Reform Wins Runcorn By-Election by Six Votes, Overturning Labour Majority of 14,700 and Triggering Political Earthquake
Reform has won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election from Labour by just six votes, overturning a majority of 14,700 and triggering a political earthquake that threatens to shatter the hegemony of Labour and the Tories. The Mail has more.
Nigel Farage triggered a political earthquake today as Reform seized Runcorn & Helsby from Labour by just six votes in a dramatic by-election.
A jubilant Mr Farage hailed a “big moment” after nailbiting recounts in the Cheshire seat, with local elections seeing the insurgents rack up huge gains across England and spark panic in the two main parties.
It was the narrowest by-election win in modern British history, with Labour immediately descending into brutal recriminations over the loss of the stronghold.
Watched by Mr Farage, victorious candidate Sarah Pochin said the public was sending a message that “enough is enough”. “Enough Tory failure, enough Labour lies,” she said.
As results from yesterday’s contests flowed in, Reform’s Dame Andrea Jenkyns romped home as the first Greater Lincolnshire mayor with an enormous 40,000 majority over the Tories.
The party is also on track to control the county council, as its national poll surge is translated into real votes and real power.
Earlier, Reform only narrowly missed out on having a mayor in North Tyneside, cutting a Labour majority of almost 14,000 down to just 444.
It was a similar story in Doncaster, where Labour’s Ros Jones closed out Mr Farage’s party by just 698 votes. The Tories were in third, with the Right-wing parties together taking 57% of the vote.
Ms Jones launched an extraordinary tirade at Sir Keir after the announcement, berating him for not “listening” to unrest over cuts to winter fuel allowance and the national insurance hike.
MPs quickly joined the demands for a change in direction from the premier.
Reform were also a shock second in the West of England, where Labour held the mayoralty in what was meant to be a two-horse race between them and the Greens.
In the coming hours Mr Farage’s outfit is expected to take hundreds of council seats surrendered by the Tories. The areas up for grabs are traditionally true-blue and were last decided at Boris Johnson’s peak in 2021.
On a momentous day for British politics:
- There is speculation the Tories and Reform could form a coalition in Northumberland after they won 26 and 23 seats on the council respectively from the 69 total;
- Polling guru Professor John Curtice suggested the two-party era was over after the first 124 wards gave Reform a vote share of 38%, the Conservatives 28% and Labour 18%;
- Mr Farage branded Sir Keir a “coward” for not campaigning in Runcorn, as Ministers admitted the public is “impatient” with the Government;
- The Reform leader said the party would end WFH in councils and introduce US-style ‘DOGE’ departments;
- Labour sources are concerned about the party’s Durham heartlands, with fears Reform could even end up in control of the council.
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Wait for it – “election fraud, recount necessary”
What, to increase the winning margin to 6000?
Perhaps 6 votes should be call a whining margin.
It’ll be Labour doing the fraud part and ironically demanding the recounting. Already started;
https://x.com/juneslater17/status/1918186084674224205
https://x.com/Sampsoni29/status/1918197892143321148
I have just posted similar Mogs before reading any comments.
Well, Martyn Turner is a complete tosser, if this is how he sees Reform voters. But how many people’s views does he represent?
”In a nutshell, the utter contempt, social snobbery and anti-English bigotry which characterises our entire establishment, from minister to cartoonist.”
https://x.com/prwhittle/status/1918250475167588551
M A k, if there is any fraud it will be Labour – I have seen too much of it. They won’t risk contesting the result.
I can imagine both parties hiding away plotting how they can con the public into believing their lies in the future instead of doing what’s right and what most people want.
The same is repeating itself throughout the western world especially Europe. There are big changes ahead and we can see that the lefties play very dirty, be prepared for upheavals because the current bunch of ideological zealots in power would rather see mass poverty and strife before even considering that their policies of the past 30 years have been a complete and utter failure.
A reply on another post I saw says as soon as the result is declared, as it has been the only way to change it is to have a new vote.
Well done, Nigel and keep going.
Please let’s get rid of this woke, marxo-fascist, grooming-gang-appeasing, anti-British, death-cult worshipping political elite, together with their empty suit robot PM, cheap tenner-a-go slapper deputy and also the fake Tories who have never seen a woke cause they didn’t like, and the paddle-boarding jester and the gender-fluid green weirdo.
Please, let’s get rid of them. Let them all be a blip, a brief anomaly, a footnote in history books, an embarrassing mistake quickly forgotten.
