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

I'm sad that Starmer has resigned. He is a very decent and dignified man who has done well on the world stage but hasn't provided sufficient leadership and lost the respect from his team which is really regrettable and very sad. I think Reeves has also contributed to his downfall.

Andy Burnham is not going to be any better and in a year's time or less people will want him out. He might be popular with the people, but that doesn't fix the economy or our other problems.

Heaven forbid we have a GE because then we will have Nigel Farage as the PM and this is not going to be a good place to be if that happens.

After the terrible tory years, it's so disappointing

Damn it. He’s a decent, steady, hard-working person, and he has integrity. But no … not enough zoooz, so we must trade dependable, for someone willing to blow smoke up our arses. What a damn shame.

This reminds me of the Theresa May debacle. She lacked charisma, and was removed for BJ - ex mayor with charisma. Now we have Kier Starmer, removed for ex mayor AB. Total madness.

No one would make the country happy No one can please everyone all of the time. No one never makes mistakes. It’s ridiculous all this chopping and changing.

Are there really no better candidates for PM?

This is when it gets dangerous. We have a completely untested PM in the making, a divided and angry electorate, economic issues, an aggressive occupant of the Kremlin and an ignorant, incompetent chancer in the white House.

Channellingsophistication I totally agree!

Sadly you are absolutely spot-on. How on earth do we break out of that?

If the right wing media were that influential in deciding our politics surely they wouldn’t have let Andy Burnham win in Makerfield?

From the frying pan into the fire

Gosh yes you’re right. I wasn’t a fan of TM but I think she did her best for the country and with hindsight the UK would have been better off keeping her as PM

Probably otherwise they wouldn’t go for it. But those around him going on about the media or anything else bar his failings are oblivious.

Corbyn got more votes than Starmer when Corbyn lost the 2019 GE.

Hard agree too!!!

Don't be too relieved about the possibility of Rachel Reeves losing her role as Chancellor of the Exchequer, it's rumoured that Burnham very much favours Milliband for that post.

Imagine Milliband, the fervent net zero ideologist who refused Starmer's call to reduce his energy department's budget so that money could go to funding the defence plan, now likely to be in control of the country's purse strings.

I’m disappointed (and I’m not a Labour supporter). God help anyone living south of Birmingham if the ‘King of The North’ gets in.

Oh dear. Why did they drive him out? I guess they figured oh everyone hates him. But the thing is he hasn't really done anything that wrong?!
I'm so worried that the far right will take over this country.

I feel exactly the same, it's deeply troubling to see as I simply don't meet such cruel people in my day to day life. Plus such a strong undercurrent of Reform. With a sprinkle of "I'm not voting for them" I'm just pushing hard to claim they are the only answer to all our problems. Despite so much of our economic downturn directly related to Brexit

I don't think this is a good thing for the UK, despite the Starmer haters getting excited. I agree with @PopPopPoppies's comments about Theresa May. She always struck me as okay for a Tory, less bad than many others and she was torn down by their party machine. Then we got Boris.....

I just feel so bad for him. The vitriol out there in the media towards him has been awful.
Yesterday, he put a post on his Facebook account to honour his Dad and his children on Father's Day and the amount of horrendous comments below that post was outrageous.
I would have Keir Starmer as prime minister over the previous 7 over and again.
Things were getting done (as explained by p.p.) he was quietly and diligently working away in the background and not shouting it from the rooftops.
Yes the country is struggling, but look across Europe, we are not the only ones. I don't know what Andy Burnham or Wes Streeting are going to do differently?

Starmer is a fairly forgettable PM. But I wasn’t embarrassed when he was representing us at foreign events. The sight of Boris shaking hands with world leaders made me shudder. And I’m a conservative for the record!

Bonkers. We have fixed terms between elections now, the strategic thing would have been be to keep Starmer cracking on soaking up all the rage from the political right and far left and making the difficult reforms that are sorely needed. THEN he should have resigned before the next GE is due and let Burnham make his pitch to the party and then to the country along with all the other party candidates.

No-one is going to be able to do what needs to be done AND preside over a booming economy AND be popular AND keep the Trump chaos circus at arm’s length. Cycling endlessly through PMs is not going to magically change that.

Well, yes, he has been an MP before. An MP who twice ran for leader and badly lost and who when in government oversaw such shining successes as the ID Cards Act.

There's probably about 250 Labour MPs who are basically schoolchildren.

Yep, and they’ll turn on Burnham / whoever gets in once the new leader doesn’t sort the country out to their liking within a month, or makes unpopular but necessary choices.

The Labour backbenchers have a lot to answer for.

They’re only there because enough people voted them in. They’re going to behave like Labour.