I couldn’t think of a whole lot of anything on the ‘Dictatorship and Authoritarian Workbook for Dummies’ checklist that Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, hadn’t made a good start at checking off the ‘to-do’ stack of bullet points.
The man is a one-person, anti-British wrecking ball, and his loyal toadies masquerading as earnest British public servants are the tools through which he carries out his plans. Everything from Ed Miliband’s insane addiction to anything with a whiff of Green about it, hopelessly crippling any chance of the island’s energy independence and security, to Rachel Reeves determination to drive the last of the British farmers from their traditional homestead pastures through excessive taxation.
Sometimes Starmer has to take a momentary loss, but whatever it is he backed off from always comes roaring back to life.
Keir Starmer set for 13th major U-turn as mandatory Digital IDs SCRAPPEDhttps://t.co/16CHB7MzJQ
— GB News (@GBNEWS) January 13, 2026
Then there’s the police state Starmer’s instituted, with home visits by his law enforcement Starmtroopers over wrong-speak (a category determined exclusively by the government), with arrests for waving the two beloved national standards as race-baiting incitement. There’s the ongoing campaign to strip the populace of any platform for communicating news and opinions (however unpopular with the government) by throttling social media sites that do bend the knee to government demands, and banning those who will not, of which the greatest offending scab on Starmer’s totalitarian id is X.
He wants it, along with every X app on every British cell phone, decapitated, dead, and buried with a stake through its heart, like a 13th-century Romanian grandmother whom someone thought was a vampire.
Starmer’s regime has taken, or is in the process of taking away, nearly everything that makes life uniquely British. Or the things that, at this point, make British life tolerable.
But don’t worry your head about it, dear Brits – you can always vote the bastard and his Labour party out, right?
Well, dang it. It looks as if Mr 16% Approval Rating and his gang of culture thieves have thought of that, too, and it’s been brewing for over a year.
I mean, I can’t for the life of me figure out a parliamentary national election schedule, but, as I’ve laid out before, much of the power in these parties haveis vested in the city council elections they hold.
Labour has been getting its clock cleaned in recent elections, shockingly for them, even in strongholds where they held power for decades.
The predictions for the upcoming round of elections for councils scheduled for this May have been absolutely brutal for Labour. So badly are the polls skewing that the prediction is a certain unpopular PM may be out on his ear.
…In fact, it’s looking so grim for Labour in the upcoming Welsh Parliamentary (Senedd Cymru) elections that the Telegraph UK is characterising it as an impending ‘wipeout.’ Reform is projected to rank neck and neck with the Welsh nationalist party (Plaid Cymru) in seat gains.
Labour faces wipeout in Wales as Reform’s popularity surges
…Sir Keir Starmer’s party currently holds 29 seats out of 60 in the Senedd but is expected to slump to 11 seats when the parliament is expanded to 96 members under a new proportional system next May.
The vote in Wales will coincide with elections in Scotland, Wales and dozens of local councils, which are being seen as make-or-break for Sir Keir’s embattled premiership.
Ah, but Starmer is an agile cuss, and who knew – certainly not I – that elections in England can be postponed for any old reason.
In fact, they went through a round of them last year that weren’t looking to be especially favorable to Labour’s cause. This is from December 2024.
⚡️This is sinister, undemocratic and dictatorial… Keir Starmer and his Labour government, realising how unpopular they are, intend to evade democratic accountability by postponing some of next year’s local elections, pushing them out to 2026 or even 2027. This is unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/CyWS56fXUv
— Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 (@_HenryBolton) December 16, 2024
And now that Starmer is leading them into a council election blow-out loss to Reform, guess what’s on the table?
No elections in up to 63 councils until 2027.
Or 2028.
