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    Starmer promette di “continuare a combattere” sulla scia della paralizzante sconfitta elettorale del Labour

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    1. heresyourhardware on

      Blue Labour are sleepwalking us into a Reform government in a few years.

    2. Hungry_Horace on

      If not doing great in a by-election were a resigning matter, no British Prime Minister would ever serve a full term.

      The media seems to be obsessed with the idea of replacing Starmer. I know the Tories made a habit of regicide recently but it’s not actually normal practice in this country. Generally, and rightly, it’s the voters who get to choose who is Prime Minister when they vote at a General Election.

    3. RelevantCucumber6305 on

      We‘ll he’s fucked.

      Greens just promising eve under the sun, whilst getting into bed with the section of the population that holds the most extreme far right political views.

      it really feels like a rerun of lebanon or Iran at this stage.

      he needs to copy the greens offer everything policy and hope no one notices.

    4. AllThatIHaveDone on

      > crippling defeat

      It’s one seat. I’m pretty sure their majority in parliament is still safe.

    5. FlyingJellyfishRidin on

      These articles are a fucking joke. Labour was not expected to win this seat, no matter how long they’ve held it for. The greens were. Labour well telling people to vote Green to stop reform getting in.

      Is the whole UK media now fully right wing propaganda?

    6. Turbo_Heel on

      I think the best thing that may come from this by-election (apart from Reform losing), is that hopefully it will finally make Labour realise that lurching to the right is an incredibly shit idea and that most sensible people will turn their backs unless the ship is righted (of ‘lefted’ as it were).

    7. duckwantbread on

      It’s not in the article but this was a quote from the [full interview](
      https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/feb/27/gorton-and-denton-byelection-result-labour-green-party-reform-uk-politics-latest-news?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69a17b528f0807e27ff0a801#block-69a17b528f0807e27ff0a801):

      > I will also fight against the extremes in politics on the right and the left, parties who want to tear our country apart.

      I was hoping Starmer might wake up after this result and realise McSweeney has led him down a path to failure. That quote makes it sounds like Starmer is just going to change his message from “I’m not Reform, so vote for me” to “I’m not Reform or the Greens, so vote for me”.

    8. EastRiding on

      >This result must be a wake up call. It’s time to really listen – and to reflect.

      >Voters want the change that we promised – and they voted for.

      >If we want to unrig the system, if we want to make the change we were sent into Government to make, we have to be braver.

      >A labour agenda that puts people first.

      >That’s what all of us across our movement need to rededicate ourselves to this morning

      – Angela Rayner / X

      As I immediately assumed seeing the result, left-wing voices in Labour have a voice and now a good reason to use it.

    9. bootrest on

      It’s amazing what happens when a party doesn’t give you dinosaurs to vote for…

      Seriously though, if Labour want to survive in some way they need to change to proportional representation.

    10. Good_Old_KC on

      End of the day he sacrificed this seat to save his own skin.

      No one can say for definite that Burnham would have won but we can say with great confidence that he would have done a lot better than the handpicked candidate.

      Starmer put himself above the party yet again.

    11. whatsgoingon350 on

      Labour needs a better media team. They have done some great things but it’s all ignored either by the right screaming about boats or the left screaming about genders.

    12. LyingFacts on

      Maybe Labour first when they got in going after the disabled citizens and trying to be a Tory/Reform 2.0 will never work as our media class on 6 figures only want either Tory/Reform to win for the tax cuts…..

      Starmer said about “dark days ahead”.

      In one of his first speeches….

      He has zero political instincts from a PR perspective.

      So Starmer should’ve and could’ve stopped pandering to the right wing 24/7.

      Farage has made a miscalculation bringing in the 2010 – 2024 Tory MPS who have ruined economically Britain.

      Online now they are targeting who and how people have voted, Reform and seems Labour also joining in.

      We have a centre right party in Labour far right in Tory, far far right in Reform and far far far right in Restore……

      No wonder Greens have momentum.

    13. radiant_0wl on

      As he should.

      Whether he has the support of the Labour party is for him and the party, that’s for them to pick their leader for the next general election.

      For now he needs to come out with determination to stay on and set out his plan for the remainder of the parliament – The Kings Speech is in May so he should announce his priorities in full then. He should show that Labour is a party of work, ambition and business.

    14. AbbreviationsHot7662 on

      I like what Labour’s doing, to be honest. As unfashionable as it is to say.

    15. Old_Housing3989 on

      If that swing is even half mirrored in his own constituency he won’t have a seat in 2029.

    16. michaelisnotginger on

      Starmer is an idiot

      Burnham was a threat, but now by coming third he’s completely ceded narrative of ‘only we can stop Reform’ to the Greens

      His inner city seats will be cannibalised to the Greens. The hinterlands to Reform. Scotland and Wales to SNP/Plaid. They can all smell weakness. It actually weakens the chance of an anti-Reform coalition, doesn’t strengthen it

      Now he’s going to do loads of pivoting to the soft left to get them back onside, but my experience is from Scotland is that when those voters go they are gone for good. Why would they have skimmed progressive policies when Polanski will offer them the full fat real thing?

    17. AccomplishedEase7974 on

      Starmer learning absolutely nothing from the bloody nose Labour have just had. I’m no fan of populist politics but a formerly safe Labour seat just got utterly trounced with Labour pushed into third place. You aren’t going to win people over by saying they’re deluded in voting for extremism. Something is resonating with them to vote for Reform or Green and you best understand it and put a leader in charge who doesn’t look like a walking bureaucratic bit of cardboard with the charisma of a service station paper towel.

    18. Impressive-Bird-6085 on

      Can’t Starmer and his advisors ‘read the room’? Hear the message voters, especially once loyal and reliably Labour voters are sending them??

      Is Starmer and his advisors that determined to put his own interests remaining as Prime Minister before and ahead of the interests of the Labour Party, and more importantly the country as a whole??

    19. J0Puck on

      At least it wasn’t a farage party winning. As a Canadian, he’s the poilievre of your country. Same rhetoric as him.

    20. Minimum_Definition75 on

      At least it may trigger strategic voting to keep Green out.

      I totally understand protest votes but there are limits.

    21. VCR_DVD_USB on

      He blocked Burnham who would have probably won him the seat but lost him the PM office.

      When people voted Labour they wanted Labour – not Tory lite. 

      He’s hated by those who didn’t vote for him and by trying to appease them all the time – he’s losing support from those who did vote for him. 

      The politics is so amateur by Labour atm. Reform have 8 seats in Parliament – why are you letting them define the dialogue around politics in the UK? All we ever hear about is immigration – nobody has any idea of what the govt has done positive in the last 2 years. 

    22. ash_ninetyone on

      He should at least recognise the Labour Government people wanted is at odds with the Labour Government we’ve ended up with

    23. OverTheCandlestik on

      Tory controlled media pushing a Tory agenda? Unheard of!

    24. spiderham42 on

      Labour, and the prime minister, have failed normal labour voters. It’s no surprise people want change. A vote for reform was never a change as they are still propped up by the same companies that run the others. Everyday people don’t matter with them so I really hope this is the start of a wider change.

    25. MrTopping92 on

      The media will keep pushing for him to step down because they know reform will call for a snap election and will win currently.

      Most of the media moguls are all for reform to continue to enrich themselves further.

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