What Reform UK local election success means for Keir Starmer

When Dame Andrea Jenkins used her speech following her Greater Lincolnshire mayoral election victory to suggest that tents should be good enough for housing illegal immigrants, we heard the usual howls of outrage from the left. Consistent with her party’s stance on immigration, Dame Andrea stated “We will tackle illegal immigration. I say no to putting people in hotels. Tents are good enough for France, they should be good enough for here in Britain”.

Lefty online publication The Huffington Post, quoting Dame Andrea and casually conflating the terms ‘Asylum seekers’ and ‘illegal immigrants’ in the way the left always do, in a callous attempt to insinuate (an entirely absent) racist undertone via deliberate misquote, called the suggestion “alarming”, whilst many on social media clamored to label her comments as “nasty” and “disgraceful”.

And yet in this one comment, and the reaction it immediately garnered from the left, we saw a microcosm of the public sentiment that has driven Reform UK to astonishing success in this, the first set of local elections they have really contested as a genuine force.

Whilst a minority of globalist liberals occupying the centre-left are religiously wedded to their open borders “asylum seekers welcome” agenda, the rest of the country could not be more opposed. But because the liberal elite control the mainstream media narrative in this country, we are constantly being told that those of us who are not in favour of mass uncontrolled immigration are somehow in a minority of far-right extremists.

As a result, our right to free speech is rendered moribund because our fascist opinions belong in 1930s Germany rather than the progressive 21st century liberal paradise the left have built for us.

They could not be further from the beating pulse of the UK electorate, and today’s storming victory for Reform UK could not demonstrate that any louder.

I will tell you now, and I say this with great confidence… MOST people in this country would be quite happy for illegal immigrants to be housed in the cheapest and most basic of accommodation possible, whether that be a tent or, at a push, a converted shipping container. There is no reason that providing them with clean and sanitary, yet simple no-frills facilities, would be sufficient to meet their needs without breaching their so-called human rights. Such an approach would represent a much fairer and value for money use of taxpayers’ cash, rather than being put in hotels or private rented housing at the taxpayers’ expense. Whilst the left-wing media will try hard to convince you otherwise, the majority of people in this country would be more than happy with this approach.

The liberal elite, who represent only a small minority in this country despite what the media might portray, would try to make you believe that to say as such, or to even think as such, makes you an inhumane cold-hearted racist, and claim that your opinions are not echoed by the majority of the public. But the simple fact of the matter is that the majority of normal everyday people in this country are no longer represented by The Blob or the mainstream media. They are the silent majority, and all they want is for their hard-earned taxes to be spent sensibly and in the interests of British citizens, and for the principle of fairness to be at the forefront of government policy.

Reforms seismic victory in the recent local elections represents a shift in UK politics and dispels the myths and fallacies that the liberal elite have been trying to peddle for the past few years. Their open-borders globalist agenda is defunct. The narrative that Reform voters are a racist far-right minority no longer holds sway. People have seen through the media lies, and decided that they have a right to express their opinion, despite what the current government might say. The left-wing media have lost the propaganda battle.

Despite what The Guardian will claim, today’s local election results are not a victory for the “far-right”. They are a victory for pensioners, for farmers, for anyone who protested following the Southport murders, for the disabled, for people who want Pakistani grooming gangs exposed and deported. It is a victory for those who oppose UNRWA funding, prison sentences for social media posts, two-tier policing and a two-tier justice system. It is a victory for those who truly know what a woman is, those unwilling to impoverish themselves for net zero, and those unwilling to tolerate sky-high taxes with no reciprocal improvement in living standards.

Most of all, it is a victory for all those people in this great country who are fed up with being called a fascist for simply believing that illegal immigration needs to be stopped NOW, that anyone who arrives here illegally should lose any right to claim asylum and should face immediate deportation. It is a victory for freedom of speech, and a clear message that we will not be silenced when we see our government acting in an authoritarian manner.

The government, the establishment and the mainstream media need to finally sit up and take notice. People are fed up with being told what to think and how to act. Reform UK have run through Labour’s plan for change like a freight train. The public no longer believe that Labour can change things for the better, and the message they have sent is loud and clear… they want Labour out for being the most hypocritical, lying, disingenuous and incompetent government in history.

Many have speculated that with his support at the time of last year’s general election wide but shallow, Starmer’s huge majority may not prevent him from being a one-term Prime Minister. Now with the rise of Reform UK graduating beyond social media sentiment and represented by tangible local council gains, pressure mounting on the upper echelons of the Labour Party, the economy floundering under the weight of Rachel Reeves’ incompetence, and his own MPs starting to turn against him, the possibility exists that Starmer may yet become only a one-year Prime Minister.