Burnham unopposed & likely to be PM by mid July

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I don't know what to think recently! I thought we have been told that support has transferred away from the Conservatives. There are now more members of other parties.

The Conservatives, I would imagine.

Who do you think?

Who is best to deliver modern Thatcherism?

Starmer’s assertion “I want Andy Burnham to succeed. Any British person should want that.”

Disagree. Socialism needs to fail again for Britain to realise it needs to embrace modern Thatcherism. We can’t keep muddling through with anaemic growth and a government made impotent by human rights laws, and former mayors.

He treated his brother diabolically. I can't get past that. He's never shone in any department in his political life.

I have no idea why anybody would want Milliband anywhere near the cabinet. He was an awful leader he has nothing to give. Really don't like him and I'm a Labour voter usually.
Possibly a good MP for his constituents cos they keep voting for him.

It’s not just us. Two major unions have asked Burnham to consider other options for Chancellor. Do they also qualify as ‘you people’?

Please expand, thanks.

'You people'? Care to explain further?

Well obviously you people would disagree.

He's the oddest toxic person. Chancellor definitely not the job for him.

Ed Miliband? Competent? Nope, he's definitely not that!

Really hoping he appoints Milliband as chancellor. A competent person, with a straightforward cv.

Agree it’s better that he goes entirely. Mo point in keeping what irritated enough people to see him go.

I rather suspect this is simply more a case of Starmer getting his own back on Mahmood, given that she was relatively early in calling for him to step down. Nor am I convinced that he would make a perfect foreign sec. The man is damaged goods.

Either way, the last crumbs of Starmer’s authority are evidently being swept away.

Starmer would be perfect as foreign secretary but I guess that would be highly unlikely! A shame really that it is not about competence but more about power struggles and party game tussles.

Rayner had previously written about her feelings on care workers. Seems like a fair few of them feel that way. It is also quite close to Windrush Day. However, if you get into the nuances of whose visa is extended and for how long, it quickly becomes quite toxic. What about the Indian data and computer analysts who are paying a lot of tax as well? Should they also get favourable treatment.
I can see the point about care workers invited in deliberately post Covid to help out, but I do not see how this ends well vis a vis other immigrants who have also contributed a lot. So if the electorate are opposed to the big Boris wave then I think they do have to deal with it. We need to remember that the Boris wave was immediately after Brexit and the next election will look at this wave very carefully. So in 2029 the media will be all over it. And I reckon that is where Mahmood is coming from.

Sir Keir Starmer is locked in a stand-off with his home secretary Shabana Mahmood after the prime minister refused to allow her to immediately sack her junior minister.

Mahmood has demanded the dismissal of Mike Tapp, minister for migration and citizenship, after he wrote an unauthorised article calling for overseas care workers to be exempt from tough new UK immigration controls. But Downing Street is still considering whether or not to allow Mahmood to sack Tapp even though his action appeared to fall foul of the ministerial code, according to government insiders.

The row highlights disarray at the top of the government since Starmer announced on Monday that he would step down within weeks as prime minister after losing the backing of Labour MPs.

£10 bn/year universal credit payments to 1.3 million foreign nationals. The real cost is very likely significantly higher but DWP can't even measure it, such is their incompetence. Mahmood is maybe one of the few labour politicians who actually made an attempt to deliver what the wider population demanded.

The fact Starmer is blocking Mahmood is yet another demonstration of why he is fundamentally unfit to govern. He simply lacks personal ethics.

I’m still smiling at the way Kemi skewered Philipson yesterday.

JK doing a fresh number on Labour is merely the cherry on top.

These socialists really don’t do themselves any favours, do they?

Yes- no money for defence? Well it's not poor Andy's fault. He's been henpecked by all those wimmin banging on about maternity leave and childcare. Their poor little brains can't think about bad man stuff like defence. They just sing kumbaya really loudly and put him off!

How utterly ridiculous. Plus what of the defence plan? I thought that mattered. Getting in excuses early with this. Nothing to do with women behind the scenes