Millions fewer people turned out to make Keir Starmer Prime Minister than turned out to attempt the same for Jeremy Corbyn. That is the most important fact of this election, and the one the mainstream media works hardest to hide.
TOTAL LABOUR VOTE
Corbyn 2017: 12,877.918
Corbyn 2019: 10,269,213
Starmer 2024: 9,634,399
I don’t think any Prime Minister has ever come to power with less popular enthusiasm than Keir Starmer.
Here in Blackburn we had an astonishing result. I was working on projections which had the Labour vote falling from 29,000 to 15,000 which seemed amazing enough. Although on the doorstep the Labour vote seemed extremely soft, I didn’t imagine it could fall from 29,000 to 10,000 in one election.
This is even more extraordinary because the sitting MP, Kate Hollern, was standing again and during the entire campaign I never heard a bad word against her.
The Labour vote collapsed for two reasons. Firstly because of Starmer’s ardent zionism and the genocide in Gaza. Secondly because Blackburn is a town with a strong socialist tradition, which held entirely firm for Corbyn when the red wall collapsed in 2019.
It is fair to say that Gaza caused the Labour vote to collapse in the Muslim areas and that Labour’s extreme switch to the Thatcherite right caused the Labour vote to collapse in the (there is no good way to say this) white areas. But it is important to realise that there is community crossover on both issues.
While there was concern that “vote-splitting” of the pro-Palestinian vote would let Labour back in, in the end Labour just collapsed too far and in fact the mechanism was more complicated than that.
Very little of Adnan Hussain’s vote came from the “white” areas. I personally witnessed the counting of one ward in the south of the constituency where he only got 2 votes but I got 120, in a ward normally entirely Labour. In fact my ability to take “white” socialist or protest votes from Labour allowed Adnan Hussain in.
I have published my doubts about some of the figures behind Adnan. I sincerely hope he will now prove me wrong and become a formidable opponent to Starmer, particularly over Palestine.
Allow me to say I thought we did brilliantly to get over 7,000 votes. Only 5 weeks ago we had only Naila, myself and one local man who wished to be anonymous. We had no office, no money except what you readers crowdfunded, no party members and no contacts.
From that standing start we wrote, designed, printed and delivered 170,000 leaflets, held five great public meetings and spoke to thousands of voters. We had 80 volunteers working really hard by the end. 30 came from Blackburn and others from 13 different countries!!
Our opponents had well-established networks of supporters and activists. At times our campaign was enormously stressful, at times enormously fun. I must confess I found some of the personal and religious bigotry thrown at me hard to cope with at times.
Well, that is over. The voter turnout in Blackburn was a horribly low 53%. In an election where only 3 million people could bother to watch a Sunak/Starmer TV “debate” that was a race for the right-wing ground, the foundations of Starmer’s apparently huge mandate are very shaky indeed.
Watch this space.
I am exhausted today – obviously more developed thoughts will follow.
It looked like a very dirty campaign with the race/religion card being played. The guy Adnan strikes me as a total cunt. Reeks of corruption.
What happened with George Galloway, same?
Yea Mac it is unseemly. J. Straw’s agent and now A. Hussein’s has done the job – a well planned tactical solution to the problem of rebellion in Blackburn and the chance of Mr Murray talking about Gaza on a national stage. I don’t think we will hear A. Hussein talking about Gaza
With Galloway and Corbyn, a huge army was deployed online to slag them off and massive injections of Labour “activists” to work in the constituencies
They failed with Corbyn but with Galloway the Torygraph headline was something about Israel winning! The idea was to sow division. But Corbyn could not be touched so the focus was on Galloway. A thousand whining voices or maybe more, spreading lies confusion and hate. I came across one clown on here, a few days before polling day, claiming Corbyn and Galloway could not work together. The very next day both men put out statements that this was not true lol
We need unity and to let bygones be bygones or as that dolt Karmala Harris repeatedly says “unburdened by what has been” We need to recognise our true enemy
According to the Morning Stary Galloway was “targeted in an unscrupulous campaign by Hope Not Hate”. This is a sort of pretend anti-racist group that like the so called ‘Campaign Against Anti-Semitism’ uses faux campaign status to lobby for apartheid Israel.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gaza-independents-seize-labour-seats
Mac, Gorgeous George has form. He gets elected in seats which have high populations of tribal elder controlled voters , through their patriarch system. Whole households and mosques are directed to vote for him.
It is part of his DS career. He is a rabble rouser in the old style. An agit prop specialist. A sheepdog of the left, to disrupt the real social democrats and tar them with his obscure rants. The Lord Gordon type of dangerous, as is Faratage.
One thing you should know about Rochdale is that it has many a old Jewish community.
