By Jo Nova
Turns out, when they have a choice, the Brits don’t want Net Zero or Mass Immigration
The English Council Elections won’t change the UK parliament, but they are the largest most significant poll of the mood of Great Britain. How bad is it? Half the headlines about the PM Kier Starmer are quoting him vowing that he won’t be quitting. It’s that bad. Labour have lost 1,406 seats, and the Tories have lost 557.
Results are still being counted, but extraordinary things are happening. Nigel Farage’s Party — Reform UK — have stormed into more than 1,444 councilor seats in England (out of about 5,000), taken from Labour as well as the Tories. The Conservatives haven’t recovered. The Green wave didn’t happen. As Ross Clark said, “they were supposed to be ‘the insurgent party of the left’ and there was talk of them entering government as part of a left wing coalition”.
Restore Britain, is new party launched by ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe, and endorsed by Elon Musk. They are so new, they only stood in 10 seats, but won all of them. Where Reform UK wants to stop the boats and deport illegal migrants. Restore UK wants to reverse mass immigration.
Wales, meanwhile, is having a full election for the Senned (which was called the Welsh Assembly). Wales is considered a die-hard Labour stronghold, yet after 27 years in government, Labour have lost, with the first Minister of Wales even losing her seat. The new force in Wales is Plaid Cymru, a centre left nationalist party, with Reform the second largest vote winner. Plaid Cymru want independence (eventually). Everyone wants to get rid of big bad governments, even on the left.
Labour suffers historic Wales loss as Reform wins more than 1,000 English council seats and Greens make gains
BBC (Updating regularly)
In England, Reform is the biggest winner, picking up more than 1,400 councillors so far. The Greens and Lib Dems also make gains, while the Conservatives lose almost 500 seats and Labour loses more than 1,300.
Farage says he’d be very sad to see Kier Starmer go.” He’s our greatest asset”.
According to SkyNews UK politics has been upended:
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- Reform 27%
- Conservatives 20%
- Labour 15%
- Greens 14%
- Lib Dems 14%
- Others 10%
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If these results were projected to the House of Commons in a Parliamentary election — Reform would win 284 seats, but still fall short of a majority (of the 326 seats that it needs to win outright.) But the Labour Party would be wiped out from 400 seats to 110 seats. The Tories would be left to negotiate to be part of a coalition.
“I’ve seen parties lose a lot of seats…
What I’ve never seen before is a party come from zero to 40%”
“I’ve never seen such enormous rapid changes in vote-share.”
And Australia has a one seat test of the same principle today. The People versus The Blob in Farrer.
h/t Another Ian
WOWSERS !!!
The REAL people are fed up.
I wonder how much of this OUR Australian MSM will let us know about?
They’ll be wetting themselves.
ESPECIALLY their ALPBC.
Terrific news.
It will be interesting to see how much interference there’ll be in the Farrer election today.
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The people are fed up – for sure.
The Useless Tories botched it, 2010-2024; 2 Tier, Free Gear StUrmUr [the U-Turn King] has been a colossal disappointment to most of those who voted for him [20.1% of those eligible to vote in 2024].
So, now, there are [vaguely] alternatives.
Of sorts.
[If you squint with one eye closed, in dim light]
Nobody – least of all me – has a blind idea how this will play in a Real General Election – sometime in the next 38 months, if the U-Turn King [or any successor] doesn’t cancel it on grounds of – insanity, I suppose.
Successor – well ‘Andy Capp’ from the cartoon strip isn’t even in the Commons, and there is now – probably – no seat in the UK that is a SAFE Labour seat, so getting there is not a ‘done-deal’ …. [Perhaps one will be found in Pyongyang East …]
Or Miliband – [cordially?] detested across the nation. [An unreconstructed version of Australia’s Bowen …]
Or a milk and water managerialist who gave in to the junior doctors, under no discernible pressure … or a HARD-soft-Left lady with tax problems [yes – publicly!] that are ‘unresolved’, and who has destroyed employment prospects for the young by forcing through [with a lot of ignorant help] a rise in kids’ minimum wage which makes them [financially] almost unemployable …
Labour, incidentally, has never had anything other than a white man as elected leader. Ever. [Margaret Becket held it as a stand-in, twice, for about a month in total – but was never even close to getting elected to the Leadership. I don’t know if ‘misogynist’ is even in the Labour dictionary.]
