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So who are you rootin' for at Makersfield?

315 replies

NEGUY82 · 08/06/2026 16:45

Just wondering who everyone hopes will win??

I'm hoping for a Burnham win but as long as it's not Kenyon I can live with it.

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Northermcharn · 08/06/2026 18:24

yesitstoohectic · 08/06/2026 17:01

Count Binface . He has great thighs

Big eyes? Knobbly knees, and turned-out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of his nose?

PancakeCloud · 08/06/2026 18:20

PistachioTiramisu · 08/06/2026 18:02

Anyone but the dreadful Burnham!

Why do you hate him? Do you just hate Labour or is it him specifically? (genuinely curious, he seems affable but not sure how his politics differ from Starmer’s.)

Pickledonion1999 · 08/06/2026 18:17

yesitstoohectic · 08/06/2026 17:01

Count Binface . He has great thighs

It gave me a chuckle listening to him on the news today.

GoodkneeBadKnee · 08/06/2026 18:09

kelpie9 · 08/06/2026 17:32

Reform all the way

Protect our Kids! Stop the Boats! Back in the Kitchen!

Original poster
NEGUY82 · 08/06/2026 18:04

If you’re a woman and voting Reform you probably need to look into them a bit more.

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PistachioTiramisu · 08/06/2026 18:02

Anyone but the dreadful Burnham!

BotterMon · 08/06/2026 17:48

Jake Austin or the bloke from Rejoin the EU.

redboxer321 · 08/06/2026 17:39

itssoeasy · 08/06/2026 17:05

Labour.

If reform win this country is doomed.

Also want Labour to win but sadly I think this country is doomed whoever is in power. But would be worse is Nige and his mates get in.

ChurchYardFromMyWindow · 08/06/2026 17:36

Burnham.

CheeseyOnionPie · 08/06/2026 17:35

Yetone · 08/06/2026 16:57

Absolutely anyone but Burnham.
Never ever ever in a million years would I have thought I wanted Reform to win.

So a self proclaimed sexist moron from the party led by a likely racist grifter who will do anything for money and doesn’t intend to protect women’s most essential rights?

DandelionPockets · 08/06/2026 17:35

Burnham

wonderstuff · 08/06/2026 17:34

Really hope Burnham wins. I personally quite like Keir, but I think I’m an outlier in that and Burnham has the charisma to lead. I really worry about reform, I get that there’s disappointment about Labour, but I think things will get much much worse under Reform. I don’t really understand what people are thinking Reform are going to do to improve anything?

ProfessorRedshoeblueshoe · 08/06/2026 17:34

Count Binface. Burnham spent £104.5 million on the CAZ, then he realised it could cost him votes he scrapped it.

kelpie9 · 08/06/2026 17:32

Reform all the way

ForSnappySwan · 08/06/2026 17:32

Does the country need yet another PM leadership contest? Can the Labour Party survive if it has one?

We voted for Keir Starmer and I will never go back to Labour if they get rid of him.

Burnham is 1/10 now to win so it's not really a contest anymore - I don't think he'll be a good PM. I genuinely find Starmer more appealing than him!

ByGraptharsHammer · 08/06/2026 17:28

Burnham. Kenyon thinks I can’t drive

Curveygirl · 08/06/2026 17:26

Another for anyone other than Burnham @Giggorata Maggie Oliver has made some comments on this recently.

Northermcharn · 08/06/2026 17:26

'I think this is not fair to the constituents. Their constituency is being used to play games for the Labour party. Who wants an MP that is only standing so he can become party leader and PM? '

Quite - the sheer contempt the Labour party and Burnham are showing to the electorate in Makerfield, and possibly wider, is actually disgusting.

Reform and restore will have their vote split, so it looks like Labour will win anyway.

Frankly it's all a shit show and the people coming last are us. The tax payers, the electorate, when we're possibly forced to have Burnham as an unelected PM.

The Labour party are definitely Not using their powers in our interest. and we're paying for them. Awful grubby little electorate manipulating tax grabbers.

ainsleysanob · 08/06/2026 17:18

Anyone. Anyone at all other than Burnham. Literally anyone.

Giggorata · 08/06/2026 17:15

Not Burnham, who as pointed out, is a careerist, plus isn't he another politician who failed to pursue dealing with the grooming/rape gangs in Manchester?

GoodkneeBadKnee · 08/06/2026 17:08

Reform. So we can see how amazing they'll be. Obviously, I don't live there...

angelos02 · 08/06/2026 17:07

Anyone but Burnham. He'll take the party even further to the left - ergo, taking even more in tax and not tackling the welfare crisis.

Randomchat · 08/06/2026 17:05

I think this is not fair to the constituents. Their constituency is being used to play games for the Labour party. Who wants an MP that is only standing so he can become party leader and PM? He wasn't interested in standing before, being the MP just for the good of the constituents. Only for the good of his own political career. I know many of them are the same but this is so blatant.
I would not vote for Burnham for those reasons.
But then all of the alternatives are worse. So maybe I would vote for him.

itssoeasy · 08/06/2026 17:05

Labour.

If reform win this country is doomed.

Lovelyview · 08/06/2026 17:04

It's tricky. I really resent the idea that Andy Burnham gets elected and then walks into 10 Downing Street. I do think that Reform or the Greens winning increases the exposure of their batshit policies. We shall see.

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