AIBU to feel the media is pushing Starmer out?

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To feel the media is forcing Starmer out and to be annoyed by this.

They need constant drama and content and this is done at the expense of the country. Starmer is boring but things are improving despite major problems like Iran in the background.

If this were 20 years ago he’d have been safe. They are treating government like football clubs and want Burnham as they think he’s more showbiz. These foreign owner media outlets don’t care about the stability of this country, they just want headlines and drama on X to drum up more drama for headlines and opinion pieces where the media all interview each other.

The country is becoming ungovernable because them and I’m sick of it.

Starmer himself waa incredibly sanctimonious when he was the leader of the oppostion , telling Boris et al they should resign
You reap what you sow.

I don’t think Starmer is in the same category as Johnson who was only second to Truss in regard to incompetence.

Theresa May, Rishi Sunak and now Starmer were driven out by the media for drama, engagement and clicks for podcasts where media figures interview each other on manufactured drama.

Yep

Its not just the media many of his fellow minsiters and party members appear to have lost their faith in him.

I agree, the media bay for blood and MPs respond and force the leader out.

It has become a complete and utter joke. MPs need to stand firm behind whoever their leader is and let them at least serve out their term. BoJo and Truss were different , their behaviours were so bad / damaging they just had to go but May, Sunak and Starmer did nothing wrong.

The reality is that a post Brexit Britain simply can’t thrive and no leader is going to be able to deliver otherwise in the short to medium term.

I wonder how many Brexit voters actually understand this

What a load of nonsense. The media is simply reporting what is happening.
The Labour Party’s two factions are eating each other alive.

I agree with OP. This country is being led by the media. It is very scary.

Very true

If the mainstream media and X said he was doing a fantastic job, the Ministers would also agree he was fantastic because they are also glued to X etc. Immigration is coming down, NHS waiting lists are shortening, pot holes are being filled. Starmer and Ministers should have faced the media down and been strong.

Whoever is in next will face exactly the same after about 5 minutes, so I hope they have more of a backbone and a strong social media and comms team.

Absolutely. And he needs to stand firm and hold them off. The media in the UK has a strangle hold on British politics and it is absolutely undemocratic.

They CLEARLY favoured Truss over Sunak (I was no Sunak fan, but even a chimp on acid could see he was a better choice than her) and pushed her to the hilt.

And as for their character defamation of Corbyn over Boris the buffoon...

The media has too much power and are almost always wrong to boot.

don’t care. His complicity to rake scandal, two tier society and controls on speech and other means he must go, Burnham will be worse. And Labour are completely hypocritical because they ( and lefties media) forced Boris out for much less - eg saying conservatives lost x councils and no longer trusted do must go yet Labour lost 3 times as many yet stay ….. along with many other reasons,

worst party ever

So, following your logic OP - Burnham is also listening to the media, correct?

I suspect it's a combination of his own MPs and the media stirring things. It must be obvious to him that he lacks support from his MPs or he would be attempting to stick it out.

Immigration may be down - but only because British middle and high income earners are leaving being replaced with low income benefits claimants. It’s not positive to just look at total number!
their economic’policies’ are disastrous for private sector

This.

we seem to be in a cycle where we vote in a party and a leader, then almost immediately decide they’re doing a shit job - only we can’t have a general election so the calls are for the leader to resign.

we elect a leader. Personally I think leader swapping every year is as damaging as it would be to have a GE every year. The leader should stay as our elected prime minister, unless in exceptional circumstances .

we’ve had too many unelected prime ministers recently. Whatever you think of KS he was elected - and he’s not doing such an enormously terrible job he needs to go immediately.

The better question is why can no political party seemingly be in power without constant infighting and power struggles.

I agree with you 100%, OP. We badly need some stability. I didn't vote for Labour in the last GE but he's done well on the international stage (which, as everyone knows, has been incredibly volatile) and domesically he inherited a poisoned chalice. Have there been some mis-steps? Sure. Would absolutely anybody in that role have made some mis-steps during that time? Also yes. I hope the media is wrong and he doesn't resign. Not holding out much hope though.

how are low income benefits claimants immigrating? You can’t get a visa for a low income job- it’s actually bloody hard and very expensive to immigrate here.

There is evidence to suggest that the media affects society. However, in Starmer’s case it seems pretty clear that his own party wants him to resign.

I’m inclined to say the media are just following public opinion, and public opinion is led by ill-informed morons with no critical thinking skills and the attention span of a two year old.

What has he done though? I am not being goady i genuinely don't understand all the hoha, Andy Burham just seems to be glory hunting, i would just like a Prime minister to last their term and run the country without ego getting in the way.

You lose all credibility defending Boris, who was only in it for personal gain.

What’s new? They did it to Corbyn, as did Starmer the backstabber. He’s merely getting his comeuppance.

Agree and it'll be so much worse because the new leader will 'have no mandate' from the electorate (not my phrase, we elected the Labour Party not starmer, but it's what they'll say).

It's just step 1 of a farage and chums plan to get everyone rioting for an early election.

Yes it’s his own party that wants him out.