If a betting man – I’d look at a white male, in the Cabinet, leftish – but not ‘scare the horses-so’.
In the meantime – get hard rations in. Keep cash handy, and candles. And perhaps a pick-ax handle …
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Also Harriet Harman, was a temporary stand-in acting leader … twice.
But – she’s back!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1428pev1n0t
Seriously??
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The Guardian has called it.
‘Pauline Hanson’s party tipped to win byelection triggered by resignation of Sussan Ley but Nationals expected to also lose votes to an independent.’
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The greens did do quite well. I suspect they would have done much better if Polanski hadn’t caused outrage by criticising the ‘violence’ of the police arresting the knife holding, possibly suicide vest wearing, Golders Green attacker.
There’s clearly a significant number of people who do want open borders, green craziness, and all sorts of other insane stuff. The greens have some new mayors.
https://youtube.com/shorts/9vjYowNlR6M
Restore Britain (Lowe’s Reform splinter) did well in what they contested, which wasn’t a lot.
ATEOTD it’s not a national election and there’s been a massive anti-Starmer protest vote. Will it hold up when it really matters?
Starmer seems determined to stay. Given the 2 most likely alternatives, the country has more years to endure before the nightmare ends regardless.
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Labour comrades still hold an absolute massive majority due to first past the post and after the last lot of elections they are now going go FULL THROTTLE and hold nothing back. 💪💪💪
Labor has nothing to lose. A cornered animal is the most dangerous of animals. 👹👹👹👹
What we have seen so far was only the soft start, the real war now begins to end of what we once knew as Great Britain.
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Plaid Cymry? Aren’t they the ‘nationalist’ party who claim to be ‘proudly international’ who don’t believe in borders and plan to issue a specifically Welsh visa so they can import more of the world’s dole bludgers at a faster rate than the UK already does?
As highlighted by Paul Joseph Watson (YT channel Modernity) here; world wide web: youtube_dot_com/watch?v=KQO4Dw1PqwA
Sorry, but I’m not going to cheer this mob on.
Then again, maybe they’ll walk back the recently introduced Labour policy of encouraging child care centres to report racist hate crimes among toddlers to the rozzers?
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To be fair, nobody wants to emigrate to Wales, so they feel safe virtue signaling their open borders. Unlike England, Wales is still almost entirely white people indigenous to the islands (93% white British, 2% other white [including Micks], less than 1% black, 3% Asian [about half of which are non-muslim Indians and East Asians]). Contrast that with England (73% white British) or London (37% white British) and you can see why they haven’t hit he panic button on immigration yet.
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Now for Australia without the greens,the teals and the idiots masquerading as our government!
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Great news.
If only Australia can repeat or better that in forthcoming elections there may be hope.
We need a pro-freedom, pro-free-enterprise, pro-rational-immigration, pro-energy, small government, rational regulation, pro industrialisation, pro-Western-values party like One Nation to win. (Like the Liberal Party once was, back in the day before they became woke and Labor Lite.)
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small government.
But there are so many in the ‘Blob’ whose job, salary, pension, status etc,. depend on taxpayer monies used [perhaps not very well] to keep the machine running.
I remember reading that the Indian Civil Service [running a nation of 250 million, with no telegraphs up to the 1840 or so] numbered about a thousand men [all men then].
We can’t even monitor newts with that few Civil Servants in the UK nowadays.
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Huh! And here’s me thinking it was a nicely painted car!!
I thought the Welsh name was Cymru.
Tony.
