LONDON — Early results Friday from nationwide elections in Britain suggested a historic drubbing for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party and sweeping gains for hard-right Reform U.K., led by Trump ally Nigel Farage.... [emphasis added]
Labour losses and Reform gains were no surprise; polls had long telegraphed the direction of travel just two years after Starmer led Labour to power in a 2024 landslide. However, with votes still being counted, the scale of Labour’s losses appeared epic.
Reform won hundreds of local council seats in working-class areas in England’s north, wiping the ruling party out in places like Hartlepool that were once solid Labour turf.
Farage called it “a truly historic shift in British politics” and that Labour was being “wiped out by Reform in many of their traditional areas.”
Reform is hostile to Labour's enthusiasm for making Britain more multicultural by allowing largescale immigration from the Third World. The Pakistani child rape gangs, short-lived NHS support for incestuous marriages, are all perfectly good reasons for the support Reform enjoys. Deporting illegal immigrants, having police go after violent criminals instead of prosecuting Britons using antisocial media, rebuilding British military power (whose weakness was shown recently by their inability to get a ship to Cyprus in a timely manner), backing away from net zero.
Hard-right. What is happening is that much as Democrats abandoned blue collar and middle-class Americans for the far more trendy LGBTWTF, illegal immigrant, and millionaire segments (to the benefit of Republicans generally and Trump specifically), Labour abandoned their traditional base.
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