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On the Starmer/Labour Rout.

Local elections were held in the United Kingdom last week, involving some 30 million voters over 5000 seats. It was not very pretty for the two main parties: Labour and the Conservatives. But it was a smashing success for the wrecking crew, Reform UK.

Early on, Nigel Farage of Reform put it this way: “I think what you’re witnessing is an historic shift in British politics.” And he later put it this way: “I’m on my way to Downing Street.” The first statement is certainly true, and the second seems to be more than likely at this stage.

The numbers themselves are mind-blowing. With just a handful of the 136 councils remaining to be fully counted, this is the shocking state of play as of the time of this writing:

• Reform: 1444 (up 1442 seats)
• Labour: 997 (down 1406 seats)
• Liberal Democrats: 834 (up 151 seats)
• Conservatives: 773 (down 557 seats)
• Greens: 515 (up 374 seats)
• Independents: 199 (up 27 seats)
• Other 36 (down 41 seats)

It certainly is a new kind of politics in the UK. Seat after seat in Labour electorates – many of them working class seats – have fallen to Reform. Just consider the Labour stronghold of Wales, where the left has been in power for 99 years. Labour seems to have just nine seats left there now.

Starmer has stubbornly and idiotically said he wants to hang on to power: “I am not going to walk away and plunge the country into chaos”. Um, it already is in chaos. And never mind that many of his own colleagues have said it is clearly time for him to go.

As but one example, Simon Opher, MP for Stroud, put it this way: “The public has spoken, I think we need to change our leader… If we go into the next election with him, we will just get slaughtered.” However, Nigel Farage at least is quite happy to see Starmer remain: “He’s our best asset!” Yep, he sure is.

And it should be pointed out that not all on the political right are celebrating the crushing victory achieved by Reform. Others have preferred to run with Rupert Lowe and his Restore Britain party, which has gotten around 3 per cent of the vote. Lowe is an ex-Reform MP, and has had the backing of Elon Musk.

Commentary

Just a few remarks of many about this huge political upheaval:

“There is no more Left-Right. It is gone, it is out of the window, it’s finished. It’s a big, big day, not just for our party, but for a complete reshaping of British politics in every way.”
— Nigel Farage

“[Reform] are here to stay.”
— Nigel Farage

“When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to. You don’t look at the electorate and ask them, ‘What were you thinking?’ You look at yourself and ask, ‘What were we doing?’”
— Keir Starmer in 2020

“There’s nothing more divisive than treating your own people like second-class citizens. This is why Reform is surging. The fact the establishment can’t see it speaks volumes.”
— Matt Goodwin

“To my American followers: Yesterday was local elections across England, Wales and Scotland, and the results have shattered the two-party Labour-Conservative status quo that held for a century. Starmer’s left-wing Labour Party has lost close to 1,100 council seats, while Nigel Farage’s Reform, a new party, gained over 1,200 council seats. The next general election for parliament is not set to take place until 2029, but this outcome makes Farage being prime minister a possibility if the momentum continues.”
— Andy Ngo

“Reform UK has now surpassed William Hague’s Conservative gains in the 1999 local elections, when the Tories picked up 1,348 council seats. The only larger single-election landslide in modern records was Blair’s Labour in 1995, which gained approximately 1,807 seats.”
— Alex Armstrong

“Green Party ‘victory’ video shows zero English spoken. A room full of foreign languages celebrating their takeover of a British council. This is what replacement looks like in real time. Britain is being erased without a single shot fired.”
— Don Keith [By the way, much of the Green Party’s success was due to the Muslim vote]

“‘I didn’t understand a word of what he said… it does make me a little uncomfortable, I can’t deny’.”
— Green Party member John Grant reacts to members of his party making an announcement in a foreign language during their campaign for Newham on GB News

“For years, millions of people have felt ignored by Westminster. They have watched living standards decline, communities fragment, public services deteriorate, and freedom of speech come under increasing pressure. They have been told to accept open-ended social experimentation while their concerns about radical and dangerous ideologies, family breakdown, crime, censorship and national identity are dismissed as backward or extreme. The local election results show that this frustration has reached boiling point.”
— Christian Concern CEO Andrea Williams

“This tyrant [Starmer] attempted to cancel the local elections for millions – but failed. They responded by cancelling him.”
— Inevitable West

“It seems the Labour party, who were just destroyed in the local elections, are banning everyone I know from entering Britain in the lead up to our Unite the Kingdom and the West rally next week.”
— Tommy Robinson

The end of two-party politics?

We have seen in the UK as well as in other Western nations what seems to be the rejection of the two-party system, or what too often has been seen as the uni-party. Trump was the big spoiler in the US, weeding out RINOs (Republicans In Name Only), and ensuring most remaining and successful Republicans are well and truly in his MAGA orbit.

Farage has obliterated the political duopoly of Labour and the Conservatives. And as I type this, Pauline Hanson and One Nation won Saturday’s byelection in the New South Wales division of Farrer. It will really help loosen the reins of power that Labor and the Liberals/Nationals have. ON had done well in the recent SA elections.

I, for one, am quite happy to see the two-party boat get rocked. For too long, it has just been business as usual, with the two main parties too often looking too much alike, leaving disgruntled voters with no real options. If it takes an outsider like Trump or Farage or Hanson to really stir things up and see significant political change occur, then I and millions of others are certainly all for it.

Prayer Points

I have said for a long time now that I have been praying daily for folks like Trump, Farage and Hanson that they become Christians and that God uses them as wise rulers and their parties are used to shake up the system. And I also have been daily praying for leaders like Albanese, Starmer, Carney, Macron and others like them that God will either improve them or remove them.

You might want to join me in offering up such prayers. None of this is to say the people like Donald or Nigel or Pauline are ideal, let alone some messianic figures, but each might well be used of God to radically shake things up and perhaps point their nations in a better direction.

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Republished with thanks to CultureWatch. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.