AND the garbage well and truly stunk! After 14 years of incompetent Tory rule the Brits have woken up and unceremoniously dumped the useless mob on mass. The British people have spoken, booting the Conservative Party out of 240 plus seats in the House Of Commons, delivering the Tories the greatest electoral defeat in modern British political history, a landslide victory for the British Labour Party led by the incoming Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. 14 years of inept leadership, failed policies, infighting and total incompetence, sound familiar, it could be Australia under 9 years of the incompetent Coalition Governments of Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison. The result has seen the Tories packed off to the political abyss, hopefully from whence they shall never return. Maybe the final shock for the Brits was the fact that under the Tories the average persons life expectancy had dropped by almost a year.

The hard right regimes in both Australia and Britain have shown that conservatism is a danger to the well-being of the nation. The longer they are in power the worse the outcome!

Hi Paul,

The British election results on July 4th gave the
ultimate punishment to the Tories.

The UK will now have a Labour Government under
Keir Starmer with a super majority of more than
410 MPs, while the Conservatives will hold fewer
than 120 seats in the House of Commons.
Making the defeat on a scale we're told, not seen,
since 1832.

For Labour - it marks the end of a long wait.

According to the British media, Brexit stands out
as a significant legacy of the Conservative Party.
PM David Cameron resigned. He'd campaigned to
remain in Brexit.

He was followed by Theresa May, then Boris Johnson.

The Conservatives struggled to show any tangible
benefits of Brexit.

Things got worse with the COVID chaos, - then
the economic wars, the deterioration of the National
Health Scheme -( NHS), and finally the election of Rishi Sunak,
from a very wealthy family - who supported giving support
for the Ukraine, and also support for Israel, - making many people
especially Palestinians - think he was out of touch.

This step-by-step- of disasters - ended up with the result
that eventuated on 4 July.

How well will Labour do in power?

We shall have to wait and see.

The American election is coming up next.

Any predictions?

Hi Foxy,

Keir Starmer comes across as a Tony Blair type, a middle of the road progressive, a man of intelligence, excellent credentials, but still remembering his humble upbringing, the first in his family to go to university, hardworking but not well off parents. The Labour Party has a job and a half to do if Britain is going to claw its way back to anywhere near what it was 14 years ago before the Tory wrecking ball got to work. Its seems not that long ago when that idiot Boris Johnson was running the show, his hairstyle typified his government, both were out of control, The whole 14 years was a total comical farce. If Starmer reminds me of Blair then Dutton reminds me of Johnson. Ahhhhh!

"The American election is coming up next. Any predictions?"

Yes, come November there will be a silly old fool in the White House.

Yep, Labour won. But I wouldn't get too carried away.

The turnout was less than 60%.

Of that 60% they got 33.8%. No for someone who swoons over the ALP vote, 33.8% might seems like a landslide, but its barely more than what Corbyn got back in 2019 when Johnson smacked his arse on a much higher turnout.

Doing the numbers, Labour got a little over 20% of the eligible vote. Hardly a resounding win. But the screwy UK system means that a party getting 33% of the vote ends up with 64% of the seats.

The main reason for this was that the anti-Labour vote was split between the Tories and the Reform party. Now that might not be all that bad a result. The Tories now know that they can't hope to win while they piss of the 20% of the electorate that supported Farage's Reform party. That means the Tories will need to drop most of its wet, wet, wet policies and start to really address the problems that face the UK. And if you think they've got problems now, wait until the left spend a year or two ripping the place up.

Meanwhile many of the Tories who lost their seat are exactly the ones the Tories needed to lose in order to allow it to revert to being a true right-of-centre party.

Sometimes bad things need to happen for better thigs to happen in the future.

Mr Mhaze Trumpster,

What percentage of the eligible vote did your folk hero the Dangerous Doctor Donald receive in 2016, when he won 100% of the Presidency, Ah! 27%. Your nothing more than a disgruntled far right extremist, who is clutching at straws, trying to put a pathetic positive spin on a total disaster for the Tories. If a bus load of Tories drove off a 1,000 foot high cliff, you'd spin it with; "It wasn't all that bad, the cliff could have been 2,000 foot high."

Mate, the British voters woke up to stupid Tory government, end of story. The icing on the cake was when the Tories managed to have the average Poms life expectancy cut by almost a year, Tories like the Noalition here love cutting things including how long you live. Then again maybe the people were so fed up with the total incompetence of conservatism, they were simply committing subside early to end it all! Vote Dud Dutton and the Noalition into government here, and you'll get the same result. Like we had when they were last in power fruitcake policy and total infighting.

Dud Dutton reminds of Bozo Johnson, minus the hair!

After 14 years of incompetent Tory rule the Brits have woken up and unceremoniously dumped the useless mob on mass.
Paul1405,
Will they change all the Public servants ? I think they'll do the same as has happened here. They just changed Ministers but the sabotage-damage brigade is still in charge !
That's not a step towards a solution, it's a move to do more damage. But I suppose you can't see that !