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.
of course, neither burnham or rayner will reconsider the policies that got them here, the greens are a nastier bit of porridge, which seem to have thrown the worst batch of policies, Reform is what the Tories used to be, the they were given an opportunity with Brexit, and then well they blew it,
the lockdowns were perhaps the canary,
the Greens hate the Jews, so I don’t much risk in them adopting their new constituents social agenda,
God bless Farage and the Reform Party.
”Now all we need is something good from the Iran war.”
While not on the scale of the British election or the Virginia redistricting fight, our F/A-18 Super Hornets have been busy enforcing the blockade on Iran. Yesterday an F/A-18 disabled an Iranian oil tanker by taking out the tanker’s rudder with its 20-mm cannon. Today another one disabled two other tankers by dropping what appears to have been Laser JDAMs down the ships’ smokestacks.
All in all, good shooting by the Super Hornets.
Unlike Farage, Rupert Lowe, leader of the party “Restore Britain” has stated clearly his view that Islam is utterly incompatible with British values.
mkent, those sound pretty amazing!
I posted a link in yesterday’s Generational Envy thread \(including a long excerpt that I won’t repeat here), and the topic is also very applicable to politics, especially the rebukes to Labour and Conservatives in the UK, the Indiana Republican primaries, and many aspects of our current political and social situation.
Lots of good writing lurks inside the ellipses.
https://markatwood.substack.com/p/because-its-wrong
As Neo quoted, “people are indicating they’ve had enough of the politics of the past and are ready to embrace different ideas.”
I didn’t know we were still using F/A-18 Super Hornets. Those planes have been around for a long time, going on 30 years.
Niketas…in UK your assumption about Conservative helping Labour win to shut out Reform is a likely scenario. In Oz however, the Liberals are being nudged closer to the very conservative ne Nation. We’ll see.
The Greens were pro-LGBT+. Now they are becoming the Muslim front.
”I didn’t know we were still using F/A-18 Super Hornets. Those planes have been around for a long time, going on 30 years.”
Not only are they still flying, they’re still in production (though not for long — the final Super Hornet is already under construction). They’ve been getting some rather significant block upgrades about every five years or so (AESA radar, ATFLIR, Block II, the EA-18G Growler electronic attack variant, Block III), so the new ones coming off the line today are considerably better than the ones from 30 years ago.
The contract for its F/A-XX replacement is due to be awarded in August the last I heard.
Considering what’s been happening to the British people, right in their faces and without apology from the folks doing it, I’m surprised it took this long to…do something. Whatever it amounts to. if it’s really any different in reality down the road.
Can things turn around and now go, to strain a metaphor, upstream back to better days?
Quickly looking over British press it seems Starmer is going to try to ride this out and bring back Gordon Brown and other former Labor politicians. The usual “the voters are mad because we’re not far enough Left” that is always the solution Dems propose here when an election goes badly. Lots of hostile and fear-mongering coverage of Reform and Nigel Farage.
Shudder to think what “drive forward for women and girls” means. Generally, “forward” means more of the same but faster.
What a pile of meaningless verbiage.
The man is clearly bonkers (though bonkers with an extremely destructive agenda).
To be sure, that the man who facilitated the ongoing rape of young females by rape gangs believed it necessary to apologize for appointing Peter Mandelson because of the latter’s association with Jeffrey Epstein is almost funny…