AIBU to think the Prime Minister cannot stay in post?

[Bertiebiscuit]

So our Prime Minister is doing what he does best - blaming someone else for his own mistakes. But i really think he's done for this time - if he didn't know he's incompetent, if he did know he's lying to Parliament and the whole country. Either way i don't see how he can expect to keep his job. It's frightening how little he cared for Mandelson 's cosying up to a sex abuser, paedophile and human trafficker.

Why should the right-wing press be nice to Starmer? They're the right-wing press, they're supposed to be on his back. Just like the left-wing press will always be on the back of of any Tory PM.

What left wing press?

The Guardian, the Daily Mirror, the Morning Star. Etc.

The Guardian hasn’t been left wing for some time and I think the Mirror’s borderline. The Morning Star is hardly mainstream.

If there is a demand for a left-wing press, why isn't the Morning Star mainstream?

It’s only a big issue because the right wing media are out to get him. Boris lied all the time and managed to brush it off.

That famously right wing Guardian as well?

Tbf, the Guardian has now adopted PoMo gender ideology wholesale which leans very heavily into 1950s conservative right-wing sex stereotypes, with even a bit of 1930s German anti-gay sex stereotyping thrown in.

Even its main sports writer has been at it.

It’s why Hadley Freeman et al left.

TL;DR The Guardian is nuts.

Tbf, the Guardian has now adopted PoMo gender ideology wholesale which leans very heavily into 1950s conservative right-wing sex stereotypes, with even a bit of 1930s German anti-gay sex stereotyping thrown in.
Remind me again, which political party introduced the Gender Recognition Act?

TL;DR The Guardian is nuts.
One could say the Labour Party is nuts, too. They have trouble differentiating between nuts and other bits of human reproductive anatomy, and which biological sex has which.

pfft Lotus, I was serious and on point. Starmer had no qualms throwing Sir Olly Robinson under the bus - human shields & blame games are rife in this govt.

It’s not good but I can’t get too het up about who was appointed to go to some dinner parties in Washington.

Agreed. I think the following which didn’t get much attention, was much worse ethically -

The Owen Paterson scandal (UK, 2021):

MP Owen Paterson was found to have repeatedly lobbied ministers and officials on behalf of two companies that were paying him—breaking parliamentary rules on paid advocacy.

An independent watchdog recommended a 30-day suspension. The government (led by Boris Johnson) initially tried to block the punishment by changing the rules, sparking backlash over standards in public life.

After public and political pressure, the plan was dropped, and Paterson resigned as an MP soon after.

The case raised major concerns about lobbying, ethics, and accountability in UK politics.

Well better the devil you know than the devil you do not is the case here. Do we really want one of the other one’s on offer?