[Thanks Tony! Fixed. – Jo]
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My very Welsh mate would agree.
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The Toyota Cymry?
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Isn’t “Cymru” the home of Honda in the UK?
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People no longer trust blob narratives from the Lamestream Media, politicians, the anti-Civilisation activists of the Left and the lies they constantly tell.
Traditional parties are finished.
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But Dave M. Remember “these are my principles, but if you don’t like them, I have others”.
The Liberals (OZ) lost power because they were divided and unsure what they actually believed in.
Labor won in a landslide, so the Liberals adopted the claim “we are just like Labor, though better”.
Then along came OnNation.
Fortunately preferential voting saved a few seats for the Libs in the recent SA election.
Perhaps a loss in Farrer may make them wonder if being LaborLite is a good idea?
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More background information, the parliamentary Liberal Party and the executive are separate, there is a National Executive and two people have nominated for the position of President, Tony Abbott and Alexander Downer and as most followers of politics and current affairs know they are both conservatives and traditional Menzies Liberals, a former Prime Minister and earlier Howard Government Cabinet Minister and the other Minister for Foreign Affairs during the Howard Government years.
The NSW State Executive was cleaned out by Federal intervention a while ago, I think that began after Turnbull retired from Parliament. And recently changes in VIC State Executive overdue have taken place, the acting State President has been replaced by a conservative who happens to be the husband of former Abbott Chief of Staff Credlin Brian Loughnane.
When the leader changeover took place earlier 2026 the Liberal Party Members of Parliament in Canberra voted with a two-thirds majority for Angus Taylor to become Leader Of The Opposition, at the National Party Matt Canavan was appointed unopposed as Leader and therefore Deputy Leader Of The Opposition.
As I have posted a few times when PM Morrison replaced PM Turnbull late 2018 who signed the Paris Agreement 2025 and ratified that agreement 2016 (who replaced PM Abbott late 2015 ) there was a change in direction, the terms and conditions applied to Kyoto Agreement signed by PM Howard Government in 1997 (elected 1996 – Kyoto ratified by Rudd Labor after 2007 election) that I have also posted here and being based on technology without damaging the economy was adopted by Morrison and he did not “sign up to net zero emissions” at Glasgow 2021 and reported more by foreign media than in Australia, adopted an aspirational goal based on similar terms and conditions that Howard imposed for Kyoto Agreement 1997.
Taylor and Canavan have dropped net zero emissions goals and are campaigning for put very simply “drilling and digging” and that everything needed renew economic prosperity and national security is here.
With immigration they have stated that the present record-high intake would be cut back if there is a Coalition Government elected 2028 election, they have also pointed out that no number can be stated at this time because that would be subject to what government departments and population data happens to be after that election.
What should be obvious to astute observers is that One Nation has been 29 years and what representation today – Senate Four, House of One = Five (5).
Liberal and National Coalition have Seventy (70) elected Members of Parliament in Canberra since 2025 election, One Nation had Four (4) until Joyce (former National Leader and Deputy PM twice) changed sides months after the 2025 election, and when he did not receive enough votes to become National Leader again The by election today in Farrer One Nation candidate is a former National party member, more recently tried to join the Labor Party and even more recently successfully applied to become a One Nation candidate – as reported by Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian, information published in the newspaper and on line before the National Party used the media releases for campaigning posters.
If voters want to get rid of Labor governments as soon as possible One Nation cannot help, they are too few in Parliament even if today they gained their second seat in the House of Representatives. And the same will apply later this year when the VIC State election is held. At the recent VIC by election One Nation based on the two party preferred (2PP) calculation was behind the Teal Independent after the first vote counting period with 36% of the vote to Liberal 63% of the vote.
Please stop talking up One Nation as if they were a major party in numbers of seats held, the Greens have about double the number of seats with Ten Senate and One House of Representatives
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… Please stop talking up One Nation as if they were a major party …
ON is a necessary electoral cattle prod to a totally untrustworthy LNP.
