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UK ELECTIONS: GAINS FOR LABOUR, SETBACKS FOR TORIES, WHILE REFORM GROWS.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/07/04/exit-poll-says-leftist-sir-keir-starmer-will-be-britains-new-prime-minister/
'Sir Keir Starmer, a top lawyer who once served as the United Kingdom’s Director of Public Prosecutions and supposedly former hardline leftist radical, who claims to have changed his mind and reformed the Labour party he now leads into a mature and capable governing force, is going to be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The Ipsos exit poll claims 410 seats for Labour - the second largest Labour majority ever, if it proves to be correct - and a crushing defeat to the Conservatives, collapsing from 365 seats won in 2019 to an estimated 131 today.
The Liberal Democrats are polled to have enjoyed strong growth to 61 seats. Nigel Farage’s Reform, if this exit poll is correct, have well and truly gained the beachhead they said they wanted with an estimated 13 seats - he will be very happy with this.'
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/07/05/rishi-sunak-resigns-announces-he-will-quit-as-tory-leader/
'The defeated leader of the Conservative Party, which suffered its worst election result in well over a century overnight, has said he is stepping down from power and will also give up control of what remains of his political faction.'
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/07/07/farage-party-would-have-won-94-seats-under-proportional-voting-system/
'The British general election result has been described as the most disproportionate in history. Nigel Farage’s Reform UK won over four million votes but only secured five seats in the House of Commons, sparking calls for a change to the electoral system.'
MELANIE PHILLIPS: 'NO LESS SEISMIC FOR BEING PREDICTED'.
https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/all-change
The Reform party led by Nigel Farage achieved extraordinary success from a standing start. Despite the high bar against third parties set by the British electoral system - and despite some deeply questionable candidates, the result of a campaign thrown together at a moment’s notice with next to no organisation or party discipline - Reform won four seats, putting Farage himself into parliament for the first time.
'The significance of this achievement, however, goes much deeper than the number of seats the party actually won. Reform did enormous damage to the Conservatives (and more than a little to Labour too) by the high numbers voting for it, costing the Tories no fewer than 180 seats. Reform is now a serious insurgency on the pattern of “populist” insurgencies against a monolithic political establishment that we have seen developing in Europe.
A deeply ominous development is the emergence of an Islamic sectarian vote, with four previously Labour-held seats lost to independent candidates whose pitch - in a British general election concerning British national interests - was about Gaza and “Palestine”. '
SAM ASHWORTH-HAYES: BRITAIN AND THE NEW SECTARIANISM.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/05/britain-can-no-longer-ignore-the-new-sectarianism/
'The unexamined assumption that underlay Britain’s immigration system was a grand-scale version of the Wykehamist fallacy: people look different, but act the same. They vary on things that don’t matter very much - clothes, food, quaint traditions - but in their core, everyone is a good liberal waiting to discover that fact.
This, it turns out, may be entirely the wrong way to conceive of culture and identity. People can vary significantly in what they believe is moral and right, how they should act, and how society should be ordered, and they sometimes retain and transmit these differences across borders and down generations. '
COMMENTARY. While much of Europe trends rightward, Britain has seemingly taken a turn in the opposite direction. Britons will now have the opportunity to experience the effects of leftist policies full-on, as Americans have under four years of the Biden regime.