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

For those calling for a general election, that's very unlikely.

"decent" ??

Only time he's shown emotion is tears for his own wife and children. His career.

He hasn't cared a jot about the rape of white girls and the murders of people in the UK since he's been in power.

There were frustrating missteps in early days and clearly Starmer was being poorly advised. But a country is not run by one man. And those Labour isn’t Working postings were surprising in singling out Starmer for their vehemence and anger. I agree completely that there is a lot of foreign interference in UK politics. It’s v likely that Putin will be pleased with this change in Labour leadership as it is unstablising.

Indeed.
I like AB too but I’m disappointed by this outcome.

Ha at this focus on a few posters on a thread. We don’t have that much power or influence.

instead of expending their energy trying to solve some of the issues, our government is going to spend the next 6 months arguing and back stabbing amongst themselves.
Great.

THIS!!!

For as long as the Labour Party blame ‘right wing’ media rather than reflect on the irreconcilable differences inside their party and policies that don’t resonate with their own MPs, never mind the public, the UK is destined for more of the same.

If it really was a right wing media then they wouldn’t have gunned for May, Sunak and even Johnson and Cameron in the same way, but they did.

Labour would be mad to call a GE when they don’t have to (given the Tories changed leaders with no GE).

They are out at the next election no matter who is leader.

And speaking of who on earth would want the poisoned chalice that is the current leadership position.

Maggie Oliver's take on Burnham. I really respect Maggie Oliver - she shows so much decency, compassion, integrity. Deeds not just words. What she says here confirms what I suspected about Burham.

The new PM would be a fool to cave to this pressure

I don’t think Starmer is a decent man, but Burnham is worse. And yet another one who doesn’t even know what a woman is that we are expected to believe can run the place.

People will be calling for Burnham to go no sooner than he takes over though. Thats just how things are now.

7 PMs in a decade. I've never known such political instability in a developed nation. All we're missing is a bloody coup.
It's quite extraordinary and terribly depressing 😕.

If there is a GE tomorrow (which there won’t be), Farage would get in. At least the Reform hype train may die out by the next scheduled GE if we wait.

If King Andy calls for an election, he’s even more of an egotistical idiot than I thought. I’m expecting he’ll want to hold on to the giddy joy of entering no 10 as long as he possibly can. That would be the sensible option for labour.

Neither the Tories or Reform are interested in a GE, it's just easy to shout.

Yes, the Tories sailed such a steady ship………. 🙄

Which is absolutely peanuts the way the state throws money about in a wasteful fashion!

Swapped one r*pe gang apologist for another who also wants men in womens spaces
Bingo!!

With the feeling in the country at the moment, it could be disastrous. Regardless of anyone’s opposition to Labour or Tory, they are both fairly reasonable. The alternatives are frightening.

So shortsighted.

Yes, Starmer's been disappointing but he's still been better than the others by a mile.

Totally disagree. Starmer is totally disingenuous and self serving. Burnham makes decisions and has a track record of positive change which Starmer never had. I dropped my support for the Labour Party due to Starmer but may well return now.

Yup, nail on the head. Starmer and the whips should have got control over their infant new inexperienced MPs. He should never have u-turned on the 2 child limit for example. He should never have appointed Reeves in the first place, but since that ship had sailed, he should have sacked her when she showed her incompetence. Overall, he's been an incredibly weak PM.

I think we have been getting a lot of party activists, and outright paid “agitators” whose purpose is to wind people up against not just the government, but all our institutions - the Beeb, the courts, the police, education, etc. Sometimes the call for mob rule is pretty thinly veiled.

When I read about those two men who went down recently for taking Russian money to commit arson against Starmer, I realized that the idea that Russia or another foreign power using MN to wind up British people and incite them to hate their own country is really not so far fetched. Much less change of being caught, for one thing!

I'm over the moon.

Starmer was useless to begin with.

Andy Burnham .... does he understand the definition of a biological woman yet?

Can’t lie, i feel kinda bad for him. I think his lack of charisma affected the perception of him perhaps more than it should have.

And the dancing chairs continue.