OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: Let this be the final nail in Labour’s coffin.
A bloodbath. A wipeout. A rout. Call it what you want, there is no understating the catastrophe that has befallen the Labour Party in yesterday’s local elections. These results are not just a bruising defeat for an unpopular incumbent – they signal the beginning of the end for the so-called people’s party.
On the seats declared so far, Labour is having the worst results for a governing party since the Tories in 1995, before they were cast out of power for a generation. Labour’s vote share has plummeted by an astonishing 19 points since its General Election win in 2024. As results continue to come in, Keir Starmer’s party is losing half of the seats it’s defending. Not quite the worst-ever rate of loss for a governing party. That dishonour belongs to, er, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party in May 2025.
The London Times adds: Plan your resignation to avert Labour strife, Keir Starmer urged.
Hindsight is 20/20, but clearly there was far more that Starmer could have done to prevent this bloodbath/wipeout/rout:
I think the big takeaway from the UK elections is that Kier Starmer just didn’t arrest enough people for mean Facebook posts
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 8, 2026