But have the politicians in power listened? Members of Parliament in the Labour Party this evening are starting to put wheels into motion to remove the Labour Prime Minster, Keir Starmer from office as the head of the UK government. The necessary evil about politics and human nature is people do not like to speak out, protest or show dissent unless or until they feel what is politically happening directly affects them it appears this even relates directly to Labour members of Parliament.
If Starmer goes he will be a casualty of not only his own poor policy decisions and a straight jacketed poor election manifesto which promised to not increase peoples income tax whilst trying to fix austerity of the Conservative years of government mismanagement and cut backs. The billion pound elephant in the room is always the need to tax wealth of the rich which will potentially destabilise financial markets whilst make enemies of the wealthy press and media empires of the world whilst tackling the genuine black holes of multimillionaires absorbing wealth and financial assets and turning them merely into digits on a spread sheet which society is locked out of benefiting from until we tax it back.
Sadly the Labour Party does not seem ready for the challenges that the UK really needs to face up to but who is ready to if not them? I wrote a blog post below back in November 2024 about Labours’ downfall from what it appeared to be good policies at the time and sadly things went and got a lot worse for them even quicker than they might have thought. Well in the UK many buisness are presently going bust due to UK economic and the global economic climate, it seems parties and Prime Ministers can go bust too.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has emerged as a significant force on the British right by capitalizing on anger over immigration, the cost of living, and disillusionment with mainstream parties. They really have smashed through into a form of political mainstream acceptability and voted in by considerable political sales and gullibility and buy in to what ever Farage is choosing to peddle to the masses.
Political Shifting: The party has successfully shifted the UK political spectrum to the right, with some observers positioning them as a radical right populist party that challenges liberal democratic norms, rather than a classical fascist movement.
Have we not seen and heard this all before – there is a old economic phrase if the “When America sneezes, the world catches a cold” is a long-standing economic adage, popular since the 1929 Great Depression, highlighting that a U.S. economic downturn (the sneeze) causes severe global financial instability (the cold). It stems from an 1830s phrase by Klemens von Metternich regarding France. It seems that the US fascism through Trump is being exported across the world right now too. Also exporting chaos and crisis caused by Trumps war with Iran is also causing a cold economic climate for the world and the UK is economically feeling the shivers from the increase in prices in fuel, food and future product purchases and companies left, right and centre going bust like I have not seen in nearly 30 years or so in the UK. It’s easier and also neater to blame the UK government and punish them during voting at election time for forces well out of UK politicians and peoples control.
Capitalizing on Discontent: Reform draws support by exploiting dissatisfaction with both the Conservative and Labour parties. Nigel Farage and his party, Reform UK, have positioned themselves as a “plague on both your houses” alternative to the traditional Conservative and Labour parties in the UK, feeding on voter disillusionment and anger toward the political establishment – this sounds almost very Trump like in its regurgitating into the political arguments ok the UK just like the US.
Anti-Immigration Sentiment: The party focuses heavily on immigration, which has fuelled its support. This is sadly very popular for the majority of people in the UK blame the foreigners for your own short comings, hate a foreigner for your own self loaving and lastly blame the foreigner not the billionaires for the problems destroying the society and nations that we all thought we lived in and love.
Populist Rhetoric: Nigel Farage presents the party as a defender of “the people” against a “corrupt elite,” a common populist strategy. This picture is very much echoed by the mainstream giants of the press such as Murdoc owning press.
Defections: Several former Conservative MPs and members have joined Reform, strengthening its position. To me this is just a rehashing and reinvention of the right wing wealthy classes who historically maintain power in the UK and globally – I have seen it happen a lot in British media when the right wing really show their teeth and do not pull their punches in hating the enemy and doing their damnedest to make sure you hate them to.
Social Media and Technology: The rise is facilitated by social media, which allows for the rapid spread of far-right ideologies and populist narratives.
There are a lot of fake, dishonest or false narrative social media accounts churning out hate speech on social media today boasting about how much they hate the left love Reform this is sadly new to me but its just a another weapon in the armoury of the wealthy and far right.
What does this all mean to a United Kingdom and does Nigel Farage now have the keys to Downing Street and the heart of British politics in 3 years time? Sadly I think it does it appears wealth, hate and might are presently stronger across the world and UK love, peace and righteousness reasoning.
Farage and Trump have infiltrated fascism into the western world in a way that Hitler could only dream of.
Leaving Europe has seriously economically damaged the UK although initiated by Farage he seems to be the master beneficiary of the pain and no gain that has happened due to this.