Do a hard change on actual policies – mass immigration, AGW/energy – and then make that change stick. Too hard ? That’s why the cattle prod is needed.
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The cattle prod that divides the herd.
Labor wins again
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A cattle prod to divide the herd.
Preferences to favour the return of Labor governments
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Dennis, you’ve not worked with cattle have you?
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They’re not bovine, Dennis.
Next you’ll be calling them “punters”.
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Dennis, please stop talking up the Libs as if they were relevant any longer..
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Froggy, please stop talking up PHON as if they are relevant in numbers of seats in parliament, only half the number the Greens hold since 2025 election when PHON had four before a National elected MP changed to PHON.
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Dennis its not about what ON have now its about what they will have after the next Federal Election.
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Not quite, in my view.
It’s about what the Australian voter sees as the policies necessary to get Australia back on track. One Nation has them. The Liberals flirt with them, but water them down to such an extent they are indistinguishable from Labor’s nonsense.
Unfortunately, Dennis, the Liberals have been sabotaged by the leftist members of the Liberal Party – the Moderates, as you and others euphemistically call them. They’re not “moderate” they’re leftist.
If the Australian voter wants leftist policies they’ll vote Labor.
I’m surprised the Liberal Party still doesn’t get this.
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“Please stop talking up One Nation as if they were a major party in numbers of seats held, the Greens have about double the number of seats with Ten Senate and One House of Representatives.”
You just watched a party go from ZERO to 40% of the vote in a heartbeat in the UK but you claim Australians are too stupid – too lazy or too something else to do likewise.
Why?
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And, we’ve now seen the Farrer result.
One Nation = 57.42%
Independent = 42.58%
Liberals are cactus.
Nationals are cactus.
Zero to 57%. The Farrer voters have sent the Liberals a clear message.
Will they listen?
I Doubt it. The left wing of the Liberal Party is blinded by its love of the left.
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“What should be obvious to astute observers is that One Nation has been 29 years and what representation today – Senate Four, House of One = Five (5).”
The Green party has been around for 34 years with a basically flat lined 10% voted base and a smattering of inner city electorate seats granted to them from ideological , delusional city lefties but i bet you don’t write them off with the same statements.
Reform have gone from nothing to 40+% so it can be done. Sure, it’s taken a long time for One Nation to shake a lot of the mud off that was heaped on them by the Lib /Lab /Nat uni party and their media enablers in the last 29 years, now many people have woken up and see One Nation as their only true choice for Conservative representation.
Your precious Liberal party has crapped in their nest for far too long and now the stench is ingrained. The pathetic attacks on O.N by Liberals in the lead up to Farrer by election only further highlight the Liberals have zero integrity and moral compass.
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Apart from the scattering of preferences that PHON voters have created and mostly to the benefit of a Labor candidate.
2022 Albanese Labor elected with under 35% of the primary vote and ALP Election Report noted their worst result since 1934, and 2025 Albanese Labor again elected and primary vote not much improvement on the 2022 result. And in SA state election recently Labor was returned to government despite PHON seat gains and Labor candidates successes on distribution of preference votes.
Also, 29 years is a long time and in our Federal election history many elections and until elected again as a National MP at the 2025 election Joyce later joined PHON they had no House of Representatives MP.
John Galt #7.1.1.3 is right, One Nation is not a major party and despite published poll indications of support and mainly protest against Labor last four years and to some extent the COVID-19 period from January 2020, and like many who comment here and support PHON not understanding the Federation of States that have/had primary responsibility for public health, emergency powers state legislation at the time, interstate border closures, hotel quarantine detention, state police law enforcement and in VIC worst of all Labor states at that time very harsh tactics against citizens. Federal Morrison Government in the constitutional law support and funding contributions roles.
Yes, Federal does have provision to legislate emergency powers to override state government however, as the Attorney General at the time pointed out that to proceed would result in High Court challenges by various state governments and fracture the Federation-Commonwealth system.
