Hi folks, welcome back to the decline and fall of the Labour Party, although this episode may reveal that it's slightly more than just the Labour Party. It is British politics as a whole.

I was going to say, because this is the fourth of these that we've done. They can't still be

declining, can they? I'm afraid they can. I mean, Edward Gibbon noted the decline of the fall of the Roman

empire happened for 400 years. So we could... This might be quicker. We could get a lot of mileage out of it.

Yes.

And we likely will.

So let's begin with some local council by-elections.

As usual, as you can see here in Suffolk, things went pretty south for Labour and the

Conservatives pretty quickly.

But also the Lib Dems,

interestingly enough. No independent, but 49.2% reform. Yeah, from nowhere. Yeah,

and from a previously conservative holding. But as you'll notice, the Conservatives were only on

about 34%. Yes.

So reform have rocketed up to nearly 50%.

The thing is, in British politics,

you don't normally get anything close to 50%.

That is extremely rare.

Normally 30, 35% is considered a stonking result.

Yes.

And so, absolutely correct. And so to have what was

doubtless a conservative stronghold collapse so heavily. And then you can see the Labour Party

the minus 27.4% down to 12.5%. Even the Lib Dem's losing nearly 10 percent. I imagine a lot of Labor and

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