Starmer and his new cabinet got MORE VOTES as MPs when Corbyn was Labour leader
Statistics don't lie
No one in Britain should see the Labour Party, Keir Starmer and his top team as triumphant warriors. They’ve cynically gamed our outdated and anti-democratic electoral system, disenfranchising the left and being as insipid and soulless as they could for so long that the inevitable Tory collapse simply handed them a landslide victory by default. But the reality is, they’re less popular than they were under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. And the statistics prove it.
One point, among many, that we need to emphasise
This should be a bigger story than it is.
Because obviously, we should find hope in the massive independent victory of Jeremy Corbyn, despite the Labour Party’s desperate attempt to replace him with a millionaire healthcare profiteer.
And clearly, we should be shouting more than ever about how awful our electoral system is, giving Labour 63% of parliamentary seats despite it only winning 34% of the votes (“the lowest won by a post-war single party government”).
At the same time, we absolutely should be comparing Starmer’s 9,698,409 votes in 2024 to Corbyn’s 12,877,918 votes and 40% vote share of 2017 (or even Corbyn’s 10,295,912 votes in 2019, despite the brutal media smears against him and the party’s disastrous adoption of a second-referendum policy).
And we definitely ought to highlight that we just saw the second-smallest voter turnout since 1885, at 60%, showing mass disenchantment with establishment politics. Additionally, we should keep insisting that it was the Tories that lost, not Labour that won, as BBC polling expert Sir John Curtice has said.
However, we also need to throw the following statistics in the face of anyone speaking triumphantly about the victory of Starmer’s hollowed-out, right-wing Labour Party. Because these numbers matter. They tell a very important story.
The unpopularity of Starmer’s vapid cabinet
Starmer’s cabinet picks include some loathsome characters, from Wes Streeting to Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner to David Lammy, and Peter Kyle to Liz Kendall. Then there are some lukewarm veterans like Yvette Cooper and Ed Miliband.
But they all have one thing in common – they’re less popular than they were in 2017. Many are also less popular than they were in 2019 (when most of their votes fell due to either the second-referendum pledge or by the media smears). And some are even less popular than they were in 2015. That’s a tough feat to achieve, but they’ve somehow managed it.
For good measure, we’ll also throw in the statistics for Jess Phillips (who narrowly won), Jon Ashworth (who lost to independent Shockat Adam), and parachute Luke Akehurst (who would’ve lost if Reform and the Tories had voted together).
Keir Starmer was already less popular in 2024 than in previous elections: pic.twitter.com/4KJVbfXiC8
— Ed Sykes (@OsoSabioUK) December 8, 2025
As was Rachel Reeves pic.twitter.com/yqe67sKnpq
— Ed Sykes (@OsoSabioUK) December 8, 2025
As was David Lammy pic.twitter.com/PXTEMrZmnN
— Ed Sykes (@OsoSabioUK) December 8, 2025
As were Jess Phillips, Jonathan Ashworth, and Luke Akehurst pic.twitter.com/3PITGFeD2F
— Ed Sykes (@OsoSabioUK) December 8, 2025
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Also ignored by the media in general, after their mocking and bellowing about how “catastrophic” Corbyn’s result was in 2019, “the worst result in history”, the party must move away from this “leftist madness” etc, Sunak got 4 million fewer votes and 83 fewer seats! Yet….. Where is the mocking? where are the demands to move away from this extreme right wing madness?……. oh right! its only “socialism” that warrants mocking. the Media are not fit for purpose!
You are totally correct.
The media is NOT fit for purpose.
Why are none of the papers screaming about the genocide in Gaza?
Why are they not comparing the voting from Corbyn’s defeat in 2019 and Starmer’s victory (?) in 2024?
It would seem to me that the only honest outlets for news are the independents, like Canary and AL Jazeera.
I stopped buying news(?)papers 10 years ago, because none tell the truth and there is no real investigative journalism.
This is one for the starmerbots to mull over.
If they don’t put PR in during this stint in government they will be out on their arses next general election. With PR they would have to govern as part of a coalition but they would be the largest party in that government. Better than being on the opposition benches, again.
Labour conference (local parties and the unions) voted for it, it is fairer, bring it in.
Hell, even fart-rage is in favour of it. 😂
That gives us hope, unfortunately, the population of Gaza will be wiped out by then.
It appears Labour owes a debt of gratitude to Reform for splitting the right wing vote. Without that Labour may not have won.
But, even though they COULD be magnanimous in their victory it appears they are ‘sore winners’ and are changing the narrative in regard to the loss of seats of Independents over Gaza. Despite their tactics of trying to split the Independent vote by surreptitiously putting forward their own ‘Independents’ to run directly against the other ones and on the same issue (Gaza) despite STILL calling candidates and supporters of the Independents ‘conspiracy theorists’ and ‘anti-semites’ they still lost and they are now accusing them of “bullying” and “harassment” and “threats of violence” and bringing up the name of Jo Cox (killed by a right wing extremist) again for political gain.
They are Labour but only by name..