Posted on 12/31/2025 11:37:42 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Capping off UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s disastrous first full year in office, a poll from YouGov found that just over one in ten voters approve of his government’s performance.
In its final approval survey for the year, YouGov found that only 12 per cent of the British voting public have a favourable opinion of the left-wing Labour Party government.
In comparison, 68 per cent of voters disapprove of the government’s performance, while 20 per cent have no opinion.
For context, the failed Tory government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also had a 12 per cent approval rating immediately before it was resoundingly rejected in the 2024 general election, which saw Starmer and Labour sweep to power with a strong majority in the House of Commons.
Since the start of the year, the Labour Party’s support has dropped 8 points in the polls to a paltry 18 per cent, according to YouGov’s tracker.
While much of the support has been siphoned off to the resurgent Green Party of hard-left leader Zach Polanski, the clear winner of the year has been Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, which has seen its support increase from 25 to 28 per cent.
This means that Reform now holds a 10 per cent advantage over the governing Labour Party. The party has also overtaken Labour in paid membership, making it the largest in the country.
The government has struggled primarily with the immigration crisis, with small boat illegal crossings of the English Channel surging to near record highs, with over 41,000 being brought ashore this year.
The surge in arrivals, in conjunction with the large asylum backlog, has led the government to continue expanding the use of hotels and other private accommodations across the country.
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Dear UK, you have a choice whilst you’re still civilized...you’re going to have to take down your gubmit.
In any way that you feel necessary.
That's the percent of voters who hate the Labour government but don't want to say so for fear of being put in jail.
The UK’s rump empire made the next jump to globalist Neo-marxism about 30 years. They’ve only become more ideological, destructive, and bankrupt since.
Their government literally needs to collapse, so latent British nationalism, culture and history can return to the fore.
It will be ugly, because marxists rarely leave willingly, and will probably entail hard times and violence.
but you all voted for them ,LOL
True, but only after the Conservatives squandered their mandate for, what was it, 9 or 10 years
Or they'll allow Nigel Farage to win. Then they'll blackmail or bribe him.
They removed Liz Truss after barely one month in office as soon as the Queen died.
Now, this installed wicked evil Godless anti-Christ WEF Davos worshiper Starmer will never go away.
His credentials working for anti-Christ:
— Shutdown free speech
— Force a WEF digital ID gulag surveillance system
— Divide Jerusalem
For what it’s worth, Labour won only 34% of the vote in the last UK general election. But the other parties split the rest, giving Labour a huge majority in Parliament.
Let’s hope that doesn’t happen again in 2029.
But who knows? The UK might not even exist as a country by then.
The problem is, we Brits got the government that the country (collectively) voted for.
The sheer size of the Labour win means that the opposition has almost no legitimacy. In fact, short of the Labour Party itself calling for a Vote of No Confidence against its own leadership, and forcing another general election that way, we’re pretty much stuck with it for another few years.
In our system, the electorate votes for one of the 650 representatives (MPs), with maybe 5 candidates in the running. The party that has the most MPs usually gets to choose the Prime Minister and the Cabinet ministers.
The Boris/Sunak party was so despised, Starmer’s party won 411 seats out of 650. Contrary to some popular reports, the Reform party led by Nigel Farage has less (effective) support across the country than the Lib Dems - a handful of successes doesn’t alter the fact that their candidates only got to fourth place in some regions, and in other regions they’re not even in the top ten.
Unfortunately a majority of over 400 means that there is no democratic basis to “take down” the government. We know Labour didn’t win by “stealing” the election, and for my entire lifetime the promises in an election manifesto have not been binding.
Some people think the monarch could dismiss the government and order fresh general elections without the PM’s permission - actually, the monarch can’t do that unless the country is without a PM or functioning Cabinet.
Thatcher was HATED by more than half the country during the Miners’ Strike and the Poll Tax Riots, and both times Queen Elizabeth refused to meddle in politics - as strong as her position was compared to Prince Charles, she (rightly) took the view that an unelected head of state has no business unilaterally deposing the fairly elected government of the day.
By “they”, you mean the Tory Party. Nobody else removed her.
