Reform Gains Over 1,300 Seats as Labour Loses Nearly 1,200

And there's still damage to come -- just 117 of the 136 councils have reported so far.

These are council (local) elections, not the general elections for Parliament (the national legislature), which do not have to be scheduled before 2029.

But council members do have power locally -- and these elections are a mighty harbinger of what will come.

The Greens gained 296 seats so far, almost all at Labour's expense.

(Numbers updated at 2:53 pm.)

Labour had controlled Wales for 27 years. Not only did they lose control -- Plaid Cymru won 42 seats, with Reform stomping in for 39 in second -- but even the Labour First Minister for Wales lost her seat in the vote.

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🚨 BREAKING: Welsh Labour First Minister Eluned Morgan has lost her seat in the Senedd

It's the first time in British history that a sitting head of Government has lost re-election to the house they led

The SNP kept control in Scotland, with Reform gaining zero seats, because Scotland is a mess and not worth thinking about. Their Muslim First Minister Hamzi Yusef hates the actual Scottish people and gives fiery speeches denouncing the Scots.

Keir Starmer, noted for his outreach to gay Ukrainian male model prostitutes -- just offering them a bad for the night, that kind of charity -- says that he's not stepping aside... sort of. What he actually said was that he would not walk away and "leave the party in disorder," which means, I'm pretty sure, that as soon as the party agrees on a successor, he will step down. He just doesn't want a big fight for control.

Astute post from Maxi@AllForProgress on X. Applies to the US too.

"There are the usual notes on procedure. People like my parents, Britain's ultimate swing voter category, were buried with doorknockers, and their earnest heartfelt pleas, in the final few weeks of campaigning. An avalanche of appeals after five years of having not a single party representative knocking on their doors, inquiring after them, or following up on their concerns.

There is still no party on the slate that understands that such elections as these are won between campaigns, through diligent attention to voters and relentless follow-up, not with three weeks to go. This, to my mind, is the single greatest predictor of governmental success, and it's a test that none of the current bottle are passing.

Whatever; the cumulative picture is the one we've watched forming for some time. Britain is shopping, rotating through every available political product, trying them on for size, and finding them generally wanting.

The political market is wide open. The next general election will reward whoever spends the intervening period building something vast, intense, and serious. . ."

Posted by: whig

While the cowardly chattering classes acknowledge the catastrophe, they refuse to address the reasons for it. They resort to gauzy evasions like "The public just wanted a change."

A change from what, exactly?

Or "the public has lost faith in the traditional major parties."

But why has the public lost faith, exactly?

Or they'll claim that Keir Starmer just isn't charismatic. Yes, correct, he's a gray dullard who looks like he'd lose a naked wrestling match to Anderson Cooper*, but... couldn't there be other, more tangible reasons the public has made the longtime former Two Major Establishment Parties of the UK minor parties?

What reasons might explain that, do you think?

Say -- what was Reform's One Single Endlessly Repeated Campaign Promise, anyway? Maybe that could provide a clue to this Mystery.

Even as the establishment faces a reckoning a long time coming, they still pretend away the reason for that reckoning.

A 14yr old invader has avoided jail after being convicted of raping a schoolgirl just three months after arriving in Britain on a small boat.

The teenager, who arrived as an unaccompanied minor last June and was placed in foster care, was found guilty in January of rape and two… pic.twitter.com/caa3efdHIA

— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) April 25, 2026

Australia: We can't deport this rapist because he's "too mentally retarded" to deport and he would lose access to Australian welfare services and he needs those!

* On second thought, does anyone really lose a naked wrestling match? It's all in the journey, isn't it?

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:53 PM

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