They were part of the industrial north and the dark satanic mills of Dickens.
The Co-operative started there and had supported many a Zionist cause.
Engels fortified new were made in these parts…
So when GG took Rochdale I knew it was a Fix. I wondered how it was part of the tactics to return voters back to their red wall reliability, after the Corbyania old Labour Party had been restored to the warmongering NuLabInc model again.
GG’s and his bullshit Workers Party (like previous ones he stood for) task was to scare people away from independents (many ex Labour) back to NuLabour.
Just as Fartages jobs was to scare voters away from Tories making them easier to be beaten so the narrative of a landslide could be believed.
He suceeded very well in his task and I have no doubt we will see him in the Lords one day as a reward, just like his old DE partner in crime Clare Fox was elevated as a life long Revolutionary Communist ant establishment persona, by Bozo the clown, for her role in breaking the Red Wall and enabling BrexShit.
Agit proppers, their willing narrative supporters and utter moronic dimwits are easily identified by their rose tinted manlove for the celebrity cat imitator GG.
Sad really.
“TOTAL LABOUR VOTE
Corbyn 2017: 12,877.918
Corbyn 2019: 10,269,213
Starmer 2024: 9,634,399”
Could you give a source for these numbers?
Johnny
You could do that for yourself using a search engine. They are not in dispute I can verify that this information is correct and available on websites such as the BBC.
The figures are accurate enough and demand an answer to the obvious question: how can a party leader lose 3 million votes in seven years and yet at the same time be heralded as the man who saved his party?
That cannot be answered in MSM directly so the figures quoted above will rarely appear. What Starmer did do was save The Party (sometimes called the uniparty on this site.) 3 million socialists or social democrats is rather too many for The Party to handle so they must be dissuaded from voting, or made to feel so unwelcome they will vote for fragmentary opposition groups.
That Starmer’s rise to become leader of The Party has been greased by MI5/6 can hardly be doubted, as was Blair’s before him. Their political home would be more obviously Liberal or one nation Tory but lo and behold they suddenly discover a calling, fairly late in life, to work on behalf of the labouring masses. Their main offer to the labouring masses is a perverted form of patriotism: the chance to die for your country. That’s what such types are selling behind the facade of statesmanship. Their claimed sense of fair play does not extend to their own offspring fighting in imperial wars, needless to say. That is for the oiks.
So if we want to look at a possible scenario Starmer had the luxury of culling the socialists out of Labour and could afford to lose 3 million votes yet achieve a landslide because of the split in Tory vote created by Farage.
One sad side effect of this pseudo-landslide is that it is now written in history that Corbyn was bad for the party and bad for the country but the facts are that he was bad for the uniparty but not for the ideals and purpose of the Labour socialist movement.
I got them from the Independent but they should be on the Parliamentary website.
No Conspiracy here I’m afraid.
Check out the wikipedia entries for general election results Johnny. Just scroll down the right-hand column a tad and the number of votes for each of the main parties are listed there (as in Popular Vote). And at the top of the column is a link to the wikipedia entry for 2019, and then ditto for 2017:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election
It’s interesting that the pollsters have consistently had Labour on 40-plus percentage points for the past couple of years or so, and 20 percentage points or so ahead of the Tories, and yet on the day the percentage was only 34.7% and only 10 percetage points ahead of the Tories. Given the result for the Tories anyway, I wonder how many seats they would have lost if the result had been more in accordance with the polls. Is it possible that they would have been practically wiped out completely – ie just a few dozen MPs – and that the prospect of such a scenario led to ‘tampering’ with the postal votes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2024_United_Kingdom_general_election
You did a great Job Craig, take a well earned rest.
Craig, you did a tremendous service to the cause of justice for Palestine and peace for us all. The fact that you were strategically undermined by a Straw man should in no way detract from that generous effort. You deserve the thanks of every reader here and the people of Blackburn.
I see a parallel between Rochdale and Blackburn in that in both cases an outside candidate (for the second time, in Craig’s case) tried unsuccessfully to prevail against someone who could obtain stronger local support, though in the case of Rochdale the basis of the support was not communal but the historical association of the constituency with the Labour Party.
Waugh reportedly began his victory speech by saying “I’d like to thank George Galloway for his service.” I wonder what he had in mind.
Hussain began his victory speech: “This is for Gaza”:
https://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/national/24432607.independent-candidate-overturns-labours-blackburn-majority-historic-victory/
Craig, George and indeed the likes of Farage and other dissenting ‘independents’ came under concentrated establishment fire. Not just from the big two (now smaller), but from dodgy NGOs; HOPE not hate had sizeable teams on the ground leafleting. Then there was these establishment ‘dirty tricks’ curveball candidates, emerging late, splintering any hope of unity and just generally sowing confusion.
