Morgan McSweeney resigns

Yes, the old if I won a load of money via the Lottery I would of course give a large amount to charity. Makes them feel better about themselves knowing that its very unlikely to come to pass.

The UK government could collapse with no leader to take over from Starmer.

Rayner - once her tax issues are resolved. The fact she took the money out of her disabled son's trust fund to fund her move to Brighton with her latest boyfriend who was fired by the LPwill come back to haunt her every single day

Streeting - too linked to Mandelson.

Lammy - completely awful. Not even worth thinking about.

Politics is a dirty game and the sort of people above who are in the running says it all.

If Rayner gets in she will be battered again and again over her tax return, her moral compass and her inability to often shout her mouth off. Tories are scum, AMW nonce etc etc.

Have we really fallen this far that these people are our only choice.

So true.

Today programme on R4 just dug up some quote from Starmer from several years ago, where he said (not verbatim, I can't remember exactly, but the gist of it was)

'I will always take the fall for mistakes made in any organisation I head up, even if it wasn't my mistake personally, because as head of that organisation or team the buck stops with me.'

It's funny how some things are so easy to say when you never think you'll have to actually do it. Like low income people who say they'd definitely not complain about paying very high taxes if they had much more money.

By manipulating the waiting lists? Yeah right

If Epstein/Mandelson doesn't do it then, barring another super injunction, Murdoch will decide his fate.

I’ve never voted Tory in my life but, Jesus Christ, I’m not inclined to vote for the shower of incompetent, self serving, back stabbing asshats currently perambulating around No 10.

Aye, sure: is this the same Wes the ACTUAL HEALTH SECRETARY who responded to our son’s paediatric consultant’s letter about inadequate NHS provision for paeds neurodiversity with some sidestepping bullshit about her not being in his constituency?

Jog on.

Wes is actually sorting out the health service that the Tories you probs voted for f!@#ed up

But hey keep on with your petty comments about his looks - we see you for who you are

Yeah. Also a Lego head. Got Co Pilot to recreate WS as a Lego figure.

Streeting should be head of roads and transportation for some local authority because:
a) that’s about the height of what he’s fit to govern; and
b) nominative determinism.

he is, but he’s messed up on numerous occasions.

he will get a lucrative private sector job somewhere or other.

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After careful reflection, I have decided to resign from the government.

I don't think that's fair. Given the mess this whole shit show is, it's fairly clear that KS isn't in charge in any real sense. That's part of the problem. I think that if he'd been acting totally alone, he'd never have appointed Mandelson because of the pre-Epstein issues that caused him to resign twice. It was MM with the Labour Men In Grey Suits that got Mandelson into that post.

My guess is that the cabal actually running the the show behind KS have decreed that the best way for them to keep their man in post is to sacrifice MM. KS will also want to maximise his chances of keeping his job so he'll go along with it but he won't like it because he has been very dependent on MM.

Some time has been bought for KS but it will run out eventually once the Labour party MPs and unions sort themselves out and amass behind a preferred candidate.

Agree.

There is something about Streeting that creeps me out. Is it the shiny face?

Wes Streeting is a sly little weasel, if he told me the sky was blue I’d go outside to check, and then wonder what he was planning to get up to while I was gone.

If you think Starmer is untrustworthy, Wes is far more slippery

KS has thrown MM under the bus to save his own skin. Useless, spineless, clueless little man.

Irish Man Resigns caught my eye as I was catching up on the Irish news.

Can't say I know much about him, except that he lived on a kibbutz for a while.

Wii Starmer go? Judged by past mega-scandals yes. However, Starmer seems to lack the basic awareness of other resigners like... oh Truss, the fleeting oddity.

The two political gamblers I know are punting on Mahmood and Miliband. Given Rayner's not yet having spent enough time being rehabilitated and Burnham being over the water, of Ship Canal, for now, I would keep an eye on Streeting (the Starmer lookalike with a bit more flesh on him and in possession of an empathy button).

None of them enthuse and neither do the alternatives in the other parties.

He isn’t smart! Why do people constantly quote men as ‘having the brain the size of the planet’.

McSweeney made a huge error of judgement and because Starmer is so useless he went along with it. He will limp on but only because the alternative isn’t worth thinking about.

Bring some of the old guard in. Harriet Harmen and Gordon Brown could give Starmer some good advice. Labour are truly one of the worst governments in my life time.

Mandleson’s protégé, no less. What could possibly go wrong?

McSweeney is smart. It's a shame to see him go. It should be Starmer if anyone,

Wes Streeting.
such a shame they kiboshed Andy Burnham in my view.

I’m seeing more Labour MPs putting their names on record that Starmer should go. McSweeney falling on his sword probably won’t save him after all.

Yep Starmer has no qualms at throwing anyone under the bus to save his own skin.

He is the leader and accountable for the Mandelson appointment, he can’t rely on McSweeney going.

He's played his last card anyway, when the Mandelson / Epstein headlines keep coming he’ll have no one else left to blame.

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