Britain
Fictitious "Landslide" for Pro-Zionist, Pro-NATO and Anti-Labour Government
Mass
demonstration in London, July 6, 2024, as the British people demand the newly-elected government stop arming Israeli genocide.
Just 59.9 per cent of registered voters cast their ballots in the United Kingdom's general election, on July 4. This is the lowest turnout ever since the vote was granted to all adults over 21 in 1928, according to the report issued by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think tank. This is dismal, yet nonetheless, headlines and airwaves of the ruling class declared that the Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, won the elections "in a landslide," "taking the second largest majority in the House of Commons in British history."
Labour won 412 of the 650 seats, almost 65 per cent of all seats. While monopoly media are touting this as the "second largest majority in the House of Commons in British history," its share of the votes cast was a mere 34 per cent which, given the 59.9 per cent participation rate, means it got all these seats with 20.37 per cent of the registered voters. In fact, its share of the vote was lower than in the previous election in 2019 (32 per cent) and even less than in 2017. Its mandate is the lowest of any British government since at least the First World War.
The incumbent Conservative Party received 24 per cent of the vote share, which amounts to 14.38 per cent of the eligible vote, and on this basis acquired 121 seats. At the same time, the Liberals got 72 seats with 12 per cent of votes cast while the Reformist Party with 14 per cent of votes cast only got four seats! It is no wonder the system of party government based on a first-past-the-post method of counting votes cast which gives rise to a very unrepresentative number of seats per party, lacks credibility and legitimacy as never before. To say the Starmer government has an overwhelming majority to do whatever it pleases is a legitimacy crisis from the get-go.
On a positive note, Sinn Féin is now the north of Ireland's largest party at Westminster. The party already became the largest in the devolved assembly at Stormont in 2022 and at local council level in 2023.
Sinn
Féin does not take its seats at Westminster due to the party's
policy
of abstentionism which refers to its refusal to take the oath of
allegiance to the English monarch. Sinn Féin does not accept the
right
of the Westminster parliament to rule the north of Ireland. The
vote
result confirms
the wish of the Irish people for Ireland to be united.
This election was also marked by the participation of a large number of independent candidates (459), who received over half a million votes in total. Former leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn, who stood as an independent, deserves particular note for winning in Islington North by a huge margin (24,120 to Labour's 16,873). His removal as Labour Party Leader by current Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer and a vicious lying campaign accusing him of anti-Semitism engineered by the Zionist lobby in whose service Starmer is, will forever condemn Starmer's pro-NATO, pro-Zionist genocide and anti-labour party. Not surprisingly, the Labour Party lost five seats to independents, due in large part to its stance on the genocide in Gaza. It is also noteworthy that the Workers' Party garnered over 210,000 votes but not a single seat which includes losing the seat George Galloway won in the 2024 Rochdale by-election. Reports inform that other parties with a smaller share of the votes did nonetheless get seats, again due to the first-past-the-post method of counting votes, as well as an electoral system which is anything but representative of the change the people are striving for.
Despite media attempts and those of the rulers to present Starmer as an alternative, and a left-wing one at that, he is known for his anti-labour, pro-Zionist genocide and pro-NATO stands. As soon as he became Prime Minister, he declared he wants an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and will continue the British policy to back Israel's genocide. He attended the NATO Summit in Washington, DC and took his place as a warmonger second to none.
Elections in France have shown similar results. No party has a majority but government will be formed by an alliance of parties that did not receive majority votes. All this reveals that people want fundamental change.
But it's business as usual and this includes the fact that change is a casualty in both these elections.
It
also reveals the necessity for the renewal of the political
process. The ensemble of relations between humans and humans and
humans and nature precisely reveal the need to empower the people.
Renewal and renovation based on modern definitions are the necessity of
this historic period of transition. Attempts to govern which do not
empower the people will lurch from crisis to crisis. This is what is
already happening in France due to factional fighting amongst those
elected and the machinations of President Macron and will happen in
Britain as well. The role the people play to speak out in their own
name will be decisive.
This article was published in
Volume 54 Number 41 - July 2024
Article Link:
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