The 2024 British general election

The British elections, like July 4, 2024 have come and gone. We are told the result was a landslide victory for the Labour Party, while the conservatives lost BIGLY, as Trump would say. But upon further examination, we see the real factors that caused Labour’s landslide, as it was called, were voter apathy and populist nationalism. The big losers in the British general election were the British general public. It is an old story, which we will cover here. For more, read on…

Before we start, note who is missing from the lede picture. It is significant, to be explained later here. He and his Party are mentioned in due course.

So, just to be clear, it is not so much that Labour won the election, but instead that the Tories lost. The two main parties are indistinguishable now in terms of policy – a uniparty, or as George Galloway (more on him in a bit) calls them, the two cheeks of the same backside, from which much effluent exits. Because of that, and seeing as much, the British public largely stayed home. They voted by not voting. It’s like a refrain from the rock opera Tommy – “We forsake you, gonna rape you. Let’s forget you better still.”

The two major parties no longer have ‘the music’. (I’ve always been a big fan of British rock.) The bottom line here is the British public has forsaken Labour and the Conservatives (Tories). The people who did vote for either of them did so either because they didn’t know better, didn’t realize they were only voting for the British establishment, thought somehow they were ‘voting strategically’ – which never works, by the way – or somehow thought voting one way or the other was for ‘the lesser of two evils’ (always a favorite in elections.) If the latter, one still winds up with ‘evil’ in place. In essence the conservative forces (small ‘c’) won the election as a result of the British protest vote, which was not to vote.

What do we really see in the election result, then? The so-called landslide victory for the Labour Party was a net gain of just under 2% of the vote share, the lowest result in years, and this on a voter turnout of a scant 35%. Essentially, Labour’s ‘landslide’ came with a whopping 20% of the British public’s support, yet they now control a 174-seat simple majority and a total of 411 seats out of 650 total seats – with public support at roughly 20%, again. Parliament is supposed to represent their constituents. Something is very wrong with the picture of this electoral outcome. And Starmer is the ‘selected’ leader of the Party, making him the new British PM – so much for representative democracy. Meet the new boss. He’s the same as the old boss. The public didn’t vote for Starmer. The ones who did vote voted for the Party.

On the other side, the conservatives lost their seats largely to the old Brexit party, now known as Reform UK. The other factor that played a big role were the small parties who ran, chief among them Reform UK. A simple graph tells the tale, below (bigger):

As we can see on the graph the loss of the Conservative seats fairly well equaled the number of vote share gained by the Reform UK party. Reform UK is a right wing neoliberal/populist/nationalist party. These were the people who brought Brexit to the UK, with all its attendant problems. Brexit brought back control, all right – to the oligarchs and neoliberals in the UK. It brought back deregulation, which is a favorite conservative trope. Brexit also brought the UK closer to Washington, enhancing the so-called special relationship. Reform UK represents the biggest rise in vote share for this election. If Labour had ‘won’ in a landslide the vote share would reflect that, but instead we see a paltry 1.6% gain. The Lib Dems did even worse than Labour in terms of increasing vote share, yet somehow they now have 71 seats in Parliament, making them the 3^rd-largest bloc in Parliament. The rundown on the election is as follows::

“Smaller parties performed well in the election, in part due to anti-Conservative tactical voting, and the combined Labour and Conservative vote share of 57.4 per cent was the lowest since the 1918 general election. The Liberal Democrats, led by Ed Davey, made the most significant gains by winning a total of seventy-two seats. This was the party’s best-ever result, and made it the third-largest party in the Commons, a status it had previously held but lost at the 2015 general election. Reform UK achieved the third-highest vote share and won five seats, and the Green Party of England and Wales won four seats; both parties achieved their best parliamentary results in history, winning more than one seat for the first time. In Wales, Plaid Cymru won four seats. In Scotland, the Scottish National Party was reduced from forty-eight seats to nine, and lost its status as the third-largest party in the Commons.”

There are other factors at work here, though, about which it helps to be clear. Firstly, Labour has moved far to the right in its policies since the ouster of Jeremy Corbyn by Starmer and the right wing within Labour. That is another story, with false charges of anti-Semitism used to oust him from the Labour Party. But Corbyn did manage to retain his seat in Parliament, almost making him ‘Father of the Parliament’. He ran as an independent, soundly trouncing the Labour candidate in Islington. Thus, Galloway’s assessment of the two parties being the two cheeks of the same backside is essentially correct.

Next, there are two wars on – Israel and Ukraine – which both Labour and Tories champion, but which the British public want to end. The Zionist project which is Israel was created by the British elites and in that they are fighting their hardest to see it survive, while the world at large wants to see Zionism disappear. Starmer has a Jewish wife, and a rather ‘colorful’ history with Israeli and British secret services. As to his wife, we know very little about her views on the current conflict, but we certainly know his. Galloway’s Workers’ Party was the only one standing for election that opposes support for Israel and instead supports the Palestinian cause. The British elites also have long had an irrational and ill-founded hatred of Russia.

