I think Wes Streeting is the fresh direction Labour needs now

[WesStreetingForPM]

Name changed because we are at a pivotal point in our lifetimes, and my focus now needs to be on this.

I do think Starmer is a decent man, but Labour risks being wiped out entirely if he stays in charge. I see this in my own family and community.

We need a change of direction and a fresh face who can actually connect and get things done. For me, and I feel for those around me, that person is Wes Streeting.

He’s done a solid job as Health Secretary in tough circumstances. He’s pragmatic, articulate and not afraid of reform where it’s needed (which is exactly what the NHS requires). He comes from a genuine working-class background - council estate and free school meals - so he understands real life in a way some career politicians don’t. He can talk about aspiration, responsibility and actually winning elections in a way most career politicians simply cannot.

And yes, I’ll say it - the fact that he’s an openly gay man is a massive positive. It shows progress and that someone can reach the top on merit while being open about who they are. Representation matters!

Wes feels like the candidate who could actually win the next election and deliver.

I would love to see Mumsnet unite behind Wes - who I think would make a fantastic Prime Minister.

Wes Streeting is a political animal as a first issue. He knows little and cares less about the NHS. It's just the brief he's been given.
These days he doesn't have to rely on it as most of us do. If he can't personally afford private health care, one of his wealthier supporters will pay the bill.
In any case if he turns up at A & E do you think he'll be just another sick person and treated as such?
What Streeting knows is that in the UK we spend less per capita on health care than most of our competitors but has he said that publicly and demanded more from the Treasury?
Not as far as we know.
How seriously can you take the man?
In my case, not at all.

TM

Would he change his spots as a PM? He'd be just as insincere and self seeking.

Does he think being gay will earn him Brownie House Points? Not in my world and I've lived with my husband (we both have cocks) for 30 years.

Our local hospital roof is being held up with sellotape and super glue... The hospital car park is a fortune. The road to it is potholed more than the Western Front.

As minister for health, he's really not bothered with the blatantly obvious. Streeting is a man who believes he has far more ability than he really does possess... Sure he's a nice chap, but he's a long way from a messiah... More like a second rate country solicitor in a nice tweed jacket and faded old school tie, married to tabitha aka 'tabby'...

If he's the solution for a better future, I'd rather stick with the security of what we have now. It's flatlined, yes, but it could be a whole lot worse... I remember the end of the last labour reign under Gordon Brown. Desperate. Pitiful.

@Diamond7272 is he a nice chap he's posted some questionable stuff before. You could say he was younger and stupid but it's stuff neither myself nor people I know would ever post

Oh dear.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/12/starmer-given-a-lifeline-after-streeting-challenge-fails-to-materialise

They are having a meeting this morning. I'd love to be on a fly on the wall for that.

I imagine it would be like going to the headmasters study and getting the "you've let me down, you've let the school down but most of all, you've let yourself down" speech. The only thing is I'm not entirely sure is who will be giving the speech out of the two of them 😀

Name changed because we are at a pivotal point in our lifetimes, and my focus now needs to be on this

this made me really chuckle op. Love you’re mounting a one person social media campaign to save Labour. In the form of Wes Streeting. 😂

anyway, it’s not the policies not the figure head. Labour ripping itself apart and blaming kier isn’t going to change the fact the public hate their policies. And will continue to hate their policies. It will not give forgiveness for taxing the working person up to the hilt. It will not grant forgiveness for effectively closing the North Sea and forcing us to buy our gas abroad. Losing thousands of jobs and billions of tax dollars from the oil companies. It won’t grant forgiveness for the lies, the freebies. It won’t grant forgiveness for trying to take the winter fuel payment off of pensioners, or removing the two child benefit cap giving us what will be one of the biggest tax burdens in the world.

wes streeting, is also not relying on you, although I’m sure he’d be touched by your self grandioising.

So, it wasn’t Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday or Tuesday. Will it be today OP?

Perhaps Starmer and Streeting are consulting Craig David.

Interesting to see this. DSiL works for NHSE in a managerial role and after two years the department still doesn't know whether they will keep their jobs. What an absolute fuck up.

The meeting lasted a few moments!

I have been sent the minutes from the meeting from my source

Apologies have been received from Larry who is grooming his nether regions this morning.

In attendance:
PM
Wes
Note taker

PM:
'Fuck off Wes'

Wes: Cool, sorry to bother you sir.

Meeting closes. Wes spends 15 minutes crying in the No 10 Hall Gender Neutral toilets.

Changing the leader won't make any difference to the way I vote. We need massive welfare reform and immigration sorted. Doesn't matter who is PM of Labour, the backbenchers seem to be the ones running the show.

Oh another Wes thread. Hello Wes 👋

We have got to get this to number one!

Honestly, I see Streeting as the answer.

The question being "How can things possibly get worse for Labour?"

I think just handing in his resignation.

As an alternative on this ridiculous thread 😂

"Andy Andy Andy, you're so cool

Anyone who doesn't vote for you is just a fool!"

AB or not, Wes Streeting is not the answer.

im amazed Ed Milliband is being mentioned for a potential PM. Does anyone remember when he was leader of the Labour Party and there was a spoof Christmas video of various politicians singing a Christmas song like a boy band in Christmas jumpers? I can’t find it anywhere now.

i suspect it’s tactical to split the vote. They don’t want streeting in, and they don’t want to give their vote to Starmer, I doubt millibamd wants to be pm or thinks he’s got a shot. His standing is to give the hard left another option,

The vast majority of people in the NHS will tell you that Wes Streeting has not achieved anything to benefit people long-term. He is divisive. He pits one organisation against another. He has talked much about reducing bureaucracy by dismantling NHSE causing no end of chaos but has achieved nothing yet. People are now on tenterhooks with no direction thanks to him. He is full of buzz words which ignorant people believe but there is no integrity behind them. A divisive man with divisive values.

The hard and soft Left probably do not want Streeting in. However, the Soft and Hard Left cannot actually get in, because the bond markets will punish them and it will be instantaneous Liz Truss and the country will lose billions.
And this is exactly why Starmer needs to stay PM.
The Hard and Soft Left will keep whining about the right wing media and the bond vigilantes (which is mainly the City of London and insurance and pension companies and banks which everyone actually relies on), but the Left cannot actually get into power without destroying the country at the same time.
So frankly, Starmer was and is the best bet as he is not particularly aggressive either way and he has no choice but to flip flop given the dynamics in his own party.
The Left will keep whinging about capitalism, but there is nothing that can actually be done overnight given the terrorism threat, huge national debt, public spending at a high (almost war time), inflation looming, lack of productivity.
So Starmer it is.
Good old boring Starmer will hopefully keep plodding along.

I work for the NHS. His decision to abolish NHS England has so far been nothing more than an extremely expensive passion project. One he hasn’t actually bothered to see through.

Or the Edstone!

Also the BBC have just published a photo of Burnham and Starmer next to each other, wearing almost identikit glasses. if Starmer dyed his hair dark brown they would actually look virtually identical.
What exactly are Labour playing at?
Repackaging humans?

There is underestimating the electorate and there is downright disdain for the electorate.

Is he hard or soft?