Face it people, as I have posted here in many examples and links provided, from Howard Government, Abbott Government the the three year Turnbull Government period we all (me too) were angry about Morrison Government, pandemic interruption aside, was trying to change the transition to renewable energy and away from fossil fuels and other examples, until 2022 when Albanese Labor was elected and ignored or overturned the plans.
Governments are elected for terms, some get elected for two or three sometimes more terms of three years, there are good and bad governments. When all are considered and most importantly for me economy, security and finance the Coalition have been the best managers.
One Nation is a micro party, Greens are twice their number and Teals are at least equal numbers (I have not bothered to check).
And a final thought for today, in two parts, what has One Nation achieved in SA to date and what are they working on that will be changed. Second part, given the ages of Federal PHON now elected what age will they be by 2028 election and given that they won’t form government what can voters gain?
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First point Dennis is that you need to keep up.
It’s not PHON.
It’s One Nation.
If you can’t make that simple adjustment then the rest of your analysis is equally out of touch with what the Australian voter is insisting on.
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Dennis. The liberal Party disowned its own conservative voters and labelled them in derogatory terms they will never forget. The outcome has been an abandonment of the Liberals from trickle to flood. The voters took the losses rather than vote Liberal. The Liberal party committed political suicide by its hubris thinking those it shunned had nowhere else to go. Those voters will not return for years, if ever.
Imo the council voting in England will be noted here and reinforce that voting for a newish Party is now effective and made acceptable. Pragmatism will force the Coalition Parties to recognise they have to accept preferencing One Nation if they hope to win elections. One Nation voters realise the Party will never be elected in its own right to govern, but it will guarantee Supply for the Coalition at the price of the Coalition regaining and upholding its Conservative values.
This is the price the Liberals will have to pay for chasing the left. It will be hard medicine to swallow for some that would see themselves as Ministers in a governing coalition of these Parties.
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Old news. Current polling says that won’t hold if a new election was held today.
And in the Farrer by election the Climate 200 “teal” was thrashed. Billionaire Simon Holmes a Court threw his money away.
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Everywhere, oh, except on the ABC.
Tony.
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Wonderful news again, but I wonder if this will carry into a general election if the Starmer idiot is kicked out soon and some other more likable liar and con merchant takes over the reins.
But it looks likely that Reform + Conservatives + Restore etc will win big at the next election.
Just a pity that the treasonous Labour party will manage to destroy more of the once Great Britain before sanity is restored.
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I’m afraid that what comes after Starmer will only be worse … Ed Miliband.
Starmer is a cowardly bureaucratic cypher who bends with the wind and is easily pushed around. Miliband is a Net Zero true believer zealot who would rather rule over the ashes of Britain that give up on his green dreams.
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FWIW
Probably a good thing. After two years of him there’d be a very high likelihood of most of the voters sinking both boots in come the next election?
All though there was a Farage quip this morning something like “Leave Starmer in there. He’s my best vote getter”
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It will be a long way back for the UK.
The one aspect about completely de-industrialising is that you start almost with a clean slate. Clear the old sites and build from scratch. The legacy is lost so no point in preserving it. Just start with a fresh perspective and the latest technology.
Will UK ever see another coal fired power station! Will they see a new iron blast furnace!
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Time for the second Industrial Revolution. Only after an Electoral Revolution. The alternative would be messy. Ask the French.
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The problem with re-industrialising after de-industrialising is that the people with the requisite skills will have mostly passed away and the woke, dumbed-down universities and trade schools are no longer training people with useful skills, just nonsense like gender studies, environmental justice studies, post-colonial studies, political economy etc..
As you say Rick, you start from scratch, but that also means cleaning out the entire education systems of their communist teachers and finding people with useful knowledge to teach, starting at kinder or preschool. Teaching kids that there are only two genders and they can’t be changed would be a good start. Then move on to arithmetic, science, English spelling and grammar etc..
