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    Starmer vows to fight on as PM despite heavy local election losses for Labour

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    1. Nadir786 on

      This idiot has spent the last few weeks attacking Polanski instead of farage and this is the result. Keir starmer is sleepwalking this country into a farage premiership and people still defend him!

    2. trillospin on

      >Labour admits defeat in Wales as SNP claims victory in Scotland and Reform surges in English council seats

    3. SnooMacarons4225 on

      If he keeps fighting then his party will continue their downwards spiral. Time for change, get someone in with a backbone and get on with delivering change, rather just talking about it and complaining about the situation you inherited 2 years ago and have done jack shit about fixing

    4. whatsgoingon350 on

      Good we don’t need another load of drop outs like we had with the Tories.

    5. hereforcontroversy on

      Every seat in my council is up for grabs. It went from a comfortable labour majority but atm with 27/52 seats declared labour only has 1 of those. Reform and Greens share 25 of the rest of them and an independent has the other. I can’t see how they recover from this because now it has been shown that in a random part of the north east the Green Party are much more popular as the left alternative than Labour. Tactical voting is finished.

    6. Atrio-Ventricular on

      As bad as he is, I don’t think endlessly replacing our pm is good for anything, he should see it till the next election

    7. 0Bento on

      Losses yes.

      But at the current time (15:23) Labour have 17 councils.

      Reform are in fourth place with control of 4 councils.

    8. Blank3k on

      I just hope our legal systems hold up better than America’s when the Farage reign begins.

    9. purpleisafruit1 on

      Blocking Burnham from standing has ensured there is no one viable to takeover from Starmer. This is exactly what he wanted.

    10. JustWhy1222 on

      I’ve got three new Labour MPs calling for his resignation so far, not including Miliband.

    11. Bobo3076 on

      You know what would bring him back a bit?

      Repealing the mass surveillance online safety act that we *all* want gone.

      But that’s the obvious answer, which means he won’t do it and will continue down his authoritarian path.

      May he get to fuck.

    12. Important_Ruin on

      Odd.

      Just looking at map the only full Labour loss so far has been Sunderland (Sunderland never surpises me, Brexit being main one and a huge benefit of EU funding, its a weird place too), current Reform wins are taking from Tories or no Majority.

    13. Artificial-Brain on

      If he wants to actually save his own party then he’ll just have to step down. I don’t see how it’s helpful for him to drag his heels here.

    14. Prestigious_Clock865 on

      – Mass surveillance tech
      – Continued increase crackdown on rights
      – Draconian changes to legal cases
      – Getting into bed with Palantir
      – Material support and cover for Israel
      – Bringing a (suspected) pedo into government
      – Increasingly inhumane treatment of the trans community
      – Expelling left wing members from the party
      – Telling your voter base they are no longer welcome

      Yeah mate, you’re a dead man walking and it’s all by your own hand

    15. OliLombi on

      He’s willing to sacrifice the entire country to reform just to stay PM for 2 more years…

    16. limaconnect77 on

      It’s almost like either his comms team are absolutely useless at their trade OR Starmer is way out of his depth (judging the character(s) of those providing advice and/or anything regarding messaging to the public).

    17. UnlikelyHabit279 on

      It’s never his fault, always someone else’s. In Starmer’s head, the buck doesn’t stop with him.

    19. BroodLord1962 on

      Of course he will, Labour would have to drag him out kicking and screaming to get him out

    20. smegabass on

      Thankfulky, not up to Starmer. Why does someone so obviously awful at it, wants to stay is a mystery.

      Solid bad luck for the country that he became PM.

    21. evolveandprosper on

      In 1999, in Tony Blair’s second year in government, Labour lost 1150 council seats, and the Tories picked up 1348.

      Blair continued as Prime Minister for another eight years.

    23. Strange-Tea7949 on

      When the man leading the country can’t read the room…

      The lowest approval ratings in prime ministerial history, several leadership challenges narrowly avoided that rose through poor judgement, and now – after Labour’s worst local election results on record – he still insists on clinging to power.

      Then the party wonders why it’s losing support. The fact that the Labour Party hasn’t revolted and made it unequivocally clear that Starmer must step down only further proves how oblivious they are to their own failings.

    24. Porticulus on

      I hope he steps down after this bullshit. We cannot risk a reform government, and he’s giving them the key to number 10 with the way he’s going.

    25. mister_barfly75 on

      Labour lost over 1100 seats in the 1999 local elections. The Tories gained over 1300. And it was still 9 years until Tony Blair left office and 11 until the Tories were able to get into Number 10, and even then they had to go into coalition because they didn’t have enough seats to gain an outright majority.

      Labour aren’t dead in the water, they just need to be very, very vocal about the threat that Reform poses if they get into office.

    26. frantic_calm on

      They sabotaged their own party just so they could enjoy the big chair. They offered nothing but crackdowns and flag shagging. Courting the far right whilst punching the left in the face.

      Nothing good can be built on such corrupt foundations.

    27. Bullinach1nashop on

      Honestly think it is time to go. I hate the media and the obsession with the axe but his message has never been heard. time to let someone with a vision who can actually get it across to the country take over.

    28. Sgt_Munkey on

      He has made some good decisions and some appalling decisions. Regardless, he has had his head in the sand if he didn’t see this coming. OSA and Digital ID was the catalyst for me to want to send a message by withholding support at the local level. Also what’s up with whipping his own MPs to vote down an enquiry investigating why he appointed mandelson despite vetting concerns raising a bunch of red flags. He should step aside and hand the reins to someone who can respect the electorate instead of dictating to it.

    29. Duvet_Capeman on

      Zombie labour, they are dead but refuse to acknowledge it or try to change. He will eventually succumb to a leadership challenge, the pressure is too immense. If they don’t do something they will only go down from here.

    30. Sad_Instruction1392 on

      “It’s the remaining left leaning portion of the party that are to blame for this loss, obviously.” – our PM.