Posted on 10/05/2025 7:53:01 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Sir Keir Starmer's party's traditional stronghold in south east Wales could pivot to support Reform UK instead, polling and residents have suggested. Caerphilly has been a safe Labour seat since 1918 but growing disillusionment with the Prime Minister has left some lifelong supporters looking elsewhere, with their switching allegiance lining up with recent polls showing Reform's growing influence in the region. "I grew up in this town as a Labour supporter," teacher Andrew O'Shea, 65, said. "They were the party for the working class but now they've lost themselves. Starmer is out of his depth."
"I want somebody to take control of the borders," he told The Sun. "Like thousands in this town, I'm going to protest-vote Reform because we're tired of Labour getting it so wrong." It comes after bombshell polls put Nigel Farage's right-wing party within touching distance of winning the largest number of seats at the 2026 Senedd election, with Labour trailing behind in third place.
A major, more concrete indicator of the changing political landscape in Wales could come in the form of the Caerphilly by-election results after residents head to the polls on October 23.
Even undecided voters appear reluctant to lend their vote to Mr Starmer's party amid frustrations over immigration and the economy - a stark contrast to Labour's historic prominence in Wales, having led every devolved government since 1999.
"Starmer needs to get his act together," Gillian Champion, 64, who admitted she has yet to decide who to back in the upcoming vote, said. "They say they've got no money, but they're giving money to people who come over on the boats."
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OH My Starman
Too little, too late?
Well it wont last long.
Like London and the Midlands, within a few years the rest of “Angle-land” will be overrun with Not_Angles, and they will simply outvote the Angles.
It’s over for England and the UK in general. The White English and Britons will become a minority in their own land, and will submit to the sword of Islam meekly. Two wars decimated their best, and the only thing left are the scraggly trash who are too weak to push back.
It means that Russia will have no problem in the future pushing back into Europe and resurrecting the boundaries of the old Russian Empire. They aren’t going to worry about a polyglot band of Pakistani half wits pretending to be Redcoats. And that will be it for Western Europe: suicide by immivasion.
What a wonderful new word! Coined by you? Brilliant!
It’s who counts the votes.
“Gillian Champion, 64, who admitted she has yet to decide who to back in the upcoming vote“
Sigh women voters. As bad as train wreck is she will still vote Labour.
Send in the Starmtroopers!
Long ago and far away, I did use that word thinking I had thought it up.
But of course a quick web search...even 20 years ago...brought up the word many times.
The other description may be more apt: Crimivasion. Because that’s what was happening to us until Don Trump rode back into town.
That is rather a depressing take and I do not find fault with it.
Growing up, for me, one of the major world concerns seemed to be “nuclear proliferation”. Now, we are seeing nuclear powers collapse and revert to the sixth century. The result seems as though it could be the same.
This is forcing the Conservatives to declare they will exit the ECHR. That is a start. But their issues seem to go back to Gordon Brown and are similar to our own issues.
Gordon Brown reformed the civil service and regulators from political accountability. The logic was valid as they wanted to insulate technical decisions from politics. Unfortunately it has morphed into ideological and now unaccountable power centers.
Now when the political players demand change they are yelling into an unyielding bureaucracy.
Some conservatives are coming to understand this change needs to be reversed. I’m not sure if reform is speaking about it…yet.
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