Thread 47 Starmer: Vai ficar tudo bem esta noite. Rock and roll.

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I suspect there is no alternative, just sniping, or it's someone hilarious like Badenoch or Farage.

Sorry to hear you have had bad news @countrygirl99

Sorry to hear that @countrygirl99

It’s obvious to the whole country that Starmer isn’t up to the job. I

See also:

Rishi Sunak
Liz Truss
Boris Johnson.

or is your assertion that Keir Stamer was some sort of 3x concentrated incompetence ? 1 Labour PM is as useless as three Tory ones ?

You will of course have nothing to say about the fact that 2 of those 3 Tory PMs were not selected by the country either.

Careful - there will be accusations of bullying.

So sorry to hear this. 💐

This is blatantly and obviously untrue. From the first sentence (unless of course you aren't in the same country as me and others on this thread).Your opinion isn't evidenced by the facts and announcing it as fact just makes you look uninformed to me.

Having had a similar conversation today with someone who thinks Farage or Rupert Lowe would do a good job, ffs, Farage thinks a PM has time to micromanaging and is happy to keep tax dodgers in his party. I think they would be laughable.

Rayner, perhaps.

Discuss.

Ah. I thought so.

Andy Burnham is not interested in running again, he is concentrating on his job. He had a go and did not succeed.
Says who?
Says Andy Burnham himself, according to the Manchester newspaper.

You agree, Rayner would make a good Starmer replacement?

I think what they meant was the last plopper followed an identical script.
I imagine they will change name and do the same again soon enough.
Amazing why so many posters need a whole new name before they plop. 🚽

In a way it's hugely flattering that people are worried enough about these threads to come and visit them.

It's interesting, because I think that Rayner with a good support team around her would be amazing, particularly for the traditional base.

The right wing supporters would be demented and incandescent. If you think the campaign against Starmer is bad.

Her time will come and being part of a campaign against Starmer, particularly on such a poorly judged matter would make her look daft. I think she would hate people to think she is behind this pathetic attack.

Agree 💯

It's so obvious, but they think they hide beneath their name change. One could almost have sympathy.

Country before self, hey Kier?

It would be amusing if it wasn’t so hugely damaging to many of us here on MN. What an abomination of a government.

How many of the politicians you admire, think would do better, are right now putting the country before themselves?

Anyway, this thread is all about cats before politicians - and cat tax before posting regularly- have you got some?

Well, this is the alternative to Labour. Reform, perhaps even with a sprinkling of Restore. Panetta would be very much at home on some MN threads, raging about immigrants. Routledge is an out and out Nazi.

(Funny how the anti-Starmer posters so often can't spell his name. Same with Rayner).

www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/18/two-more-reform-local-election-candidates-accused-offensive-posts

Keir

Bloody tax dodgers. 😂 Especially when unlike HMRC we are completely flexible about what constitutes cat tax, the category (sorry) having widened out to include flowers, dogs, holiday snaps, trees etc. It's really not hard to do one's civic duty.

Lenny brought in a guest as a disruption tactic a few days ago. I doubt it could spell 'Keir' either.

It’s ‘staggering’ that many Labour supporters believe Burnham is the Messiah. The only thing he has going for him is he's not the property tax fiddler, the eco zealot or any other member of the Adams family who are in the running.

Same old Labour regardless of the fact he's not an instant switch off like the lying nasal knight.

What an appalling rabble of talentless, third rate, economically illiterate halfwits we are being governed by.

Don't forget squirrels - very handy.

Meanwhile, can we stop talking about Mandelson as a procedural story of failed vetting? Mandelson's failings were as vivid and obvious as a Chinese firework show. It's like saying that the bull you hired to mind the china and crystal boutique was unexpectedly clumsy, that you are now positively outraged to hear that he failed his decanter-polishing training, and that we now need to do a root and branch review of decanter maintenance.

No. The mistake was hiring a man of recurring, cinematically bad judgement, with two high profile resignations for fibbing to his name, and a Filofax that would comfortably double as a Who's Who of the louchest business people and financiers on the planet.

That mistake is on the toolmaker's son, fair and square.

Squirrels do tend to have nothing useful to say - it's all sneers squeaks and obsessing about their particular nut.