Henry Mendoza

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.

Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

It is quite funny in the specific sense that 10 years ago people in the Labour Party were telling me that they had to keep FPTP to stop 'pasokification'. At this rate the party may well be envying the position of Pasok within the next decade.

Smh, Trump getting the credit for Reform dabbling in election denial. Total disrespect for Nigel Farage’s long years of blaming every result he doesn’t like on postal vote fraud

I can’t believe the people one candidate doesn’t consider British voted tactically against him

If I were a (terribly performing) leader of a party in crisis at an inflection point who's absolutely not doing what eeds to be done, I would simply not issue a release criticising the PM as a terribly performing leader of a party in crisis at an inflection point absolutely not doing what needs done

If the Muslims were integrated, they would have…voted for a more socially conservative candidate? As ever “Want to get stupider? Try Racism (TM)” never fails.

He's just an intellectually lazy person lashing out because everything's going wrong and deep, deep down he's knows its all his fault

Indeed. Ultimately Starmer thinks “who do you think Labour’s historic and present day coalition is?” is a boring politicky question that he shouldn’t have to answer. And that attitude is at the root of all their problems.

This campaign provided the defining image of the old Labour right at every point through its history: when one of its activists saw the living room of their party’s genuine core and could not recognise it for what it was.

‘Coalition of socially Conservative working class voters and with middle class social liberals cannot survive an election campaign’. What does Keir Starmer think the Labour coalition is, or has ever been?

Honestly, I think casting Starmer's failure as part of Labour's long history of losing lets him off the hook. Labour's standard position for 50 years has been opposition with a vote share in the 30s and 200-260 seats. Right now Labour would kill to be facing that

the best way to understand the Blue Labour strategy is to punch left economically and punch right socially

the issue is that it doesn't actually win Red Wall voters (who decamped to Reform) over

this is, uh, part of the problem with the American understanding of Labour mistakes

stuff like the two child cap and winter fuel were driving a lot of discontent with the government, but the government has in fact increased spending

'Pushed austerity' by, erm, hugely increasing public spending.

Democrats have been in power for 20 of the last 34 years.

Labour have been in power for 20 of the last 57 years. (It has been their most historically successful period)

Patch notes: resolved balance issues where Labour has a younger age profile than every other legacy social democratic party in the game.

“We clearly established that due to the Thatcher character’s background as a scientist and the miner’s strike, they are the centre-right with the strongest green credentials”. Since nerfed.

It really does just feel like really bad writing in a longrunning fantasy series, where the things that we had established were different about Britain in this setting are now just an inconvenience for the writers so: hey! Guess those differences don’t exist anymore.

This is also true of the Conservatives and it is IMO the single weirdest thing about British politics in 2026: it is such a weird, weird, weird route to end up at “basically what you’d expect from any democracy in Western Europe”.

A fascinating bit of convergent evolution that the McSweeney-Starmer project has basically ended up leaving Labour in the same position as its Western European peers…as a result of deliberate, wholly avoidable choices.

Francois Hollande: I had the growth and stability pact constraining me
George Papandreou: I was constrained by the Troika
Olaf Scholz: I was constrained by the FDP
Morgan McSweeney: I was constrained by not wanting to admit that the 2024 election strategy might have had some flaws

Both major parties suffering from "But I'm emotionally invested in this party, why aren't the voters?" syndrome.

Sources close to Shabana Mahmood pointing out that the polls show her policies are popular with Green voters.

Sources close to Shabana Mahmood pointing out that the polls show her policies are popular with Green voters, continued.

You know, if the stakes of the next election were lower, Blue Labour doing a “actually, the policies are really popular…it’s just that the people who say they like it didn’t vote for us” would be incredibly funny.

Keir Starmer did not think it was 'sectarian' when Labour leaflets put pictures of Narendra Modi on them and criticised Boris Johnson for meeting him in Batley and Spen.

It's only vote harvesting when it comes from the sectarian region of Longsight. When I do it, it is 'serious questions for Sadiq Khan over sparkling jewellery'.

Quite. One reason why the 'sectarian' stuff rings hollow is if you think that Labour were not doing their own communal campaigning going 'you know what their position on gender is, right?' I have a picture of an ape to sell you.

I also wonder whether Starmer knows much about how Labour itself goes about campaigning on the ground.

*24 and a half hours ago to be precise

I think it fails to understand the coalition of voters that just voted Green, and why. And as usual you won’t get very far by implicitly slagging off the voters. The Green voter coalition was your coalition five minutes ago.

Ancient Briton- 'I think that there Londinium is a passing Roman fad, it'll never catch on'