Remember that the first industrial revolution took about 60 to 80 years to get started beginning around the 1760’s until widespread industrialisation by about the 1830’s to 1840’s.
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Some advantages would be reindustrialising with new equipment, modern new ideas, having leverage on governments to guarantee control of union interference in the workplace, and location prioritised. Works could be situated close to their power suppliers and transportation hubs rather than being hemmed in by current and increasing residential and corporate structures.
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It’s really interesting to see the shift in public opinion reflected in these local election results. The rise of Reform UK seems to be a clear signal about priorities.
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I’ve noticed that those who go around claiming to be saviors of democracy, seldom change position or action when the voters vote against them.
Here in the US, the ‘Democrats’ vote against such things a voter ID that has 80% support from the public.
The great champions of ‘due process’ want to change the court when the due process of the court decides against them.
The great crusaders against racism demand that electoral districts be drawn on the basis of race.
Funny how the includers are so exclusive.
Then there’s the continuous push for men in women’s spaces opposed by a large majority.
If they can’t have democracy their way then no one can have democracy.
I think this is because the neo-Left or whatever they are, in actual essence are simply just spoiled children.
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I can think of many past history examples of candidates elected as independents and party candidates who have proven to be most interested in a political career and remuneration benefits including retirement packages than actually achieving for their constituents. The Senate is most popular because Senators have no electorate responsibilities and constituents to answer to, they are State Senators to the Federal State’s Senate elected by State voters at Federal elections.
There was a former Mayor of North Sydney, his name was Ted Mack and he successfully stood for election to Federal Parliament as MP for North Sydney. He served two terms and decided not to be a candidate for a third election. He told constituents that sitting on a back bench he had no party room colleagues, the MPs in Opposition or Government parties had far more to contribute and regardless of side they had better access to Cabinet Ministers, obviously the governing party MPs best of all access.
He resigned at the end of his second term and refused to accept the parliamentary pension entitlement and benefits, he said he didn’t earn them.
So this is why minor and micro parties unless they associate with a major party as do Greens and Teals with Labor most often they too are on the outside of the power bases.
Like it not not, that is the Westminster System we have in Australia (some US system included at time of Federation of States 1900) and with preferential compulsory voting system here (UK does not) we have always had a Two Party Preferred (described for estimating support) system.
Remember the Australian Democrats, Don Chipp a former disgruntled Liberal MP? How many terms did they survive and where did the gain the most influence intermittently? The Senate. And where are they now?
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Humpty Dumpty Starmer sat on a Wall,
Humpty Dumpty Starmer had a Big Fall,
And all of.Starmer’s Men and Women and Starmer……
Ate Humble Pie for breakfast……….
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And
“British Ballots Turning Into an Act of Extinction Rebellion”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/08/british-ballots-turning-into-an-act-of-extinction-rebellion-n3814743
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The graphics in your link paint a stark picture (pun intended). Although it’s on a small scale, it’s a political bloodbath. This quote from the link caught my eye, via The Telegraph:
The Left’s cheap name-calling tactics are being seen through by the people. The question is whether this type of collective acumen can be achieved down under. We seem to live in our own peculiar bubble in Oz which is often difficult to penetrate. I can see local MSM doubling down and using the same tactics to disparage conservative candidates.
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Or as Beege Welborn put it on a different subject
“Cruel and Controlling California Coastal Commission Commences Consuming Crow”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/04/30/cruel-and-controlling-california-coastal-commission-commences-consuming-crow-n3814467
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FWIW
https://election.news.sky.com/elections
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All Starmer is waffling about now is how he offers “stability” Destructive, dysfunctional stability.
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The Conservatives and Labour losing seats everywhere.
Reform doing very well in England but less so in Scotland and Wales. Lib-Dems also winning seats.
