The latest UK Parliamentary elections are being hailed as a massive defeat for Tories and a landslide victory for Keir Starmer’s center-left Labour Party, ending 14 years of Conservative rule in England.
- Keir Starmer is set to become the new UK Prime Minister, ousting Rishi Sunak from 10 Downing Street after Labour is projected to win 410 of the 650 parliamentary seats.
- In comparison, Sunak’s Conservative party is projected to win less than 131 seats and saw the defeat of several Conservative figures, including Jacob Rees-Mogg and former Prime Minister Liz Truss. It would be the Tories’ worst electoral performance in history.
- While Labour and Conservatives remain the stark majority, the right-wing Reform Party under Nigel Farage earned four seats. Farage himself was elected in Clacton-on-Sea after seven previous attempts.
- It also saw George Galloway – an anti-Zionist firebrand – narrowly lose his seat, which he won in a by-election four months ago by appealing to both Muslim and native constituents in order to take power.
What they’re saying: Thursday’s elections prompted responses from both winners and losers, including Rishi Sunak, who reportedly apologized for his party’s failure.
- “To the country I would like to say first and foremost I am sorry. I have given this job my all but you have sent a clear message that the government of the UK must change, and yours is the judgement that matters. I have heard your anger, your disappointment, and I take responsibility for this loss,” said outgoing Sunak in an address.
- “My plan is to build a mass national movement over the course of the next few years and hopefully be big enough to challenge the general election properly in 2029,” said newly elected Nigel Farage after results were announced.
Why it’s important: The elections represent a vote of no confidence in conservative rule, which has seen a worsening in mass immigration, a major issue for native Britons.
The biggest election takeaways for Nationalists should be…
— The Homeland Party (@Homeland_Party) July 5, 2024
The Lib Dems have achieved 17.75 times more seats than Reform UK, with half a million fewer votes and arguably less media attention, by:
– Engaging in community politics to win council seats first and get people used… pic.twitter.com/AcZYMxTzdb
The elections also highlight significant disparities in the UK’s first-past-the-post voting system, which some say fails to represent constituents accurately.
- Critics argue that the current system produces unrepresentative results, pointing to Reform’s 4 million votes (14.3%) yielding only four seats compared to the Lib Dems’ 3.4 million votes (12.2%), resulting in 71 seats.
- While Labour did win a stark majority, they earned only 33.8% of the vote, a disproportionate gain.
- “The conclusion is obvious: first past the post voting and the current ‘parliamentary democracy’ we have here in the UK is totally broken and produces results that are not representative of views of the population,” said British Nationalist Mark Collett on his official Telegram.
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