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.