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\"Nigel<\/a>
Nigel Farage celebrates huge gains for Reform<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With virtually all the results in, it is clear the people have had enough of the Labour Party and are not too pleased with the Conservatives either. They are now looking to Reform for hope. These are the results to date, according to the BBC<\/b><\/a>, with most counting now done:<\/p>\n

England:
\nReform: 1444 (up 1442 seats)
\nLabour: 997 (down 1406 seats)
\nLiberal Democrats: 834 (up 151 seats)
\nConservatives: 773 (down 557 seats)
\nGreens: 515 (up 374 seats)
\nIndependents: 199 (up 27 seats)
\nOther 36 (down 41 seats)<\/p>\n

Scotland:
\nScottish National Party 58 seats 6 seats lost
\nLabour 17 seats 4 seats lost
\nReform UK 17 seats 17 seats gained
\nScottish Green 15 seats 6 seats gained
\nConservative 12 seats 19 seats lost
\nLiberal Democrat 10 seats 6 seats gained
\nChange since 2021. 65 seats needed for a majority.<\/p>\n

Wales:
\nPlaid Cymru 43 seats 20 seats gained
\nReform UK 34 seats 34 seats gained
\nLabour 9 seats 35 seats lost
\nConservative 7 seats 22 seats lost
\nGreen 2 seats 2 seats gained
\nLiberal Democrat 1 seat 1 seat gained
\nChange since 2021. 49 seats needed for a majority.<\/p>\n

England<\/h2>\n

The people\u2019s revolt in England was driven on the surface by the failure of successive governments to keep their promises to stop illegal immigration, by a crime wave, by Labour\u2019s perplexing positions on gender, by the costs of energy, food and housing, by declines in living standards and by a general pessimism. This is the first generation for centuries where people do not expect to do as well as their parents did.<\/p>\n

But under the surface, the spiritual reality is that immigration has been driven by rebellion against the Lord, by a deliberately elitist anti-Christian multiculturalism, exalting \u2018the climate\u2019 over prosperity, food and energy security, attacking God\u2019s institution of the family, even his creation ordinance of \u2018male and female\u2019, making it harder to work for a living, which scripture says is the \u2019gift of God\u2019, by overbearing, unscriptural levels of taxation and forgetting the divine function of the state is to maintain law and order and security.<\/p>\n

As results were being announced, at least one senior UK Labour government figure was acknowledging a widespread public feeling of insecurity. Defence Secretary John Healey<\/strong><\/a> stating that, \u2018You can’t feel hopeful if you don’t feel secure\u2019. Having been let down by \u2018the uniparty\u2019, voters felt they had nothing left to lose.<\/p>\n

Working-class revolt<\/h2>\n

Ordinary, working-class people are feeling the insecurity most. Writing in Spiked Online<\/b><\/a>, Brendan O\u2019Neill ventured:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a seismic realignment. It feels like an unspoken, unbloody revolt: the calm but firm defeat of two-party politics by working-class communities who feel that such a system no longer represents them. Who feel, in fact, that the knackered duopoly, whether as a result of its moral cowardice or its strangulation by bureaucracy, is incapable of pursuing the restoration of sovereign integrity and social wisdom that they are crying out for.<\/p>\n

\u201cLabour and its media sympathisers will comfort themselves today with talk of a \u2018bloody nose\u2019 from \u2018voters who just want to be heard\u2019, when in truth we could be witnessing as radical a transformation of the political landscape as the founding of the Labour Party itself was in 1900. We could be witnessing another reasoned intrusion of working-class voters into a political realm that they feel is too small, smug and insular to contain, far less enact, their political desires. …<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch is the flux of our era that much might change again between now and the General Election. Yet no one can look at England this morning and deny that the masses have executed a coup against a complacent regime by choosing Reform as the new vessel of their moral hopes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scotland<\/h2>\n

Anyone concerned about the stability of the United Kingdom will be pleased that the Scottish National Party (SNP) did not win outright in Scotland. However, they could form a government with the Scottish Greens, who are also in favour of independence and alignment with the EU.<\/p>\n

The SNP flip-flopped on drilling in the North Sea to try to keep the North-East on side, but in general they are pro-Net Zero. They also join the Greens in their post-truth transgenderism.<\/p>\n

Of course the last SNP-Green coalition ended in disaster in 2024. Then SNP first minister, Humza Yousaf, threw them out before being ejected himself. But we shall see. Either way, the biblical pattern for leadership, that leaders at every level should be:
\nExo 18:21 \u2026 able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; …<\/b>
\nSeems as long a way off in Scotland as anywhere else in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Wales<\/h2>\n

Plaid Cymru (PC: Party of Wales) are now the biggest party in the Senedd, despite propping up the previous Labour administration on everything from 20mph streets, pro-migrant \u2018nation of sanctuary\u2019, extreme sex education (when is sex education ever not extreme?), Net Zero and stopping farmers from growing food.<\/p>\n

Around the lanes, it was a puzzle to see Plaid Cymru placards outside farms. Turkeys were voting for Christmas, ignoring PC\u2019s pro-trans policies and their anti-farm dogma, in favour of the cosy thought that at least Plaid were very Welsh.<\/p>\n

So it is a mercy that in Wales, the advocates of independence do not have the numbers even to take office with the Greens. Will Labour join a coalition with them after their resounding defeat? Who knows? The psalmist prayed for confusion amongst his enemies.<\/p>\n

It is probably also a mercy for Reform that they did not win in Wales. The system would have been against them, obstructing their every move. They now have the opportunity to watch how it works and prepare to take control next time while harassing the Plaid Cymru establishment, pointing out the antagonism of the \u2018Party of Wales\u2019 to Welsh farmers, parents, security, society, enterprise and decency.<\/p>\n

Foreign languages<\/h2>\n

We must pray against the rise of Islam under the Green Party banner in England. One Don Keith tweeted<\/b><\/a>: \u2018Green Party \u201cvictory\u201d video shows zero English spoken. A room full of foreign languages celebrating their takeover of a British council. This is what replacement looks like in real time.\u2019<\/p>\n

On GB News a Green Party member, one John Grant, reacted to members of his party making an announcement in a foreign language during their campaign for London\u2019s Newham: \u2018I didn\u2019t understand a word of what he said\u2026 it does make me a little uncomfortable I can\u2019t deny\u2019. He should be more than \u2018uncomfortable\u2019.<\/p>\n

In majority-Muslim ghetto areas, sectarian campaigns were being conducted in Urdu or Bengali, focussing on \u2018Palestine\u2019 rather than potholes. Pretending Israel is conducting \u2018genocide\u2019 in Gaza took precedence over local, or even UK, issues.<\/p>\n

The people need leaders of faith<\/h2>\n

If it is God who sets up kings, then the result is indeed a seismic shift from on high. But it remains that the people need leaders who can grasp the spiritual dimension and operate under the blessing of Jesus Christ, driven by the power of the Holy Spirit. They need to be, not just nominal Christians, but God-fearing men.<\/p>\n

READ<\/b>: Gen 1:27, Exod 18:21; Deut 6:3, 12:28; 1Chron 16:11; 2Sam 10:12; Psa 14:1, 35:4, 149:4-9; Eccl 3:13; Dan 2:21; Matt 20:15; John 15:5: Acts 17:7; Rom 13:3-6; 1Tim 6:15;<\/p>\n

PRAY<\/b>: For God to raise up God-fearing leaders after his own heart, for them to see that they can do nothing without Christ and to seek his face to lead and prosper the people.<\/p>\n