Labour will be “smashed to smithereens” in the Welsh Parliament election this week, Nigel Farage has said.
Speaking at a Reform rally in Merthyr Tydfil on Tuesday, the party leader said Wales has become a “basket case” after being led by Labour for more than two decades.
Reform and Plaid Cymru have consistently topped opinion polls in Wales ahead of the vote on Thursday, while Labour has dropped into third place.
Mr Farage said: “The Labour Party have not lost an election in Wales for over a century, think about that.
“The party that has been able, frankly, to take Wales for granted for over 100 years, on Thursday, will deservedly get smashed to smithereens by the electorate.
“And, boy, don’t they deserve it.”
The Reform leader has previously said the Senedd election on May 7 doubles up as a referendum on Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership.
During what he called the “last big speech” of Reform’s election campaign, he predicted his party would take the “patriotic old Labour vote” in England and Wales.
He said: “We have a Labour Party in government with, I genuinely believe, the worst, the most indecisive, the most hopeless and, above all, the most unpatriotic Prime Minister we’ve ever had in any of our lifetimes.”
“And then they’ll probably get someone even worse,” he added.
“Well, it could be the lovely Angela (Rayner).
“There was a strange moment last year when she was voted the sexiest female in Parliament, and, even more unlikely, I was voted the most sexy male in Parliament.
“But, I promise you, we haven’t been out, all right, nothing’s happened, I mean, you know, ‘honestly, your honour’.
“No, getting rid of Starmer will begin the descending spiral of this government.
“The realisation that our economy is broken, that the country is, frankly, bankrupt, and will precipitate an earlier general election.
“And I still believe that a general election next year is likely.”
During his speech, Mr Farage described pro-independence party Plaid Cymru as “anti-English” and “hard leftists”.
He said: “The opinion polls will tell you that Plaid are in the lead… Just as they told us that ‘remain’ would win the referendum.
“Don’t believe what you’re being told, because the key to success for us here on Thursday is very simple.
“There is already, in my opinion, a majority for good common sense, a majority for decent, patriotic values, a majority that believe, as we believe, that family, community and country are the things that matter to most of us, that we stand up for, defend and fight for.
“What we have to do is to get them to actually, physically go to the polling station this Thursday and put their cross in the right place.”
Opinion polling has suggested it is unlikely any party will win a majority in the Senedd, but Reform Wales leader Dan Thomas said he believed “it’s possible”.
He said: “From what I’ve been seeing on the doorstep, speaking to people out there, there’s a lot of support for us, a lot of appetite for change.
“I think people are starting to realise that Reform is the only party of real change, compared to Plaid Cymru, who’ve been around for decades and have helped Labour out of all sorts of pickles in the past.
“I think they want us to be that change.”
Asked if he would strike a deal with the Welsh Conservatives if it was a viable route to government, Mr Thomas said: “We will work with anybody who will help us get our manifesto priorities over the line and actually into legislation and to get those policies delivered.
“I’m not going to be like the other parties and rule people out, I think, you know, that’s not a mature way to do politics, particularly with the (voting) system that we’ve been lumped with.”
