Starmer is in trouble after local elections
More good news:
The United Kingdom’s ruling Labour Party is on track to suffer a major defeat in Thursday’s local elections as Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK surges in support, prompting calls for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign.
British local elections are widely viewed as a functional referendum on the popularity of the ruling party and its head. With Labour having already suffered a net loss of nearly 500 local council seats with just over half of the councils called, multiple Labour MPs are saying that Starmer must agree to a timeline for his exit from office.
He should, but must he? Not really – not so far, anyway.
Not only did Starmer’s Labour Party do poorly, but the Conservatives continued to do poorly as well. The results seem to indicate a major sea change, with the Greens and Reform in the ascendance – Reform more than the Greens:
Alan Mendoza, executive director of the London-based Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital, “The era of two-party politics is definitively over with Reform UK’s stunning national success and the Green Party’s more localized wins. The two traditional parties of government, Labour and the Conservatives, have been routed nationally and in some cases have ceased to exist as a meaningful force in whole swathes of the country. By backing Reform across much of the political landscape and the Greens in pockets, British people are indicating they’ve had enough of the politics of the past and are ready to embrace different ideas.”
As I said, good news.
Couldn’t have happened to a bigger poofter.
Huh. The Scoop Jackson Society is based in London.
When seats shift to Greens, even in smaller numbers, it means Reform is facing a farther left coalition of crazies than can fit under the Labour tent. Part of the window moved further left.
Reform’s wins are good news. Let’s hope they translate nationally.
A lot of the Muslim bloc appears to have voted for Greens. There may be trouble when they discover Greens are pro-LGBT+.
If Starmer goes down, his Labour replacement might be even worse. The really good news would be a vote of no confidence and a general election. Labour won’t want that, since they would lose.
@John Guilfoyle:When seats shift to Greens, even in smaller numbers
The shellacked Conservatives might well support Labor to shut out Reform first and Greens second. That would fit the pattern in Europe.
@Kate:There may be trouble when they discover Greens are pro-LGBT+.
Doubt this will bother them any more than it bothers them here with Dems. The Greens will work with Muslims either the easy way or the hard way.
Lots of good news today. This, the Virginia SC decision overturning the gerrymander, stock market record. Now all we need is something good from the Iran war.
I feel sorry for England, but the invasion is past the tipping point I think.