The British Labour Party by essentially maintaining their minority one third of the vote, took almost two thirds of the 650 seats
in the UK Parliament on July 5th as the ideological fracturing of the Conservative Party lose 251 seats in the worst British political wipeout since 1834.
The start-up populist Reform UK rebels led by Nigel Farage came in third by capturing 14% of the vote, compared to the Conservative Party’s second place finish with 20%. Under the UK’s bizzarro district representation system, the Conservative Party was awarded 19% of the seats, and the Reform UK party got 1%, or just 4 seats.
Reform UK voters rebelled from the Conservative Party over its uniparty support of the Labour Party’s socialist demands for mass migration, big government, high taxes, decriminalization and other leftist objectives.
The insurgent Reform UK was able to emerge from political obscurity, because it essentially spoke through its enormous social media presence to Gen Zs, ages 14 to 34. Conservative Party leader Rihshi Sunak further angered the youth vote by pushing to raise the smoking age; while talking up the NATO draft to send teen boys and girls to fight in Ukraine trenches.
But GenZ’s free-wheeling Internet speech also allowed the British establishment parties to slander Reform UK as racist, Nazi, Islamophobic, antisemitic, homophobic, alt-right, etc., etc., and etc.
The establishment attacks kept Millennials and Gen Xers from bolting from the Conservative Party. But Boomers over age 60 who have been the most adamant opposition to open-border immigration, responded the old-school way with an over-whelming protest vote for the Labour Party.
Two days later on Sunday July 7th, French President Emannuel Macron’s centrist Ensemble coalition cut a deal with Jean-Luc Melenchon’s leftist New Popular Front to keep the populist Rally National party led by Marie Le Pen from forming the first French conservative government in 55 years.
Preliminary results indicate the Left will form a new government in France:
Left Alliance with 22.3% of the vote won between 170-215 Seats
Macron’s Alliance with 22.3% of the vote won between 150-182 Seats
Le Pen’s NR with 37.3% of the vote won between 110-158 Seats