Are we all looking forward to David Lammy becoming PM?

[ProudAmberTurtle]

There's no way Starmer can survive this latest scandal.

Lord Mandelson failed his security vetting for the US ambassador job, but he still got the post anyway.

Starmer stood up in Parliament last September and insisted "full due process" was followed — three times.

He therefore either misled parliament and has to resign under the Ministerial Code, or his advisors have misled him and parliament, which is likely a criminal matter and suggests a level of almost unbelievable government incompetence or corruption.

What great things are you hoping this country will achieve under PM Lammy?

Nothing “Great” will ever be achieved if we don’t have a PM for more than 5 minutes. We need stability, especially at this extremely fragile moment in the world.

It won’t be Lammy.

He was in charge of the Foreign Office at the time.

If anything he’ll be the one under the bus.

No No No No No No and on and on and on!

David Lammy who was Foreign Secretary from July 2024 to September 2025, during which time Mandelson was appointed?! Not going to happen.

On the face of it, Starmer is finished.

But “lessons will be learned” maybe?

Depends on how the papers behave…

And they’ll be like a pack of Hyenas!

Lammy was in on it - it’s not going to be him.

Political parties often think they're being so clever by getting rid of PMs, and it can be disastrous.

The Tories' decision to get rid of Boris Johnson backfired.

Similarly, Labour's decision to spread fear about Reform only made the Green Party more popular - at Labour's expense.

Reform's desire to destroy the Conservative Party by taking their failed MPs led to ... Reform losing support to the Tories.

But in this case there is zero chance that Starmer will be PM this time next month.

corruption In the government? Who would have guessed

If he did become PM I will be buying a huge box to hoard as many rights in as I can and burying it in the garden.

I suspect Lammy will go before Starmer. Both gone within the week (I hope).

It is simply not true that they didn’t know. If, by some strange twist , they didn’t know, then they are too incompetent to be in position. Hopeless either way.

The problem with politics currently is that there are no natural successors in any party. Labour didn't win the last GE, the Conservatives lost it (rightly so). But that just made Labour, and subsequently Kier, the least worst in that moment.

Arguably, he still is the least worst, despite doing some things particularly badly. One should recognise that he is also doing some things extremely well.

It is a great shame that the Labour Party are so hard up for heavy political hitters. Ditto the Conservatives. We will leave out Farage and his bunch of numpties, ditto the Lib Dems.

I am politically homeless and have been for years.

Are you a dinosaur in disguise?

Fair enough re the comments about Lammy being at the Foreign Office at the time.

King Charles will have to pick the least incompetent person in the Cabinet to run the country then.

Not an easy decision.

He won't pick them though - he takes it under advisement, royal prerogative is essentially in name only.

Dinosaur David can do one

What about Darren Jones for PM?

Bloody he’ll OP - don’t start yet another anti Labour political threads when you clearly know fuck all about politics.

Yeah he’s good. Calm, authoritative and intelligent.

Let’s fucking hope it won’t be Lammy 😩

Starmer will hang on until the May elections I expect - then he’ll have to fall on his sword.

Jeez… one shit show into another….

Indeed. And take his man-cervix with him.

I’m not a Labour supporter by any means, but frankly, I’d be delighted with any competent, honest, decent person from any party at all right now.

The last thing we need at the minute is disruption in government. For christs sake, give it a rest for a bit

And who has delivered all the disruption?