Gee, You Think?

Following their drubbing in local elections, many in labor are pressuring Keir Starmer to step down.

Considering that he just got his ass kicked by the English version of Fred Flintstone, Homo heidelbergensis specimen Nigel Farage, their arguments carry a lot of weight.

While Starmer has achieved his goals, purging the Labour Party of actual Labour and prostrating the party before the alter of Neoliberalism, it turns out that this is not what the voters want.

Keir Starmer is under pressure to set out a timeline for his departure after a crushing defeat in elections across Britain prompted senior Labour MPs to call for him to step down within a year.

In a disastrous set of results, Labour had lost control of more than 25 councils and more than 1,000 council seats in England by Friday night, many to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, which made large gains across the Midlands and the north as well as taking seats from the Tories in the south.

After more than a century of domination, Labour has faced near-wipeout in Wales, where the party’s first minister, Eluned Morgan, lost her seat. Labour could slump to third place in Scotland behind the SNP and Reform. In London, a Green surge meant Labour lost control of councils it had dominated, including Hackney and Waltham Forest.

While the prime minister appeared to have avoided an immediate coup, there was a furious response to the results among senior MPs and the unions, with some warning him to change course or risk electoral oblivion. By Friday evening, 10 more MPs had called for him to set out a timetable for departure from No 10. 

It seems that the campaign slogan, "Better things are not possible," is not a winner.