Because otherwise we’re finished.
Brilliant post. Can I add the customer complaints assistant who loves to advise her colleagues on how to confiscate and spend other people’s money?
Great results for RUK.
We already have hypocrite numero uno coming out of the starting gates, the ‘delightful’ Ros Jones. Now telling us all she wants the same policies as RUK.
Yet hours earlier she was shilling for the Labour Party.
No love it does not work like that, you belong to the nasty Labour Party so own it and be ‘proud’ that you are doing down the old, poor, sick and vulnerable.
“the old, poor, sick and vulnerable.” and the thoroughly decent, honest, law-abiding, tax-paying, self-sufficient natives.
I still can’t get over how so many still vote Labour. Who the heck are these imbeciles?😵 They can’t all be Muslims… I just think if you hate your country ( or the country in which you reside, for those not born in Britain ) vote craptastic Labour.🤦♀️
*Disclaimer* I realise talk is cheap and the Tories are just as bad.
Indeed. Morons or feckless handout-recipients I would guess.
The success of Broon’s efforts to make the majority of the population the government’s clients with handouts. Also the tax circle where you tax people so much they struggle to live so you have to spend money employing lots of people to examine their cases and give them some of their tax money back to live on when taxes could just be lowered.
As I’ve said before, Labour knew their vote was very shallow last July. The immediate tactic was to lock in a rock-solid 20% share and then gamble for the rest. The rock solid Labour voters were bribed with massive no-strings pay deals paid by the rest of us. They are, of course, the train drivers, the civil servants and the junior doctors. So they’ve bought their core vote but the rest of us have seen through them.
Champagne socialists
Public sector employees
People on welfare
That’s my guess anyway
Students.
They’ll probably end up having to declare how they voted to their peers and/or student organizations and declaring anyting but labgrelib wouldn’t be particularly smart.
Unionized workers who do as their union bosses tell them.
Other communists. At least juding from posters and stickers which regularly appear in Reading, there are plenty of them.
Yes, young idealists is another good category.
Make that clueless and thus gullible people who’d like to think of themselves as idealists and believe the unscrupulous leaders they’re naively following are actually idealists and not just in search of cannon fodder which they are.
Yes indeed
People who think thy’re still getting a labour party that cares about the workers as it di before Blair’s New Labour came along.
Weird. I know someone who still votes for them. He is not at all woke and he is well off, but he believes in collectivism and the wisdom of the technocrats, of which I guess is one.
Labour voters will be unionised public sector workers, welfare dependents, and others who always do well out of the redistribution of other people’s money when Labour govern.
I always believed (hoped) that the Conservatives would ‘pivot’ on some key political issue to ensure their continued existence.
It would appear that Reform have provided an alternative to just waiting for the Conservatives to ‘get a grip’.
‘Vote Conservative get Labour” appears to be a lesson well learned.
Such a narrow margin, and still a win, is a good omen. “I’d rather have lucky generals than good ones”
Narrow… well Reform UK vote, in effect, went from zero to 14 706 to wipe out Labour.
Or in absolute terms from zero to 12 645 – not bad for a Party only about a year old.
“Daisy Cooper tells BBC Breakfast she thinks the Lib Dems “can replace the Conservatives as the party of Middle England”.
She adds that the Lib Dems are “deeply concerned” about the rise of Reform.”
The Lib Dems and Greens may well pick up a lot of Tory votes – left wing Tories who may think the party is finished/too far to the right, but cannot bring themselves to vote Labour. In my affluent corner of the Home Counties, lots of people vote Green now.
I expect the Lib Dems are indeed concerned about Reform pushing them to be number 4 in the party pecking order, but what I reckon she is implying is that Reform are Literally Nazis. Don’t the lefties call that “dog whistle politics”?
The only party other than Reform to increase its vote share was the Green one. The LDs still lost vote share to Reform, so Daisy is just whistling in the wind.
PS I have always considered that LDs and Greens are both cheeks of the same nether region, and even combined the lost vote share.
I agree
In my county, previously solidly Fake Conservative, the LDs look set to become the largest party, still lots of people voting Fake Conservative.
Well, one way for affluent people to become non-affluent is to vote for socialism, there is that. My suspicion is that they vote Green for “social acceptance” and virtue-signalling reasons.
They probably figure, maybe rightly, that come the revolution they will be OK as they will join the Party and live in gated communities. This is already the case, to an extent.
