Britons now measure politics by the price of a bottle of milk

In Britain today, no one is truly winning. Even when Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, steps forward to celebrate what some newspapers have called a “political earthquake,” the picture—on closer inspection—looks far less solid than advertised. His “victory” is not a mandate; it is a cry of anger from a public exhausted by parties that have worn them down, a public that has reached the point where elderly voters, shuffling toward polling stations, seem to say: we will not tolerate more failure. I saw it on election day: tired faces, but determined ones. People who no longer trust the promises of anyone—neither Conservatives nor Labour. People who now measure politics by the price of a bottle of milk, not […]