CRUMBRIA: 02/05/2025: EXCLUSIVE
- Barrow, Penrith & West Cumbria Reform hail “seismic” results
- Labour “Won’t win second term,” warns Reform county chair.
- Cumbria to “turn turquoise in 2027″ prediction.
By The Cumbria Chronic
REPRESENTATIVES for Reform UK in Cumbria have today welcomed the party’s “seismic” overnight election results.
Tearing up the political form book, Reform UK toppled Labour’s 14,696 majority in Runcorn & Helsby by a knife-edge six votes to usher in Sarah Pochin as its first female MP with a 17.4% swing.
Nationally, the party has also been hoovering up dozens of council seats from Labour and the Conservatives; as well as welcoming in a new mayor to Greater Lincolnshire, and being favourites to add a Reform Mayor to Hull & East Yorkshire.
Matthew Moody, Cumbria’s regional manager for Reform UK, said the results showed that the “Great British public is waking up” to the failures of successive Governments and the “Uniparty”.
Mr Moody said: “Despite people still voting for a Labour Government that has betrayed them at every turn, I personally don’t believe they have any credibility left in them to win a second term in office.
“Our focus now is upon building the movement here in Cumbria leading up to our local elections in 2027 and turning the county turquoise.”
Barry Morgan, deputy chairman of the Whitehaven & Workington branch, said the local elections and the Runcorn result showed a “seismic shift” in UK politics – just nine months (300 days) into the new Labour Government.
Mr Morgan called the election results “historic” and showed the “persuasive power” of the Party to win “hearts and minds”.
In Barrow and Furness, Interim chair of Reform UK, Colin Rudd, said: “The message from the voters is clear: the old political order is crumbling, and deservedly so.”
Mr Rudd said the “historic” Runcorn by-election and the mayoral win in Greater Lincolnshire marked a “turning point” for British politics.
He added: “To flip one of Labour’s safest seats in the first major electoral test of Keir Starmer’s premiership shows that voters are hungry for change and Reform UK is delivering it.”
In Penrith & Solway last year, Mr Moody came third at last year’s General Election with 15.5% of the vote share.
He said since Labour took office it had made the mistake of overlooking “Family, community and country”.
Instead, the new Government was pushing a “A big-state, big-spend and big-interference mentality – despite protesting that there is no money”, he said.
Mr Moody added: “The majority of candidates standing for election as councillors are not politicians. Despite the mainstream media attacking us over this; I believe this is what we now need.
“Our political class are so out of touch with reality and normal people that it is apparent to everybody but them; that Britain needs an urgent change but one which is backed up by promises to make change happen.”
Mr Morgan in West Cumbria stood as the Reform UK candidate for Barrow and Furness and came third at last year’s General Election.
He said of the results: “After this massive swing we are now the opposition to Labour – and we will soon take Cumbria.
“Labour lied and lied to get into power and has rightly incurred the wrath of the British people.
“Wherever by-election opportunities arise between now and 2029, our voter base can only grow.
“The expected collapse may even come earlier than that as this Government drives our country deeper into the dirt. We have candidates up and down the land who are committed to sweeping away the Woke nonsense peddled by the Uniparty and to taking their country back – no ifs, no buts.”
Mr Rudd in Barrow added: “No Labour stronghold is untouchable when people believe in a bold alternative.
“Nigel Farage’s vision of a Britain that prioritizes its people is resonating, and this result sends a clear message to Starmer’s Government.”
***
Share
©Artwork by “Cranksie”
thecumbriachronic.co.uk 
You must be logged in to post a comment.