Labour are now ahead of Reform in polls from More in Common (28% to 24%) and Survation (26% to 24%). Also YouGov has Labour and Reform on level terms, both at 22%. This is the first time in over a year that Reform has not had a lead over Labour.
Thoughts?
PLEASE, EVERYONE IN THAT TOWN PLEASE VOTE BIN FACE WE BEG OF YOU THIS WOULD BE THE MOST PEAK AND FUNNIEST SHIT EVER
It would actually be so fucking funny if Binface caused the downfall of Reform.
I feel like it is becoming possible. Or at least irrevocable from Farage, and Farage is Reform. There is similar tones from the media as Truss with the lettuce or Miliband and his bacon sarnie.
It’s horrid that Britain has reached a state where the most popular left wing party gets less than a third and the party snapping at their tails is basically The National Front 2.
New Labour is not a leftwing party.
Under its previous leader it was probably even to the right of center-right.
Jury is still out on how far to the Right its current leader will keep it.
Labour haven’t really been a left wing party since 1995
1950, they stopped being a left wing party when they told women to get back in the kitchen and abided by governments where raping women was legal, abortion was illegal and being gay was mentally ill. I spit on labour as a historical entity.
Yes, that’s why we should vote reform or conservative comrade. Let’s help topple the current system and rebuild from the ashes. I have 3 tins of baked beans that will last us during the revolution.
Or, you know, you could vote Greenparty.
“Curious” that you don’t mention that.
What a ridiculous thing to say.
The fact that other parties exist that are much further to the right of Labour doesn’t change the fact that Labour revoked their commitment to moving the means of production into public ownership under Tony Blair, and have since systematically ousted every left wing MP from their ranks.
I’m all for tactical voting to keep the likes of Farage away from power (though that will probably mean having to vote SNP where I live), but that doesn’t magically counteract the last 30 years of New Labour’s neoliberalism.
You are an ignorant fool whose behaviour directly leads to the rise of parties like Reform and the constant electoral return of the Tory Party in the past. Labour are controlled opposition that have always been the release valve for pent-up frustration for workers, ceding ground to the right over and over again by allowing the overton window to remain in the ridiculous position it’s ended up in.
The only time the Labour party achieved anything radical was on the heels of WW2 when the growing strength of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact, alongside workers being trained to use arms and having recently fought a bloody war against fascists and ready to fight capital at home violently, brought a whole suite of very radical reforms to the system as concessions to the working class. These have been systematically stripped back for the last 5 decades and Labour had been a willing partner in the transition, no longer fearing being held accountable by the class they claim to represent.
Further reading for interested lurkers on the post-war concessions given in the capitalist nations: https://redsails.org/concessions/
When Starmer was leading Labour, Farage was effectively the PM-in-waiting, the owners’ and right-wing media’s anointed viceroy. Now he suddenly doesn’t want to play this game any more and calls a byelection that only a joke candidate stands against him in (and looks to beat him). Given that Farage was UKIP and that all but disintegrated into a small group of angry cranks when he left, there probably isn’t much hope for a post-Farage Reform UK. The most viable candidates will jump back to the Conservative Party (which, for its fortunes, is a huge, old institution with the inherent buoyancy that that brings), and others may merge into another right-wing fringe party (the Tice mob, the one Morrissey was bigging up, some actual blood-and-soil Nazi death cult Elon Musk donates a few hundred million to, or whatever).
TIL Morrissey is a racist fascist fuck.
A good read for anyone else who didn’t know:
To go along with his shit music and grating voice, not to mention the worst novel ever written.
He also robbed his bandmates of fair royalties. They took him to court and won, with the judge characterising Morrissey as “truculent and devious”.
And these people want us to believe it’s dastardly Johnny Foreigner who will rob us and destroy fairness.
Vote Green guys! They’re the only ones that want wealth taxes which means they’re the only ones that’ll make the country better for the working person.
When is the bi election? Come on you Binface!
probably at the same time as the hetero one
He doesn’t even NEED to win. Just putting in a good showing will make a huge difference to Milkshake face’s reputation.
13aug, 2 weeks!
I’ve left the UK years ago (not even a Brit, but lived there for over a decade), and even I will be buying some popcorn for that event.
Can we all give some appreciation to the author of that headline.
This made my day.
Kinda curious to see where that shift is coming from.
Date N Ref Lab Con LD Grn
28 Jul 2026|1,012|24%|26%|21%|10%|10%
24 Jul 2026|1,021|26%|25%|19%|10%|8%
17 Jul 2026|2,097|24%|24%|21%|11%|11%
17 Jun 2026|1,003|27%|19%|20%|12%|11%
Except for Labour, they’re all within margin of error. Looks more like undecides and maybe a few LibDems are coming home to Labour than anything. Greens are depressingly flat, so this clearly isn’t a big shift in ideology.
I guess just jettisoning Keir Starmer is enough to give Labour a small bounce.
If you’re aiming for a table, you can do a Markdown table like this:
|Date|N|Ref|Lab|Con|LD|Grn| |-|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:| |28 Jul 2026|1,012|24%|26%|21%|10%|10%| |24 Jul 2026|1,021|26%|25%|19%|10%|8%| |17 Jul 2026|2,097|24%|24%|21%|11%|11%| |17 Jun 2026|1,003|27%|19%|20%|12%|11%|Which yields:
Date N Ref Lab Con LD Grn 28 Jul 2026 1,012 24% 26% 21% 10% 10% 24 Jul 2026 1,021 26% 25% 19% 10% 8% 17 Jul 2026 2,097 24% 24% 21% 11% 11% 17 Jun 2026 1,003 27% 19% 20% 12% 11% The colons in the header line let you right-justify numeric columns, if you really want to be classy.
Thank you. I could not find the official markdown for Lemmy tables.
