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Streeting has resigned as Health Sec so it appears like it's now game on for a leadership challenge
Streeting can't win though, so he's just opening the door for Rayner, Burnham or Miliband. If Burnham can find a seat, Starmer couldn't possibly block him again, surely.
The Labour party has dug a big hole for itself. Once again the country has a PM who has lost support but refuses to go and who is in the wings? Here is my take on the candidates.
Angela Rayner, a class warrior of the worst sort who just lines her own pocket as soon as she gets in to power but can't actually string two sentences together unless it's about 'them and us'.
Ed Milliband. Been there not done much and an abject failure at the ballot box who will never be able to get people behind him.
Wes Streeting. a cunning little weasel who thinks we will all forget that he backed up Starmer all the way when the cabinet stitched up Burnham
And of course Andy Burnham himself who isn't even eligible to stand until he gets a safe seat. When will that be if as has been reported he doesn't want to leave the Manchester area. I know let's pick on someone to resign and then he can stand in the by-election and in three months time he can put his name forward to lead the rest of the country as well.
In the meantime we have another 3 months of this?
What a ****ing shambles.
Yours,
Seething of Yorkshire.
No guarantee Burnham would belected if he does find a seat. The Rusholme seat strongly favours the Greens. Streeting has to go now or he's toast. If Burnham isn't in the runners I wouldn't be surprised if Starmer won as it would suit the others to try later. Labour is so riven with splits it's the country that is suffering exactly as it was with the Tories...
Labour
Tories
Run a country
THEY are all the SAME
Pigs at the trough
Wouldn't trust any of them to run a tap
Tories
Run a country
THEY are all the SAME
Pigs at the trough
Wouldn't trust any of them to run a tap
A peerage if Andy wins, worth £330 a day just for signing in. It's one big gravy train...
I actually enjoy all these political machinations. Both Rayner, and now Streeting, have spoken in support of Burnham standing in Makerfield, so it's highly unlikely that Starmer could block him again. The jeopardy is in that Reform performed very strongly in the council elections in Makerfield, so it's by no means a shoo-in for Burnham. However, if he wins well, consigning Reform to a distant second, the challenge to Starmer could be a walkover. Would Streeting and Rayner even stand?
I quite like Starmer, and really don't understand the levels of antipathy towards him, but I think he's finished as PM. I hope Burnham takes over and that he makes Starmer Foreign Secretary.
I quite like Starmer, and really don't understand the levels of antipathy towards him, but I think he's finished as PM. I hope Burnham takes over and that he makes Starmer Foreign Secretary.
You may not understand it, neither do I but it was inevitable that Fleet Street would rally everyone they could against him. They will do the same to any successor. To be fair though, he is the master of his own downfall. He really did not do himself any favours by making so many U-turns to appease Fleet Street, failing to use any common sense by appointing Mandelson, throwing anyone he could under the bus when he felt threatened, manipulating the democratic process for each election by trying to parachute in Islington's finest whenever he could and using any old excuse to prevent Burnham standing in the last by-election. It was so blatant that even the most blinkered referee would not fail to spot it without ever needing to resort to VAR.
He's not the messiah, he's been a very naughty boy
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He has bread and dripping for his tea and will get down to that London and tell ‘em all to bloody sort it out.
And if it goes wrong he’s a scouser so it’ll be someone else’s fault
Amazing really that Labour don’t have someone from those 400 elected MPs to step up, so they have to go get someone elected, who they didn’t want first time around, so he can ride his white stallion into Parliament to knock over Starmer and save the Party!
Be hard to make it up.
Be hard to make it up.
Streeting could have announced an immediate challenge, which would have ruled out Burnham. The fact that he didn't is noble, but not great tactics for his own chances.