The establishment control freaks don’t just wish to control who runs the country: they want to decide and shape the opposition to their handpicked leaders too. For these people, one dissenting voice in parliament out of 650 MPs, is one too many. Look at the hysterical reaction to Farage’s ‘ West provoked Putin’ comments. Any representative democracy should be able to incorporate a spectrum of views and debate these things. Not the UK, under FPTP, a system we aptly, only share with Belarus.
“ one dissenting voice in parliament out of 650 MPs”
The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet – it is a Uniparty lockdown Goose
Well, that’s just not fair.
The CCCP actually had more idealogical heterodoxy in its ranks historically, once you peeled back the monolithic facade. Than Westminster does today.
Also to the other poster above, the average punter in Belarus.
Probably has less imposition by the regime into their lives, on a day-to-day basis. Under the rule of a Caesarian potato farmer, than we do in our managed democracy.
Of course they can’t select their own leaders, like we can.
LOL!
It has been said that with the SNP’s, Westminster cohort of British State parasites reduced to nine, (Inverness, Sky & West Ross-shire has been conceded) they will not be afforded much opportunity to “address the House”.
I predict one exception.
Stephen “CIA” Gethins will almost certainly regain the Foreign Affairs, Spokesperson remit. Gethins held this position when first elected in the 2015 SNP landslide. He retained the post after the crash GE of 2017 despite holding his seat by a margin of two votes!
Gethins’ contributions to Hansard in this period were multitudinous but the range of topics wasn’t so numerous.
It is said that Cato the Elder in his monomaniacal obsession with the Phoenicians, couldn’t end a speech to the Senate without stating, “Carthago delenda est (“Carthage must be destroyed”) “.
Gethins’ equivalent was “Russia bad!”.
Gethins will have no difficulty “catching the Speaker’s eye”.
His message tailors seamlessly with the propaganda of the Anglo-American, Security State, and that’s who Gethins really works for.
But Gethin was right (even a stopped clock is right twice per day).
Russia (the Russian regime led by Putin) *is* bad.
People here rightly lament the treatment of Gaza by Israel.
What assistance has the Russian regime provided to Gaza?
Russia didn’t make moves to sanction the largest body providing aid to gaza so they are already ahead of us.
Bad luck Craig. It is a damn shame you are not going to be part of the anti-genocide coterie in Parliament given all you have done to stop the genocide. You seem to have been targeted by some very bad actors up there.
We were denied another precious victory in our own constituency where a 23-year-old Palestinian girl came within a whisker of defeating Wes Streeting, a figure beloved in the media for his plans to accelerate privatisation of the NHS. Sadly the country is going to suffer for Leanne falling just short.
As to the overall national outcome, those numbers you cite speak volumes. Imagine what Corbyn’s totals would have been had he not been sabotaged at every turn and instead been given the free pass and fawning coverage accorded to this Esrablishment stooge and lump of nothing Sir Keir Starmer.
It’s the same thing all over again. In ten years you’ll have all these people lamenting and apologising that they didn’t vote for you and believed the lies due to which they voted for Adnan.
Well done. The result is chaotic as well as fairly hostile to Starmer (who got ~64% of the seats after 15-20% of UK adults voted for him). In my rural area, a safe Tory seat went Green, two ‘more marginal’ Tory seats stayed Tory, a formerly quite strong Lab seat went LD and a Tory seat went Lab.
I think multi-member seats based on the historic counties is the least bad way to get some form of PR in England and Wales. Each county needs enough MPs, based on population, to add up to about 600 Commons seats. I don’t know enough about Scotland to make any suggestions. This approach avoids the horribly corrupt ‘party list’ system. You vote for an individual, as you do today. If your county has say five MPs you can go to the one most able to help you.
Andrew Bridgen has been trying to expose the terrifying graft, corruption and blackmail going on which led to him being expelled from his party. Unfortunately he lost his seat because the MSM are now 99% a branch of the Ministry of Truth. Contact via abridgen.uk.
The bringer of Mega Death.
The best way to try and understand the Starmztrooper is as a DrWho alien species – specifically the Dalek.
He has the screechy annoying voice and it only says one thing ‘Exterminate’!
That is what he was manufatured to do – Exterminate, Exterminate, Exterminate … whilst looking like a Ken and Barbie Doll.
Look out for me he current crop of new-NuLabourMurderInc creatures fashioned as mini me Daleks -Exterminating humans in the Jungle and keeping the Garden culled too!
Sir Keith Stalin has not got a mandate from ‘ the people’ as the breathless ( and witless) media will have us all believe.
He has got a mandate from The Ruling Class to carry on Neo-liberal economics business as usual with a politer version of austerity.
