A Quick and Dirty Election Lie.

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The election results are in: The media is hiding the truth, again.

One thing the leftist media in America and Britain have in common is that they don’t tell the truth. By misrepresenting the realities on the two sides of the Atlantic, the media help governments become unaccountable to the people.

(If you already know more about the British and French election than the media has reported, you may want to skip ahead to Conclusion: Why This is Important!)

Last week the Brits had a big election. The US media reported it with headlines like this.

Washington Post

NPR

New York Times

But that wasn't exactly the true story. The right-leaning British newspaper The Telegraph came closer to the truth.

In spite of what leftist media in the U.S. made it seem, the British leftist Labour party did not get a landslide in votes, they got a landslide in seats in Parliament.

Quoting, The Telegraph article, “The election result is the most distorted in history after Labour won nearly two thirds of seats with just a third of the popular vote.”

That’s right. The leftists Labour “landslide” that the U.S. media reported was not a landslide of votes. The British system stacks the deck, and the leftist parties get 66% of the seats in Parliament after getting only 33% of the votes.

But the truly surprising success story of the British election was about the right.

The Right Election Story

“labor did not win, the tories lost.”

In his Substack about the election, titled  “the fall of the center right and why you should be glad”, El Gato Malo, as always  got right what the media said wrongly.

The new British rightist, populist Reform party basically came out of nowhere, got millions of votes, and became a force in British politics, whether or not the leftists liked it or the U.S. media reported it. And if that means the end of the center-right, surely Britain is better off without them. As in America, centrism is actually capitulation to the left.

What is the British Reform party about, you may ask? According to the party’s website, they want to:

 • Support low taxation.

 • Oppose the government's net-zero energy policy.

 • End government waste.

 • Slash energy bills.

 • Unlock real economic growth.

 • Reduce net migration

“Only Reform will take back control over our borders, our money and our laws,” they say.

The British Reform party is only three years old (born from the Brexit movement).  Most of its candidates were ordinary people, not politicians with name recognition, who had little financial backing or experience in politics. But the Reform party is catching on fast. The Telegraph reported, “The party’s fortunes improved vastly during 2023 and the early months of 2024, with average support for Reform almost doubling from 6 per cent in January 2023 to 10.1 per cent at the start of March.”

But the Brit leftists have indeed stacked the deck against rightist Reform. Back to The Telegraph article reporting on the election, “Nigel Farage’s Reform party secured 4.1 million votes but only four seats, equating to more than a million votes per constituency won. The Greens won four seats with only 1.9 million votes.” So, every vote for the far-left Greens resulted in twice as much representation in Parliament as a vote for the rightist Reform party. And it got worse: “…the Liberal Democrats won 71 seats despite getting only 3.5 million votes, almost 600,000 fewer than Reform.”

By July 6, vote counts showed that the Reform party had actually won 5 seats, and Nigel Farage, the Reform party leader, won 46% of the vote in his district. Pretty good when the Labour party’s “massive landslide” was only 33% of the national vote.

Maybe the headlines should have been: Brit Right on the Rise: As Reform Party Beats the Odds.

Or, British Gov Stacks the Electoral Deck to Favor Socialists.

Meanwhile, in Other Foreign News

On Monday, July 8, the reports of the French national election came in. The leftists got 49% of the vote, barely edging out the right, who got 46%. (“Other” got 5%.) How did the mass media report that outcome?

“French Far Right Receives a Resounding 'Non Merci'” Bloomberg

“Far Right’s Rise Suffers Unexpected Blow as Left Surges”, Washington Post

“Leftist Surge Foils Far Right” CNN

“French Left Celebrates as Far Right Faces Surprise Defeat” BBC

Eking out a 49% to 46% leftist win in the most leftist nation in Western Europe is a “resounding no-thank-you” rejection of the “far-right”? And cause for great celebration on the far-left? That’s what the leftist media says. But maybe it’s untrue, again.

How long will the media call the side that got 46% of the vote in a socialist country “far right”? But never call the Marxist far-left the “far left”? Forever, apparently.

The French right-wing National Rally and its allies were projected to win between 138 and 145 seats in the National Assembly, way up from 87 in the last election. But the big increase in seats for the right was not the story the media chose to tell. When the left wins more representation in the government, as it did in Britain, that is the “true” story. But when the right wins more representation, as it did in France, the media reports a victory for the left.

Conclusion: Why This is Important!

We know that what used to be the Two-Party system in the U.S. has turned into one Uniparty. We Yanks might have suspected that the British multi-party system results in more accountability over there than we have here. But apparently not. The British system is rigged to give leftists a lot more power than the people vote to give them.

But the U.S. mass media declines to give that story much if any coverage. “LEFTISTS WIN” is always the U.S. media’s story, as we tell in our Substack 50-50 Football. The leftist media twists the truth and stacks the deck in favor of a system that most Americans do not want: Leftism.

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