Page 2 | Is Starmer going tonight?! (Thread for centre and left of centre folk)

mumofoneAloneandwell · 2026-05-11T20:49:36+00:00

Do i need to switch on bbc news??!

Babyboomtastic · 11/05/2026 22:44

I'm really sad. For the first time in ages we've got a calm intelligent prime minister, who, as far as I can see has just been getting on with it quietly. He's boring, and I'd much prefer that in my prime minister, than the incompetent buffoons who have dominated British politics for the last few years.

His mistakes have been blown out of all proportion, with little reporting on things that have gone well.

He should have the support of his party, rather than them circling like vultures.

Meanwhile, in Reform:

one new councillor has resigned for saying that white people were the master race and had bigger brains.
another is being investigated over comments about melting down Nigerians to fill potholes. He also complained during a rugby match about a female commentator saying "Wish they wud stick to cooking, sewing and homemaking".

It feels like a manufactured sabotage and I'm really sad.

OneTealShaker · 11/05/2026 22:40

MeanMrMustardSeed · 11/05/2026 22:39

IMF will never bail us out now. We’ve got too much debt. We’d be toast.

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And that’s why Tories and Labour should be consigned to history books. They have finished this country off.

MeanMrMustardSeed · 11/05/2026 22:39

OneTealShaker · 11/05/2026 22:34

Followed by an IMF bailout. This country’s toast.

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IMF will never bail us out now. We’ve got too much debt. We’d be toast.

OneTealShaker · 11/05/2026 22:34

AbundantFlowers · 11/05/2026 22:32

PM Ange?

Followed by an IMF bailout. This country’s toast.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 11/05/2026 22:34

Fluffyowl00 · 11/05/2026 22:33

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5528573-to-think-we-dont-know-how-lucky-we-are-under-starmer?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

Seems there are normal folk out there! From a fellow lone mum of one.

Oh yes i saw this one and lost it, thank you!

🥰🥰 love to meet a fellow traveller

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OneTealShaker · 11/05/2026 22:33

TheChosenTwo · 11/05/2026 22:31

Can I ask them, and I’m genuinely not trying to be antagonistic, but why would you hope he’s going if you think the alternatives would be worse?

I just don’t get the mindset when there’s no one in line to replace him. Honestly not picking holes in your comment, I actually don’t think he’s doing a terrible job and would like him to stick it out because more instability just feeds the circus.

As a pp said, journalists don’t give a shit about any of it, they just want to generate clicks hence every 15 seconds a new ‘dramatic and utterly shocking’ headline comes out.

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Because this has to happen to get rid of Labour earlier than 2029. Once he goes, the next one comes and goes fast too.

This Labour government is so bad that they make the last lot of Tory shower look like statesmen and women.

Fluffyowl00 · 11/05/2026 22:33

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5528573-to-think-we-dont-know-how-lucky-we-are-under-starmer?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

Seems there are normal folk out there! From a fellow lone mum of one.

To think we don’t know how lucky we are under Starmer. | Mumsnet

Russia have a mad despot who is responsible for the deaths of Russians and Ukrainians and has caused untold damage on the world’s environment and econ...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5528573-to-think-we-dont-know-how-lucky-we-are-under-starmer

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 11/05/2026 22:33

FatEndoftheWedge · 11/05/2026 22:32

The papers didn't generate the mandleson scandal and all the rest !

Sorry but the tories did so much worse when they were in office 😫😄

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 11/05/2026 22:32

God. I'm even watching newsnight

Got to offer myself support at this time 💐💐😫

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FatEndoftheWedge · 11/05/2026 22:32

The papers didn't generate the mandleson scandal and all the rest !

AbundantFlowers · 11/05/2026 22:32

PM Ange?

TheChosenTwo · 11/05/2026 22:31

OneTealShaker · 11/05/2026 21:57

Hope so. Although who replaces him could be scarier. We could wake up to a crashed pound and runaway bond yields if Angela tax fraud Rayner gets in.

Can I ask them, and I’m genuinely not trying to be antagonistic, but why would you hope he’s going if you think the alternatives would be worse?

I just don’t get the mindset when there’s no one in line to replace him. Honestly not picking holes in your comment, I actually don’t think he’s doing a terrible job and would like him to stick it out because more instability just feeds the circus.

As a pp said, journalists don’t give a shit about any of it, they just want to generate clicks hence every 15 seconds a new ‘dramatic and utterly shocking’ headline comes out.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 11/05/2026 22:30

Fluffyowl00 · 11/05/2026 22:30

72% of people in the other post in support of Starmer so I’m afraid you’ve got the nut cases over here

Which one?! I could only find right wing threads!

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Fluffyowl00 · 11/05/2026 22:30

72% of people in the other post in support of Starmer so I’m afraid you’ve got the nut cases over here

BunfightBetty · 11/05/2026 22:29

Can't believe he's still clinging on.

But I do fear who comes next, they're likely to be even worse - probably by a lot.

As a centre-left leaner I worry they're going to get someone who'll take them further left, rather than someone who has the nous to take practical, pragmatic decisions to get the economy and country moving again.

Fluffyowl00 · 11/05/2026 22:28

Shhh -don’t tell anyone but I think Kemi is on here in disguise 👀

SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 11/05/2026 22:27

TheKittenswithMittens · 11/05/2026 22:04

Worse would be Prime Minister Zack xx

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100x worse

OneTealShaker · 11/05/2026 22:26

MyFellowScroller · 11/05/2026 22:24

Perhaps Starmer read Kemi's Alternative Kings Speech and realised how well written it is compared to his vagueness this morning.
Concise and some costings, very thorough. The Tories are on their way back.

Hope not. Hopefully the Tories are dead and buried. Even the fossils are hard to find.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 11/05/2026 22:25

I see my request for people left of centre went ignored

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MyFellowScroller · 11/05/2026 22:24

Perhaps Starmer read Kemi's Alternative Kings Speech and realised how well written it is compared to his vagueness this morning.
Concise and some costings, very thorough. The Tories are on their way back.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 11/05/2026 22:07

Can't stand Catherine West

Worse than Margaret hodge

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Vargas · 11/05/2026 22:07

Bloody journalists desperate for him to go as chaos feeds their clicks. They don’t give a crap about stability.

OneTealShaker · 11/05/2026 22:06

TheKittenswithMittens · 11/05/2026 22:04

Worse would be Prime Minister Zack xx

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Walter Titty, you mean?

TheKittenswithMittens · 11/05/2026 22:04

OneTealShaker · 11/05/2026 22:03

One step closer to Prime Minister Farage.

Worse would be Prime Minister Zack xx

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 11/05/2026 22:04

Did jeremy corbyn survive one of these though?

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