To think we don’t know how lucky we are under Starmer.

[SevenYellowHammers]

Russia have a mad despot who is responsible for the deaths of Russians and Ukrainians and has caused untold damage on the world’s environment and economy. But he’s still in power.

The USA have a mad despot who’s causing deaths worldwide and has started a war he can’t win causing untold damage to the world’s economy and environment. But he’s still in power.

Israel have a mad despot who is committing genocide and putting Jewish people at risk across the world. But he’s still in power.

In the UK, we have a dull bloke who’s doing his best to stand up to the mad despots while not leading us into war. And we’re all trying to get rid of him.

God forbid a PM actually thinks about the country and not only self-gain and lining the pockets of their millionaire mates. Im sure Starmer will be outed to pave the way for someone who will look after the top 1%. Its very depressing.

I agree with the OP.

Whoever took charge after the Liz Truss / Sunak shitshow was going to inherit a poisoned chalice of a role.

everyone except you?

Sorry didnt mean that to sound snippy but I always wonder when people say things like this why they think they are different

Yes, the results were mainly reported by how many they'd lost as this is seen to be the barometer of how voters feel. I'm not sure on how many seats they still hold and whether this is the majority among all parties.

I didn’t vote for him and it’s not the government I wanted, however Kier Starmer is the elected prime minister. There is literally no point in voting for a prime minister anymore, they don’t complete a single term. Anything goes wrong and the party just replace them and have another go, I don’t think it should be allowed unless there is a reason they literally can’t continue to work.

It's not the media, which is almost entirely as pro establishment and privileged as the Labour Party.

It's the people - they just voted.

They're tired of the chaos and the incompetence.

They want change.

It's called democracy.

But a PM will always attract more scrutiny and criticism than anyone else. Sometimes it will be hydrated, sometimes not. Thems the breaks.

No, Labour came a very distant third and suffered the worst election results in their history

Labour got 15% of the vote.

(Reform got 27% and the Tories 20%).

If replicated across the country at a general election that could be as few as five seats.

Hydrated?! I meant justified!

Are you talking about the local elections? Democracy happened in the local elections. It’s certainly a message to Labour, but it’s not democracy to remove a democratically elected PM two years into a five year term because of local election losses. You didn’t take Reform’s ‘Get Starmer Out!’ slogan literally, did you?

Are you suggesting that Labour are privileged and the establishment, but the Tories and Reform are not? Because that would be ludicrous. And who is offering change on the right, exactly? Is it the Tories who were in power 2010-2024, or Reform who are a mix UKIP/The Brexit Party with Tories from the previous government? None of this is making any sense.

Any reason you’re not including Mojtaba Khamenei in your “nutters”? Do you think death penalty for political dissidents is ok then?

Well it's a shame in only two years it's been sandal after scandal ? Mandelson ?? lord Ali...Rotherham ...and so on ?
Meanwhile he's taken us all to the brink with taxes by stealth we have less money in our pocket and they are draining us by stealth means. And a rise in viscous anti Semitism that also flourished under corbyn.

You're right. Labour also still have the most councils in England. This map puts it all into good perspective.

I agree. We'd be in a much worse situation under Reform. Of course Farage will 'stop the boats' and 'make Britain great again'. Just like we got billions for the NHS after Brexit.

Viscous? There’s a thread for that!😄

This

Agreed. From the day after the general election the Telegraph and Mail lost their minds. After years of them calling people snowflakes and remoaners it turned out they were the real snowflakes and moaners.

He’s out in the morning. They will only get someone more far left as PM. This is a disaster.

The media have been after him since day 1, it's ridiculous considering how much they let his predecessor off with. He's a decent person who inherited a nightmare and is doing his best in horrendous circumstances.

The narrative on sky news within an hour and half changed from ‘ the PM may stay on ‘ to talking about him in the past tense. Whatever inside information they had on their lap tops indicated to me that it’s now only a matter of time before he resigns. May be wrong , but definitely the mood and the discussions seemed to alter. I may be completely wrong , but it wasn’t subtle at all.

Absolutely agree. We’re a Lib Dem family, but we appreciate the effort KS has gone to to protect us from a war that the stories would have dived head first into. Kemi Badenoch and monstrous dickhead Farage have both retracted their strong statements that would should have been supporting Trump and going to war, which makes me very grateful that KS is much more measured. People CANNOT expect him to undo what he had to sort out overnight. He has been measured and steadying of the ship during his time, and I wish him very well. Very grateful not be living in the US under that tyrannical orange!

Please don’t let it be Silliband!

80 MPs have called for him to go he is sunk

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5528643-almost-80-mps-have-called-for-starmer-to-resign-streeting-making-his-move-before-burnham-has-a-chance-to-get-in-leadership-election-between-starmer-streeting-rayner-a-few-mps-looking-to-make-a-name-official-tue-12th

Have you not seen the news today? It's pure chaos among Labour MPs.

Lost in it all today was Harriet Harman offering some random bloke a peerage on X, before she realised she'd done it publicly.

Then we had Catherine West saying she meant by September when she wrote in September.

And that was before Angela Eagle retweeted a call for Starmer's resignation, because she hasn't read it and thought it was supporting him.

76 MPs so far calling for their leader to resign. While he calls everyone the far right in front of a bunch of clapping seals.

These people are moronic.

Let's kick them ALL out, end the chaos and get someone just slightly competent in.

We don't deserve these clowns.