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Before major dad headed off to bed last night, I told him I wanted to add some of the updates from the British elections, since they’d started coming in and looked pretty gruesome.





‘Right now,’ I said as I read to him from one Xweet, ‘It says Labour has been losing 80% of the seats it contested.‘ 

We were both, like, HOLY CRAP, and off he went to brush his teeth.

Forty minutes later, when I shut everything down, Labour was losing 88% of the contests. 

In what had been the most interesting development so far to me, not just how bloody Reform’s rampage across the length and breadth of Labour’s landscape looked to be, but how Nigel Farage’s group was picking off seats from the conservative Tories, as well, with Greens and Liberal losses mixed in to boot. I mean, the Reform party was pulling their gains through equal opportunity pillaging.

No one could consider themselves safe from a voter intent on supporting Reform.

Getting up this morning to see what had happened so far has been pretty entertaining. My impression from last night has held true.

Farage was looking quite pleased and behaving himself as befitting a man on the cusp of achieving something incredible (again), instead of the buffoon he’s so often painted as.

The Reform leader had a gravitas beneath his obvious exultation at his young party’s astonishing triumph that will only serve him well as they continue towards the general election in two years or so.





As The Telegraph said this morning, after all the abuse and smears, Reform has ‘eaten Labour’s breakfast, lunch, and dinner’ and ‘nowhere in England is a no-go area’ for Farage.

When you look at these seismic local election results, remember how the Left has constantly attempted to smear, disparage, ridicule and discredit Nigel Farage and his party. Ponderous commentators have repeatedly predicted the Reform bubble would deflate; just another protest vote to be forgotten when Business as Usual returned to the political scene and voters drifted back to the old Tweedledum and Tweedledee of Labour and Conservative.

Already, the night has exceeded even Nigel Farage’s expectations. Reform is eating Labour’s breakfast, lunch and dinner. Its vote share is already up 38 per cent in councils across the country – Hartlepool, Exeter, Tameside, a big swing in Redditch. The insurgent party didn’t just get lucky in the 2024 election, when it won five seats, came second in 98 constituencies and scooped up 4.1 million votes. Victory in Runcorn and Helsby, second place in Caerphilly and Gorton & Denton, and last May’s local elections were no fluke. Reform has become a durable political force.

Last month Farage told me he was “nervous” about these elections. He needn’t have been. Whatever your view of Reform, the scale of transformation is remarkable. When the party held its first conference in 2021, it was polling at around 3 per cent and had won just two councillors in that year’s local elections.

Now, less than five years later, nowhere in England is a no-go area for Nigel Farage and his party is a serious player even in the devolved polities of Wales and Scotland. Recurring claims that the party has “peaked” or “plateaued” then sound less like analysis and more like desperately wishful thinking from opponents unwilling to concede that the party is here to stay.





And my goodness – the shock, awe, and moaning about the scale of what’s unfolding as the vote totals come in is something to behold.

They’re also doing some clean-up of their own pre-Election Day advertising.

Angela Rayner is a major figure in Labour politics and a Member of Parliament (MP). She also has designs on the Prime Minister’s address.

She so impressed her home district with Labour’s worthiness that they lost 18 of 19 seats to Reform last night.

OOPS

The Labour results in Wigan…

…were leading to clever quips about that Labor crusade – ‘Net Zero!‘





Voter participation was up hugely, and it appears it was all driven by one factor – they wanted Starmer gone.

 …Wigan saw the same increase in participation – and Labour lost all 20 seats it was defending to Reform while its vote share halved from 52 per cent to 24 per cent, with Reform taking 46 per cent.

‘SOD OFF!’ said the Prime Minister first thing this morning. ‘I can’t resign and leave the country to chaos.’ 

YOU’RE STILL GONNA HAVE KEIR STARMER TO KICK AROUND WAAH

I’m not so sure about that.

LABOUR’S MOSTLY DEAD, JIM – NIGEL’s KILLING THEM

Labour’s so-called ‘Red Wall’ continues to be breached as more totals are announced and long-held Labour strongholds are not just breached, but completely wiped out.





Labour has lost control of Sundarland City Council after over 50 years in power, with Reform UK having seized control of the local authority. 

Nigel Farage’s party have won 30 seats on the council so far, with just over half the seats having been declared, leaving Labour on just three. Labour came third after Reform and the Liberal Democrats, who won six. 

Even organized labor has turned against Labour in the aftermath of this ongoing disaster.

‘Change or die’ is a grim message to receive.

The local election results “could be the beginning of the end” for the Labour Party, Sharon Graham has said.

The general secretary of Unite, Labour’s largest union donor, said it was “change or die” for the party, but stopped short of calling for Sir Keir Starmer to quit.

Ms Graham said: “The writing is on the wall for this Labour government and it could be the beginning of the end for the party itself. The working class have been abandoned and have delivered their verdict.

Counting continues through tomorrow, although I’m sure Starmer and Labour wishes there was a mercy rule.





…And no matter how much the PM might insist that ‘I led our party to that victory, that is a five-year mandate to change the country’, the truth is that his government is dead and his majority is useless, with the parliamentary Labour party blocking key government legislation.  

The nation is ready for change, and it’s time for the PM to go. The British people are demanding a government which will solve migration. They’ve been voting for it, in one way or another, for decades, and ever more loudly since the Brexit referendum a decade ago.  

Politicians can either listen, and act, or face oblivion.

They should have thought of that long ago.

Long ago.

It probably would have helped, once in a while, to remember that they were supposed to be British, too.

Looks to be all teal from here.

Now we’re on Starmer-watch time.

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