U.K Prime Minister Keir Starmer has suffered a massive defeat as the British regional election results continue to be counted. So far, Starmer’s Labour Party has lost 1,100 seats and Nigel Farage’s Reform Party has gained a whooping 1,229 seats.
The results continue to be tallied as many regions and local councils have a form of ranked choice voting. However, despite the mounting electoral losses, Keir Starmer is refusing to step aside.
(VIA AP Newswire) – LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted Friday that he will not resign after bruising elections that saw his governing Labour Party suffer big losses and the hard-right Reform UK make major gains.
The local and regional elections were widely seen as an unofficial referendum on Starmer, whose popularity has plummeted since he led the center-left Labour Party to power less than two years ago. […] Starmer said he took responsibility for the “very tough” results but would not quit.
“The voters have sent a message about the pace of change, how they want their lives improved,” he said. “I was elected to meet those challenges, and I’m not going to walk away from those challenges and plunge the country into chaos.”
Reform UK, led by the veteran nationalist politician Nigel Farage, won hundreds of local council seats in working-class areas in England’s north, such as Sunderland, that were solid Labour turf for decades, and also made gains from the Conservatives in areas like the county of Essex, east of London. Reform, which ran on an anti-establishment and anti-immigration message, did particularly well in areas that backed the U.K. to leave the European Union in the historic Brexit vote in 2016.
[…] Tony Travers, professor of government at the London School of Economics, said the elections show established parties struggling “to respond to populists on the left and right who appear to provide painless and simple solutions to intractable political and economic problems.” (read more)
The results will continue to be counted with more concrete outcomes likely on Saturday.
(VIA POLITICO UK) – It’s been an extraordinary day, which has seen a monumental shift in the political landscape across the country. Labour MPs are already calling on Keir Starmer to either go now or set a date — but not yet in huge numbers. That could change over the weekend.
Starmer’s party suffered a historic defeat in Wales, topped off with the loss of First Minister Eluned Morgan. Both Labour and the Conservatives have been reduced to single digits in the Welsh Senedd, while Nigel Farage’s Reform UK soared from a standing start to 34 seats, and Welsh nationalists Plaid Cymru emerged as the largest party with 43 seats, leaving them short of an overall majority.
Labour’s woes in England were huge. The party has lost 1,099 councillors so far, with heartlands falling to both Farage’s Reform UK, who have gained a whopping 1,229 seats, and the left-wing Green Party, who are currently up 289. (more)
History may not always repeat, but it often rhymes. 😂
One Labour MP summed it up…
“It’s not carnage. It’s f*cking carnage.”
Yessiree.
It is…
AND IT IS GLORIOUS!!!
Hi Bet (NM)!
MAGA seems to produce ripples across the pond. Or maybe tidal waves!
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Hey there, dear brother!! The very thing I’d hoped…and prayed for.
I choose tsunami 😉
Surfs up
One shouldn’t begin to gloat. The British have a way of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Maybe when you jail the rape victims for complaining about it, you wind up with this kind of result.
Does the King have authority to overrule the elections? Or will the European court nullify election results?
1. He can’t.
2. They can’t.
The End.
I’m gloating.
Yes I am.
Like the Republicans in Congress…
I don’t think terms such as “carnage” or “bloodbath” even begin to describe what a political cataclysm this is for the entire UK political establishment, both Labour and Conservatives.
Reform started this election day with only 2 council seats.
The people just threw the entire rotten mess overboard.
Starmer is finished.
Well, someone had better tell Starmer then, dear sir.
In the end, Labour MPs self preservation will compel them to get rid. And he won’t behave anything to say about it.
At which point note question becomes, who will slide on as PM…
The names being bandied about indicate that whoever it is is very likely to be much worse.
Their may still be hope for England….😅
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Stunning results for Farrage/Reform UK! Hopefully it’s not to late to jettison Starmer & turn things around.
On another note… Wonder when we’ll get Matt Gallagher’s death announcement or will he claim that to have been a limited time offer? 😁
Starmer is the typical projectionist leftist. The same type we have here that say Trump will stay in office if he loses the election. Well, here is the Prime Minister doing exactly that. I’m shocked!! Whoda thunkit.
Watch for an attempt to make Reform an illegal.
Because the only true Democracy is a stage-managed Democracy.
Sadly Reform is “…meet the new boss, same as…” Farage is just another charlatan grifter WEF puppet. The lesser of 2 weevils. 😉
The most important news imho (not covered in much of the MSM of course) is that Rupert Lowe’s new Restore Britain party won all 10 seats it contested in Great Yarmouth where Rupert is the MP.
Restore has only been an official political party for about 6 weeks. Now we get to see what local change they can enact, and if they’re really what they seem to be. 🤞
“The lesser of 2 weevils.”
One of my favorites scenes from Master and Commander.
Before every glass can reach full, it has to reach half full first.
It’s a process, similar to what has been going on in the US for the past decade.
