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Posted on 05/08/2026 8:43:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Sir Keir Starmer has insisted he will not quit as prime minister and "plunge the country into chaos", as Labour reels from significant election losses.
The results in England, Scotland and Wales have piled pressure on Sir Keir, with some Labour MPs calling for him to set a timetable for his departure, although his cabinet allies have backed him for now.
Labour has lost power in Wales, ending its 27-year rule, while the SNP remains the largest party in Scotland.
Reform UK has been the big winner in England, picking up more than 1,400 seats and taking control of councils in areas where Labour and the Conservatives have been historically dominant.
The BBC's projected national share (PNS), which is calculated from results in more than 1,000 wards and estimates a general election where people voted along similar lines, makes Reform the largest party, on 26% of the vote share.
The PNS puts the Greens in second on 18%, followed by Labour and the Conservatives neck-and-neck in third place on 17% - appearing to confirm the end of the traditional dominance of the big two parties in the UK.
Labour has lost more than 1,100 English council seats, including in its heartlands across northern England and the Midlands, and faces further difficult results as counting continues throughout Friday.
The results are bleak for Labour in Wales, where Plaid Cymru is now the biggest party in the devolved parliament, with Reform as the main opposition.
Meanwhile in Scotland, the SNP is the largest party in Scotland but fell short of an overall majority.
Labour, who not so long ago harboured ambitions of toppling the SNP, finished a distant second on 17 seats - tied with Reform, who made their electoral breakthrough in Scotland.
Labour's poor showing in the elections has fuelled further...
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So what effect did the election actually have, I wonder?
He really thinks a lot of himself when he thinks the country would be plunged into chaos if he abides by the will of the people.
Hope!
Biden quit after the New York Times told him to quit.
Is the BBC trying to do the same with Starmer?
listened to his speech
he thinks the messaging not the policies are the problem
sound familiar?
,,, I didn't get past that first line. What an altruist Starmer is. His actions have screwed Britain and he is such a self worshipper that he thinks he can fix what he'll never admit to breaking.
I really feel sorry for the twerp. Sarc-
I guess pandering on some anti Trump and anti war sentiment didn’t pan out all that well?
National politicians that are flailing and failing love to look outside their boarders and point at some issue, and they sure as hell don’t want to talk about the situation in their own country.
Schroeder in Germany 2002 did the same exact thing. Germany had high inflation and unemployment, rising crime, a flat lining GDP at the time. Schroeder made Iraq one of the center pieces of his campaign.
So then, if not Starmer, who?
Is there a plan to fill that position right away, or will that too require yet another election?
The political campaign that never ends.
Legitimizing Reform in the eyes of the unwashed masses. Remember, the UK media has been casting Reform as the heavy of the piece - “only stupid racist homophobic chauvinists would vote for such a crazy party like Reform! They’re NAAAAAZZZZZZZIIIIIIIIIISSSSS!”
Sound familiar?
They have been treating Reform like it was some fringe wacko party, and they actually had succeeded at this in the last general elections that got Labour into power. It is now going to be extremely difficult to cast them that way, and it now looks legitimate to vote Reform for the timid mushy mass voters that were formerly influenced by the media.
Ideally, the UK will end up with a government where the two major parties in Parliament are Reform and Restore. Restore only got started this past year, so there’s not a real chance that they’re going to get much headway in the next year or two, but I think that will eventually do well.
It will require an election, but only in the sense that Parliament must select a new leader from the ruling party.
The hilarious part is that all the potential Labour candidates are either awful, have terrible track records in this administration or prior ones, or both.
Here’s a list of the leading Labour replacement candidates. Read between the lines on their descriptions:
An attempt, from across the pond, to cease and remove itself from the planned fate by the uncivilized portion of the World which too has invaded with help on this side of the pond?
Another ‘Pig in a Poke’ situation.
I’m surprised Boris has not made noises about throwing his tattered hat back into the ring. Yes, he could have been a contender - maybe 10 years ago.
Good luck, Great Britain. Get your affairs in some semblance of order, before the Muslim Mob does it for you.
After that, all will be under the mark of Sharia.
Americans cannot/ should not do this for the English (the selection of appropriate leadership), not even our Trump.
It was a message to Starmer that it is time to speed up the agenda. Double down, victory at all costs!
Boris is in the Conservative Party. If Starmer, who is Labour, resigns, the Labour Party members in Parliament decide what Labour member shall replace him.
Labour will remain in power at the national level until there is a general election through either the normal appointed time for it to happen (2027) or if a vote of no confidence is passed in Parliament. In the latter case, if the PM doesn’t then resign, a general election will be called.
UK votes about every 3 or 4 weeks it seems and there’s always chaos.
Next parliamentary election is 2029, not 2027.
Long way off, and Labour can import a lot of Pakistanis before then.
When a socialized country starts to rebel, it isn’t because socialism is working for them.
It proved to the world that the UK’s electorate did not want what its Deep State was shoving down their throats.
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