DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Election triumph for a remarkable politician… now Right must unite

British voters have made up their minds about Labour’s two miserable years. This was a definitive finding of guilt against both the party and its unfortunate leader.

He is guilty of failing to fight illegal immigration, to defend the country, to rein in careless public spending, to pay for labor, to protect women’s rights, to reform public services and to tax people fairly.

He is guilty of failing to deliver on the endless promises of the manifesto, sending the economy into a tailspin, allowing the welfare budget to bloat and forcing middle-income earners, savers, private pensioners, farmers and businesses to foot the bill.

During this Government’s short tenure initiative and enterprise were punished, middle Britain was robbed and there was a corrosive transfer of wealth from the industrious to the lazy. Public opinion has had enough.

If there was such a thing as Starmerism, it is dead and Sir Keir himself is living on borrowed time. He’s kidding himself if he thinks he can weather the storm.

In England, Wales and Scotland, the Labor Party was completely routed, raising existential questions about its future. The first of these is: Who does he represent now?

If these results are any guide, it is no longer the party of the working class whose legions flocked to Reformation Britain. Even in the northern heartlands, Labor councilors fell like collapsing dominoes.

London, once a red castle, faced a similar outcome, albeit with a slightly different narrative.

It was the Greens who tried to steal Labor’s clothes here, attacking from the left and collecting Islamist votes.

Their main strategy was to shamelessly appeal to pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist, and often anti-Semitic sentiments in some Muslim communities. It was sectarian politics at its worst.

Fortunately, the predicted ‘Green revolution’ did not quite materialize. Thanks in part to the Daily Mail’s searing investigative journalism, the public is beginning to understand leader Zack Polanski’s masterful snake-oil sales patter against the charlatan underneath.

But the Greens made Labor suffer in many of their London strongholds. Some of the luster may be fading, but Polanski remains a significant and malevolent force in our politics.

The Conservatives achieved eye-catching results in Westminster and Wandsworth, reflecting Kemi Badenoch’s growing popularity and leadership position. After difficult beginnings, he has evolved into a thoughtful and confident leader who promises to be his party’s greatest asset in the general election.

But there was no reason to boast. Earlier last night the Conservatives lost control of 472 council seats and six authorities as voters openly rejected the established two-party system.

Between them, Labor and the Conservative Party were expected to win around 35 percent of the vote; This is a historic low and a vivid demonstration of the public’s anger at our ruling class. They are crying out for real change and they see a political establishment that is not listening to them.

This led to the split of the former duopoly into a five-party system made up of nationalist parties in Scotland and Wales. The landscape is changing very dramatically.

And so we come to the main story of Thursday’s results: Nigel Farage’s victory. In the Red Wall North, the Midlands, the coastal communities and large swathes of the South, this remarkable politician and the Reformation swept all before him.

He even parked his tanks in Labor leadership candidate Angela Rayner’s garden, destroying her Labor Party power base in Tameside, Manchester.

It was a tremendous testament to Mr Farage’s persistence and courage under intense and relentless political fire from all sides.

Any doubts that he could transform his party from a protest party into a party with a real chance of winning the general election have disappeared.

But while these are undoubtedly excellent results, he needs to treat them as a beginning rather than an end. This is where the job of convincing voters that he can be an effective prime minister begins.

He remains a divisive figure. Although he is admired by many, he is hated by the Remainers and Metropolitan Liberals for his advocacy of Brexit. He will play against her in this national poll.

Its chances would be greatly improved if, over the next three years, Labor could reach an agreement with the Conservative Party to unite the Right against the dire prospect of a chaotic Left coalition comprising the Greens, Liberal Democrats and nationalist parties.

This is the real threat to this country and must be fought at all costs.

So what happens now for Sir Keir? In the final act of Macbeth, with all his allies gone and Macduff’s forces closing in on Dunsinane, the eponymous anti-hero stubbornly refuses to accept defeat.

‘Why should I play the Roman fool and die by my own sword,’ he says, and promises to continue fighting. It doesn’t end well.

Sir Keir seems to be in a similar sense of denial. He says he has no intention of resigning, but given that he is surrounded by crooks, he will eventually be pushed out if he doesn’t leave voluntarily. The only question is when and, even scarier, what will happen next.