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.

I expect fair coverage.

Don’t worry, that’ll soon be sorted. Your Government intends making social media companies prioritise BBC output over other news. Which of course is famously unbiased and never manipulates anything via editing. But only after it’s restricted your access to the rest of the world by banning VPNs 😂

I don't think they've lost their faith in him. I think they realise that the media are determined to oust him and that his position is untenable.

Quite frankly it's disgusting behaviour on the part of the media. The BBC, which is supposed to be impartial, has been as bad as the right wing press.

Yes, a carousel of unelected leaders is the sign of the kind of state that gets invaded 'for its own good' by global powers while others refuse to condemn the invasion because 'it's complex'.

We are only spared because of geography and historical (white) supremacy.

We are just like 'them'.

Great, so we can expect fair coverage to be given to all parties.

No but calling him a lame duck before he’s even become PM is setting out their stall for how they are planning to destroy him.

I’m not particularly an Andy Burnham fan but I fail to see how they can be so sure he will fail.

Of course they could just be sure because no one can effectively govern back to growth a post Brexit Britain.

He's gone 😔

Is this backed up by any stats? If like to see them if so.

Most parties lose seats within their first couple of years as they can't do everything they promised.

Can you point me to where the government is planning this as of be interested to read it.

I’m hating this media glee. It makes me want to puke!🤮

What could Starmer have done that he didn't do? Like he's a smart man, labour have smart people why didn't they just do what was needed.

I'm surprised he's lasted this long to be honest. I said to DH before the last GE that Starmer would get them into Government and there would be a leadership contest 6-12 months in. I thought it would be Rayner who took over.

So here we are, yet another PM to come and who knows what the new person will bring to the table. Hopefully it will mean Lammy, Reeves and Milliband as far away from the Cabinet as they could be which will be a start.

Because of the media.

Tax. Tax and more tax…

Why can't we just have a PM stick through a term despite how good or bad it seems.

Labour blaming the media or the last gov at every turn are part of why he’s gone.

That is ridiculously naive. I'm sure there's going to be plenty more delusional posts before the day is out.

Labour have smart people? You must be looking at a different front bench to the one I've seen.

Glad he’s gone, worries about being replaced by someone worse though

I am not a huge Starmer fan but it has really felt like this is 100% the media stirring everyone up into a frenzy just to create some news. There’s something far wrong when the last British prime minister to serve a whole term was David Cameron.
I was a fan of Andy Burnham before but this whole debacle has felt incredibly manipulative and I was hoping we could just have some stability for once.

We need more tax, or benefits, public services and pensions need to be cut. We can’t have it both ways. We either want a low tax economy where the government does far less for us, or we need to tax more and provide world class public services.

Of course, the main issue is that we’re currently taxed a fair bit and still don’t have world class public services.

I think to myself he's a smart man, labour have smart people why didn't they just do what was needed

It’s a media/politicians/tribal electorate triple sided issue

Or at least that is how I’ve perceived it since Covid came to Italy.

Media goes for what will generate them more clicks (amplifying the fear we were feeling in that particular context). Policians (of all stripes because we have many layers of national, regional, provincial and local government over here) often came across as more concerned with pacifying the media than making strategic, informed decisions. The electorate picked a side along tribal lines (initially in region I live in, that meant lefties being anti-mask because the regional leader was a rightie and wearing one of the few masks we had, and righties were all gung ho pro mask). Then the leftie national leader started the colour coded zoning of degrees of lock down. So the very same tribal righties went anti lock down and the very same lefties went pro.

I know these people. We’ve been friends & aquentences for more than two decades. Watching them ricochet from one position to the opposite as the media led the dance, the politicians tried to dance to their tune to avoid being the latest “blood on your hand murderer ! anti freedom authoritarian dictator !” and the now very frightened so all the more tribal electorate bounced around the opinion stadium to boo from the appropriate position …. was horrifying and fascinating.

I don’t know what the solution is. I reduced my consumption of news and media considerably. To the point of often being uninformed as the price to pay for not attending the latest opinions match. And I can’t vote here or back home, so I have an advantage in not having to pick a tribe to vote for. So I can afford to work out my position on an issue by issue basis. Or just ignore an issue cos it’s not like I can vote anyway.

From a politican’s perspective, perhaps they should be less keen to dance their little hearts out when the media is going their way, lest them be reguired to jig to a tune they really don’t like when it’s their turn to be “who we despise this news cycle”.

A mass movement of the electorate turning off any news beyond “just the bare facts, no opinion” would nudge the media in the right direction. Returning The News to a loss leader rather than a cash cow would help. But the dopamine hit of being emotionally whipped around is hard to resist, even if like me you are actively trying to keep yourself away from it for very good reasons.

Any change of leader should trigger a general election. It's incomprehensible to have a PM that the electorate haven't voted in.

Take a look here:

https://inews.co.uk/news/social-media-giants-boost-bbc-content-4492384?srsltid=AfmBOops5CZn7DcDlj3jUB7CS_dg69hD2SbpFYjAORfgz_AAHodL6Thy

and here:

https://metro.co.uk/2026/06/18/government-will-come-back-vpns-next-step-social-media-ban-28825858/