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Posted on 05/08/2026 4:42:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
A “truly historic shift in British politics” has taken place where the national political question is no longer about “left or right”, Brexit pioneer Nigel Farage said as his Reform Party surged in early results in what has been called the “midterm” elections.
The first Britain-wide local election results trickled in overnight — and will continue to do so through the day and into the weekend as over 5,000 local races have their votes counted — revealing in its early stages a massive swing to Reform UK. Party leader Nigel Farage hailed the party’s gains so far, and vowed “the best is yet to come” as the vast majority of elections have yet to be counted, and with those on their way being some of the most promising for his party, he said.
At time of publication, and with little more than 1,200 wards declared out of over 5,000, Reform commands a strong lead with 400 seats. Because the party is new and hasn’t had a chance to challenge these elections before, apart from a handful of defections from other parties during the previous term almost all of their wins today will be gains, with 398 so far being new to Reform.
The Conservatives, Labour, and the Liberal Democrats — the old centre-right, centre-left, and centrist legacy parties that between them have dominated British politics for centuries grouped very closely behind at this stage in the race, with 256, 253, and 250 seats respectively. This is already a punishing outcome for these titans of Britain’s old political order, but closer scrutiny exposes how bad it really is: while the Tories managed to win those 256, this is a loss of 174 seats compared to last time.
It’s even worse for Labour, ..., being down 259.
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“1,200 wards declared out of over 5,000”
A long ways to go. Do they cheat like the marx-o-crats do here?
Leftists cheat no matter where they are. Period...............
We have to remember that Reform started from zero.
the ratio of seats won seems to be
Reform 1 and a half times the seats of any one of the other 3 big parties.
the other 3 (Tory, Labour, and LibDem) are about equal in seats.
London returns are coming late so the current ratio could change.
Britain is Fooked. Re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Crikey
“Taking Seats From Both Left and Right”
There is no Right in British politics, unless you include Reform. All the other parties, Labour, Lib Dems, Green, and Conservative Party are all Left.
Yes, there is localised cheating in UK elections, but nothing on the scale of 2020.
the tories have been more of a suburban/rural party versus the more urban Labour party. So there are some differences
But it is true that none are legitimate conservative
“There is no Right in British politics”
Correct. We’ll see about the Reform party.
First past the post used to be Nigel's downfall, and it is an important part of keeping minority rule, the hallmark of all parliamentary systems, which is why it is favored by the left.
Est are closer to 1800 this morning.
“It’s even worse for Labour, ..., being down 259.”
Embrace the suck, Starmer. You earned this.
Now let it happen here, Trump got the ball rolling, but there’s a long way to go.
The Tories earned it, too. They are more irrelevant than ever.
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