Thirdly, the UK is one of the bastions of neoliberal capitalism. The Iron Lady was the instigator of that in its current iteration of capitalism in Britain, turning the UK away from manufacturing and into a rentier economy. It has resulted in one of the greatest thefts in history, outlined in an article released on the day of the election (must read). One of Thatcher’s favorite names was TINA (There Is No Alternative, meaning to neoliberalism/free-market capitalism). She was once asked after her premiership what she thought was her greatest achievement. Her answer was, “Tony Blair and New Labour. We forced our opponents to change their minds.” Once again, meet the new boss…

The Clinton/Blair years were known for their so-called ‘third way economics’ and market globalism – turbo-charged globalization and neoliberalism. Western industrial capacity was gutted in favor of ‘service industries’ and financialization. The Western powers followed suit and became rentier-based economies. The Western public has suffered, with the wide wealth gap and increasing poverty now a feature instead of an anomaly. I worked in industry in those Clinton/Blair years and watched as the bread-and-butter industries of my sole-trader business disappeared overseas.

The picture at the moment for the average British citizen indeed looks bleak, but this election perhaps marks the swinging of the political pendulum back in favor of the British public. From the must-read linked article, above, on election day:

“…Decades of betrayal of their (the Conservatives) patriotic voter base has brought them to a point of absolute fatigue. The Thatcher-Blair-Cameron neoliberal consensus which has governed Britain for almost half a century now has transitioned the country from a proud and cohesive nation into a postnational economic zone, increasingly subservient to American finance capital and in a state of terminal decline. The prospects of reversing these trends is bleak, especially if political power shifts to a political Left equally committed to diversity and the repression of patriotic sentiment. But leaving the Conservative party in the dustbin of history may be a start to what remains of the English, Scottish and Welsh nations reasserting themselves.”

The points just addressed give a background to why this election turned the way it did. Hidden behind those points is the memory of Britain’s imperial legacy and the British establishment’s fight to protect its offshore tax havens and rentier economy, which favors the upper classes, but which is gutting the middle and lower classes. Hence we see such a hyperbolic reaction in the Murdoch-controlled media whenever a hint of socialism raises its head and why socialist and anti-Zionist candidates never seem to make any gains in British elections. That brings us to George Galloway, the man missing from the lede picture.

What can we say about Galloway? People either love him or loathe him. He is like the grain of grit in the oyster shell, which irritates the oyster, but which goes to the creation of a pearl. He and Corbyn are the bad-cop-good-cop to the British true left, resp. Galloway represented the single biggest threat to the present British system – the overturning of the Thatcher-Blair-Cameron neoliberal consensus. The conservative press and the establishment trolls were dancing in the streets when Galloway lost his seat in Rochdale.

Not a single Workers Party candidate won a seat in Parliament. Yet, in spite of the media blackout on the Workers Party, Galloway being mercilessly smeared in social media as a racist and homophobe, and not being granted a single interview in the national press, he lost Rochdale by only just over a thousand votes to Labour. There was a last minute Labour blitz in Rochdale that the Workers Party couldn’t counter. It is often thus with a new political party. Galloway may be down, but the Workers Party is not out – not by a long shot. There is strong support for socialism among the British public. A seed has been planted by the Workers Party. We’ll see if it grows.

Now, if you really want to know why Galloway lost his seat, a picture speaks volumes:

The British establishment has breathed a sigh of relief, but we might question for how long. For the British public, on the other hand, Israel is on the nose because of the genocide in Gaza. The establishment sidelined Galloway and blamed it on Israel, whereas the truth is they wanted Galloway out of Parliament and socialism far away from Parliament as well.

So what does the astrology for the UK say about the graph above and the election in general? The chart with transits and directions is below (bigger):

Neptune rules plebiscites and elections, and in the chart we see that there was a particular direction to natal Neptune, activated by a transit by Mars. To get an idea of what this means we first need to look at the natal placement of Neptune. The Moon trines Neptune natally, showing the unique sensitivity of the British public, an appreciation of nature and a love of beauty in all forms. However, the midpoint structure on the 45° modulus shows Neptune at the Mercury/Moon midpoint, giving us the following:

• • • Nep=Moon/Mer; “An active imagination, fancies, whims and notions, wrong thinking, a lie. – A deceived girl, exposure to lies and calumnies fabricated by others.”

Calumnies – mudslinging – are a common practice in elections everywhere, a.k.a. dirty/gutter politics, but they are a particular problem in the UK, which has had long practice in the art. It played a particular role in this election, as we recently saw with Galloway.

We also find natal Neptune roughly at the apex of a t-square with a Venus/Saturn opposition at the base. If that sounds awful (to astrologers) it can be. In politics it shows a ‘tall poppy syndrome’, which again is often the result of calumnies by parties always on the lookout to bring someone down. At the same time it brings a very sobering note to the British public. Hey, no one likes being led down the garden path and lied to.

