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2 MINS AGO! Starmer FLIPS OUT As Speaker Calls For General Election After PETITION Reaches Milestone

What do you call a government that's been in power for less than a year and is already facing its third petition calling for a general election? A complete disaster. A new petition demanding that Parliament be dissolved and a national vote be called has just hit a major milestone. Over 160,000 signatures and counting. That means Parliament will have to consider it for debate. And this comes on top of a previous petition that collected over a million signatures and is set to be debated on Monday January 12th. More than a million people signing a petition to get rid of a government that won a landslide just six months ago. That's not normal political dissatisfaction, that's a complete rejection of Labour's mandate. The petition organizers say Labour misled voters, introduced measures that weren't in their manifesto, and failed on core promises like stopping the small boats. Pensioners and farmers have been hammered by policies nobody voted for. And the country can't go on like this. Those are strong words. And they're resonating with hundreds of thousands of people who feel betrayed. Welcome back to UK Political Insight where we document the spectacular collapse of Keir Starmer's premiership. Let's break down this petition, what it means, and why Labour is heading for electoral disaster. So here are the facts. A petition calling for an early general election has more than doubled in support since Saturday January 3rd when it had over 70,000 signatures. As of the time of reporting, it stands at 160,683 signatures. That's significant because any petition that reaches 100,000 signatures has to be considered for debate in Parliament. So this petition has crossed that threshold. Additionally, any petition with more than 10,000 signatures requires a government response. As of Wednesday January 7th, the government has nine days to respond. So Labour is going to have to formally respond to this petition explaining why they shouldn't call an early election. And that response is going to be scrutinized and picked apart and used as ammunition by their opponents. This is understood to be the third petition calling for a general election since Labour's landslide victory in July 2024. The third. That's extraordinary. Governments face criticism, that's normal. But three separate petitions calling for you to resign and call a new election within six months of taking office? That's unprecedented in modern British politics. It shows just how quickly and how completely Labour has lost public confidence. They won the largest majority in decades. They had a clear mandate. They had goodwill from voters who were desperate for change after 14 years of Conservative chaos. And they've squandered all of it in six months. That takes a special kind of incompetence. The organizer of this latest petition argues that Labour misled the country in its election campaign, introducing measures which weren't included in the party's manifesto. This is a crucial point. In a parliamentary democracy, the manifesto is the contract between a party and the voters. You tell voters what you'll do if elected, they vote for you based on those promises, and then you're expected to deliver on them. Obviously politics is messy and circumstances change and not everything in a manifesto can be implemented exactly as written. But there's a basic expectation of honesty. If you promise not to do something, you shouldn't then do it. If you promise to do something, you should try to deliver it. Labour has broken that contract repeatedly. They promised not to raise taxes on working people and then hiked employers' national insurance which directly affects working people. They promised to make Brexit work and now they're talking about aligning with the EU single market. They promised to stop the small boats and the boats are still coming. The list goes on. The petition states, we believe we were misled and the obfuscation has only got worse since Starmer took power. It is time for action. Obfuscation. That's a fancy word for deliberately making things unclear, for being evasive, for hiding the truth behind complicated language. And that's exactly what Starmer and his government do. When asked direct questions, they give indirect answers. When challenged on broken promises, they claim circumstances changed or they use different definitions of words to argue they haven't actually broken promises. #Uk politics, #uk politique, #uk parliament, #uk news, #house of commons, #prime minister, #keir starmer, #Rachel reeves, #Nigel Farage, #labour Party, #reform, #conservative party, #kemi badenoch, #ed Miliband, #house Speaker, #MPQs, #sky news, #uk express