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Starmergeddon – HotAir

May 7, 2026
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Could this be the swan song for the embattled and inept Prime Minister of England?





The chance of a change at No. 10 has even earned its own tag name.

STARMERGEDDON

The United Kingdom, pretty much all of it, goes to the polls today. 

In Scotland and Wales, they’ll be electing all members of their Parliaments. In England, it will be members of the councils who run every facet of life in the cities and counties throughout the country.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s base as titular Labour Party leader is in the commanding number of councils his party controlled as of the last election, the one that brought him to power.

That hold over the local base is seen as very much in peril today, and, in some instances, councils that have been traditionally Labour strongholds for a century or so are expected to fall to challengers from either local parties – like the Welsh Plaid Cymru – or to Nigel Farage’s Reform surging movement.

 Starmer’s last-minute appeal to the British public to ‘think of all Labour’s done for you’ with his requisite slap at the upstart and not socially acceptable Reform, felt a little flat and desperate.

I’m not sure British voters are seeing any progress.





As Labour is the reason people are angry, this also rings a tad hollow, no?

Controversial Labour politican Angela Rayner did her bit, urging the masses to help Labour survive while spinning some anti-Reform yarns for good measure.

Her assertion that Reform is ‘not being for the working class’ seems to be falling on either deaf or already determined ears if polls are anything to go by, with, oddly enough, that very same ‘working class.’

In Wales, Labour is in an absolute panic over projected losses to Reform, and in one formerly traditional Labour bastion that really would sting.

Welsh miners are gravitating to Farage’s party. When you’ve lost the salt-of-the-earth working-class miners…oh, hello.

Wales

Labour has been the dominant political force in Welsh politics since devolution in 1999.

Plaid Cymru and Reform UK, however, are now neck and neck in the polls, while Labour is trailing both.

Plaid is set to become the largest party but is expected to fall short of the 49 seats it needs in the new 96-seat Senedd to secure a majority.

The nationalists are picking up votes away from their traditional heartlands of the rural, Welsh-speaking north and west.

The party’s biggest gains could be taking seats in central Wales from the Tories and from Labour in the middle-class suburbs of Cardiff and Swansea.

Labour’s most painful losses, however, could be to Reform. The party is expected to lose control of the mining valleys, the birthplace of Nye Bevan, to the populist Right





Scotland, sadly enough, is polling as if it will shrug off its short dance with Labour to once again embrace a Scottish National Party (SNP) majority in their Parliament. The SNP has been an ongoing disaster for the country, and the fellow who leads them is one more cog in that slimy, progressive wheel. But it’s their country.

What is going to be interesting are projections that show Labour will probably not retain enough seats to be the main opposition party. If they lose even that, it will be thanks to their war on drilling in the North Sea and other aspects of Miliband’s antipathy to what had once been one of the most vital sectors of the Scottish economy.

…Reform and Labour are locked in battle to be Holyrood’s main opposition party while the Tories are predicted to lose more than half of the 31 seats they are defending.

Some 38 seats in the central belt, including those in Edinburgh and Glasgow, are thought to be on a knife edge between Labour and the nationalists.

The Tories will be battling to cling to Blue Wall seats that run along the border with England, amid a surge in support for Reform.

Reform is also targeting seats in Scotland’s north-east, the hub of the UK’s oil and gas industry, which is feeling the squeeze from Ed Miliband’s refusal to allow more North Sea drilling.

The Green Party is forecast to make inroads, particularly in the London suburbs, where there are substantial Muslim enclaves.





Their focus has been a little different than the other parties’, who are more concerned with taxes, roads and the all important bin collections. Green Party leader Zach Polanski recently was pressed to defend his party’s campaign slogan, ‘Palestine Is on the Ballot.‘

And it’s not merely rhetoric for consumption on social media and weekend rallies. If you read the Telegraph’s regional breakdown of the election projections, frankly, it’s disgusting.

Diversity, my friends, is proudly pro-terrorist first.

Yorkshire and the Northeast

While Reform is set to do well in the former industrial towns that were once Labour strongholds, it could be edged out by pro-Gaza independents in inner-city areas with significant Muslim populations.

The Greens are also set to perform well in cities such as Leeds, which have younger, liberal residents, while the Lib Dems will be hoping to improve their showing in Sheffield…

North West

Labour is under threat from both Reform on the Right and the pro-Gaza independents on the Left.

The independents look set to do well in councils such as Blackburn with Darwen, and in Hyndburn, which covers the area around Accrington, both of which have a sizeable Muslim community…

West Midlands

Attention will focus on the pro-Gaza independents in Birmingham, England’s second city.

Almost a third of its population is Muslim, and a number of independent candidates are hoping to profit from disillusionment with Labour…





Although some are finding ironic satisfaction in the Greens’ appeal to the unassimilated and perpetually hostile newcomers.

There are plenty of Reform pickup projections on the board already, but results might not completely shake out for a day or so, perhaps even the weekend. Should Starmer completely lose his shirt in an epic electoral embarrassment, there are still no guarantees he will resign – they can’t force him to, even though decency would seem to require his departure.

And, as bad as he is, the Labourites waiting and jostling for position to replace him in the wings – because at this juncture, they are all terrified of having to call a snap general election with Reform as muscular as it is – are all even further to the Left of Starmer.

If Starmer has been a disaster, I can’t imagine what the, say, uber liberal mayor of Greater Manchester would do to a country already reeling from the effects of too much woke progressivism.

Thursday, May 7, might just prove the blackest day in Labour’s history. Its vote is set to be carved up between Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and Zack Polanski’s Green Party. Labour could lose control of Wales for the first time in a century, and faces near-erasure by Scottish Nationalists. Sir Keir Starmer may think he can limp on to 2029, but nobody else does. Labour MPs are furiously plotting. They could unleash civil war on Friday morning. It will be brutal. Grab the popcorn.

Angela Rayner, Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting are battling to replace the PM, but all come with baggage. Rayner still hasn’t been cleared over wriggling out of that £40,000 stamp duty bill. Burnham isn’t even in Westminster, while Streeting was politically close to that toxic wretch Peter Mandelson. To use a technical term, it’s shaping up to be a full-scale bunfight. And that will have terrifying consequences far beyond Labour HQ.

…Starmer’s government is a reminder that Labour only ever has one plan. Tax more, borrow more, spend more. And when it doesn’t work, tax, borrow and spend even more.

Rachel Reeves has more than lived up to her predecessors. She’s piled on £70 billion a year in extra taxes, while borrowing another £130 billion. But that’s still not enough for the Labour left. Our national debt is heading towards £3.5 trillion by the end of the Parliament, and they simply don’t care.

A serious Government would look at those numbers and hit the brakes. Instead, every Labour leadership rival will promise more tax, more borrowing and more spending. It’s the only thing Labour MPs, activists and trade unions will for vote for. Now the bond market has had enough.





Grab the popcorn indeed, and be ever so grateful this disaster movie isn’t playing in your local theater.

Although we came close…


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