[Knowsley, Merseyside] Trouble for Labour in Labourland

[Juin]

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The air in England appears to be thick with revolution. If Louis XVI were alive today he would quickly recognise it. The same ominous unease spread throughout his kingdom before everything went south, losing him his crown and his royal skull. No County or Shire is safe. The dreaded Farage is on every lip. Even in safe Labour stronghold in Knowsley. Even here the dreaded Farage is issuing eviction notices to Labour landlords.

This disturbing development was reported on in a Guardian opinion piece by one Kirsty Major, who saw it with her own 20/20 woke eyes. More trouble for the embattled Lord Keir Starmer. Lots and lots of trouble.

Kirsty's piece is a delicious read on the growing misfortunes of Labour.

Is England on the brink of a tectonic shift?

It also has the feel of a struggle for independence. The thirteen obscure colonies escaped the yoke in 1776, is England about to gain its independence?

Bottom line, the complaint of the man in the street in England is that his is a case of the past coloniser having become colonised in his turn by the former colonised. Not by the thirteen colonies. The colonies, now grown to fifty, are content to leave John Bull alone. Not so with others. They boarded boats by the thousands and landed on some English version of Plymouth Rock, and proceeded with what John Bull appears to consider plain colonialism. John Bull complains he is now a second class citizen in a once upon a time Merry England.

Will Nigel Farrage be the George Washington of England? If England about to be Great Again?



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I went home, to one of Labour’s safest seats, and it felt like a newly minted Reform constituency​

Kirsty Major

Knowsley is a Labour stronghold. But judging by the polls and the people I spoke to, the messages of the right are truly cutting through
Tue 16 Sep 2025 01.00 EDT
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At the weekend, I took the well-worn journey from London to Knowsley in Merseyside. I’ve made this trip so many times that I can execute it with military precision, arriving just in time before the train doors close, even with a toddler in tow this time around. My uncle picked us up from the station and as we turned on to the motorway, I saw St George’s flags hanging over us from the sides of bridges. Union jacks circled the roundabout just before we turned off to go to my auntie’s house. Knowsley is Labour’s fourth-safest seat in the UK, but it felt like a newly minted Reform constituency.
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I went home, to one of Labour’s safest seats, and it felt like a newly minted Reform constituency | Kirsty Major

Knowsley is a Labour stronghold. But judging by the polls and the people I spoke to, the messages of the right are truly cutting through, says deputy Opinion editor Kirsty Major

www.theguardian.com

 

[Loulit01]

People are upset that Labour hasn't been able to correct a dozen years of catastrophic Conservative rule yet, so they're moving farther to the right. Morons.

BTW, Reform UK has five (5) members in Parliament out of 650 MPs. Let's call a snap election for an irrelevant semi-political organization full of former Tories trying to escape the disaster they created in 12 years of rule.

 

[Juin]

People are upset that Labour hasn't been able to correct a dozen years of catastrophic Conservative rule yet, so they're moving farther to the right. Morons.

BTW, Reform UK has five (5) members in Parliament out of 650 MPs. Let's call a snap election for an irrelevant semi-political organization full of former Tories trying to escape the disaster they created in 12 years of rule.

Reform UK has been firing on all cylinders:

Latest polling says if an election was held tomorrow Reform UK would win a majority

A new survey puts Nigel Farage's party on 34%, nine points ahead of Labour, with the Tories a distant third. Were these figures to be replicated across the country at a general election the Conservatives would be nearly wiped out with just 12 seats.

news.sky.com

 

[Loulit01]

Reform UK has been firing on all cylinders:

Latest polling says if an election was held tomorrow Reform UK would win a majority

A new survey puts Nigel Farage's party on 34%, nine points ahead of Labour, with the Tories a distant third. Were these figures to be replicated across the country at a general election the Conservatives would be nearly wiped out with just 12 seats.

news.sky.com

When is the next mandatory election? I don't think it's tomorrow. Three or four years from now, I think?

 

[Juin]

When is the next mandatory election? I don't think it's tomorrow. Three or four years from now, I think?

