AIBU to think Burnham’s words may haunt his premiership?

[Greyrock79]

To think that Burnham’s words are going to haunt his premiership?

‘…national security can’t come at the expense of social security…’

If they didn’t prep him for what you say is a recycled line, then that is a competency issue.

"Always comes at the expense of cheap point scoring".

Level pegging here -

https://yougov.com/en-gb/trackers/voting-intention

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election

Who said that? 😂

Any socialist - pick one.

https://aboutmanchester.co.uk/who-can-we-tax-in-order-to-pay-benefits-to-others/

I’d forgotten.

People will forget most things in time. The only exception to this is Thatcher.

What's supposed to be wrong with what he said, now? If you take the personalities and the tribal politics out of it the vast majority of ordinary people would agree that BOTH security and welfare are critical.

I genuinely think that's the sort of thing people base their vote on

Why can’t we have both? National security and social security, why does national security have to be at the expense of social security?

Why can’t we have both? National security and social security, why does national security have to be at the expense of social security?

But we can’t afford it all including social care and the cost of housing people
something has to give
we don’t seem to generate money at all. I’d rather we spent more on development and building things again even if it is for défense purposes than just continually paying out for welfare

The way the argument is presented ..thats the problem. Thread after thread of 'we hate the government' dressed up as discussing different issues.

Why is it that so many people sign up to Mumsnet just to start a generic whinging thread about Labour?

Multiple every day.

And in the meantime another leaves the sinking ship https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/billionaire-hedge-fund-chris-rokos-leaves-uk-b3046332.html

I wish people would stop with this rubbish.
Leaders are elected by the party members. Burnham was appointed leader through the same process as every other party leader.
People vote for the party, not the PM. Perhaps we wouldn't have been in such a mess for the last 10 years if people remembered that.

Also the same posters all day, every day.

Because it’s not a site just for Labour voters. There probably are other groups that only have Labour supporters for anyone who wants that.

The same reason they did it about the Tories prior to Labour winning the GE !

I knew he'd monumentally screw up soon, I just didn't think it would be this soon.

But it’s the same with this stuff.

Because we are running out of dosh !

Just seems weird that its always a new poster, with little or no meaningful prior Mumsnet activity, is all.

And I did recently see something in the news about foreigners trying to influence British democracy.

Makes you think.

I predict he'll be gone by Christmas.
He's spectacularly out of his depth.

We obviously need to cut welfare significantly. Spending is far too high and onky getting higher. The country can't afford it. We are no longer in the top 20 for GDP per capita but are spending like we are in the top three. Those days are gone.

We obviously need to increase defence spending. The peace dividend no longer exists. And all defence experts say it needs to be done urgently.

Labour haven't come up with any way to increase defence spending because they can't grow tbe economy and they can't borrow any more due to the cost of the moron's premium. They seem to be hoping that something will turn up on that front in tne next few months eg an end to the Ukraine war. I suspect thats a risky strategy when it comes to protecting our country.

So AB is trying to play for time. His words jist verbalise what we already knew about the Labour Party. The party of benefits. And thats all that matters. Oh and Gaza.