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