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.

https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-crisis-kebab-shops-home-office-hire-workers-overseas

Do you have a credible.news article?

Are the things that are improving in the room with us?

I think this current trend (from past few years) of PMs having short tenures and being replaced isn’t a good thing for the country, whether it’s Labour or the Tories. It’s destabilising and takes time and attention away from issues affecting the country which need addressing. Both main parties do it sadly.

Immigration is coming down, NHS waiting lists are shortening, pot holes are being filled.
LOL. How sad to think his epitaph will be "but ... he filled potholes!"

In politics, it's always about the economy. He and RR have no idea about economics; they promised growth but in reality pulled every lever to kill it off.

I agree OP. It's getting tedious and I feel sorry for Starmer really, he is being hounded out for no real reason. Let's see how long before the electorate turns on AB. Grass is always greener, isn't it?

We’ve basically become how Italy used to be. In fact, we used to take the piss out of how unstable Italy was.

From what I have seen generally, the Labour Party as a whole doesn't want Starmer to go. I think they could lose a lot of members if they push him out.

When you go into the ballot box at a GE you vote for an MP but you also have a PM in mind.
And now and again in the past leaders got replaced but usually after several years and they usually had to make a real mess eg Thatcher and the poll tax, Blair and the war on terror etc
I voted Labour because I voted for Starmer and the majority of his policies and let’s not forget they won by a landslide.
Now other forces have become so powerful it’s hard to fight against them and I’m not doubting Starmer has made some errors as do all PMs.
What happened to Theresa May was an absolute disgrace. After years and years of service, a lot of it really competent, we ended up with Johnson because of his image, media support and that false appearance that he cared about the common man. Like the £350 million Brexit bus sticker - a figure made up and it worked.
Now the waters are so muddied with Reform and Restore it’s like Badenoch is invisible and yet she certainly speaks with sense at times.
Anyone who speaks with middle ground sense is not of any interest to the baying crowds.
I know there are real issues of concern which were here when Labour got in and they’ve had only a short time to deal with. And yes. I get the disquiet over the ‘what is a woman?’ question. I understand the ongoing fury about the boats crossing the Channel.
But instability creates weakness. Love or loathe the Americans, it’s very rare for them to unseat a President.
Would I have voted Labour if Burnham were the leader? I’m not sure. I live up North and I know he has a positive reputation locally, he has Cabinet experience, but he’s literally been fired in like a cannon ball.

Burnham is an opportunist who sees a chance to further his ambitions. I have written to my Labour MP to say that the country needs stability and competence and any MP who backs a leadership contest will not have my vote.

I would normally agree, but he has to go, he's a loon.

Not surprising really, considering how many of them Starmer has sacked in his short tenure.

How so ?

Absolutely. Any prime minister will have the same problems. We have no money (thank you Brexit). I hope the penny drops soon.

True what goes around

This mess is entirely of Starmer's making, because while he had a plan for winning the election he didn’t have a plan to actually govern. He has admitted it took too long to develop one once in power, and of course the consequence of that was that it was rushed, poorly thought out through, difficult to articulate and incoherent. That’s before you layer on his lack of charisma and grating voice.

All he needed to do was articulate a vision that resonated with the public, build polices to support that and use his 400odd seat majority to do the difficult stuff early. Instead, because he was on the back foot he got mired in the sleaze and cronyism of accepting more freebies than Johnson, Truss, May, Sunak and Cameron combined before he could communicate his vision, and was then rightly slaughtered by the public and press for his hypocrisy.

Just as a side note, there is no such thing as an ‘elected prime minister’. We don’t elect a prime minister, we elect an MP, and the leader of the party with the most seats asks permission from the monarch to form a government.

Starmer is a loon? He may be many things, but he is not that.

he’s a decorated human rights barrister to start. You may not think his politics are great, but he is not silly or foolish.

He’s likely to resign this morning

He thinks women have penises.

May, Sunak, Starmer, even Johnson, were driven out by their own backbenchers turning on them and forcing a change,not journalists. The instability in politics is one of the reasons the general public are, by and large, sick of politicians. Do the job they were elected to do, with the people elected to do it and stop behaving like petulant children who have little interest in the public

but he is not silly or foolish.
He also thought it was a good idea to appoint Mandelson as an Ambassador.

I for one, am getting really fed up with this constant revolving door of prime ministers. You've been voted in so stay the term unless you are clearly incompetent, which clearly starmer isnt. I think America has too much influence over our politics and after its become apparent that Theresa may was forced out due to anerican influence, I feel that this is the same. Starmer stood up for us not making the same mistake in the middle east and now he's being forced out because the americans dont like it and others are putting their own careers before the good of the country. I hope he does a Hugh grant and stays put. I didnt vote for him but I sure as hell didnt vote for the guy who lost the previous two times in the labour leadership contest. If our democratic vote isnt worth a couple of years then why are we still lumbered with brexit?

Oh come on! Boris was blatantly taking the piss, getting caught and not giving a shiny shit about it. He damaged this country with his stupidity.

We need a general election. Putting Burnham in after Starmer is literally like shitting your pants and changing your shirt.

I’ve never been a fan of Starmer, but he was elected. Burnham hasn’t. But even despite this, Kier has never known how to do the job.

I think on the basis that the leader of the party is stepping down that this should mean a general election. What’s to stop Burnham stepping down in a few weeks much like Teresa May and we’ve got another person in charge