We touched on this in Friday’s LinkSwarm, but more news of Labour’s council election wipe out has come in, and the scale at which UK voters rejected Keir Starmer’s party is staggering.
Take a look at this chart from the BBC.
Nigel Farage’s Reform went from two council seats to 1,453. Labour, by contrast, lost 1,446 seats. But the conservative also lost council seats, 563 of them, which now puts them behind the Liberal Democrats, something that hasn’t happened since, well, ever.
Indeed, as this Sky News video notes, this is the first time since they started keeping track in the 1970s that the combined Labour/Tory share of these seats fell below 50%, and is now down to 35%.
If Farage can avoid screwing things up, we may be seeing the end of that political duopoly. The useless Tory wets couldn’t simply accomplish Brexit and get the hell out of their own way, and instead named feckless incompetent PM after feckless incompetent PM. Just think, if Labour, having turned back the Corbyn threat, could have simply avoiding become the party of pedophiles and illegal alien Muslim rapists, they might have ruled for a generation. Instead, they’re likely to go the way of the Whigs. And backbench Labour MP Catherine West has threatened to launch a leadership challenge to Starmer if no one in the cabinet does.
If the “conserving conservatism” crowd had gotten their way, the Republican Party might be mired in the same decline plaguing the Tories instead of controlling all three branches of government.
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“If Farage can avoid screwing things up, we may be seeing the end of that political duopoly.”
I wish him every success but he has an eerie semblance with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. He was a rising star in the Republican party until he shifted his campaign to the national level, where he promptly faded.
Nigel Farage must steadfastly champion England’s political sovereignty and not get drawn into the Continent’s “politics of diversity “. Stop making nice with the EUnichs and reclaim the legacy of Margaret Thatcher, which the Tories abandoned.
Calling the succession of recent Tory PMs feckless and incompetent isn’t fair. They just lied about what their policy goals were before elections. They by-and-large achieved their actual goals… aside from directly holding onto power. But inasmuch as their policy goals go, Labour shares them; since his premiership, the Tories have been running Tony Blair’s playbook.
It seems clear Labour’s victory was the point of Sunak’s calls for an early election; it prevented the newly created Reform from having the time to really get itself sorted out, although it’s possible there would have been a national election with a split conservative vote even if Reform had had the time.
I would point out that Labour won Parliament last time with a lower vote percentage than the previous cycle where they /lost/ to the Tories. That happened because Reform was in a position to split the conservative vote and UK’s first past the post elections. It now appears Reform is the standard bearer and the Tories are the spoiler.
The Tories, the oldest major political party in the world, is about to die.
The Tories betrayed their voters on the two biggest issues of the day: Brexit (undermined by the Tories) and Net Zero (supported by the Tories). It’s a wonder it’s taken this long for an alternative to shove them to the sidelines.
Since Farage has said on TV that ejecting the invasion of military-age men is a non-starter, it’s up to RestoreUK to save the country.