Ian30

So, about a third of the UK are morons. Similar to the US where a third of the population drinks the KoolAid. Seems appropriate.

Cosmic Hare13

Starmer has alienated many Labour voters. Replicating Reform policy, backing Israel's brutal Regime, cutting welfare, criminalising peaceful protesters, saying he 'gets it' regards racist pricks harassing families in hotels. He needs to GO.

Boudicca of Suburbia12

That is both good news (that Reform has peaked) and terrible news (that they captured 27% of the vote share). I despair of how we can fight them when media, so coal and traditional, is so stacked in their favour.

The key point to note tho is other commentary on some labour vote going to Greens, so reform get a seat. Yet not a peep from labour about the genocide. Versus Spains leaders speaking and doing as is right

Jeremy Bentham's Ghost8

It doesn't matter if they've peaked if the anti-Reform vote is split.

firstprinciples.bsky.social6

Yet still the press will trumpet 'Reform landslide', whereas the actual results show that our first-past-the-post voting system is entirely incapable of dealing with the true multi-party politics that the UK has had for a while now

Sam6

I'm clinging on to the hope that perhaps once people get a taste of their ineptitude at local level it will put them off at general elections

tykebrahe.bsky.social5

The message of chaos in councils they control will intensify now they control more - and that won’t help them . That’s going to be good nationally, but feel sorry for the non Reform voters waking up today to find they now live in a Reform controlled local authority

Brass Monkeys3

I've been banging this drum for a while. Everyone who is ever going to vote R*f*RM is voting reform. Yes, 27% of the whole voting population seems like A LOT of people, but it means 73% don't want the Fag-Ash Fuhrer's racist cunts in charge. We ARE better than that. We just need to organise.

Alison Lovatt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿3

That's in England at council level. They came second in Wales in the Senedd. A huge worry.

Jane2

That is similar to what they are getting in the polls for the GE

DazBev2

Reform on the way down as the Green Party are on the way up.

David Thompson2

By "National", do you mean the whole of the UK? Any figures for Scotland and Wales separately?

Phinp2

Directly related to Orban's lack of funding? ...

monksfield.bsky.social2

Exactly, and yet the Chris Mason orgasm continues.

RC683

Ahh ya gotta love politics.......EVERY nutjob thinks they can be a politician and unfortunately there are stupid people who'll actually vote for them...just look at US politics as the best example. There are also a few crazies in Australian politics

jeannettebusque.bsky.social2

Has Britain learned nothing? I expected better.

Bryan laverty5

But hey, don't vote green cause they're anti-semitic. England has a MASSIVE (lack of) intelligence problem.

Jean-Luc Picard3

Reform have, and will continue to, attack Jews. It is mind boggling that they have Jewish people standing, and voting, for them.

Ben Ansell7

@patrick-pme.bsky.social has the Reform estimate now down to 26%. Dropped 5 percent from last year. They are doing well - just not as well as they did last time. Greens up to 18% in national estimate now. I think the bloc story still has some mileage. No-one running away with it.

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭4

But Labour might be 20%? So not 1983 Labour either.

Graham16

And which policies will change under a new Prime Minister? Will it stop the horrible rhetoric around immigration? Stop demonising the disabled? Look towards applying to join the Single Market? Help stop energy co. price gouging? If not, you're chasing reform voters, so what's the point?

Nick13

Labour are finished. They sold our the country out to Palantir, PE companies & other corporate interests. Alll Labour can do now is safeguard us against a Reform govt. Join the EU, reform the house of Lords, pass a motion to prevent withdrawal from ECHR, and anything else you can think of.

catsinfrance13

If only Labour high command stopped trying to out-reform Reform. Nothing good ever comes from appeasing the far-right as it only emboldens them. People against the far-right will turn to the Greens, rather than vote Reformlite. Just my £0.02 for what it's worth.

jonnye46.bsky.social9

Time to go big, public ownership of utilities and rail, PR, rejoin the EU. It’s time for what’s better for the country, not what’s best for Labour.

Kevin6

Starmer took Labour away from its voters. Him and the centrists are to blame.

Iacovos5

Many voted Labour to oust the Tories, albeit with misgivings over Starmer. But stupid EU red lines, austerity continuity, Trump-crawling, Reform-aping and, most unforgivably, genocide-enabling have deeply shocked anyone remotely decent or progressive. No coming back from this for Labour with Starmer

Kali Silvers5

Maybe all the transphobic policies Starmer, Streeting and Phillipson seem to enjoy aren't the vote winners they think they are? Just a thought.

Jos Gallacher 🕊️3

The point about replacing Sir Kier should not be about winning the next election but about leading a Labour government for the next three years in a way that improves the lives of the many.

Sixes All The Way3

Labour also wasted their campaign opportunity by pissing themsleves over the Greens rather than try to put forward good faith arguments. Labour are a spent force & entirely deserve to suffer this self-inflicted demise.

MrTerryChaos (Terry)3

The problem is Labour Together. Starmer is just a symptom of the rot in the party. Unless Labour Together is disbanded and the progressives of the party are able to regain control, Labour is cooked. If the party replaces Starmer with a LT crony like Streeting, it'll just be a performative move.

grayhaired.bsky.social2

You are fortunate. I get to hear my husband rant every day at the evening news here in the USA. But we DO get to hear them rant. Gotta love my guy.