British politics is entering a new era. In the UK local elections, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party suffered its worst defeat in decades. The British press has dubbed the result "Starmageddon" - a play on "Armageddon". Nigel Farage and his party Reform UK are the biggest winners. This is not a political surprise - this is a political transformation.

The numbers speak for themselves. According to preliminary results (with around 20 percent of seats counted):

• Reform UK: 352 councillors
• Labour: 245 councillors
• Liberal Democrats: 238 councillors
• Conservatives: 223 councillors
• Greens: 48 councillors
• Independents: 20 councillors

Labour lost 249 seats nationally, 185 of them in England alone. Reform UK won more than 300 seats in England. And something that until recently would have been unimaginable - Labour lost control of Thameside (for the first time in 50 years) and Wigan (for more than half a century).

"The results have far exceeded expectations," Farage said. "This represents a historic shift in British politics." Analysts assess this as one of the largest transformations of the British political system in the last hundred years - British democracy is moving from a traditional two-party model toward a multi-party landscape.

Starmer insists he will lead Labour into the next general election. That's the line of a prime minister who simply will not admit his political position is in crisis. Dozens of mutterings from his own ranks, plus pressure from a steadily more massive right flank, are turning him into a prime minister who survives rather than governs.

For the Balkans this result carries two implications. First - British migration policy, which until now had been under Labour pressure to reform, will now shift toward even stricter measures. Balkans citizens living and working in Britain (and there are many) will feel those changes. Second - when Reform UK dominates British institutions, London's policy toward the EU shifts. That matters for countries seeking accession - less British advocacy in European corridors means less support for Balkan countries still on the road to Brussels.

And what is more important - British politics has finally stopped being quiet. When a party considered marginal five years ago takes local government in big cities, that is not an incident. That is a turning point. Every country still working with the old picture of British politics needs to update that picture - quickly.