“Britain has returned to the political centre after a destructive populist experiment. The damage should serve as a lesson for the rest of Europe!”
Although the Liberal Democrats won 71 seats, they received just 12% of the vote, 2% lower than Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
Many social media users also picked up on this and were quick to mock the Belgian politician.
One commenter said: “Farage got more votes than Davie. Strange.”
A second wrote: “4 million votes (more than the Liberals) say something different. Thanks to Labor’s upcoming policies, next time we’ll have 8 million.”
“Farage is playing a long game. He is fooling the Conservatives and Labour as much as he fooled you – and you are not learning anything.”
Another person pointed out: “Hey, the Lib Dems got half the votes the Reform Party got.”
With almost all the election results now in, Reform UK has elected five MPs, including Clacton constituency leader Nigel Farage.
In his victory speech, Farage said his aim was to build a “mass movement” to “properly” challenge the next general election.
He spoke of a “gap on the right of centre in British politics” which he intended to fill.
But the new MP for Clacton acknowledged the party’s image needed to be improved following the racism scandals that dogged it late in the election campaign.
He acknowledged the party needed to be “professionalised and democratised” and said he would “get rid” of the “idiots” who had been admitted into the party.