These people are going to believe that there’s an up-and-comingf radical left majority who even believes that David Cameron was “literally Hitler”, if I may borrow that, because he didn’t legally abolish human sex and declared the borders to be completely open from now on who’ll vote for them in future until they find out the hard way what the Muslims who are still voting for them really want. Which is not going to be “CSD strip shows in kindergaten.”
If there are people in the Conversative and Disunited Pary who really believe it’s too right wing, they can only be communist moles on the payroll of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation or similar outfits.
Reform need a new theme tune – Wipeout – from 1980s by Surfaris.
Political earthquake? Maybe, but Runcorn could be more like what happened when Martin Bell won Tatton, some years ago. Could be like a flash in the pan, when a general election comes around. Whatever happens, it will turn out to be more complex to actually do a proper job than to campaign in protest.
Yeah like the “proper job” that the Uniparty has been doing for decades, ruining our country.
Actually I am not sure I want too much in the way of “policies” which smacks of yet more do-gooding knowalls bossing me around. Doing nothing would be better. Repeal every law passed in the last half century, close the borders, privatise everything.
57,000 new laws since Blair.. No wonder we’re up to our arses in lawyers…
Blimey that’s a lot more than I thought. Utter madness.
As Rupert Lowe said,
“We need a government that will put us first,
defend our interests,
and Get the Hell Out of Our Way!”
It’s not bloody rocket science.
Yes, but no one else is saying it, are they?
Sadly not. I wish I understood why!
Because they are wimps.
Sit on their hands for five years you mean. The problem is all politicians, yes even Reform ones, feel they need to make their mark on history and leave some evidence they were here and doing their job.
That’s why the contract with them needs to be rewritten so it’s clear that they are allowed to do very little
Martin Bell stood against Neil Hamilton as a one time protest. Nothing like the situation that Reform is creating.
Congratulations.
A reminder: Reform can have all the political infighting it wants more productively should they ever get into a position to make actual policy decisions. Until this has happened (if it ever happens), it’s a better idea to focus on the supposed external political enemies.
Quite right. Otherwise it’s like arguing over hypothetical lottery winnings before buying a ticket.
Nice one! 🙂
You can’t blame the turnout as it is good for a byelection. Shame that the Reform candidate is such a shallow flaky woman dumped on them by the Messiah as opposed to the local man who stood in July.
“The message I take out of these elections is that we need to go further and we need to go faster on the change that people want to see.”
Kneel Stürmer.
The message I take out of these elections is that the electorate want the exact opposite of what Labour are doing.
And that ‘Prime Minister’, you’re a lying, talentless cockwomble. (c) Katie H.
Keep going Kneel, you’re our best weapon.
Ohhhh, and what a delight to have such a demonstrable rebuttal of the facile Con Party line, that a vote for Reform is a vote for Labour.
It’s always the same; they parrot the same bullshit arguments, and whilst anyone with a brain can see them for what they are, in time reality has a habit of shoving them up their jacksie for the avoidance of doubt.
Expecting the Nigerian to trot that one out again soon.
I’m expecting the Nigerian to be trotted out herself.
🙂
“MPs quickly joined the demands for a change in direction from the premier.”
He can only change direction if is he actually is going in a particular direction – spinning like a top isn’t a direction.
Great photo, showing the strange, sinister, alien look on Mohammed Zia’s face, not ecstatic like Nigel, but gazing upon Nigel with a smug proprietary air. Gazing upon his Front Man, waiting for the “Bait & Switch”.
Waiting…
Like the Muslim Army being imported every day and placed into every nook and cranny of Britain. Waiting… Waiting…Waiting for the Signal…
A Vote for Reform is A Vote for the Caliphate.
Wow, you got all of that from a photo! You must be very worried! Great try but great race baiting.
Islam isn’t a race, it’s a political ideology. Thus it is reasonable to question the loyalty of what looks to be a political trojan horse.
tu quoque
Too right!
Oh I thought it was a heavily tanned Ed Millipede
Who is Zia? The man that Nigel says he has known for a decade, but no one who knows Nigel had ever heard of before last year.
Excellent point! Mohammed Zia just suddenly appeared out of nowhere to seize control of the “patriotic” Reform party as a vehicle of “Useful Idiots” (dhimmis, as they are called), to catapult him into No. 10.
Thank God they’re abandoning Labour that is the biggest positive indication. They need to be totally uprooted.