Reform is a good first step in the right direction. But not the destination if the UK is to recover.
Certainly worlds better than the Labour-Conservative scam that has been going on there for decades.
I will definitely take Farage and Reform over the current Commies. But I am a bit suspect of Farage and Reform
Could very well be true that…. same play, different cast of characters….
Watch to see what they do with the immigration issue….
That will tell you if they are still going to be doomed to cultural self immolation…..
Brexit predicted President Trump win in 2016.
Despite the fact feckless “republicans” in the Senate can’t even pass the SAVE America Act that has a ~80% approval rate, perhaps this predicts good results for republicans in the midterms.
The problem with the SAVE America Act is its name.
If they just renamed it to the SAVE K Street Act, it would pass tonight, around 3:05 a.m.
Come on ¡ Reform is “hard right” ¡ Who writes this ? The lying biased bee bee see?
Nigel Farage and his party are slightly conservative.
The media….
Starmer thinks it is a routine turbine trip. He will find out soon enough that he is done for.
Reform = hard right. Labor = center left. Bias much?
Reform is center right. Labor is hard left. Fixed it.
Great to point out Charlie. The left learned back in the Bolshevik era that language matters.
I am reminded of “mostly peaceful protests”.
Waiting to hear from the Carney in Canada..
They will have to remove Starmer with a lit match and tweezers.
“… despite the mounting electoral losses, Keir Starmer is refusing to step aside.”
Two observations come to mind; they almost always accuse us of what they do or plan to do and why is it those claiming to protect democracy are the ones subverting it?
Those who vote in their support seem immune to either of those realities.
God’s will be done in the UK. I’m busy praying for my own nation.
Years ago a good friend said to pay attention to what was happening in the UK as it usually would happen in 20 years time in the USA. I do not want us on the path the UK is well down.
God Bless President Trump for having the plums to thwart those attempting it here.
Remember Obama saying his biggest fault was not telling a better story? Yeah B. Hussein, that was the problem. 🙄
Looney lefties habitually misdiagnosis the issue by design.
…we have’nt offered enough…HOPIUM….and is not only in the UK…..hmmmm
The anger against these criminals is epic.
Wow! Seems the UK will be waking to a new day bringing with it a chance for new, or perhaps a return to the old, way of living.
“The hard right U.K. reform party…”
AKA U.S. Democrats circa 2010.
Labour are the extremist version of Pol Pot.
Under parliament rules The Party can unseat Starmer through the appropriate procedure. Its happened at least twice in recent years in Australia which uses the same rules. Yes it subverts the will of the voters but its there to use.
Did they have a vote last week because he lied about Mandelaon last week?
It might subvert the will of the voters as they were back in mid-2024, but it kind of sounds like they might have changed their minds and maybe a new election is the right way to proceed.
I am waiting for the late vote counts to completely reverse the results …..
Ah….the magical mail in votes during “election season”.
But, but, but….The City of London and the “Crown”!
Will be interested to hear PAs thoughts on how Rothschilds and Lloyds are behind all this and it plays into their long game.
Starmer (UK) & his buddy Carney (CA) are really playing with fire & are in line for a very, very rude awakening!
Different dynamic in Canada. Carney feels a lot safer.
What a couple of muppets.
Labour doesn’t have anyone to replace him. And they have years of this guy before the election.
The whole Labour govt is the problem not just Starmer. I want a General Election so we can rid ourselves of this particular kakistocracy. Now the Labour govt has decided to regulate tumble driers sold in UK to meet net zero nonsense metrics!
Wakey! Wakey!
Hands off snakey.
God save the Queen lol
Remember the City of London bankers with with MI5 and MI6 control the UK. This is exactly why our Second Amendment is so precious.
Labour discovering that satanism doesn’t sell–who knew?
So glad to see the U.K. waking up before the leadership completely destroys the country. They’ve done catastrophic damage already.
Agent Smith from the Matrix is quite busy shifting from Trudeau to Carney to Stammer.
You have already plunged the country into chaos., fool.
Last count, they are down 1357.
Oh the humanity….
If I’m at all attuned to the Prometheans’ thesis, Starmer’s roaring incomprtence at the ostensible duties of Prime Minister has somehow managed to exceed his incompetence as one of the Empire’s agents for rejuvenating its imperial model.
The former, to the brink of being taken off the board.
Suggesting that increasing rules order activity by Canada’s PM Carney and Governor General Arbour wouldn’t be a surprise.
“… and I’m not going to walk away from those challenges and plunge the country into chaos.”
That’s some serious tone deafness. He should see a doctor but by then his term will be up.
Step Aside? … Step Aside? – “Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.”
Funny how Starmer thinks him stepping down would “plunge the country into chaos.” And they say Trump is the narcissist.
“If I wake up to Nigel Farage’s smling face I’ll kill myself”
Video Link?
Reform now up to 1,400 council seats, per the sad BBC.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1428pev1n0t#player