Lib Dems “Farage Fighting Fund” is launched to threaten STEM in local elections

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Liberal Democrats have created a “fabricated fight” box where money is flowing from donors who hope that the party will break the wave of reform in the UK across areas of England and Wales.

the Democrats LIB 100,000 pounds of donors have received in recent weeks before the local elections on May 1, with a specific mandate to repel the growth of the Nigel Faraj Popular Party. Another £ 75,000 was to fund the campaign in the years elections next year in Wales, where the reform is expected to perform well.

The party hopes that the fund will reach one million pounds this year to help increase the production of campaigns and digital advertisements to confront repair In the main areas where the LIB Democrats are already strong locally. It believes it is better to put it to neutralize the threat posed by the increasing support for repair in provinces including Devon, Cornwall and Shropshire.

The money comes on top of a million pounds has already been donated to the party so far in 2025, which is very unusual for Libyan Democrats so far from the general elections.

One of the party experts said: “Usually at this time of the year, at this stage of the electoral session, it will be the case, but we get a great deal of support,” said one of the party experts. “We see as a coercion against Faraj.”

The elections in England include the third and third largest concerts in British policy face to face the Hull and East Yorkshire race, which both parties say they are sure they are able to win.

Lib Dems is already controlling the Hull local council, but the reform is preferred by betting.

The reform hopes to win more than 200 of the 1641 council seats to seize next month, especially through Durham, Dunkaster, Lancashire, Kent and Lincolnchy.

Playing expert Sir John Cortis He wrote on Monday This group of local elections were not preceded by the exceptional performance of the vulnerable ballot of the two main parties in British policy, which left the field open to the smaller parties to flourish.

Competitions will take place almost exclusively in the traditional conservative areas, which means that conservatives have more than what they lose. They defend nearly 1,000 seats.

At the same time, Lib Dems hopes that they can overcome the conservatives to become the second largest party in the local government, after the Labor Party, by targeting the councils run by the conservatives in Sheropsheer, Wittshir, Oxfordshere, Cambridge, Diphone, and Gulosestrace.

In the horizon tag on the horizon The threat posed by reformAnd an opinion poll conducted by MRP, which was conducted by more common denominators, found that if general elections are held today, the reform will win 180 seats, which is equivalent to any party, as it linked the conservatives and working on 165 seats.

LIB Dem leader Sir Ed Davi told the Financial Times last month that when the activists were “in front of the people, they knocked on the doors, Faraj’s support is only”, and he argued that any future Electoral agreement Between conservatives and reform will be a blessing for his party.

He said: “You will see many people who previously voted conservatives – even in the recent elections – coming to us,” referring to the moderate voters in the Conservative Party who will not be ready to vote in favor of a party with Farraj in a leadership role.

The repair was in particular in Wales before the Welsh government elections next year, as some polls before the Labor and CYMRU engraved were placed on about 25 percent of the votes.

The reform has sent dedicated messages from Farage to every home in England, where there are qualified voters before the local elections.

Some of these messages begin: “Nothing works anymore. You are struggling to get a GP date. Your taxes continue to rise. Families are struggling with high bills. The immigration system in Britain is broken.”

When Lib Dems sent an email to members who determine the personal message campaign by reform, he received 20,000 pounds in donations within days, according to the party’s strategies.

One of the characters participating in the collection of donations said that the aim of the specified “fighting fund” – along with a clear sales strategy – is to refer to the donors that their money will be spent on something “they really care about.”

They said, “We will really use it in the best places and everything will be related to the opposition to reform.”