AIBU to predict Streeting will resign tomorrow & trigger leadership contest.

Unless the plan is WS stands & KS stands, KS wins and then everyone will have to put up & shut up & get on with running the Country? 🤷‍♀️

Streeting should complete the job that he genuinely seemed to have been committed to less than two years ago.

So not only is a change in leader and PM is distracting the work MPs should be doing, we could lose a good Health Secretary who is clearly working hard to make the nhs better.

I find the lack of commitment by Streeting - if it happens - shows terrible judgement as if Streeting completes his term and the nhs improves, this would be good for a future leadership contest. Right now I can’t see the value and the turmoil being unleashed is unforgivable.

I’m so sick of this whole pantomime and if Streeting resigns, will be very, very disappointed in him.

Yes you are absolutely right. They have shown themselves to be completely ungovernable as a party ( again). Even if they do, against every single odds, get into power, they will pull apart anyway, in their endless purity spiral, once they find out that actually, 'the markets' do exist and their fantasy land cannot work. They pick and choose policies from other countries to prove it does, ignoring others. They should all fuck off to The Greens. including the unions.

Will depend on WS loyalties, obv if he refuses to back KS but wont stand, then KS has no choice... or he will look weak.

80 MPs aren't happy with KS, so i think the possibility of getting the backing for WS, who is heavily linked to Mandelson would be problematic.

One think you do appear to guarantee with our main political parties is that they do not take Government seriously.... i didn't vote Labour for this xxxx shower of a drama.
I wanted a start to put right 14 years of the cons, not miracles but so far Labour are a disappointment

Yes KS should have sacked him, he may still do.....

Burnham wouldn't even get elected as an MP, that chance has been an gone, he was also a poor Minister when Labour were last in.

Streeting wouldn't get the required nominations and has very poor leadership skills.

But if Streeting does stand, it will open the door for other names but who could get the required votes?

Trouble is, all the main players called for a GE when the Tories frequently changed PM, this would all get thrown back at them.....

Labour are better off sticking with who they have for the time being, i think most people are sick to death of Govts acting like this.

The left of the party will bay for anyone's blood who is not as committed as they are to keeping Labour as a far left party

That is what they do. The have not learnt from the recent disaster from when Corbyn led the party they are too entrenched in their view of Labour party ideology rather than what they Labour party can do to become get into power and once they are in power

I'm not sure what Wes Streeting will bring other then a younger face. The circumstances which Kier Starmer and government will be the same, there is no magic wand and money pot.

And as for Andy Burnham is just noise, he needs to follow the rules to be eligible to stand as a Labour MP and win before he can even try and become the leader of the Labour
Party.

Jeez. And you have a vote!

But Burnham is the Lefts ' Prince over the water'. They have pinned all their hopes on Burnham being the answer to all their prayers. Either he does what they want or they will bay for his blood too.

I've always thought Streeting seems smarmy and untrustworthy. And the fact that he's in bed with Palantir should mean he's nowhere near Health, let alone the top job.

I think it’s the fact that there have been no details of their meeting released make it more likely than not to be the case. If they’d all been hunky dory and supportive then they’d have been straight out and said so.

Well I suppose the right wing nutter attacks will write themselves with Streeting. He is the sinister Mandelson protege, anti family who will sell your Granny and her medical records to private companies.

No he is not left of the party and disliked by many on the left but further to the left than Streeting

When it suits him ... he manoeuvres about which will upset some in the party. I think AB knows the party has to stay centre to win the next election

Streeting is Peter Mandelson’s protégée.

Mandelson wants his share of the NHS spoils. Mandelson’s company, Global Counsel, coached Palantir to win the NHS data contract. Streeting is bought and paid for by US private health.

anyone who thinks Streeting is going to be a positive for this country hasn’t been paying enough attention.

Nobody can answer the question about why Streeting is better. I understand he is not Starmer, but there should be more to it than that.

I don’t think Streeting will necessarily be any more popular as a leader than Starmer - he will have the same difficulties. Arguably he’s a better communicator than Starmer and more media friendly. Is he good at the difficult stuff which makes a PM? No idea.

I’ve heard a few interviews with Wes Streeting on lbc where he was scoffing at having a go at the being PM , but I appreciate I haven’t heard every single interview his ever given and I must have missed many where he has said that he would. This was last year . Maybe he now feels the time is right , but depends on his support from others as well and it seems a bit chaotic at the moment as to what any of them want.

Streeting “allies” talking to journalists have said he will.

Oh good - someone even more useless. NHS is more fucked than ever before and he seems to think jumping on the publicity bandwagon to be photographed gurning with that one from Little Mix (?) was a good idea.

All of a sudden, Starmer doesn’t seem a bad option

There is a complete lack of a coherent plan eg how are they going to increase productivity and encourage financial growth or are they going to come after the middle high earners and those with capital assets even more? At some point the balloon will burst and there will be free fall. To be fair even Trump had a ‘plan’ even if we dislike it. Labour just seems to be about more tax, more tax, more tax, more welfare giveaways, more tax, more public sector increases, more tax etc.

Isn't Burnham left? Didn't he say something like: "I'm not bothered about the bond markets"