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🗓️ 3 July 2025
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0:00.0 | Kirstarmer's government is in total meltdown. |
0:02.8 | His downfall is being discussed by previously supportive journalists and commentators as a matter of when rather than if. |
0:09.2 | The polling of the Prime Minister, his colleagues and the government and their policies overall is catastrophic. |
0:15.0 | Labor has managed to anger those parts of the country that are most naturally hostile, |
0:18.5 | which has done everything imaginable to Love Bomb, as well as the most traditionally natural, loyal supporters of the Labour Party. |
0:24.9 | The consensus from left to right is that the country simply sinks further into crisis. |
0:29.1 | That is almost exactly a year after winning a landslide in parliamentary seats. |
0:33.8 | They certainly not in votes, which sort of laid the foundations or showed how weak actually they really were. |
0:39.8 | After what, they only won just over a third of those who voted on the day. |
0:43.8 | On the lowest turnout of all potential voters in British Democratic history, they won fewer votes than Labor secured when it suffered an electoral route in 2019. |
0:51.6 | In 2024, candidates who were squarely defined as being to the left of Labor, |
0:56.5 | so excluding those defined by civic nationalism, like the Scottish National Party, for example, |
1:00.8 | they had their best results since World War II. And indeed, in a year when the party was |
1:04.4 | winning power for the first time in two decades, Starma lost two shadow cabinet ministers |
1:08.6 | to candidates from the left. In 39 seats won by the Labour |
1:12.0 | Party, the Green Party came second, giving them a springboard for the next time, whereas on top of |
1:16.3 | the independency won, Blair out torchbearer, I was going to say Blair, West Streeting, the health |
1:21.2 | secretary, nearly lost to the British Palestinian 23 at the time years old, independent candidate |
1:27.2 | Leanne Mohammed. It was so close. |
1:30.0 | At the same time, the Hard Right Reform UK Party of Nigel Farage surged coming second to Labour in |
1:35.9 | dozens of seats. All of this, of course, foreshadowed the further crumbling of Labour's electoral |
1:40.5 | coalition under this dismal government. Now, yes, they was dominated by the frankly absolutely extraordinary site. |
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