The problems Sunak had are now his too and his party’s solutions to the ills of the UK cannot be solved by tinkering or robbing Peter to pay Paul etc etc.
The poor will get poorer and the workers will get poorer and the more vulnerable people in society will get robbed even more in an effort to get them back into ‘ Economic Activity ‘ whether they are able to or not in order to make a Starmerite contribution to Society.
But those who could make a bigger contribution to society by paying proper tax payments will remain untouched ( except for tinkering with a few things) and will continue to add to their already groaning stashes.
A bit like the inverse of Oliver Twist where the rich plead that their plate is to full of food and not complain – could they have some more but ask for another plate and the food to go on it!
Biden when elected used a telling phrase that:
” Nothing will FUNDAMENTALLY change”
That was not aimed at the people in the US – it was aimed at the Rich and Powerful.
Coded; I won’t be taking any money off you – in fact I’ll be giving you another plate to fill.
Sir Keith Stalin won’t last because the world situation changes.
I can only say this and that is: If it kicks of in The Middle East and Ukraine/Russia things will change dramatically.
Iran will block the Straits of Hormuz and oil/gas prices will rocket and Russia may well land a nuke on an as yet undisclosed
Polish or Ukrainian town or maybe flatten Kiev.
It would make the last bout of Western inflation look like a pin prick.
The good news for Starmer though is that he will become a War Prime Minister.
He’s off to a good start because Biden has already called him MR Churchill.
All good then Kier.
Meh, such speculation is futile.
There won’t be a war against Russia or China, because the USA I.E the only true military power in NATO worthy of the name. Couldn’t fight such a war via conventional means. Even Iran is too hot for them to handle.
So a senile old pervert calling Kier Starmer, a second coming of Churchill is just ego-stroking flatulance. Our chickenhawk pundits & politicians, are rattling an empty scabbard. The sabre having been pawned off years ago.
It’s like an inverse of the poem jingo:
We don’t have the ships.
We don’t have the men.
We don’t have the money too.
We want to go to war.
But by jingo, if we do…
Bear in mind that it will soon be Trump’s turn, and on his last go he wanted to invade Iran. Those narcissists don’t even think about losing; they only think about the money that the arms industry throw at them.
Why call him Stalin? I hope Tatyana also finds this unhelpful, just like pretending that Mr Galloway is not as flawed in his own way as Mr Johnson.
The crucial issue is not Scots independence it is climate change. And the defeat of Trump. I agree that peace in Gaza, Ukraine, Yemen, Sudan ( is is a long list, Tibet is on it) is more important
Unlike the idealists here I see no reason for any optimism.
An apparently contradictory but accurate title for this article. I was expecting to be depressed at the predicable outcome, but better to laugh than cry at the absurdity of the British voting system.
And, as already mentioned in various posts here, there are some good crumbs for comfort – Corbyn’s outstanding result, Starmer’s poor personal one, ousting of Ashworth, elections on pro-Palestine tickets and four Greens etc. Very sorry that Craig Murray is not one of them. Results also suggest a move away from two party domination to greater political diversity, which might build a head of steam to get a fairer voting system to avoid the inevitable but legitimate political unrest that comes from lack of representation.
I am pretty sure that disillusionment will soon set in with Starmer, though Farage will probably be the main beneficiary of that.
As for Scotland, it is is pretty clear voters are not joining up the idea of independence with a better economic future, but that might just provide the opportunity needed to move a chastened SNP away from its preoccupation with identity politics to an Alba ideas led strategy.
Watching events in Scotland from England.
Kinda surprised there haven’t been more calls for Sweeney to resign. In his post-election statement – if I’m interpreting his statement correctly – bizarrely, Sweeney seemed to be trying to say the emphasis on independence had somehow hurt the party? To which, the only question is: what emphasis? The promised and mandated referendum never materialised. This, while support has never been consistently higher. It’s obviously the SNP’s leadership turmoil and alleged corruption, that have destroyed their standing and reputation. Not an excessive emphasis, or undue haste, on independence.
I’m assuming Sweeney only took the leadership role, uncontested, on the understanding it was on a temporary or stopgap basis? Sweeney’s installment being a move to placate the gender self-ID obsessed Greens, I assume? For it was reported, that the Greens were ready to bring the SNP down, forcing early Holyrood elections, if the more socially conservative Kate Forbes had become the SNP’s leader.
If so, though less than ideal, it sensibly avoids fighting Labour for control of Holyrood, when Labour’s star is at its highest. A few years of Starmer and co, and the SNP may well have recovered their standing in time for the next Holyrood elections… to be held no later than 7 May 2026.
*It’s actually John Swinney.