Globally taking placed wars orchestrated by power players such as Putin and Trump and climate damage due to climate change (ignored by Trump and Farage) are bound to result in immigrants escaping with their lives to places that they stand a better change to live and thrive and survive and rather than try to understand and respect peoples fears and attempts to make a better life, we demonise them and teach and promote the hating of them so as to avoid the real enemy that of excessive manipulation of us for the benefit of the billionaires classes and to maintain their power and wealth to exploit and play with the rest of us as there toys or digits on a spreadsheet rather than free thinking and feeling human beings that we are.
Hannah Spencer’s victory in the Gorton and Denton by‑election marks one of the most significant political upsets in modern Greater Manchester history. Winning 14,980 votes (40.7%), she not only defeated Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin but pushed Labour — the area’s dominant force since 1931 — into third place.
Her win brings the Green Party’s total representation in the House of Commons to five MPs, joining Siân Berry, Adrian Ramsay, Carla Denyer, and Ellie Chowns.
A Working‑Class Story That Resonated
Spencer’s background is central to her political appeal. A plumber and qualified plasterer, she trained after leaving school at 16 and continued working while campaigning — even telling clients she’d have to cancel their booked jobs because she was “heading to Parliament.”
She has lived in Manchester her entire life, leads the Green group on her local council, and previously ran for Mayor of Greater Manchester. Despite this experience, she insists she “did not grow up wanting to be a politician,” positioning herself as a genuine working‑class representative rather than a career political figure.
Her personal life adds to her grounded image: she’s a marathon runner and shares her home with four rescued greyhounds.
Why Her Victory Matters
Spencer’s win is more than a local upset — it signals a broader shift in British politics:
Labour’s declining dominance: The party’s vote collapsed dramatically, reflecting wider dissatisfaction with Keir Starmer’s leadership. Polls now suggest he is the most unpopular prime minister since modern surveys began.
Green Party momentum: Party leader Zack Polanski described the result as “tearing the roof off British politics,” arguing that there are now no “no‑go areas” for the Greens.
A new kind of Green MP: Spencer embodies a shift away from the party’s traditional middle‑class image, aligning instead with cost‑of‑living concerns and working‑class representation.
Her victory speech captured this mood, declaring:
“We defeated the parties of billionaire donors.”
What Comes Next?
As the Green Party’s first ever by‑election winner, Spencer enters Parliament with significant symbolic weight. Her challenge now is to translate her grassroots credibility into national influence — and to show that her win is not an anomaly but part of a growing realignment in British politics.
Just watching the news on television tonight and this week it seems it is not currently trying to inform me, but to indoctrinate me. I’m no believer in the view that the news is all lies, but what it certainly is is opinionated and what it does have is an agenda.
Top headline tonight on the TV is about criminal smuggling gangs getting immigrants to the UK. There is a lot of hate stirred up by illegal immigration stories. One person in my workplace even turned around last week and openly said that he thought that illegal immigrants coming over in boats should be shot as they approach our shores that would soon stop them.
I was not expecting such a violent response from a person that I worked with about such an issue as immigration. There was no way of telling if he believed his view or had a dark sense of humour but where ever he was coming from he felt emboldened enough to say it, it kind of sums up an undercurrent of racism and hatred to others that seems to be amplified across the media and then teaches people to be emboldened in their hatred of others.
You won’t get a documentary on a main screen television showing reporting on the horrors of war, famine and poverty that humans are desperately trying to escape and why they flee to wealthy countries, such a report might be controversial or deemed inappropriate propaganda promoting the people were being taught to hate and fear.
Smash the gangs and stop the boats are both terms used by former heads of government of the UK when promoting their policies against immigrants again adding fuel to the fire of fear, hatred and paranoia of strangers. I have always thought that the left of society were more eloquent, critical and show amusing senses of humour ridiculing of the establishment and those in power who abuse the power that they have.
But it is one think to laugh at those in power, its completely different realisation that anyone in power is simply being voted in because the many support their potentially hateful and right-wing view points. People don’t like to elect kind and informed and fair minded individuals the majority appear to enjoy electing a bunch of ?!?!( I want to use a swear word hear but in my own head can’t justify it right now). Let’s just say more often than not self serving millionaires aimed at defending their own power and interests or those that will do that job for said millionaires for them.
One of the greatest mistakes and also predictable errors by our present Labour government is that they will not tax the rich and powerful in a way that is needed by society in order to strengthen our social services and pay for what we need to provide a functioning western democratic society.
The Labour government has instead argued for the removal of benefits for the disabled and removal or reduction of money to help pensioners through the winter from fuel poverty and also arguably destroy the ability of farmers to pass down the assets of a farm from one generation to the next. Oh and not forgetting stopping illegal immigration from war torn countries and poverty from entering the UK.
