Burnham unopposed & likely to be PM by mid July

Well, by her own admission, she is a ‘spiteful class warrior’ - that’s simply a statement of fact.

Kemi is absolutely right to tell Bridget to stop with the pointless class warfare. It holds us all back. It is complete nonsense anyway in a country with so many successful immigrants now and mixed backgrounds. My DC now have 3 nationalities, they have very very dirt poor ancestors as well as lauded generals who are part of British history. Who actually cares.

Kemi is on fire at the moment. I’m not keen on her initial stance on Iran though which means I’m still politically homeless.

I dug into her past last night. She's full of 💩 💩

He’ll be out at the next GE anyway. After having sufficient time to mess up the country even further. Labour are a joke and they should just call it now

Yep. Her success likely makes some feel bad. Why couldn’t they be successful if a black woman can.

So I have reposted mine.

That appears to be a confection.

All this pathetic class nonsense needs to be left in the past where it belongs. If we are ever going to become a forward looking dynamic country, State education had been much improved until Covid hit and the waiting lists were awful, Just fund the SEND crisis and give everyone a chance at a British Dream rather than the perpetual misogynistic Labour Man whine fest. And put the strong women in the party in the key positions, not those the men don’t find threatening because they are weak.

Let me repost part of my previous - to see if this doesn’t offend the censors.

Bridget Phillipson's "poverty-stricken childhood" extended to her "poowah mam" buying her council house in February 1990 for £9,600 under the Right to Buy scheme and selling it 30 years later at 1,000% profit.

Kemi is an immigrant who came here and is self made, did different things before politics, seems to have an energy and dynamism about her that I guess old school Labour class warriors will find confusing and threatening.
She did not grow up rich, have you been to Nigeria? It was hardly a stable place when she was young.
From her Wiki "Being middle class in Nigeria still meant having no running water or electricity, sometimes taking your own chair to school" and claimed that her family went through "periods of poverty" due to inflation She returned to the UK at the age of 16 to live with a friend of her mother's owing to the deteriorating political and economic situation in Nigeria, which had affected her family.”

She is a black African woman who has made it to the top, deal with it.

When Starmer’s ‘toolmaker’ line goes with him and Reeves and Phillipson are gone more people will see through those ridiculous comms lines that Labour leant on to get in.

She’s very far from self made. Quite apart from her middle class roots she’s bankrolled by her banker husband. Her back story is very similar to Thatcher’s.

Burnham’s eyelash Tshirt video is pretty good, for a politician.
It is a good thing he was removed from the Westminster bubble for a while, they don’t seem to have much perspective on what is actually relevant right now. Hopefully he can inject some 2026 Manchester buzz at least.

I’m pleased it will happen swiftly. I will give Andy Burnham a chance and I had no time for Wes Streeting personally. But I am a left wing swing voter- so not his audience.

Not really, Kemi Badenoch is a black African self made woman. Is she constantly whining about her race and being bottom of the queue? No, she got on with it and is at the top of the party she represents.
So many immigrants just work really hard and get to the top. Meanwhile the sob fest mindset is what holds us back enabled and encouraged by fake politicians like Bridget and Rachel Reeves. None of them had it that hard, none of them are working class, it is all bullshit.

I came back to quote Bridget Philipson on Today, BBC, programme and @Bullandbear 's post had vanished. Here it is anyway:

"If you want robust political debate, I'm here for that every day of the week, but I think reducing this to Nazi analogies, reducing it to that level of highly personalised abuse, I think says more about Kemi Badenoch than anybody else".

You understand that "maintained" means state school don't you?

I have no knowledge of her accommodation. I have worked in a refuge though.

The country has been held back by holding back the best. VAT, hereditaries symbolised the narrowness that epitomises that mindset.

It is the commercialisation of the academic talent we do have as a country that is untapped and needs funding on a micro level so that we end up with our own tech companies etc more and more. So academic heights for the country is relevant in that regard and how funding/business can enter the sector. That is a growth opportunity.

You cared enough to argue the toss a moment ago.

We are so beyond all that @blossomtoes, nobody cares about that anymore.

We are in the AI stage where creativity, entrepreneurship and apprenticeships and people individually making a difference and locally is what matters. We are questioning institutionalisation itself. We are wanting every child and their talent to be valued and we do not want too much focus on “Academic heights” at the cost of all the other stuff young people have to offer.

It is the same with Defence. Of course Trident and submarines matter as well, but the key is in the small stuff like intelligence, cyber security, drones, chips etc.

Same with energy - we need everyone who can to have solar panels and an electric car.
We need every individual to matter and do their bit as much as they can and to be valued for everything they have. And we need the “SYSTEM” to stop underestimating people and writing them off and be dictated from the top via large institutions that are out of touch.
A lot of the Oxford courses are not up to date at all. That is a fact.

Well that doesn’t take much to decipher

A maintained school (often called a state school) is funded by central government and overseen by the local authority (LA) .

Representing state school teachers is one of the primary functions of the National Education Union. It is the largest education union in the UK and represents teachers and education professionals in maintained schools, academies, and free schools across England and Wales.

The polling private school only posts are misinformation.