Starmer suffered worst defeat of ANY new PM in history last week

Dire local election results left Starmer with just 14% of vote and losing TWO THIRDS of the seats Labour tried to defend

Keir Starmer suffered a worse defeat during last week’s local elections than any new prime minister since records began, losing 65% – a fraction under two thirds – of the seats Labour was defending. These are the kind of results normally expected of a failing government after years in power and are not only worse but far worse than any comparably new government in history:

In 1977, after being in government for three years and just two years before being dumped from power, Labour lost 48% of the council seats it defended. The only comparable loss in terms of percentage was in 2009, when Labour lost 62% of its seats after twelve years in power.

According to elections expert John Curtice, Labour’s vote share last week fell to just 14% – which, as former MP Claudia Webbe has pointed out in the Morning Star this week, was far below Labour’s previous worst ever performance. As Webbe noted:

Early projections had put Labour at 20 per cent, which would have already been its worst since the 1980s. These were quickly adjusted to 19 per cent, which would have been the party’s worst local election performance in 124 years since records began — so the final result five points lower than that was catastrophic for Keir Starmer’s party.

Despite this, most UK ‘mainstream’ media have given it scant attention, instead focusing on the Tory collapse to Reform, while Starmer has promised to go even more to the extreme racist right to chase Reform votes.

As Skwawkbox has said before, the only scenario in which Starmer is anything but grotesquely incompetent is if his  real job is to kill the Labour party and usher in fascism. Many people have long believed it.

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