labour parties that have governed England for hundreds of years in an endless rotation between each other.

So the two big losers are precisely the two historical majority parties, which as never before have not emerged as the first party in the elections, with a clear projection for the next elections, even if early. Farage will most likely be the next British Prime Minister. Not that local elections have not also recognized temporary victories of new or small parties as challengers, only to then turn back into simply challenger parties in subsequent elections, without being able to win. After all, we have seen this in France with the National Front and the AFD in Germany. But most likely this will not happen because the result of the local elections in Britain has essential reasons for not being a "straw flame" victory of the Reform UK type, but a continuation of a journey started long ago.

Time has shown that Reform UK passed the test of being a post-Brexit party, that is, with an overachieved goal. The exit of the BM from the EU, and by inertia it continued to receive a certain number of votes simply for this reason. It also survived the propaganda of the traditional liberal media that describes the exit from the EU as an economic and political failure. Farage and Lowe, despite the division between them, showed that they have captured the essence of the crisis of the "Fractured West" as the late Habermas would write. Or more precisely the two speeds of the West. One represented by the traditional parties or the flows that still run under the rhetoric of the 90s and 2000s such as the Conservatives, Labour, Christian Democrats, Liberals, Democrats in America, etc. The fact is that the post-Cold War liberal establishment continues to experience an illusion as if the West is not really facing two major problems. Illegal immigration that includes Political or Radical Islam, and Globalism that is now just a memory of the previous decade, but whose decline the traditional leaders have not yet been informed has died along with the parties they still lead. And the most vivid proof of what has been mentioned above is Trump's completely atypical return to power, right after he lost the 2020 elections. When the old establishment rejoiced prematurely without knowing why, but only what!

But to understand what happened in Great Britain or the USA a year and a half ago, one must understand what the reasons for this political earthquake are. So as stated above, the reasons are precisely the issue of illegal immigration as a threat to national identity, and globalization as a danger not in the demographic sense but purely economic and political, where China "shines" as the antagonist of what we call "the West". These two consequences of the great globalist economic-political opening towards developing countries like China, and the opening of borders to "global citizens" mainly from the Middle East and North Africa or Sub-Saharan Africa, have also brought about a shake-up of opinion in Europe and the USA, producing the new conservatism. A conservatism that has at its core several principles such as "national interest" before the global one, the growth of national economies, the protection of the democratic political order, the free market, historical and religious identity, in short, a return to certain inalienable values ​​that stand the test of time.

Clearly skepticism towards harmful innovations that undermine the social community built after centuries. And this history or common identity has not come to this day without sacrifices, trauma, clashes. The last was the Cold War, in which the Soviet Union stood opposite the USA and Western Europe as the opposite side of the medal of democracy and the free market. But even that titanic victory was questioned again by the left, but this time not by the communists but by the model of modern Chinese autocracy of state capitalism, which is in fact a mistake in the object, despite the fact that the real goal is the return of the great Empire after the 'Centuries of Shame'. Since the words "capitalism" and "state" cannot be together in the same phrase, and therefore should not be taken so seriously by the text, but by the content. And if you add to the current panorama of the danger that comes to the West and from radical Islam, here we are again back in the 60s-70s of the last century. And apparently not by chance! But this time in different forms but with the same essence. The East that challenges the West even with the cooperation of political factors that live within the West itself. Again in the name of dogmas. Then communist, now liberal.

If during the Cold War it was the communist parties or currents from Italy to France and Germany to the USA that threatened to collapse the West from within, today it is the liberals and neo-conservatives or environmentalists and former Christian Democrats (formally still called such) who pose the same threat. And the beginning of this "slippage" at least on the left of English politics but which spread everywhere in the West, was precisely the "Third Way" of Tony Blair or even without this title of Bill Clinton. The globalist left that would save the world from poverty, but which was in fact economically weakening and demographically shrinking Europe and the USA. It is sad to see the streets and schools of metropolises that are being emptied of citizens and ethnic children of Germans, French, Spanish, Swedish, American, etc. But not because those who are not ethnic are second-rate, but simply because they often do not respect the traditions and customs found. The same thing is happening with the significant decline of Western manufacturing industries. When you see storefronts and online sites filled with goods from Chinese companies subsidized by their government, which are replacing goods Made in Europe or Made in the USA, you realize that the economic outlook for the West is depressing. Or at least worrying.

These are the reasons why Farage wins or Trump returns. After the majority of British and American citizens have understood that this is a fight for their own survival. Many centrist politicians who are emerging on the periphery of politics have forgotten that the "first united Europe" was that of Charlemagne who gave the old continent the Christian identity with the values ​​it carried and produced. From pluralism and human dignity, freedom and the separation of powers, private property and political rights.

And since they have forgotten, they are in danger of being forgotten by the majority of voters who almost forgot that they were the vanguard of the world precisely because of this tradition and these values. The “Third Way” has not only lost the elections a week ago in Great Britain, but is also losing the chance to rediscover it, its path. Starmer’s stubbornness not to resign is a sign of his insistence on not accepting the great truth of separation from history and what comes after it.

And above all, because the Popperian dream of the 'Open Society', as a dogmatic illusion, has been reduced to a nightmare like the 'Closed Society', which ordinary voters understand better than some elites.