The question is whether Labour will still be around by then. Labour is cratering. Tory is on life support. The only party seeing a boom is Reform UK

 

[Loulit01]

The question is whether Labour will still be around by then. Labour is cratering. Tory is on life support. The only party seeing a boom is Reform UK

Now I know they drink Kool Aid in the UK.

 

[Sweden]

Now I know they drink Kool Aid in the UK.

I don't think you know anything whatsoever about the UK.

 

[Juin]

Now I know they drink Kool Aid in the UK.

If "Give me Liberty, or give me Death" was good enough for ruffians in Boston, it is also good for today's long suffering John Bull

 

[PeteEU]

People are upset that Labour hasn't been able to correct a dozen years of catastrophic Conservative rule yet, so they're moving farther to the right. Morons.

BTW, Reform UK has five (5) members in Parliament out of 650 MPs. Let's call a snap election for an irrelevant semi-political organization full of former Tories trying to escape the disaster they created in 12 years of rule.

Correct and there won't be a snap election any time soon. Reform has plenty of time to hang it self and it is doing a good job with it's local representatives that just got elected.

 

[PeteEU]

The question is whether Labour will still be around by then. Labour is cratering. Tory is on life support. The only party seeing a boom is Reform UK

What a stupid statement. 4 years is a life time in politics and Labour and the Tories are not going anywhere.

 

[Juin]

What a stupid statement. 4 years is a life time in politics and Labour and the Tories are not going anywhere.

Labour and Tories are sinking fast. You are whistling past the graveyard

 

[PeteEU]

Labour and Tories are sinking fast. You are whistling past the graveyard

Yes they are.. but where will they be in 4 years is what matters.

 

[Real blank]

Yes they are.. but where will they be in 4 years is what matters.

I dunno conservatives are already defecting to reform. Labour are praying for a miracle.

 

[Juin]

Yes they are.. but where will they be in 4 years is what matters.

Reform UK is already setting the agenda. And winning local elections and picking up defectors. Whatever agenda Labour had has been set aside, what is on the table are the hot issues Reform UK is raising

 

[Sweden]

Now I know they drink Kool Aid in the UK.

Btw - very few people in the UK have any idea what Kool Aid might be, let alone drink it.

 

[PeteEU]

I dunno conservatives are already defecting to reform. Labour are praying for a miracle.

Yes, but they are usually the racist part of the conservative party.. good riddance.

 

[PeteEU]

Reform UK is already setting the agenda.

And how are they doing that?

And winning local elections and picking up defectors.

Yes, winning local elections and the their councillors are giving up because.. ohh they have to work. Those that do work a tad, do things like ban LBGT whatever books from libraries instead of .. I dunno.. fix the ****ing potholes. Reform councillors are a joke across the UK. Those that have not given up, are incompetent, and in some cases.. under arrest.

Whatever agenda Labour had has been set aside, what is on the table are the hot issues Reform UK is raising

Name some please.

 

[Lutherf]

Btw - very few people in the UK have any idea what Kool Aid might be, let alone drink it.

They may find that it's better tasting than Ribena or Vimto

 

[Infinite Chaos]

I don't think you know anything whatsoever about the UK.

and you think the OP does or cares?
He basically has a hard on for all alt-right anti-immigrant white nationalist parties in Europe. Just look at his thread history.

 

[Juin]

and you think the OP does or cares?
He basically has a hard on for all alt-right anti-immigrant white nationalist parties in Europe. Just look at his thread history.

It's a free world. You have an Ignore Button.

 

[Infinite Chaos]

I rarely ignore people but I'm always interested in who says what on one of your threads praising white nationalists.

Tells me how to respond to them when they accuse me of being condescending to fascist and nazi supporters.

 

[Loulit01]

I don't think you know anything whatsoever about the UK.

I think you know less than that.

 

[Sweden]

I think you know less than that.

Oh dear! You mean that the last 89 years of being English have gone to waste?

 

[Sweden]

and you think the OP does or cares?
He basically has a hard on for all alt-right anti-immigrant white nationalist parties in Europe. Just look at his thread history.

What - if anything - does alt-right mean? And why should not people be against mass immigration? Are you just another person tolerant of only those views which coincide with yours?

 

[Sweden]

They may find that it's better tasting than Ribena or Vimto

But they wont because Kool Aid is not on sale.