All right, Alexander, let's talk about the elections in the UK.

I believe we're talking about local elections, mostly local elections.

And the results do not look good for labor or for the conservatives.

And the big winner in all of this appears to be reform, though the statements, the first

statements from Stammer is that he's not going to step down, at least.

That's what he's saying in his first statements.

So what do you make of these elections?

Well, I think what you just said is true, but I think it understates the scale of the moment.

And in some respects, what happens to Starman now, I think it's beginning to look almost like

an irrelevance.

I think to talk about a revolutionary moment, these can be overstated words, but we are gradually approaching this.

This isn't just a reform win.

It's a reform landslide.

It is an absolute breakthrough.

And it has enormous significance in cultural terms as well, because what has happened is that the

working class in England, which has been the bedrock of the British left, which has been the

great standard bearer of English socialism, which supported and created the Labour Party

and the trade union movement and all of that. It is now fully, completely and entirely

divorced itself from the left. So all of the former left-wing bastions, working class bastions across England, in

northwest England, in the Midlands, in, well, all sorts of places, they are now voting overwhelmingly

for reform. And of course, reform defines itself as a right-wing party in some ways to the right of the conservatives.

So this is a conceptual, a political landslide.

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