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ACHTUNG-ACHTUNG: 😱😱
FASCIST NEWS FLASH ALERT: 🔥🔥🔥
Labour comrades still hold an absolute massive majority due to first past the post and after the last lot of elections they are now going go FULL THROTTLE and hold nothing back. 💪💪💪
Labor has nothing to lose. A cornered animal is the most dangerous of animals. 👹👹👹👹
What we have seen so far was only the soft start, the real war now begins to end of what we once knew as Great Britain. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Jeff Taylor comments on this election:
https://youtu.be/MrMEmC5dv6M
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Careless Jo, you’ve reverted to the incorrect spelling of Keir.
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Yes, it should have been Q-u-e-e-r Starmer
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” Restore UK wants to reverse mass immigration. ”
Perhaps they got the idea from Sweden. I tripped over this clip yesterday. Seems like they’ve already awakened from wokeness.
” Sweden Just Did Something To ISLAM That Changes Course of History ”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yOO5ZSkwmg
Cheers,
Dave B
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This bodes well for One Nation. Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts hammering away, doing whatever they can to right the ship, have not had much notice until the horrible radical left agenda has created the mess now apparent to around 30% of the voters.
It all stems from the UN globalists. They are all for a world where no one can make anything and now one owns anything.
Trump is making a difference. The UN owns nothing and makes nothing. The whole house of cards crumbles once those responsible to the people cut off their funding.
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Not sure about all that, but AI says populism is an agrarian movement.
‘While historically rooted in rural agrarian movements, modern Australian populism is driven by declining trust in major parties and a backlash against social change, particularly regarding immigration and economic insecurity.’
The UN will survive if Beijing puts them up in HK.
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Populism? So people should just vote for parties and policies that are unpopular?
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New parties may promote new policies but when they gain power those in dark suites and operating behind closed doors will have a word or two with them.
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Join a faction or be isolated, that is how they become political animals.
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FWIW – one way to advertise
“Great news for @Keir_Starmer and @Ed_Miliband
. Labour have achieved net zero in Wigan!”
https://x.com/FergusMason25/status/2052604230754545918
Via https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/08/british-ballots-turning-into-an-act-of-extinction-rebellion-n3814743
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Have look at the David Rowe’s Financial Review cartoon for Saturday 8 May on the UK election results.
Says all you will ever need to know about the “mind-set” of the Far Left.
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People take years to wake up…but when they do…the New take over….same will happen in OZ ..eventually…
Take 5 years at least…as Aussies…pretty thick.
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This is excellent news, although NB Jo – he’s KEIR Starmer, not Kier. Here in the old dart some of us call him Der Sturmer.
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FWIW
“Catfish Farmers, Undertakers, Miners Helped Bring About Major EPA Deregulation”
“Catfish farmers, funeral home operators and miners — among a host of other industry groups — convinced the Environmental Protection Agency to kill its forty-year-old chemical regulation system.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/08/catfish-farmers-undertakers-miners-helped-bring-about-major-epa-deregulation/
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FWIW
“David Burge
@iowahawkblog
I think the big takeaway from the UK elections is that Kier Starmer just didn’t arrest enough people for mean Facebook posts”
https://x.com/iowahawkblog/status/2052752192210124918
Via SDA
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FWIW
Anthony Green
“2026 – Farrer By-election – Result Summary”
“One Nation GAIN Farrer from Liberal”
https://antonygreen.com.au/2026-farrer-by-election-result-summary/
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I thought the results would have been closer than that . But maybe I was gaslit by the media trying to pump up the tires for the Teal ( who said she isn’t a Teal ) .
Even the primary vote had One Nation well in front . After preferences ON way in front .
So where did the Labor vote go ? Not to the greens ( at around 2% ) Ha Ha ( sound of toilet flushing !!! ) .
I feel sorry for the Liberal candidate , she seems nice , she deserved a better outcome . But Sussssan Lee ( and the other leftists polluting the Liberal party ) REALLY REALLY poisoned the well . So an impossible task . Of course the electorate had to send a very strong message to the Liberal party – and they did .
