Posted on 01/07/2025 5:17:38 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Labour’s approval rating has slumped to its lowest ever level in a grim start to the New Year for Keir Starmer.
The YouGov survey showed that 63% of voters now disapprove of the government’s performance, compared to just 16% who approve.
That gives an overall approval rating of minus 47, down two points on the last poll at the end of December.
Separately, the poll also found that 40% of Labour voters disapprove of the government’s performance, compared to just 36% who approve.
The findings are a fresh blow for Starmer as he tries to get on the front foot following a difficult first six months as prime minister.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.co.uk ...
He could resign right now and the UK would still suffer through four and half years under the current Labour government. It’s a parliamentary system... They elect parties, not politicians. Politicians can be removed, political parties can’t be unless they lose a non-confidence vote and since Labour has a solid majority they can’t lose any such vote.
The King can dissolve Parliament and force a new election.
Labour is not likely to fare well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom
I don’t see it mattering much. Britain is gone and nothing can save them. The Tory leader is Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch, a follower of Boris, Truss, and Sunak.
Keir would be replaced by a straight out communist. Or maybe they both lose out to reform, who thinks Tommy Robinson should rot in prison.
Freedom is simply dead in the UK. They have 69 million people, and of them 11 million (at least) are foreigners.
So what if he does? You get the Tories again, more Boris, Truss, and Sunak.... or longshot, Farange.
Really, what difference does it make if they have new elections? Nothing will change. 1 in 6 Brits is an immigrant. Add in their children and god only knows how many people in the Uk are not really British.
At this point the UK cannot serve any useful purpose except as a bad example... an object lesson.
And for us to end our security agreements with the UK. It's obvious that we do not share the same values any longer.
Interesting, the UK version of the Huffington Post seems to be able to write an unbiased story that goes against the Leftist agenda. Here in the US, the Huffington Post (along with just about every other media outlet) would be explaining to their readers how the Pakistani men were helping the young teen girls to find their true sexual expression, or some crap like that.
Good points but I noticed that the gang raping is very downplayed in the article at hand. In terms of the language used.
“MAGA, still winning at home and abroad!”
Yep, and in this case, Elon Musk exposing what the elites want hidden from the public.
Condi Rice let that cat out of the bag 20 years ago. She admitted, ‘European values are different from ours.’ Our common ground has only been a charade of mutuality.
“And for us to end our security agreements with the UK. It’s obvious that we do not share the same values any longer.”
Here’s some nightmare fuel. Remember all those blue on blue attacks in Afghanistan etc, where moslems we trusted caught sudden jihad syndrome?
If it hasn’t happened already, one day in the next decade, a British sub carrying MIRVed Trident missiles with 50 to 196 H-Bombs will sail from the Clyde in Scotland with Royal Navy Captain Mohammed Abbas in command.
The Tories are even less popular.
And they have nukes.
I think it's more likely that the UK will turn into another version of South Africa, it will no longer be a first world country.
At that point, their submarines will be out of order, most likely. And they're not going to know how to fix it.
You’re living in a dreamworld... This isn’t the 18th century... The King will do nothing. The King, or Queen is a figurehead and nothing more. They agree with whatever the currently elected government decides. To do anything other than that would be the end of the monarchy.
If Stamer resigns, the Labour party will select a new leader and the King will appoint that member of parliament as the new Prime Minister.
There’s one other thing, that being the king ordering parliament dissolved; but of course Charles is not likely to do that.
The last King Charles to screw with parliament lost his head in 1649... Since then, the monarchy has pretty much deferred to the will of the people through their elected representatives.
They are far more than mere figureheads, though they very rarely exercise any direct political power.
But, to just step in and use the power to sack parliament not at its own request for regular general elections would be a very unusual move in the present time. However, if things were to fall into absolute chaos I can see it happening if it was seen as having popular support (and of course they would have to order new elections and not merely reclaim the power for the Crown...that would indeed end the monarch). The last time this was done was in Australia in 1975 (by the Queen’s Governor-General who acts on the authority of the Monarch in the Commonwealth Realms). The election resulted in the opposing party winning so evidently the public in that case supported the sacking of parliament. Things are nowhere near that point yet...mere lack of popularity is not chaos with the government and country on the brink of collapse.
That is also not correct. King Charles II dissolved parliament and completed the rest of his reign without one.
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