Posted on 07/05/2024 5:33:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
Labour Leader Keir Starmer poised to become Britain's next prime minister.
British voters frustrated by a sluggish economy voted to oust their conservative party from power after 14 years of rule, and turn to liberal Labour Leader Keir Starmer to be their next prime minister.
Exit polls showed the Labour Party was poised for a landslide victory, ending Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's turbulent tenure.
"To everyone who has campaigned for Labour in this election, to everyone who voted for us and put their trust in our changed Labour Party - thank you," Starmer wrote on the X social platform after the exit polling was made public.
Nigel Farage, an ally of Donald Trump and the architect of the Brexit movement, won his first ever Parliament seat as his upstart Reform Party captured an unexpected four seats.
While parts of Europe have been turning to conservatives in this year's election, British voters went in the opposite direction after years of bumbling and failed promises from their ruling conservative party.
Starmer and his Labor colleagues promised to revive an economy that never shook its pandemic doldrums and to move Great Britain quicker into a clean energy future.
The exit polls showed Labour on track to secure 410 seats in Parliament, while the conservatives would drop to 131 seats.
Same as the Old Boss!..............................
Between today’s Tories and the Labour Party, Labour is the slightly less lefty choice.
But Reform made some very important gains. This Labour victory is likely to be a mile wide and an inch deep.
A UK man was arrested for carrying a toy sword- the left are such rational people! /s (course in our nation a boy was arrested for chewing a pop tart into a vague l shape that “resembled a gun”, but it must be pointed out that it was loonies leftie policy that caused that!)
The Tories are the UK equivalent to our RINOs, totally worthless.
That ‘toy sword’ had a real blade attached....................
Yes.
Farage is taking a few formidable pals with him
4 seats only but they will make an impact.
You’ll see.,
A foot in the door.
That is an important note. The only reason Labour has such a large majority was due to a divided opposition. The new Tory leader (hopefully Kemi Badenoch) is going to have to work to win back Reform voters and present an alternate vision to the weak one promoted by Rishi Sunak, and the coming crapfest under Sir Kier Starmer and Labour.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nglegege1o
British voters didn't "turn left." Feckless Conservative Party leadership demoralized both their own base and the overall electorate, and split the anti-Labour vote. You'd have to be blind not to see this.
Yes, voting Labour instead of Conservative was not a “turn to the left.” The names don’t mean anything and haven’t for a long time.
Ah, I didn’t read the story- but yeah- arrested for a blade. Not someplace I’d want to move to
I’ve been saying this for 20 years. England is dead.
The UK is slowly turning into a ‘Living Museum’ with play actors like our Williamsburg..............
It was apparently a home-made device made to resemble a common toy sword in the UK.................
It seems the UK’s have too many ministers.
650 MP’s to govern a population of 66 million.
Have some friends who left the UK due to to much socialism ask any who left it’s usually for the same reason.
maybe people are just throwing whoever was in power out of power over their covid response.
Nobody over here gives a crap about the Brits politics, they can swallow in their demise.
This happen almost every election cycle.
America goes Right, Britain goes Left. Or vice versa.
Same thing with Israel..........................
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