Labour is trying to paint its massive – and still unfolding – losses in the local elections as happening because… it’s too left-wing. This is way worse than nonsense.
A Labour figure told the BBC that:
the surge of Reform in the north-west of England shows the dangers of Labour moving in a more progressive direction politically.
Labour haven’t been left-wing for a long time
Labour could hardly be less left-wing. It’s to the right of the Tories – and even Reform – on some issues and fighting hard with them on the rest. Starmer’s party is a pro-genocide racist (and paedophile) cesspit. It boasts about how many people it is deporting and is waging war on the freedoms of UK people to protect Israel and its war crimes. It attacks the most vulnerable, protects the wealthiest, and delights in keeping the poor poor, especially children. In all but rosette colour, it is Reform and the Tories.
And as a result, it is haemorrhaging votes without gaining any. Reform and Tory voters hate Starmer. It’s maybe the one thing they agree with the left on. Any humane and rational voters know that holding their nose and voting Labour is a vote for fascism whichever of the three rosettes gets in. So they’re voting Green.
And that’s borne out by the results. Despite Labour’s massive losses and Reform’s gains, Labour is losing voters to the Greens, not to Reform. Reform are cannibalising the Tory vote. As elections expert John Curtice has noted this morning:
It is clear that the Labour party is losing plenty of seats to Reform. One might therefore conclude that it is Reform who are doing the most damage to Labour in terms of the vote.
However, that is not the pattern that is emerging from the results in the BBC’s “key wards”. A sharp fall in Labour’s performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance.
Meanwhile, it is the Conservatives who appear to be suffering most where Reform is advancing most. It should be remembered that Labour may often lose seats to Reform because it is losing votes to the Greens, while the Conservatives are losing votes to Reform. The net effect can be that Labour end up losing a seat to Reform.
What choice?
As Skwawkbox, the Canary and others have repeatedly warned since Starmer got in: if voters want neofascist racism, they will vote for the full-fat version. Chasing them will make them hate Labour more, especially with whiney animated blancmange fronting the party. Like Keir Starmer and any of the ‘mini-me’s with which his cronies have crammed the party. Which means that anyone who might replace him will be just as odious and Labour is dead.
And the voters are too busy turning to the Greens to even mourn its corpse. As a video made by reader Ed Torsney points out, Labour is all part of the same con as the Tories and Reform:
https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Reform-Canary-hb.mp4
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By Skwawkbox
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