They Lost Durham. Now They're Losing the Plot.

From Big Meeting to bitter meeting: Labour's Durham demise

Right, so the Durham Miners' Association won't let Reform UK councillors come to their little jamboree and have penned a missive on how we’re enemies of the working class or some such nonsense. Boo bloody hoo. This is the same organisation that's just watched their beloved Labour Party lose 94% of council seats. That's not an electoral defeat, that's a restraining order. From the entire County.

But here's the DMA, still banging on about Margaret Thatcher - who left office before half their critics were even born - and accusing people of supporting the English Defence League. Which, and I checked this, ceased to exist roughly around the time Miley Cyrus was still Hannah Montana.

They're very upset about the 34.8% turnout that delivered this humiliation. "Very low," they sniff. Except it wasn't. It was above average. Turns out that when you give working people something to actually vote FOR - rather than another five years of managed decline and diversity coordinators - they drag themselves to the polling station.

Here's what really sticks in their craw: Reform's 65 councillors are more working class than Labour's MPs. Poll them. Go on. You'll find pit villages and colliery rows in Reform's family trees. You'll find Oxbridge and organic delis in Labour's.

The DMA lectures about "community" whilst creating enemies lists like some demented students' union. They champion "workers" whilst defending Labour's £5 billion employment bill that'll make it illegal to have a proper conversation in a pub. They claim to represent Durham whilst their party pursues policies that would turn the North East into Europe's largest industrial heritage site.

And the coup de grâce? They accuse Reform of abandoning industrial communities whilst Reform - REFORM! - advocates nationalising British Steel. Labour wouldn't nationalise a paper clip if it meant upsetting their globalist paymasters.

The Durham Miners' Gala has become what it was always destined to become: a historical re-enactment society for people who think the problem with modern Britain is that we don't have enough Net Zero officers.

Meanwhile, actual Durham voters - the ones whose grandfathers really did go down the pit - have delivered their verdict. The red flag may still fly at the gala. Shame it's been vaporised at the ballot box.