The Tory Party selects its leader, and the Tory Party sacks its leader. At the time, the Tory leader served as Prime Minister.
The other problem that Reform have got is, the ones who whinge the loudest about immigration were TORY MPs who defected.
The problem under the Tories was just as bad, if not far worse, than it is under Labour currently. Labour’s deported more people than the Reform guys did when they were in the party of government.
Even the recent story about the Jew-hating guy who’s just been welcomed back to the UK after serving time in a Middle East prison is undermined by the fact that it was the Tories while still in office who were jumping up and down, trying to get this scumbag brought back to the UK.
I think for the British system to work properly, it should be possible for a British subject to appeal to the ruling Monarch. Then ask him to dismiss the Parliament. Especially if the Parliament is unpopular and there's a crisis.
I acknowledge your superior political understanding. However ‘they’ was a reference to Ephesians 6:12 as in principalities and powers, spiritual wickedness with intentional purpose operating in high places, unseen with their influences, their authority moving across the landscape of nations.
Jesus told us the Spirit world moves like the wind. Consider how it is ebbing and flowing across a pasture, where you can see the result but not the force itself at work. For example, when I saw Barack Obama visiting 10 Downing Street March 18th, 2024. I knew right then that bad things were coming and soon. An evil wind was blowing.
Another example of what I mean is where people back in the 1990’s used to mention the Clinton ‘body count’ of hundreds of people deceased who operated in their close orbit for a time. Of course I don’t believe Jezebel Hillary is calling up some contract hit-man to take care of Ahabs problems. Rather it is the power and workings of evil spirits which can move stumbling blocks out of the path of anyone they choose to install for their continuing use or purpose.
Satan told Jesus he can give the world to any that he chooses and he would give it to Jesus if he would merely fall down and worship him.
In the Spirit world, for those who serve Satan on this Earth we can watch and be a witness concerning just how quickly things align always to their benefit despite long odds that often appear insurmountable to their connections.
The reverse is also true, anyone opposing Satan even with the covering of the Holy Spirit and with a hedge of protection, if they should succeed in any meaningful manner, will then come under severe spiritual attack from the enemy.
It is a very real experience and once you’ve seen it and become sensitive to how it manifests in the psychical world, you will have no trouble perceiving these occurrences.
Of course, if we did rely on an unelected body to turf out the elected government, we’d be in a worse boat than Ukraine.
Let’s not forget, the Russians have successfully misrepresented what happened in 2014 AND since 2022.
Yanukovych sold Ukraine out for a bag of cash in 2013 triggering maidan protests. The result was, Azarov and other ministers resigned, and even Yanukovych’s own party sided with the opposition calls to impeach their president.
Putin even went on the record to agree Ukraine had nobody in power for him to negotiate with... And he said it had to have elections.
But you can’t run elections if there’s no parliament and no President (Yanukovych fled to Russia).
Obviously nobody wanted Russia helping to establish an interim government purely to facilitate elections, and Nuland got involved. Despite the caretaker administration ceding power once the elections were run and Poroshenko took over after winning the election, Russia still argues that the USA installed a government in Ukraine... And it’s used that as a propaganda tool ever since.
Ukraine, like many other mature democracies (including the UK), has a legitimate constitutional backstop to postpone elections during Martial Law - which remains in place because half the country is being bombed, millions are displaced, and an invading force holds entire regions at gunpoint.
Despite this situation clearly being constitutional AND having direct democratic oversight (Zelensky doesn’t impose it, the Rada keeps ratifying the martial law backstop) the USA sides with Russia and complains that Zelensky is illegitimate.
So call me a cynic but I fully expect that if we did appeal to King Charles and he obliged, Trump and Putin would stand shoulder to shoulder and declare the whole thing an affront to democracy.
Finally, we do have a near miss on the same lines... In 1968. Lord Mountbatten invited a conversation about whether or not the Queen should overthrow the government of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
It didn’t go ahead. But the mere fact it was even discussed remains a topic for constitutional scholars. The consensus is that the monarch could’ve had the troops onside due to their allegiance to the nation not the government of the day, but it would’ve ended the monarchy and taken Britain into a civil war.
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