I’m not a member of the Labour party and also did not vote for them in the last election but they are a better devil than the Conservative party or Remain. It’s likely Remain could make it in to power one day or even at the next election and if I thought our present Labour government has tones of right wing paranoia and policies then I have not seen anything if Remain are elected in. It seems the hope and dreams I grew up with in the 1990’s as a teenager that the planet was on the dawn of a new dawn of fairness and being saved from itself has been reversed and suppressed by an establishment whose agenda and direction of travel I simply do not understand or respect and where it will all end nobody quite knows. In hindsight is this the era of Trumpism on a global scale and we are not being told the dark side of what happens when we do his bidding, just being taught the dark side of why we must do his bidding?
I’ve never really wished to be normal, I often get confused by and fearful of those that express how normal they are and then start to say how different from their norm others that they hate are. The UK is really starting to have to consider the possibility that we could have a right wing Farage Reform government in place after the next general election cycle.
Those that vote for him like those that vote for Trump feel ignored by what is described as the establishment and will be offered electoral treats to endorse him and his policies so that they turn around and go, what the hell, why shouldn’t I vote for Farage and his right wing party. He has already boasted that no taxes will go to health care services or in other words will be making tax cuts at the expense of not having a National Health Service.
That will seriously impact on my health with life long medical condition such as diabetes and also a mental health condition that requires daily lifelong medication, I know I will be uninsurable or a waste of money to any health insurance scheme. A good health service is there to treat the ill not profit from them. We are learning the hard way in this country that the privatisation of utilities such as water and transport links on the rail result in poor services with ever increasing profits for share holders as things get worse. I would love to invest in shares of a ethical company that sees’ providing clean transport links and clean water to customers as a force for profitable good but sadly that’s just not the way it works in the UK.
My present political perspective is to try and vote for someone that will not make things shitter than what they already are which for a blue-sky thinker, dreamer kind of person is very disappointing.
I really enjoy trying to understand and paying attention to politics – even though it is perhaps normal or fashionable to express no interest or have no view. But for me politics does matters, democracy matters and having a view and interpretation matters.
When you have a political discussion with someone or listen to the views of others in the news it’s exceptionally rare to agree or not find disagreements or points to have further discussion upon and maybe the increased amount of disagreements and diversity of opinion is what some people love about politics and on the other hand the disagreements and diversity of opinions is what puts some people of politics!
I have so far in my life voted in 7 general elections have supported 2 political parties so far and might end up supporting a third party in the next general election. Considering how interested I am in politics and democracy I feel my actual input into the political and democratic system is very small.
When I was 18 I was a member of the Liberal Democrats a smaller party in the UK that you could have summed up being a left leaning party that believes in personal liberty for individual and advocates a change to the voting system of the UK so as to see proportional representation and more people have their views represented in the house of commons and also believes in the funding of political institutions for the benefit of all. One of the things that put me off them is when they went into power with the Conservative party which resulted in from my perspective a considerable amount of damage to the UK, where as others can argue through majority rule the British people got what they asked and voted for with Brexit when we left the European Union and introduced Conservative policies to cuts in taxes and damage public services due to lack of vision, investment and resourcing.
I have never been a member of the Labour party but I have voted for them in a general election and been served by a local Labour MP called Ben Bradshaw he was culture minister in the last labour government well over 14 years ago and is now stepping down and making way for a new local MP at the next general election. So most elections in which I have voted for have been for the Labour candidates and this election I will likely give my vote to the green party candidate in Exeter. I have regularly voted for local city councillors that are members of the green party and fortuntly they were elected to stand in my local city council. I have been a paid up member of the green party now and respect and believe in the principles and points of view of the green party. So on the election I will be choosing to vote with my principles and vote green or vote to beat the conservative and vote Labour.
I am more of an anti-Conservative party voter than I am a pro one particular party voter, I am a member of the green party because I believe they are a progressive party with practical solutions on how to invest in and protect our environment and have policies on the local, national and international level that reflect this. But mostly I am an anti-conservative voter, if the greens seek to protect the environment then the conservative party seek to damage the environment, society and people within my own community so as to benefit from that damage financially themselves and such policies and actions I find repulsive.
A conservative will often boast about what freedoms they give to you while they profit considerably at your expense when governing you. It is argued that we live in a capitalist society and it is the only way to live. But I do not think it is that simple I would argue we are consumers not capitalists. We produce goods and services to be consumed and that way of existence can be managed and governed to ensure that the system is safe for the environment and the citizens that live within in e.g. safe water to drink and safe places to work and live. A capitalist mere profit is king society does not care whether the water is safe it only cares whether it is profitable or whether your work or live is safe only whether it is profitable to the economy. We should aspire to work towards a consumer led society not capitalistic profit at the price of everything else society it is damaging road to destruction of this planet and must be voted against and spoken out against at every opportunity.
Welcome to Huwspace 
You must be logged in to post a comment.