Don’t know where ‘Sweeney’ came from?
Craig Murray, your eloquent and insightful analysis of the recent election in Blackburn is truly commendable. Your ability to uncover the nuanced factors at play and shed light on the complex dynamics of the political landscape is truly impressive. Your dedication to honest and unbiased reporting is a true testament to your integrity as a journalist.
Furthermore, your genuine love for the Palestinian people shines through in your work, further highlighting your empathy and compassion for those in need. Your commitment to speaking truth to power and advocating for justice is truly inspiring.
In the midst of uncertainty and questionable mandates, your unwavering dedication to seeking the truth and holding those in power accountable is a beacon of hope. Your efforts to amplify the voices of the marginalised and shine a light on important issues are truly commendable.
Thank you, Craig Murray, for your tireless work and commitment to advocating for a better, more just world. You are a true gentleman and a shining example of integrity in journalism. Keep up the amazing work!
Sabir Esa
Blackburn
Hear hear. You should be incredibly proud for what you’ve achieved in the circumstances, Craig.
From afar, I see the following,
Starmer is 21 to 22 years older than his wife.
Starmers wife is a Zionist Jewess, born to a Zionist Jew father.
I’m not saying that love cannot cross generations, however, considering Mossad’s reputation, I smell “honeytrap”. Anyone have similar thoughts?
All the lobbyists and funders of Labour and Starmer will be so happy that they now have one of their own in 10 Downing Street. Bought and sold for zionist gold …
“I smell “honeytrap”. ”
That would be an unfeasibly loyal woman.
Keir, ‘I’m a zionist’, didn’t need to be trapped. He’s very happy supporting the genocidal nutters and taking their money to keep doing it.
Starmer is an amoral opportunist, just like Johnson.
Johnson is a lazy drunken serial liar with a contempt for parliament and the electorate and for most of his wives and mistresses. There are degrees of amorality.
Is there any evidence at all, that the lady who would become Mrs Starmer would sell herself like that?
Those merry Russian pranksters, Vovan and Lexus, had a chat with David Cameron, a week before the General Election in Britain. Cameron thought he was talking to Petro Poreshenko. He says a lot of things but chief amongst them was, in response to a question about the GE and British policy was an assurance there would be no change in policy towards Russia, Ukraine and war in general
As Foreign Secretary, Cameron is head of MI6 and who knows what else, how can they be so incompetent to allow this stuff, random calls from the foreign comedy arm of the FSB lol. Of course I’m speculating, I don’t know if V and L work for the GRU or the FSB or indeed any “intelligence” service, it is possible that that they don’t. But if they don’t, they should – great propaganda showing what dolts the bigwigs they trick are. To be fair Cameron squints fishily several times, suggesting he was thinking of Vovan and Lexus but carries on regardless
Vovan and Lexus trick British Foreign Secretary David Cameron
https://rumble.com/v53q8w7-prank-with-david-cameron.html
Sadly I believed Cameron when he said to the fake Poreshenko that the General Election would bring no change of policy – he sounds very, very certain. If this is not a Uniparty, I don’t know what is
As requested by AG on the previous thread, here are my considered thoughts on the General Election (with an emphasis on Scotland and the minor parties/Independent candidates):
The big story of the night, of course, was Labour’s landslide, in which they more than doubled their seat tally – going from the lowest number of seats since 1935 to having almost as many as NewLabour did in 1997 – whilst at the same time (as noted by our host) getting around half a million *fewer* votes than they did under Corbyn. That’s first-past-the-post for you, I’m afraid – though, on the plus side, it does have its advantages in making it difficult for far-right whack-jobs to get elected (contrast this with the Knesset, for example). A lot has been said about how Reform UK split the right-leaning vote, gifting Labour its landslide; less has been mentioned about how the Greens split the left-leaning one (albeit to a lesser extent), curtailing it to some extent.
In Scotland, the story was the implosion of the SNP, which went from 48 MPs to a mere nine – which very likely would have been eight had the Beast of Moray (Douglas Ross) not parachuted himself into Aberdeenshire North at the last minute to replace the popular Tory candidate. The SNP share of the vote decreased by around a third, but very little of that went to Alba, who only stood in a third of constituencies: their best result was in Cowdenbeath & Kirkcaldy where their former MP Neale Hanvey, came second-to-last with 2.8% of the vote. The Independence for Scotland party did even worse: their leader Colette Walker could only manage 0.6% in East Renfrewshire, getting beaten into last place by the right-wing Scottish Family Party and the tiny continuity Liberal Party (whose last foray into Scottish politics ended up with their candidate and his mates being evicted from the Glasgow count for the 2021 Scottish Parliament election after harassing Humza Yousaf whilst wearing rainbow armbands and Star-of-David-type badges and giving Nazi salutes). The SNP’s dramatic reduction in MPs means that they’ll lose around a million quid a year in Short Money, which means they need to find a Jeremy Hosking-style sugar daddy pretty soon or face serious financial issues.
