Election results for English council seats and the parliaments of Scotland and Wales are still being tallied, but enough of the vote has been counted so far to say that the results are a flat-out disaster for the two parties – Labor and the Conservatives.
As of this writing, with 63 of 136 councils determined, Reform has seen a net gain of 515 council seats while Labor is facing a net loss of 288 and the Conservatives a net loss of 204.
The Greens are also expected to pick up their first constituency seats in Scotland, where the make-up of parliament is at stake, with the overall winner expected to be the Scottish National Party, again displacing Labor.
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Ten years ago, in 2016, it was Great Britain that fired the opening salvo in what would come to be recorded as a very disruptive year in global politics. The decision to leave the European Union