Angus Taylor spoke well , sounds like he got the message that they didn’t get a couple of elections ago .
If ON can rustle up 5 or 6 MPs in the lower house at the next election and force the ALP into minority government then that will prevent them from doing too much damage and then for the ALP to go out with a whimper at the following election .
Then the major task of repairing this country can begin ( if we aren’t all being forced to take compulsory lessons in Mandarin by then ) .
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If ON ever gained enough seats to have balance of power, the Libs would vote with the ALP to override the will of the people. At least then The Uniparty would be exposed. The sheeple might wake up then
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Seriously –
“Starmer appoints Labour veterans Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman as advisers after election losses” #BBC headline just now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1428pev1n0t
“Starmer appoints Harriet Harman as women and girls adviser in post-election reset”
“Former PM Gordon Brown appointed as special envoy on global finance”
A little mole told me the idea is that Starmer sits round a table with Brown and Harman, the lights dim, they hold hands, and try to summon the spirit of Harold Wilson [who won 4 elections!].
There is no other conceivable purpose – unless it is to show that Sur Sturmur – the U-Turn King – is a man of action … misguided, pointless – even performative – action – and is not just sitting there waiting for the man in charge of the boating lake to call out “Come in Number Ten – your time is up!”.
Auto, despairing.
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While good overall, and for my ward where we elected the 2 Reform candidates, as we are losing the district council and splitting the county council from next April under Ranting Rayner’s ill-thought out changes, it has been a step backwards. We have a NOC district council where the combined residents and independents are in charge but from April will have a majority Limpdumb council. Both halves of the county have gone Limpdumb with Tories second but there were a lot of votes for Reform – as many as for the Tories but not delivering the seats as per the General Election.
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And still the dishonourable Starmer clings to power. The man is an utter disgrace. But then so too is the Labour party that supported him through two appalling years, and helped him survive a motion to force him out brought by the Conservatives.
But his resignation will bring only brief relief. The Labour party has no better candidates really, and many that are even worse. The UK is in a similar position to Australia, governed by a disastrous, far left rabble but without a credible alternative. The UK has Reform, but to be honest, I don’t trust Farage as far as I could throw him. Handed power, I think his globalist instincts would quickly be revealed. We have One Nation, but Pauline simply hasn’t got a strong enough team behind her yet.
We’re entering a very political fractured period. The old ‘two party system’ is crumbling, replaced by a host of smaller parties that can’t govern with their own majority. We are heading into the same territory that France and Italy have been in for decades, ruled by temporary, self-serving alliances that appear then crumble is short order, making actually governing the nation impossible.
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Just wreck it. Wreck Canberra, wreck the establishment, wreck the woke and wreck the left. Drill, frack and crack, make Australia great again!
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I have been busy with other things, but I thought I’d see what grok had to say about this article and the comments. This is the summary at the end of its output.
As a much wiser man once said, I pass it on for what it’s worth…
Overall on comments: Energetic and representative of the blog’s readership. They amplify the article’s narrative but add little new analysis or counterpoints. Valuable for gauging sentiment in this demographic, less so for balanced forecasting.
Bottom line: The post and comments validly highlight real voter discontent and Reform’s momentum in 2026. However, they overinterpret local results as the death knell of the “Blob.” UK (and Australian) politics remains volatile — rapid insurgent rises often face plateaus, scandals, or coalitions that moderate outcomes. Worth reading for the vibe, but cross-reference with broader analyses for perspective.
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The same pattern is visible throughout Britain, Canada, and parts of Western Europe. Housing costs exploded while real wages failed to keep pace. Governments expanded bureaucracy while productivity slowed. Immigration surged far beyond infrastructure capacity, increasing pressure on housing, healthcare, transportation, and social services. The middle class was squeezed from every direction at once. AUSTRALIA
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Now they have got rid of the parasitic politicians all that is need is to sack every snivel servant above level 7 pay grade.
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