The "spare prick at a wedding" of British politics!
After massive boasts online that they would win the Makerfield by-election and go on to form the next UK government, Restore Britain, the party founded by ex-Tory and ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe, was crushed like a bug in a rug, only getting a pathetic 3,111 votes (or 6.8%).
Make no mistake about it, this was a total and humiliating defeat for Restore, a party that has been backed by the World's first trillionaire Elon Musk, after he fell out with Nigel Farage, the leader of the main populist insurgent party in the UK, Reform UK, over the ridiculous question of Tommy Robinson some months ago.
Musk had been posting repeatedly on X in support of Robinson, a well-known Zionist and Putinist shill, and called for his release from prison. Although Farage is himself sympathetic to Zionist and Putinist agendas, he refused to endorse Robinson, saying that he was "not right" for Reform UK and that he "disagreed with him on several issues," in other words, Farage realised that Robinson was a toxic piece of garbage that would drag his party down with the normie voters he needs in order to win power.
UK voters are surprisingly resilient to the God-like powers of the Tech bros
Since it was founded and then boosted by Musk, all that Restore Britain has done is to undercut Reform UK and thus bolster the conventional British two-party political system.
In the Makerfield by-election, Reform's candidate Rob Kenyon won 15,696 votes, or 34.5%, while the winner was the Labour Party's new "great hope" Andy Burnham, the mayor of Manchester, who got over 50% of the votes and, as a newly-elected MP, can now challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership of the Labour Party and the Prime Ministership.
In this case Restore did so poorly that it theoretically could not have effected the result. But in many other UK constituencies a few thousand votes taken away from Reform could be the difference between winning and losing.
Will Restore UK now go the way of Musk's other pointless political project, the America Party, a party he "launched" in 2025 for petty personal reasons to "challenge" the Republicans and Democrats, but which ended up sinking without trace?
In the Makerfield by-election, Reform's candidate Rob Kenyon won 15,696 votes, or 34.5%, while the winner was the Labour Party's new "great hope" Andy Burnham, the mayor of Manchester, who got over 50% of the votes and, as a newly-elected MP, can now challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership of the Labour Party and the Prime Ministership.
In this case Restore did so poorly that it theoretically could not have effected the result. But in many other UK constituencies a few thousand votes taken away from Reform could be the difference between winning and losing.
Will Restore UK now go the way of Musk's other pointless political project, the America Party, a party he "launched" in 2025 for petty personal reasons to "challenge" the Republicans and Democrats, but which ended up sinking without trace?
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