South of the border, five Independent MPs were elected, all of them (bar one, perhaps?) strongly pro-Palestine: Adnan Hussain in Blackburn (see blogpost); Ayoub Khan in Birmingham Perry Barr; Iqbal Mohamed in Dewsbury & Batley; Shockat Adam in Leicester South (unseating Labour bigwig Jonathan Ashworth); and, of course, Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North. In Ilford North, pro-Gaza Independent Leanne Mohamad also came within 600 votes of toppling new Health Secretary Wes Streeting, and Andrew Feinstein came second with nearly 19% of the vote in Holborn & St Pancras, most of it coming from Starmzy who saw his vote share tumble by over 15 percentage points. I want to emphasise just how difficult it is to get elected as an Independent MP at general elections in the UK: outside of Northern Ireland, it’s only been done once this century (Peter Law in Blaenau Gwent in 2005); so five in a single election represents a huge achievement and reflects effective local campaigning, in particular to get the Muslim vote to switch from Labour.
The Workers Party failed to pick up any seats, though Galloway came close to retaining his in Rochdale (though he chose not to be on the stage for the declaration because he’s a bad loser), and Jody McIntyre came even closer to claiming Jess Phillips’ scalp in Birmingham Yardley (less than 700 votes in it) – although Phillips claims that some of her activists were being intimidated on the campaign trail. Overall, the party got around 200,000 votes, with similar levels per candidate to what the Respect party used to get. Elsewhere on the left, the TUSC’s 40 candidates polled around 300 votes each, similar to what they got in 2010 & 2015. The Socialist Labour Party (now with a leader who’s not Arthur Scargill) obtained roughly the same amount per candidate and the Communist Party of Britain’s 14 candidates slightly fewer. There was, however, a good result for the Liverpool Community Independents party, who are allied to the left-wing Transform party, as its candidate saved his deposit with nearly 8% of the vote in Liverpool Garston.
Unfortunately, the far-right obtained its best result in a parliamentary election since 2012 in Doncaster North, where the British Democratic Party’s Frank Calladine got 3.7% of the vote (no doubt helped by the fact that Reform weren’t standing there). However, the party’s three other candidates all got less than 1%, as did the four Patriotic Alternative members standing for the English Democrats. Staying with the far-right*, the anti-trans Party of Women’s leader Kellie-Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker) came last with only 196 votes (0.5%) in Bristol Central, and the party’s other 15 candidates didn’t do much better in less ‘woke’ constituencies. Apparently, she was going to hold an election rally in Bristol but changed her mind after a local told her she’d end up in the River Avon like the Edward Colston statue.
I hope all this has been of some interest to AG (and maybe one or two other people). Anyway, here’s a fun fact for you all: this election is the first in which a party has obtained an overall majority in a UK general election called by another party that had an overall majority at the point at which parliament was dissolved since…..1970!
Hope you all enjoy the football, whether or not you support England.
* Look at what KJK/PP gets up to in Amerikkka.
Thank you L.A.!
That´s what I meant by expertise not to be met in Germany.
p..s. why on Earth does she call herself Posie Parker?
Of course I´ll have to look up those names and places.
Have fun with Southgate figuring out why he put those people on the field and only afterwards figuring out tactics instead of the other way around.
Keir Starmer might make it to Berlin yet, since England’s pedestrian plod against Switzerland earned victory this evening. Always amazes me how these toffs in the top jobs manage to get the tickets. They must have good contacts.
Thanks for your reply AG. You’re very welcome. I don’t know why KJK has the alias Posie Parker, and a brief online enquiry has yielded no results. Maybe it’s something to do with ‘Indie Queen’ Parker Posey, who was in stuff like ‘Dazed & Confused’ and ‘Kicking & Screaming’ in the 90’s (as well as getting more money for her vampire schtick in ‘Blade: Trinity’ with Wesley Snipes & Ryan Reynolds in the noughties). That said, the only American actress she seems to be obsessed by is Marilyn Monroe.
Won’t have a word said against Southgate. He’s now got us through eight knock-out games in major tournaments. From 1968 to the beginning of his tenure, I believe we’d only won a grand total of six. Of course, he’s had a fair bit of that quality that Napoleon most admired in his generals: luck (Bellingham’s bicycle kick didn’t connect perfectly, and the Swiss nearly sneaked in a swervy corner at the near post). Sorry that Germany got knocked out – Spain are a good side. We’ve had a comparatively easy run so far.
