Mothin Ali calls out Labour’s new plan to subvert democracy
Anticipating heavy losses in the upcoming local elections, some Labour politicians are now calling for Keir Starmer to do another screeching u-turn.
🚨 NEW: Labour MPs are urging Keir Starmer to shelve his plans to lower the voting age to 16 because it’ll help the Greens
One senior MP said “With the way opinion polls are going, it would be total madness to bring this in before 2029”
— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) April 26, 2026
What these MPs don’t seem to appreciate is that it’s the constant u-turns which tanked Labour’s popularity in the first place.
‘Unbelievable stuff’
As the Mail on Sunday reported:
One senior MP told The Mail on Sunday: ‘With the way opinion polls are going, it would be total madness to bring this in before 2029.’
He appealed to Local Government Secretary Steve Reed, who is overseeing the reform, to realise that ‘otherwise, we’re just giving Zack Polanski and the Greens more votes’.
What’s a ‘senior MP’ when they’re at home?
Sounds to us like this person is a minister, and they don’t want to admit that. Our suspicion is it’s Steve Reed himself, and he provided the quote to create a narrative for his future actions.
If you’re unfamiliar with Reed, he’s the unconvincing minister with zero posture who the Labour Party saw fit to sic on the Green Party:
Labour's Steve Reed – who himself has been accused of antisemitism – is re-running the antisemitism smear against the Green Party and the Jewish Zack Polanski
by @willem_moore_uk https://t.co/6R7NXdon0E
— Canary (@TheCanaryUK) April 21, 2026
Reed also oversees electoral matters, as Green Party deputy leader Mothin Ali noted:
This is unbelievable stuff. First Steve Reed tried to cancel elections he thought Labour would lose, now Labour MPs want to remove voting rights from young people because they’re scared they’ll vote Green. Instead of trying to cancel the voters, why doesn’t Labour start to focus on what really matters, the cost of living crisis, more affordable homes, and rent controls.
The Mail on Sunday added:
When the plans were first set out last year, Labour faced claims of trying to rig future elections on the grounds that younger people tended to vote for them over the Tories. But one survey appeared to show that the Greens, a threat in some Labour-held constituencies, could benefit even more.
An ITV Youth Tracker poll by Savanta published last November showed support for Labour among 18 to 25-year-olds had collapsed from 43 per cent in March last year to just 25 per cent. Backing for the Greens had soared from 16 to 32 per cent.
So, we’ve got bad news for Labour about demographics:
🗳️ NEW | Greens lead with all voters under 65, reveals latest YouGov survey:
— 18-64s —
🟢 Grn: 26%
➡️ Ref: 20%
🔴 Lab: 17%
🔵 Con: 13%
🟠 Lib: 14%— Over 65s —
➡️ Ref: 33%
🔵 Con: 26%
🔴 Lab: 15%
🟠 Lib: 14%
🟢 Grn: 6%Poll: @YouGov, 1-2 March pic.twitter.com/Kaa1pBYBJ3
— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️⚧️ (@LeftieStats) March 3, 2026
Labour — Dead end
At this point, if Labour wants to stand any chance of winning, it will have to ban everyone under 65 from voting. Additionally, it will have to ban everyone over 65, because those people have all turned to Reform UK.
This will mean the only people allowed to vote are Keir Starmer, Steve Reed, and that Sky News editor who’s still taking the PM at face value despite overwhelming evidence he’s a serial liar:
WATCH: Starmer on ‘beating himself up’ over Mandelson is worth watching because I really think it’s a very rare & believable moment where Starmer reveals how he’s really feeling; showing some vulnerability and anger with himself over the decision he took
pic.twitter.com/JZIgWCrZUt— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) March 27, 2026
Featured image via Hugo Harvey (YouTube)
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Sorry Willem, “everyone over 65 has turned to Reform” I am 79 this year, a proud member of the Scottish Greens, previously a SNP voter (20 years) We are not all blind,self serving idiots! Some of us remember our grandparents and parents’ war service, and treasure our right to freedom, won with their blood and tears. Careful with your labels please.
It’s not correct that all voters over 65 have turned to Reform. If they are polling 33% and we allow a residual 18% Reform vote from before their surge, then about 15% of voters over 65 have turned to Reform. That’s nowhere near ‘all’. Like your work, Willem, and this is a good article otherwise, but the language is a bit lazy near the end.
About this statement from the article ‘What these MPs don’t seem to appreciate is that it’s the constant u-turns which tanked Labour’s popularity in the first place.’
Surely the u-turns were not what tanked Labours popularity but the idiotic policies that they later had to row back on? And the lack of radical action or indeed pretty much any progressive policies that we would have hoped to see being put in place, considering their stonking great majority. A majority built on wafer thin margins, mind.