To think Andy Burnham’s hairstyle is too middle of the road, he’s slightly too short, and should resign immediately after being appointed

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His hairstyle is neither classic or on trend. It’s just very ordinary.

I don’t know how tall he is but I sense he’s a few inches shorter than I’d want for a prime minister.

Given the above, I think it’s everyone’s interests that immediately after being asked to form a government by the King, he gets back in his car, does a three point turn on the Mall, goes back and resigns immediately.

Understandable. That kind of thing could get you arrested.

Absolutely have to be thankful for small mercies. Brings me back to the glory days of Cameron an Osborne (he had addiction issues poor dear) and their austerity measures. Oh how I miss it.

Is he the third Gallagher brother ? The modest one ?

Oh goodness, I’d not even thought of that. They could be multiplying in full view and using semantics to disguise it so that he can declare to the House “honestly” at PMQs that there will be no more alien eyebrows/ eyelashes, it categorically isn’t an invasion, he was genuine in his brand new anti-immigration stance which he declared to the people of Make-a-field and under no circumstances will he be granting visas permitting any more aliens to join the ones already living on his face.

Sinister.

Has anybody mentioned his name is "Andy"?
Surely we need andrewthomulow or something etonesque?
I'm not sure our Andy (in the voice of our cilla) is PM enough.

We've already had a Jim and a Tony and a Liz!

Perhaps the eyebrow slugs will file a deed poll to give him a more “out there in space” name.

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz? Or he could be renamed after Prostetnic’s son, Constant Mown?

If he’s feeling very adventurous he could go for Zarniwoop, but I’m not sure he could carry it off.

Dave, Maggie, John as well. Crikey

The man is an Everton supporter, has a weird bus fetish, has sandals, alien eyebrows, ears that stretch to the moon and little in between them however, now he has our new alien overlords — whom I solemnly salute — controlling his body so I will fight to the death in these riots for the right of these eyebrow aliens to stop any aliens “invading” our country, and the right of the eyebrow aliens to crash our economy to dust. All I need is the slightest twitch from the alien hairs instructing me to do so and I’ll be out on the street with my cricket bat. Just realised I don’t own one, but I’m sure Bezos will help.

I will be even more inclined to riot for our alien overlords if it’s hot outside because these aliens come from a much cooler planet so are understandably furious about our lack of hospitality. I can’t believe we could have allowed this to happen in our society. It’s an outrage and riots are the only appropriate response if the temperature isn’t instantly dropped to 20 degrees tomorrow.

Fun fact. (Also a slightly serious point)

The last PM to be born in the NW of England was David Lloyd George.

He was born in 1863. And was PM between 1916 to 1922.

Burnham was born in 1970. That's over a hundred years between the two. When you consider that 10% of the country lives in the northwest and we've had 22 PMs since Lloyd George, that's quite the underrepresentation.

Meanwhile:

7 South East (2 Kent, 1 East Sussex, 2 Surrey and 2 Hampshire)
4 London
4 Midlands (1 Worcestershire, 1 Birmingham, 2 Oxfordshire, 1 Lincolnshire)
3 Scotland (1 Morayshire, 1 Midlothian, 1 Renfrewshire)
2 North East (1 West Yorks, 1 County Durham)
1 Overseas (New York City)

So only the SW, Wales and NI are arguably more underrepresented.

And the over representation of the affluent SE is very very obvious.

So when we cheer for the 'King of The North', joking aside it really has a serious point...

It's not about Burnham being saintly. It's about a massive sense of political underrepresentation that has run through British politics and had a massive significance over the last ten years in particular.

And being born in the NW does indeed mean he may as well be an alien in Westminster.

Fourth. The third one is known for being a bellend too.

And still one hasn’t been elected.

Perhaps the people of the NW should ask themselves why that’s the case…

The last PM to be born in the NW of England was David Lloyd George.

Another bloody beardless wonder. Bastard.

(Nice moustache though)

We have. It's because we are economically disadvantaged in comparison to other potential MPs and are much more unlikely to have mummy and Daddy pulling in favours and sending us to posh private schools like Eton...

What will he do if the good people of Westminster feel similarly about people “not from round ‘ere” invading their space, as view he endorses from the good people of Make-a-field? Or are people who live in London now allowed such prejudices but if you’re “northern”, it’s fine?

Utter rubbish. I credited you, having seen you on here for many, many years, with more sensible views than this one. This is not the basis upon which elections/ party leadership is decided in any of our dysfunctional political parties. But let’s not ruin a fun thread discussing this now.

The last PM to be born in the NW of England was David Lloyd George.

Who enjoyed speaking Welsh, if TRIH lads are correct Used it as a superpower.

(Waves at RTB from Brexit days).

Taking a long hard look at myself in the mirror now
Tssskkk

I think Larry should be prime minister and Burnham should be his deputy

Everyone should have an hour in the job until it's the turn of the love God Nigel Farage. The patent leather Lucifer. Swoon 🥵. Then wine will flow like water in the sunlit uplands of ( continue for 94 pages of emetic drivel)

You were considering running for PM?

I think other factors matter too and the conservatives at least have put up women and non white leaders.

However it may work in AB’s favour as KS was picking up his casual look in his dying days, politically that is. North Islington Labour may finally be out.

I thought he was in a coma. There was a photo of it on a packet of cigarettes I spotted yesterday. I posted it on the thread. Apparently we have a good constitution so it should preclude a zombie from leading the country?