The particular direction we saw on the 4^th was that of the Midheaven (MC) in a square to natal Neptune, which gave an indication that the sitting government (MC, the Tories) were out to throw the election somehow, or at the very least to seed doubt amongst the public. It appeared to work to a degree, too. The transit by Mars gives us the following combination:

• • • Mars=Nep/MC: “The tendency to act without clear understanding or purpose, the desire to bring the wrong ideas into realization… – The desire to harm other people.”

There was definitely deception afoot with this election. It even shows in the media accounting, re: the Labour ‘landslide’. What exactly happened, then, that shows the deceptive notion that Labour somehow ‘won’ this election? Looking back at the graph and then comparing the seats gained, we noted about the vote share was disproportionate to the number of seats gained or lost. The Lib Dems are now the third-largest party in Parliament, while they only gain a 1%+ vote share, for example. This is not representative democracy. And with Labour holding an undisputed majority of seats in Parliament, but with only 20% of public support, that yet again represents a lie and the illusion of democracy. What else do we see in the chart?

There is another triangle in the chart, represented by two transits, both to the natal Moon – Mars and Saturn. Saturn represents two factors in the chart, which are the establishment (Saturn itself/Status quo) and the opposition parties (ruler of the 4^th house). Mars rules the 7^th house (litigations, open enemies, opposing forces) and is at the apex of the triangle. The Moon represents the general public and rules the 10^th house (sitting government). With Mars opposing Neptune in the chart and activating the directions to Neptune, we have a unique scenario. The triangle shows either real or apparent collusion, with the public supporting the government on the one hand, and the appearance of the government alighned with the opposition parties. What is the reality here?

The reality of this election goes back to the points made preceding the chart analysis, above, The apparent collusion represented in the triangle just mentioned actually goe to the fact that there is no essential difference in the policies between Labour and the Conservatives – Thatcher’s ‘greatest achievement’. The deception, mentioned in the first part of the analysis, is that voting for one or the other major parties makes a difference: It doesn’t, otherwise the British public would be better off. The British public is finally waking up, bit-by-bit to the deception.

The British were also told there was no alternative (TINA) those years ago with Thatcher, when in fact there have always been alternatives. Thatcher sold the British public down the Thames, now full of Tory excrement. Add to that now the Starmer year(s) of New Labour. It will be interesting to see how long Starmer actually remains in power, given the way the wars in Palestine and Ukraine are going – as in soon ending.

Galloway offered the British public an alternative to decades of deregulation, increasing austerity and wealth theft, but either because of his personality or because the establishment took away his voice or because the public thought better to choose between two evils, the Workers Party has their work cut out for them. Then there is Farage, who plays on people’s fears and sense of nationalism, much like the two major parties. In effect, Reform UK is just an extension of the Tories. But there has been a change in the political winds in the UK.

By not turning out to vote, the British public gave a silent protest to the major parties – the Establishment Parties, Labour and Conservatives. Was that shown in the chart? Indeed, it was, by transits of Neptune and Pluto to the natal Uranus (change) in the UK chart. The square by transiting Pluto indicated a revolutionary undertone and dissatisfaction with the status quo, from the 4^th house and agitating the general public for change. The transit of Neptune opposite natal Uranus from the 6^th house (health, services and the common people) shows the distrust the public has for the major parties and the people’s desire to bring back services and the health of the nation. There is one more point:

The transit of Neptune opposite natal Uranus forms a midpoint with directed Saturn, still within a degree of its opposition to natal Uranus. It shows the following:

• • Irritability, excitability, an inner unrest, peculiar inclinations. – Illness caused through excitement or upsets, a weakness or illness manifesting suddenly.

The chart shows the inner unrest of the British public over Tory policy, soon to be Labour policy (Watch and see if that is not the case). The weakness and illness showing suddenly was Sunak suddenly resigning and calling a snap election. The establishment may think it has won this round, keeping the ruling neoliberals in power, but change is afoot for the establishment.

The British are a resilient and proud people and will not put up with much more of what they have endured for the past almost 50 years. When the ruling parties can no longer distract the public with wars abroad and unfounded fears of an expanded war in Europe, when the Zionist project falls apart and the donor money dries up……well, what then? British politics is going to be thrown into even further turmoil. Gone are the days when politicians can just go and start some little war somewhere to distract from their incompetence. Those days are definitely over. When the people can no longer feed themselves and put a roof over their families, revolution is never far behind. You cannot eat financial derivatives. People need real jobs that build communities.

Corbyn and Galloway, though they do not represent a unified bloc, have both stated what is needed for the UK to turn itself around – throwing the neoliberals and globalists out and building anew from the grassroots. That is where real democracy is found.

The UK will survive, or at least its constituent parts will. The days ahead will be challenging, but the soul of the British will prevail. Of that, have no doubt.

Featured pic from Tortoise Media