Burnham has won. More turmoil?

[KatiePricesKnickers]

Now Burnham has won, it will trigger a leadership contest, and if he wins, a new chancellor of the exchequer.

Surely this cannot be good for the country, or its finances?

YABU - Burnham is a true leader who will improve the UK for everyone and be a competent and respected leader.

YANBU - FFS, here we go again.

I think he will have bigger fish to fry and can’t see them wanting to deal with that headache again.

Anyone at the pub who's drunk enough to agree to stand seems to be Reform's selection policy.

To be fair, the press would be bleating on every day that Starmer has no authority if they did this. It would be a massive distraction.

This cost something like 226k, according to GB news.

Not a lot in the scale of things. That's about 7 hours of flight time for a UK F35 jet. The taxpayer just pays for the admin.

It's the parties who spend most on campaigning etc. And that is not taxpayers money.

AB was brought up in a detached house in a nice village, went to a Catholic school (in the days when they were much better than over-crowded bog standard comps) and then went to Cambridge. I don’t think he plays on his background much. He knows he was privileged compared to many of his peers.

I can’t wait to no longer hear KS’s “my dad was a toolmaker”

Interesting that Restore were the only ones, along with the top 2, who didn't lose their deposit. Shocking really.

“I can’t wait to no longer hear KS’s “my dad was a toolmaker””

And “let me be clear” and “I have a mandate”

You may use the name you want, of course. But it makes you appear unintelligent and contributes to a process resulting in populism and exactly the kind of division and low standards we see in politics today.

Language matters, as does reflexivity.

What utter hatred from you? I don't understand your position at all. I see Burnham as the narcissist.

It's the parties who spend most on campaigning etc. And that is not taxpayers money.

Each party can spend up to £180,050.

The cost of the upcoming Manchester mayoral by-election could be up to £5 million.

I hope Burnham settles into government. Anything is better than that Reform prat winning. Amazing to see how blatant he was about calling women slags and sluts until they were attacked by brown men, THEN he finally pretended to care about violence against women and girls. So, so shameless. I’m not surprised so many ordinary people saw through him!

I dislike his policies about giving more powers to local Mayors and local authorities. A recipe for corruption if ever there was one. And it also diverts accountability for policies from Westminster. Makes life easy for them. No. They stood, they can decide things, they can be accountable. And a bit rubbish if you vote one way and have a Mayor and Council not of the colour you voted for in a GE. The whole point of a GE is to get the party in who make policies nationally. Not one that say oh, we are handing all the powers to the locals so red rules apply here, yellow over there, light blue there etc.

Then goes on to call Burnham a Narcissist. At least practice what you preach lol

I think too he will have to soon realise any anti South rhetoric will not wash nationally. He is speaking to the South now. And there are poor regions in the South, the Midlands, the North, the coastal towns.
He will know his audience has changed.

So fairly middle class then

Oh god yes the “let me be clear”. You are PM, it’s a basic expectation that you will be clear. You don’t need to tell us.

and this isn’t aimed at KS but all politicians. - starting sentences with “the reality is”…and then just going on to pontificate about something that is just opinion.

You seem a bit focused on a name over Starmer’s major issues. And again if that’s what you think, who cares? Your opinion written like this means nothing to me.

This comment is delusional an pathological.

Who pays that 5 million ?

Hahaha… 🤣 Labour voters deserve their leader.

Totally agree. It’s happening in my area. And it just creates more bureaucracy and wastes more money. It doesn’t actually make things more democratic at a local level.

No your comment is delusional and pathological.

Also we've seen quite enough Labour politicians with right wing views.

Would that be a clinical assessment?

Obviously Aberdeen South was a special case, since it’s gone from Oil Boom Town to a long way from that. The promised renewables jobs have apparently not materialised, while we still need to import energy. Hardly surprising that Miliband and his Net Zero, and therefore Labour are the enemy.

IMO Miliband has been a disaster for this country anyway, starting way back, from his aligning himself with the Labour Left, against the IMO far more electable David M.

IMO if not for Ed M’s arrogance in imagining that he was PM material, we’d v likely have had David M as PM - we wouldn’t have had Cameron, and we probably wouldn’t have had Brexit.