Starmer's resigned

[Sadcafe]

So the admittedly boring but truly decent PM has announced his resignation and the egotistical, pompous Burnham will doubtless become PM. God help the country

He was a joke. Even his list of ‘achievements’ was questionable. He had such an opportunity but he just couldn’t make it work. Let’s see what the next chancer has got up his sleeve. First up, more tax increases for the workers.

Christ no, if there’s one thing all the chaos we’ve seen since Brexit has taught us it’s that whipping around trying to restructure things based on whatever Jane Smith who hates government anyway thinks might be nice is pretty much guaranteed to kick off even more chaos and misery.

Really? Keir Starmer is worse than countless murderers, rapists and paedophiles?

Interesting article on what Burnham and MPs might be getting wrong

https://www.ft.com/content/87e4c899-5055-4a4d-841b-c7e9b0c319a6?syn-25a6b1a6=1

In the opinion of most people, the country hasn't got better at all under Labour. Hence, we are where we are today.

Some people shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

Tell me you don’t understand a single thing about UK politics without telling me. 🤦‍♀️

That’s rubbish the pound always drops currency always drops when there’s a change and when it’s settled, it’ll boost up again nothing to do with individual names

Don't have a subscription.

Starmer is the opposite of decent. Good riddance

But you know I’m making sense. Climbing back through a network of threads won’t change the point or long roll all of evidence backing it.

Britain has lost a quality statesman in Starmer, and it's a shame. Politics has never been a dirtier game than it is now.

He would be a fantastic Foreign Secretary but I fear he is too radioactive to stay in cabinet.

The problem is the public do not accept hard choices between tax and spending. Everyone wants more than the country can afford but not to pay for it. Just look at the entitlement of the Waspi women as an example

Dup

I'm not a member of any particular party, but I find what's happened this week to be disgusting - it appears to me that the media were intent on whipping up drama to outst him for a long time, and Labour have simply given into it.

We need political stability in this country, international credibility, and Starmer seemed (to me) to be doing just fine.

I wonder if we have any decent, stable, consistent politicians left.

I'm not the sort of person who normally contacts my MP or has anything to do with politics but if I knew what person would be best to funnel a message to on this, i'd simply tell them to grow up and they should have let Starmer continue the work he was doing.

Playground idiots, the lot of them.

Playing right into the hands of media, and all the manipulation that's clearly going on to de-stabilise us.

Not at all. It was a specific question to the pp which they can’t back up.

Can you paste it here or do you have an archive link please? Can’t get past the paywall but I’m interested to see what it says.

I'm not that poster but here you go https://archive.ph/5kwF4

Agree. They have been moaning about this for decades. Do something about it. Use social media, or maybe look at themselves and wonder why they have spent 2 years undermining their own party in government instead of talking about all these achievements.The media didn't make a load of ministers resign, Wes Streeting say he was going to run as leader or a load of MPs blow smoke up Andy Burnham arse to beg him to try and get a seat. The media didn't force Labour MPs to be all about how they were going to give up their seats for Burnham so he could be PM. All the media did was report what they themselves did. With glee maybe but this is all on the Labour Party.

Well said.
I am furious with all the backstabbers who have engineered this. One of the big promises of the new government when elected was that they wouldn't behave like the conservatives and yet here we are.
KS doesn't have the "star quality" but he's bright and thoughtful and has been a credit to the UK on the world stage. AB isn't half the man KS is.

If pp names which posters she thinks are bots, the post will be deleted. So she can't really answer the question.

Agree with PP that politicians are acting like badly behaved children for the most part, engaged in playground squabbles about who's in charge whilst their school building is on fire with people inside it. No thought for their wellbeing or lives.

I disliked Starmer greatly, but this ousting was a terrible idea for the country and in itself shows that the majority of politicians would rather engage in popularity contests than do their jobs properly. What we need is adult responsibility and accountability, not PR games. Burnham is no different to Starmer, if anything he's worse.

If Starmer's not going to stick around we need a GE. I don't want Burham. I feel the way he's manipulated democracy to get into this position is shady at best. Do we really want to encourage this? What other MPs might step down to allow someone popular to participate in a by- election? It's dodgy. What was in it for the MP who stepped down? What's he doing now? What's he replacing his nice fat MP salary with? Did money change hands in some way? Questions I'd like answers to.

Personally the only leader I think isn't engaged in a narcissistic love affair with themselves is Kemi Badenoch, who has a track record as a minister for taking evidence based decisions in the best interests of the country against whatever is trending on social media and whatever is popular with civil servants (who are more the masters than servants these days it seems).

(edited to add: Kemi's the only one who has the brains to know what a woman is and that all mammals have two sexes i.e. not totally divorced from reality too).

lol, I'd forgotten about the fridge!

Fully agree.
Burnham is an unknown quantity. On the plus side, it seals Labour’s defeat in the next election.

It’s becoming a regular event now 7 in 10 years, this is the most unstable period for centuries, it’s to easy just to chop and change, going forward there should be consequences for removing a sitting PM