Posted on 05/10/2026 7:44:38 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
More than a hundred Labour Party politicians have called on Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer to set out plans to resign from his post following this week’s disastrous defeat in the local elections to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.
The knives are out for Prime Minister Starmer, who is now embroiled in a desperate fight to extend his political life after a historically poor performance in the rough British equivalent of a midterm election this week. Starmer’s Labour suffered heavy losses in councils across England, losing control of traditional “red wall” seats to Farage’s Reform party, while losing power in Wales for the first time since a local parliament was established nearly three decades ago.
Over the weekend, some 110 Labour councillors and failed council candidates, reportedly from the party’s “soft left” wing, said the election results showed the party needs “new leadership to take us into the next election.”
“We fear that inaction serves only Reform UK and risks handing the keys to No 10 to Nigel Farage. The British public would not forgive us for this,” they wrote according to London’s Daily Telegraph.
“For the sake of the communities that our party was founded to represent, we urge you to announce a date for your departure and to guarantee an orderly process to elect your successor,” the Labour politicians added.
Meanwhile, nearly 40 Labour Members of Parliament have also openly called for Prime Minister Starmer to resign, including the longest-serving Labour MP in the House of Commons, Clive Betts, and Connor Naismith, who stands with the pro-working-class Blue Labour caucus.
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Too much ego?
I don’t understand the british elections...are these council seats they lost in local elections? So doesn’t really impact the parliament? Or does it and if so how?
The elections were all local no MP’s. Replacing Starmer will make no difference. It will be like replacing Pelosi with Hakeem.
These were local governments seats. The Parliament elections aren’t until 2029........
FU KS
He won’t resign, until he does.
I like the chaos and butthurt
Anyone teary eyed? LOL
He tried to make Iran into a issue for these elections.
Common tactic, many do it. When things suck (GDP, crime, unemployment, inflation, immigration, drugs, defense...) when people are generally dissatisfied and you don’t look good on the issue that really matter, you try create new topics and inject them into the national election debate.
Happy to see it didn’t pay off.
Not until his masters tell him it’s time to go. Whomever they may be.
Basically, to save his and his parties political hide, they are willing to risk US service members lives.
That’s not how it’s sold in the UK media, but that’s what it really comes down to.
Does ANYONE really think the UK wants a nuclear Iran?
Does ANYONE think the regime in Iran doesn’t have UK citizens blood in their hands?
But it gets framed as being for peace, or not repeating Iraq, or as some act of national sovereignty, or some other bullshit.
It’s a scumbag move in reality purely driven by political self interest.
They’ll have to carry him out kicking and screaming. 🙄
Whether you like Starmer or not, this is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
The UK should reconsider hanging given Stormer’s so far successful effort to destroy one of the greatest countries in history.
Please televise.
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