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:::[[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Abnormal is fine. Stupid isn't.]]</sup> 13:00, May 10, 2026 (EDT)
:::[[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Abnormal is fine. Stupid isn't.]]</sup> 13:00, May 10, 2026 (EDT)
::[[Farage]]: [https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/08/uk/uk-local-election-reform-farage-starmer-intl "Labour are being wiped out by Reform in many of their most traditional areas, and what you’re going to see later on today is the Conservative Party being wiped out in their heartlands"].
::[[Farage]]: [https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/08/uk/uk-local-election-reform-farage-starmer-intl "Labour are being wiped out by Reform in many of their most traditional areas, and what you’re going to see later on today is the Conservative Party being wiped out in their heartlands"].
::''[[The Federalist]]'': [https://thefederalist.com/2026/05/13/why-britains-elections-portend-trouble-for-america/]
{{quotebox-float|the election results leave little doubt what polls have consistently shown: '''Britons are rejecting the establishment parties, Labour and Conservatives''', in favor of upstart parties like Reform, the Green Party, Liberal Democrats — as well as a growing number of independent Islamopopulist politicians. Labour is likely facing a wipeout in the 2028 parliamentary elections, and Reform, by far the most popular party in Britain, might well win an outright majority.
It would be easy to look at these results and conclude that they amount to a resounding rebuke of globalist left-wing politics embodied by leaders like Starmer and other fixtures of the European establishment, and that a populist victory by Farage and Reform will rescue Britain and pull her out of what seems to be the impending collapse of civil society.
But that’s the wrong lesson to take away. What’s happening in Britain is the political expression of a loss of social cohesion and the first signs of brewing civil conflict along ethnic nationalist and post-nationalist lines. Broadly speaking, the rejection of the establishment parties by British voters signals a deeper loss of confidence in the political process in Britain and the legitimacy of the British political elite.
On a more granular level, the elections produced major Reform gains in working-class areas of northern Britain and the Midlands. Voters in these places rejected the establishment parties responsible for mass immigration and the demographic and cultural upheaval that forced multiculturalism has brought to Britain in a relatively short period of time. Stated bluntly, disaffected ethnic English voters are turning to Reform as a vehicle for their discontent. '''This isn’t just happening in rural and suburban areas that once voted Conservative, but also in post-industrial cities that were once Labour strongholds.'''}}
==[https://tass.com/politics/2128675 Trump brokers 3-day ceasefire until May 11.]==
==[https://tass.com/politics/2128675 Trump brokers 3-day ceasefire until May 11.]==