Nigel Farage has declared that Labour faces electoral annihilation in Wales on Thursday, telling a Reform rally the nation has been reduced to a "basket case" by more than 20 years of Labour governance.
Addressing supporters in Merthyr Tydfil on Tuesday in what he billed as the campaign's "last big speech," Mr Farage cast the Senedd vote as a verdict on Sir Keir Starmer's time in Downing Street.
Both Reform and Plaid Cymru have led opinion polls in the run-up to Thursday's vote, pushing Labour 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 predicted his party would take the "patriotic old Labour vote" in both England and Wales, and launched a withering attack on the Prime Minister.
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."
He added: "And then they'll probably get someone even worse. 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."
According to the Independent, Mr Farage dismissed Plaid Cymru - which opinion polls suggest is currently leading in Wales — as "anti-English" and "hard leftists," warning supporters not to trust the numbers.
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."
Polls point to a hung Senedd, but Reform Wales leader Dan Thomas told supporters he believed a majority was within reach - "it's possible," he said.
He added: "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 whether he would work with the Welsh Conservatives to form a 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."
