The headline is the way in which Labour was destroyed in the local elections in the United Kingdom. But the real news is the continuing demolition of the Conservative Party, which is being rightly rejected by Reform voters in response to its refusal to stop immigration and start repatriating the invaders.
The final results aren’t in yet, as only one-half of the local council elections have reported yet, but with both Labour and the Tories below the LibDems and Reform nearly doubling the Conservative vote, it’s very clear that the direction the two major parties have been dragging the UK since the Tony Blair years has been a very unpopular and antidemocratic one.
UPDATE: The results are even worse for Labour than had been anticipated.
The Red Wall Labour MP summed up the mood. ‘It’s not carnage. It’s f***ing carnage.’ The results are still coming in. But it’s not going to get any better. The pattern is set. In Labour’s former Northern heartlands, the party has not been defeated. Or even routed. It’s simply ceased to exist. The only councils where the party has been able to cling on are where only a third of the seats were up for election.