Sorry, UK. It’s all over for you.
Posted on 09/27/2025 5:09:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
If this year’s Labour conference turns out to be Keir Starmer’s last as party leader, he would not be alone in breathing a sigh of relief.
For all the parties, conference is the highlight of the political year, the event to which everything else has been leading. It’s an opportunity to encourage and energise the troops for the fight ahead and provide an invaluable platform for the leader to set out his stall on his own terms. But for Labour, its second conference since coming to office risks turning a spotlight on the many hurdles that Starmer needs to negotiate if he is to survive beyond next May’s local and devolved elections.
Loyal MPs and ministers will spend their time in Liverpool earnestly telling journalists that their man is the best one to lead the party into the next general election. Some of them may actually believe this. Inevitably though, the regular drip-feed of dreadful polling results and local by-election defeats will serve to focus their minds on the task ahead and on whether Starmer really is Labour’s best bet to hold on to as many as possible of the 400 constituencies Labour won last year.
Recent rumours of leadership challenges from Andy Burnham, Ed Miliband and even Sadiq Khan don’t materialise from nowhere. Had Starmer not been the architect of many of his own mistakes, he would still be enjoying the approbation of party and country as a relatively new and popular prime minister. As things stand, however, his administration appears to be crumbling under the weight of criticism it has received over personnel, policy and external pressures.
What frustrates supporters the most is the unforced nature of Starmer’s errors.
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I hope he didn’t say that cause I don’t believe a single word that comes out of his upper orifice
Farage’s Reform is predicted to overwhelm the May elections, then join with other factions to put Nigel into 10 Downing.
The Brits have had it...it’s a Trump/MAGA revolt redux
Sorry, UK. It’s all over for you.
Did Big Brother resign in 1984? I think not.
We hope
But the 2026 elections are just local. They don’t have to have another Parliamentary election until 2029. And I think Labour would be slaughtered if they call for new elections next year so they’ll hold off the full amount of time unless the government completely collapses.
That’s the problem with their system. Labour knows that they’ll lose in 4 years. So they’ll double down on their bad policies that will win points with their base.
Farage has encountered his own headwinds over the past few months, as it’s become clear that he’s a bit of a “damp squib”, or as the old Movement Conservatives would have called him, a “sqish”.
But Reform might contain the seeds of genuine change, and the chances of getting Farage to see the light, or at least do the right thing are far better than any alternative on the horizon.
The only question is whether events will force a new election before 2029. Not boring at least!
Why has not anyone done an AI scenario of Starmer begging for food or shelter?
As I understand, only the Prime Minister can call for a general election (usually when they think it will strengthen he and their party), so Starmer surely will not....but what about a different PM.
Farage’s Reform may be calling the shots soon. Hail Nigel 2026.
Still wondering how Tommy Robinson fits with all of this.
That’s the problem. The only rationale that I’ve heard floated for Labour calling an early election (and it’s a stretch) is that things are about to get so bad that it would be smart to let Reform take over and let them get blamed for all of the problems.
The problem with that is
a) the Left never willingly surrenders power
b) Reform might have enough good people around the weak-kneed Farage to actually make great strides to, well, reform
It would probably take a breakdown of order much worse then they’re currently seeing for an election to be called.
Of course, Charles strikes me as being largely on board with Labour’s globalist agenda, so why would he take the risk of going against last years (or 23’s?) dissolution and calling act which under their (unwritten) constitution can only be done upon advice of the PM.
Probably going to get worse before it gets better in the UK.
And IMHO, Tommy Robinson is the compromise guy, and if the pols there ignore him any longer, they’re going to get someone who really is hard-right and violent.
Bet it will be Sadiq Khan.
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