@Keir_Starmer The anger from disappointed melts that thought they were "voting starmer out" this week, only to realise they've voted who changes their bins - is top tier amusement
We must respond to the message that voters have sent us and break with the status quo once and for all.
We must confront the big challenges the public face with real answers.
That is how we will deliver the change that people are desperate for and build a stronger and fairer country.
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Ignoring UK media lies, it’s been a disaster for Reform
Only 3 councils are in Reform's control and Starmer is still Prime Minister
Less than 25% of the population supports Reform, reduced from 34%.
Complete and utter disaster.l for Farage and the billionaires that fund him
@Heccles94@bestcanton7 Considering the effort of the powers that be behind our MSM to smear Zack Polanski I don't think it's too bad. Just need to keep it up and not lose heart, next general election is a fair way off. I think people are going to wise up to Reform in a lot of the areas that they won.
@PolitlcsUK Find it baffling that people genuinely expected him to resign after local elections
Maybe they've been accustomed to the tory merry-go-round
These are tough election results for Labour and I’m sorry to all of those colleagues who have lost their seats.
Keir Starmer won a mandate to change our country.
We must get on with delivering that mandate - and show how politics can improve people’s lives for the better.
@RachelReevesMP You stupid stupid woman… the public dont want you or “your crippling plan for change” taxing the working public to shit. Your time is coming to an end
I didnt vote for them but I honestly think for a lot of people it was to prove a point and make a stand. The country has had enough and they want change. This was the first opportunity since the GE to make that loudly known and people have succeeded. The best thing other party leaders and MPs can do now is reflect and stop labelling people and start listening. Many people have genuine concerns and if people listened and had open dialogue things could actually progress.
@PolitlcsUK The real story isn’t the Tories collapsing.
Everyone expected that.
The real story is Labour winning a landslide nationally and STILL bleeding hundreds of council seats because voters already regret what they voted for.
Brutal.
@business Fake.
Pound rallied as US lost its new war in #Iran and US treasuries sank. EU bonds also rose on same event.
Trump insider will buy up cheap treasuries and then announce ceasefire making tens of billions profit.
Well done to the Leeds Labour candidates elected today. But I’m absolutely gutted for the brilliant Labour candidates who’ve lost to Reform in East Leeds.
In East Leeds and up and down the country, hard-working Labour councillors and other Labour representatives lost their seats today after being badly let down by the terrible decisions of this Labour leadership, despite serving their communities so well.
Their defeat has Keir Starmer’s name written all over it. Too many people now feel Labour is no longer on their side and no longer shares their values.
The consequences of these elections for our party are stark. Labour faces an existential crisis, and there is a real danger we may never recover. What’s more, we risk opening the door to a Nigel Farage government. No progressive party faced with that threat can simply carry on regardless until it is too late to stop it happening.
It is clear that Keir has fought his last election as Labour leader and, deep down, he will know it.
The party should now work towards a timetable for an orderly transition to a new leader by the end of this year.
Our party will only get one chance to get this right. We cannot become like the Tories, lurching from leader to leader.
So we need time for a calm, open and democratic leadership contest that allows a serious debate about what has gone so badly wrong and the vision we need to win back people’s support.
It must also allow a full range of candidates to stand, without the exclusions and stitch-ups that have come to dominate our party’s internal democracy, as we saw most recently in the Gorton and Denton selection.
Above all, this process must be about choosing the best candidate to stop Nigel Farage and prevent his Trump-style agenda from winning the keys to No. 10.