“THIS IS AUTHORITARIANISM — FULL STOP.” Patrick Christys UNLEASHES Fury at 𝘒𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳 After Labour AXES Elections in Power Grab That Sparks National Outrage The explosive on-air attack has lit up social media, with critics warning democracy is being quietly dismantled — and supporters scrambling to defend the decision. Britain is divided… and the backlash is only growing.
Patrick Christys: Leftie HUMILIATED After Audience Member EXPOSES the Truth Behind Starmer’s ‘Dictator-Style’ Election Delays
Let’s stop pretending this is boring admin.
Let’s stop pretending this is just “parish councils” or “tidying up local government.”
And for heaven’s sake, let’s stop pretending that cancelling elections for nearly 10 million people is somehow compatible with a healthy democracy.
Because when you strip away the excuses, the jargon, and the smug Westminster complacency, what we saw on that panel was something far more revealing:
a left-wing commentator caught flat-footed, exposed by an ordinary voter who understands democracy better than the people paid to lecture us about it.
“I Haven’t Been Able to Vote — Twice.”
That should have ended the argument.
An audience member — calm, articulate, and visibly fed up — explained that she lives on the Hampshire–West Sussex border and has now missed two chances to vote because elections keep getting kicked down the road.
Twice.
Not because of war.
Not because of a pandemic.
Not because the ballot boxes caught fire.
But because Labour decided it would be inconvenient to ask the public what they think.
And how did our leftie pundit respond?
By sneering.
By minimising.
By effectively saying: What’s the big deal?
That, right there, is the modern Left in a nutshell.
Seven Years in Power — No Voters Required
Let’s be absolutely clear about what’s happening.
Labour, with the quiet agreement of the Conservatives, is delaying local and mayoral elections across 63 councils. If these delays are extended again — and many expect they will be — some councillors will sit in office for seven years without facing voters.
Seven years.
That’s longer than most parliaments in functioning democracies.
And yet, when people dare to point out that this looks suspiciously authoritarian, we’re told to calm down. To stop being dramatic. To trust the process.
Funny, isn’t it?
Because if Nigel Farage or Reform UK had cancelled elections for 10 million people, the BBC would be running wall-to-wall coverage on the “collapse of democracy,” and every left-wing activist within a 50-mile radius would be screaming “fascism” into a megaphone.
But this time?
Oh, it’s Labour.
Sir 𝘒𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳.
Nice suit. Red rosette. Move along.
“That’s Not Fascism — That’s Restructuring”
One of the most jaw-dropping moments came when the left-wing panellist dismissed comparisons to authoritarianism as “absurd,” scoffing at the idea that delaying local elections could possibly matter.
Parish councils, he implied, are barely worth worrying about.
Tell that to the people who rely on them for social care decisions.
Tell that to the communities whose roads, housing, and services are controlled locally.
Tell that to the parish councillor in the audience — a volunteer — who stood up and explained how his unpaid public service has affected his family and his children.
And still, the response was condescension.
This is not ignorance.
This is contempt.
Democracy Only When It’s Convenient
Here’s the problem Labour doesn’t want to talk about:
democracy is messy — and they’re losing control of it.
Reform is surging.
Trust in Labour and the Conservatives is collapsing.
Voters are angry, cynical, and increasingly unwilling to play along.
So what do you do if you’re terrified of the verdict?
You delay it.
You dress it up as “reorganisation.”
You claim it’s about efficiency.
You say the public wouldn’t understand the complexities anyway.
And then you ask the very councillors who benefit from staying in power longer whether they fancy… staying in power longer.
Unsurprisingly, many say yes.
That’s not reform.
That’s self-preservation.
Even the Electoral Commission Isn’t Buying It
And before anyone accuses me of exaggeration, let’s remember this:
the Electoral Commission itself has criticised these delays, arguing that the justifications are weak and that elections should go ahead.
But who cares what the independent watchdog says, right?
After all, this government already feels comfortable:
Scrapping jury trials
Policing online speech
Arresting people for social media posts
Rewriting rules to suit itself
So why not quietly suspend a few elections while you’re at it?
“If We Can Land a Man on the Moon…”
One audience member made a point so devastatingly simple that it cut through every excuse.
If Britain could organise elections during the Second World War — with half a million dead, cities in ruins, and troops scattered across the globe — why can’t we manage one now?
The answer, of course, is obvious.
We can.
They just don’t want to.
This Is About Fear
Let’s stop dancing around it.
Labour is scared.
Scared of Reform.
Scared of voters.
Scared of what happens when people finally get their say.
And the most insulting part of all?
They think you’re too stupid to notice.
They think if they dismiss local councils as irrelevant, democracy itself will shrink with it.
It won’t.
Because democracy doesn’t belong to politicians.
It belongs to people like that woman in the audience — the one who hasn’t voted, not once, but twice.
History Is Watching
You don’t need tanks in the streets to slide into authoritarianism.
Sometimes all it takes is a government that decides elections are… inconvenient.
Liberty is not a “nice to have.”
It is the foundation.
And any party — Labour included — that treats the right to vote as optional is playing a dangerous game.
They might delay the reckoning
But they can’t cancel it forever
The corporation’s continuity announcer said just before Animal Park where his song was the opening track: ‘First on BBC One, Chris Rea, is very much on our minds this morning’