Good reportage.
Have you got any numbers per constituency on votes by post?
I believe that the NE is Cummings’ test ground for social media and vote fixing weapons.
Proof lays in PV’s per constituency.
I’d also like to know spoilt vote counts in one place. (I spoilt mine).
Thanks for your reply DG and for your kind words. Not sure where you can find details of postal votes in each constituency, or if they’re even published online, but you should be able to find the number of spoilt votes for your constituency from the election results page on your local authority’s website.
As a Muslim from Blackburn, me along with my family voted for you.
Thank you for everything you have done!
It’s our loss that you did not win, but still I must say you did an amazing job.
The result in Leicester South was extraordinary. Jonathan Ashworth went from 33,600 to 13,700 to lose the seat to Shockat Adam (who reportedly quoted Malcolm X on winning the seat).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s
Many will have seen Ashworth’s response last week when asked why he abstained on the ceasefire vote.
Enjoy.
https://x.com/Majstar7/status/1804127546935595387
“Majid Freeman (@Majstar7)
Bumped into Labour MP @JonAshworth who was canvassing in Leicester. Elderly Muslim uncles who prev supported Jon came out to ask why he abstained from the 🇵🇸ceasefire vote so he resorted to playing victim by saying we were bullying & intimidating him. We have every right to Q you.”
“We have every right to Q you.”
I’d imagine that will soon be changed.
I was delighted that he lost.
One night, President Nixon walked out of the White House and chatted amicably to anti-war demonstrators. Compare that with the contemptible behaviour of Ashworth.
You gave it your best shot Craig and for all the right reasons, well done.
There’s very little difference between Starmer and Sunak, they are the public faces you see on tv, but behind the scenes the imperialist/corporate machine never skips a beat.
Starmer and the Labour party have also been compromised by the Zionists, so there unlikely to be any change in Westminster’s approach to the genocide in Gaza.
I can see Starmer being the PM that privatises the NHS, that would put a big smile on Wes Streeting’s face.
Under Starmer I foresee another five years of disillusionment for the UK public as a whole, but not for Labour corporate buddies, who’ll do pretty well.
The puppet masters: WEF, Tel Aviv, Blair, …, who else ?
“Keir Starmer has revealed that he regularly receives texts from former prime minister Tony Blair with advice on what he needs to do.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tony-blair-keir-starmer-texting-advice-b2575265.html
“The puppet masters: WEF, Tel Aviv, Blair, …, who else ?”
Obama, by all accounts. He has been trying to coach Sir Keir in how to appear normal.
https://www.businessinsider.com/keir-starmer-mentored-barack-obama-uk-election-new-prime-minister-2024-7
For completeness:
“Britain’s new premier has a deep, long-running relationship with London’s national security establishment and security and intelligence apparatus, as well as the elite Trilateral Commission. ”
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/07/06/keir-starmer-scrutiny-protected-savile/
Some good revelations there from Kit Klarenberg. Starmer’s protection of Savile was disgusting. No wonder they freaked out when Johnson mentioned it.
#JackStraw + #KateHollern + #IbrahimMaster + #AdnanHussain = – #CraigMurray @Blackburn https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:The_Rejection_of_Starmerism
Smarmer no charmer a hideous man
a snake in the grass a Globalist sham
while the CONvid was spewing its lies on our land
Smarmer and the agenda – went hand in hand
if he could have locked down harder he would
a snake in the grass – a man for no good
a nose and a face that proves loves a drink
his depth is with demons watch his chains clink
a horror a nasty a vile man with a plan
to ruin our country – in every way he can
stands by while in GAZA genocide rules
yes Smarmer no charmer a man for the fools
You seem somewhat hesitant about using the word “white,” Craig. I understand your dilemma. It IS word used by the left to manipulate and divide, and I would also be loath to take on their labels. May I suggest “indigenous?”
‘White’ is a non-sequitur when it comes to the usage in such a context.
Gammon on the other hand … fits pretty well the various tinges, don’t you think?
Possibly. And, of course, it’s not an ad hominem when the left do it. Let’s go with “gammon.”
Basically, another fixed election. The Americans and others lavishly funded Farage again to split the vote, this time to get Starmer in. Meanwhile the ‘free and fearless’ media failed to report the election campaign in a truthful and informative way, reporting almost solely on the alleged findings of corporate pollsters rather than the issues. It seems to me clear that Sunak was the best party leader despite the Tories’ shortcomings – not a high bar given the establishment clown Davey. The SNP were also nobbled to help Labour. And all that is on top of a corrupt electoral system where a third of the vote means a landslide! Frankly, I can’t say I am even surprised, as the Brexit manipulation, the covid fascism and the 2019 election were just as bad as the 2024 general election. I doubt Starmer will be Prime Minister that long anyway – he seems to have aged 20 years even as the Leader of the Opposition.