Labour has invited 63 councils to postpone next year’s local elections. Keir Starmer is running scared. It’s bloody obvious that Labour will get absolutely trounced in next year’s local elections and now he’s wilfully thwarting democracy to delay the inevitable. pic.twitter.com/HIJiMs1ceo
— James Melville 🚜 (@JamesMelville) December 19, 2025
Democrats here have to be licking their chops in envy at the thought of being able to do something so completely outrageous and antithetical to the very idea of…what were those words they constantly invoke again?
DEFENDING DEMOCRACY
Until it means losing. Then it’s not such a lofty goal. Principles and all that gets downright inconvenient.
Labour is poised to postpone elections in 22 areas as Reform UK continues to ride high in the polls.
An investigation by The Telegraph has revealed that the party has decided to delay this May’s elections in five areas and is considering doing so in a further 17. Only four Labour authorities have ruled out delays.
By contrast, only two Conservative councils and one Liberal Democrat council favour a delay, and seven Tory areas and eight Lib Dem districts have ruled them out.
Steve Reed, the Communities Secretary, said last month that he would give 63 areas the opportunity to postpone polls due in May until 2027 to allow them to concentrate on local government reorganisation.
While most local authorities are set to reject the delay, Labour councils in Hyndburn, Chorley, Preston and Blackburn with Darwen told The Telegraph they had requested one.
These are all areas where polls show that Nigel Farage’s party is expected to do well. In Hyndburn, a recent poll found Reform was on 39 per cent, while Labour was in third place on 16 per cent.
HEY! WE’RE REORGANIZING FOR DEMOCRACY!
Banana republic style.
When power interferes with the timing of a vote, intent is the only thing that matters. Delaying elections to avoid defeat is not governance. It is democratic evasion.
Twenty-two Labour councils are now set to delay local elections. Not randomly. Not evenly. Almost all of them… pic.twitter.com/zXDHAQpLB4
— Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧🎗 (@JChimirie66677) January 8, 2026
…Twenty-two Labour councils are now set to delay local elections. Not randomly. Not evenly. Almost all of them sit in areas where Reform UK is polling strongly and Labour is bleeding support. That alone should end the argument. When electoral suspension tracks political threat, you are no longer managing democracy. You are rationing it.
This is not happening by accident. It is being facilitated by ministers who know exactly what they are doing. Steve Reed, the Communities Secretary, claims councils need “space” to focus on reorganisation. That is a lie by omission. Councils reorganise all the time. They do not cancel elections to do it. They run elections during crises, mergers, austerity, pandemics. Democracy is not a seasonal luxury. It is the job.
What has changed is not capacity. It is competition. Reform UK has broken through in places Labour once treated as owned. Hyndburn. Preston. Blackburn. Northern towns where the Labour vote has thinned and anger has thickened. The response has not been persuasion or reform, but delay. Push the vote back. Stretch four-year mandates into seven. Keep councillors in place long after the public has withdrawn consent. Call it “transition”. Hope the mood passes.
That is not democratic stewardship. It is incumbency protection. The defence offered is always procedural. “Reorganisation takes time.” “There is precedent.” “Councils asked for it.” This is bureaucratic camouflage. Precedent does not justify abuse. Complexity does not suspend consent. And councils asking to avoid elections when they are about to lose is not grassroots democracy. It is self-preservation.
The pattern gives the game away. Conservative and Liberal Democrat councils, facing less immediate threat, overwhelmingly reject delay. Labour councils, staring at a Reform surge, suddenly discover the sanctity of postponement. Democracy, it seems, is flexible when it becomes inconvenient.
Nigel Farage called it “banana republic behaviour”. The phrase annoys polite commentators, but the instinct is right. This is not tanks in the streets. It is something more British and more dangerous: power quietly insulating itself from voters while insisting nothing has changed…
I thank God every night for our Founding Fathers and the wisdom they had to turn from the British style of government because of the British government.
Who needs to be a king when an elected tyrant has more power and doesn’t have the decency to do his dirty deeds under the cover of darkness?
DIS GUY does it all in broad gaslight.
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