To feel utterly miserable about a future with Andy Burnham as PM?

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I feel like I'm being stung in every possible way at the moment- £15 a day on tube to work, high mortgage costs, high energy costs, private schooling for SEN child (I was told state wouldn't be unlikely to assist him as he isn't mute or violent). My parents have had to help fund schooling it felt like my only hope as son has behavioural issues.

I also have an unsold old home that I have to rent out as it wouldn't sell. Buy-to-let mortgage costs, agent fees, maintenance and tax put me in a loss position.

I can't bear what the future holds with Andy Burnham. I have no doubt that he will find new and imaginative ways to keep me in this financial nightmare. I'm literally struggling from food poverty but regarded as rich by policy.

YABU- Andy Burnham is actually going to make things better

YANBU- I'm screwed

You're going to spontaneously human combust when you find out that David Cameron became Foreign Secretary though he wasn't even an MP, under Rishi Sunak who, by your definition, wasn't 'elected' as PM.

Taxes will rise but as usual, it will be the better paid salaried employees who pay them. The rich won't pay and neither will the poor.

I assume you mean to privatise?

I'm not sure I understand this post. If you do manage to sell your second home, it would pay off your family home mortgage? Does that not mean you have quite a lot of equity in one or both of the houses?

Also, if you sell your second home and are living mortgage free (or with extra cash to pay mortgage) on your main home, why would you need to quit your job to live on benefits?

What went wrong at the mainstream state school your son tried, and how old is he?

"No one has even heard of Burnham, "
@SummerPeonies2026 what on earth are you on about. He's been involved in politics for decades!!!

Sure, doll. So you'll be able to provide documented links to genuine sources reporting on genuine cases that show what you claim, as it's "all there" on Google.

For example, there'll have been Select Committees taking evidence on, for example, women left alone to give birth on Maternity wards across the country because - according to you - the Maternity wards were swamped with immigrant women giving birth, because they didn't register with a GP, and they also undercut local wages. Or something. Those SC reports will be online at the Parliamentary site.

I'll wait for the links. In your own time.

No one has heard of Burnham? He was an MP for 16 years, and a minister under both Blair and Brown. He's twice run (and lost) in Labour leadership races.

The only people who haven't heard of him are those who don't pay any attention to British politics.

You may not agree with his politics, but to claim he is a political unknown is ludicrous.

And the idea of Burnham being one of Corbyn's henchmen is laughable. Even McDonnell isn't associated with Corbyn any more.

Corbyn seems to be living rent-free in so many right-wing heads, it's astonishing.

He's really not a significant factor in British politics, if indeed he ever was, and I say that as someone who's met him a few times and found him very likeable on a personal level.

The Mayoralty of Greater Manchester is also an elected political post, one which Burnham was elected for three times.

Bugger, so I did! And it's too late to edit now.

To be fair, Burnham was in Corbyn's shadow cabinet (despite apparently being a complete unknown who has never held an elected post).

What?

To be fair, Burnham was in Corbyn's shadow cabinet (despite apparently being a complete unknown who has never held an elected post).

Starmer was in Corbyn's shadow cabinet too along with other ultra leftists like Heidi Alexander, Charlie Falconer, Lucy Powell, & Emily Thornberry.

Well quite. I seem to remember that my niece did a week in Corbyn's shadow cabinet for her Y10 work experience. It was the political equivalent of the Pussycat Dolls.

Ultra leftists is hilarious 😂

I’m Scottish and have known about Andy since his support for the victims of Hillsborough disaster.

Well he is to reform and restore voters.

This poster is just embarrassing herself more and more with every post.

Wait, what? I didn’t know the mayor of Manchester isn’t an elected post?

The whole paragraph is jumbled garbage.

Takes some self-belief for the PP to imply in it that they possess great political knowledge which the voters of Makerfield don't.

Not to mention being voted in as an MP in the 2001 election 😁

It's actually awful that we still refer to people as "rich" and "poor" but on here the ones demonised are the "poor".

Apparently it isn't. Nor was being MP for Leigh for 16 years. Andy Burnham has never held an elected post: well known fact.

😂

And utterly trashed eduction. Hammered out any shred of creativity or questioning.