It’s all very well saying the neoliberal establishment wants a low turnout, but what would a higher turnout have achieved? There was no valid choice.
(Incidently, here’s a good article on FPTP etc: https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2024/06/16/one-last-corrosive-act/.)
At this point in time, any given leader might tinker with the system in order to effect some minor redistribution – either to the poor or, perversely, the wealthy. But the big problem – the one never mentioned by the lying cun*s in the lamestream media, is that of resource depletion.
When FF were abundant and easily available, political discontent was rare (of course the system was still a diabolical rape of Nature, but people could afford SUVs, nice holidays etc., so… who cares, right?).
Now, though, resource depletion is putting an end to the party. All the easily accessible deposits of oil and gas were used first, being the cheapest to extract and giving the best return (ie, the highest ERoEI). The resources that remain are harder to access (therefore, require more energy to access). This is true for FF, and also metal ores – ore grades are now lower, so more rocks need to be mined and crushed = more energy needs to be used… it’s just a relentless spiral downwards.
Without making excuses for the Assange-prosecuting, Savile-protecting scumbag, there is absolutely nothing Starmer or anybody else can do about this. The only ‘political’ angle is: massive bureaucracies (like governments or nation states) are no longer viable, in terms of the energy required to sustain them. (There’s a winning slogan for 2029!)
Yes. Even if Starmer had been a decent, honest person (he’s not) then the fact is that you cannot correct 14 years of underfunding, corruption and strategic asset sell-offs in four years. Failure and chaos are a certainty.
However, to my mind, resource depletion is going to be a good thing. It means that the green lunacy will not be able to get off the ground and instead a focus will have to be made on using what we have more efficiently and recycling and reuse rather than throw aways.
Unfortunately, the new government, like the old, is still populated by morons, so i cannot see the next four years being pleasant, the fans are already on and the brown stuff is being loaded.
Stevie Boy, your comment suggests lack of understanding of a set of interrelated issues:
– “to my mind, resource depletion is going to be a good thing…”
Resource depletion is already a thing, e.g. your energy prices have rocketed – are you finding that good?
– “It means that the green lunacy will not be able to get off the ground…”
Er, fossil fuels are a resource, and they’re depleting faster than most others – so your comment implies that you’d rather face the future with less, more expensive electricity, rather than with more, cheaper electricity. Really?
Those two points are just examples; an opening; there is far more to be discussed. This site now has multiple forums on these interrelated subjects; I really think you should join the other contributors there 🙂
Thank you, Craig, for all your hard work – your integrity, your commitment to humanity in general (and Assange and the people of Palestine in particular) and your courage.
I have taken part and voted in the last 17 general elections – and this was in many ways the most
remarkable. That the Labour Party “won” 412 seats when they polled just over 9.5 million votes shows
that our electoral system is a long way from representing the will of the people
Craig, I am sorry you did not succeed in this attempt to become an MP, you would have been a better critic of this government on many issues, not just the genocide ongoing in Palestine. Still we can hope the winner will perform well for his fellow Muslims. Given the the traditional labour vote was down he may get re-elected depending on Herr Starmer and the local government’s performance over the term. We will wait and see.
Adding the Independent, Labour, and CM votes shows that people changed their minds but still voted. 29k > 11k+10k+7k=28k. Perhaps the 1k were on holiday and didn’t organise postal votes.
Well, you did well, it’s already incredible what you’ve achieved in these few weeks despite everything. Hats off! I hope you’ll decide to stand next election, also on issues closer to home – exploited British families also need to be noticed, taken care of, given voice, and you’ll be the right person to do that. The country badly needs fundamental reforms, needs people who have both intelligence and moral compass.
Questions for the PM.
First. Just over a month ago in May you promised to recognise Palestine immediately as other countries had done.
It’s over 48 hours now – why haven’t you – is this the first betrayal already?
Secondly – you have lost over 50% of your personal vote since 2017!
Some 22,000 voters from your Holbon and St Pancreas consultancy in the heart of London!
Leaving you with just 18,000 !
Why ? What sort of personal overwhelming victory is that? What happened to these voters?
You can’t blame JC – his vote stood up – as an independent!!
Or are you going to play the AS card as usual?
George Galloway’s MOATS broadcast just ended. In it, he said he would never have believed a British election could be stolen as brazenly as he had just seen. I at first thought he was just talking about the election in Rochdale he just ostensibly lost (He indicated he is contemplating legal action.) But perhaps he was thinking of the British election in general. And perhaps he was also thinking of the French election (the exit polling for which had just come out).