Our cousins across the Atlantic have just replaced a nominally Conservative government with the British equivalent of Sen. Bernie Sanders. met with King Charles III on Friday to accept the position of prime minister after winning an election that wasn’t even close.
The Labor Party secured 412 seats in the House of Commons — a 63% majority — leaving Conservatives powerless with a paltry 121. Nigel Farage and three Reform UK members won seats they intend to use as a platform to oppose the leftists and form a new conservative majority. Thanks to the convoluted structure of parliamentary elections, Mr.
achieved his blowout victory with fewer votes than Conservatives and Reform received combined. Polling data from YouGov confirms the public wasn’t exactly embracing Labor. Nearly half of voters told pollsters they had an unfavorable view of the party, with 48% of Labor voters saying their motivation was “to get the Tories out.
” Who can blame them? Had Conservatives stayed in power, voters would still get “net zero,” a plan that replaces affordable energy sources with expensive and inefficient alternatives that masquerade as green. It’s the same idea the left pushes here in the United States; it’s just pushed with less vigor. Thanks to Conservative inaction, immigration also tripled in the past several years.
Instead of focusing on fighting crime in the streets, British police officers spend their time attending diversity training seminars and arresting anyone ma.
