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

Obviously not true loads of Starmer upset on here and you’re posting

Seven Prime Ministers in 10 years is utterly shameful and pathetic and it makes us look like the biggest joke going. As a public we have rolled over and let the media dictate who runs our country from one week to the next, when they don't give a shit about how the constant turmoil impacts our lives. All the media cares about is clicks and comments below the line and the advertising both generate. We are idiots for letting it happen.

And I'm not saying this in defence of Starmer, I'm saying this as someone who would just like some continuity before the UK is declared officially ungovernable, if it's not already.

Absolutely not, that's the last thing we need
Sick of people saying this, it's absolute bollocks - what we need is stability, not more revolving door PMs and loud, show granding crap instead of someone sensible who just gets on with the job.
Plus, we've just had a General Election.
If you don't like the result, you'll get the chance to vote again when it's due.
Not just cry /demand/call for another one as it's not to your liking.
It's called democracy.

I'm no fan of Starmer but the UK was hardly the land of milk and honey when he won the 24 election.

Manchester seems to have a strong local economy. Lots of construction and investment. Possibly that’s down to just Burnham as mayor but running a country is, as Johnson found out, considerably different.

Yes and Angela Rayner was braying for one. We shall await her demand for a GE once the next Labour PM is confirmed.

I agree. Voted Labour, but have not agreed with all their policies. I was prepared though, to assess their performance at the end of their term and decide whether I feel they are deserving of my vote again. We need to play the long game to ensure stability - both at home and internationally. Starmer seems like a measured and rational person. In a time of extreme world wide political unrest we need someone who is sensible, not a hot head or an ego maniac. To let someone like him go after only 2 years is a huge mistake.

I have some hope that Burnham will get back to trying to "level up" the left behind regions and stop the London Centricity of politics that have left the regions in massive (almost terminal) decline.

The regions don't need expensively stupid statues on roundabouts or artworks, they need business growth, they need jobs, they need better schools, colleges, employment training opportunities, they need new businesses to start up, small businesses to grow, better public transport, etc. etc.

If Burnham can "tweak" governmental policy to give proper help to the regions to grow economically, then he could well be a successful PM.

We've had decades of London Centric political decision making, decades of "moving" unemployed and "problem" people out of the big cities into the already run down regions, thus making their social deprivation problems worse, decades of organisations and businesses centralising into London, decades of the only "support" for regions being higher benefits, it's time for a complete change in direction.

Exactly, they'd be crazy to call one.

Burnham shouldn't just become pm by default, that's the joke.

You could spin things that way about any prime minister who lasts long enough!

It's gone full soap opera now:

"your'e not my prime minister!!

"oh yes I am"!!!

If nobody stands against him there’s no alternative. Streeting’s backing him.

This is spot on sadly and Starmer has been the victim of a concerted strategy of destabilisation. He's gone because he can see that as a result he's become unelectable in three years' time and wants his successor to have a chance to establish a track record before the next election. I think Burnham (assuming it's him) will be more media-savvy and slightly more impervious to the onslaught, though god help him (and us) if he puts a foot wrong or has any skeletons in his closet. His northern identity and commitment to dismantling the Westminster village mentality will create an interesting time in UK politics for sure, but time will have to tell if he's got the chops for the whole job. Britain has lost a quality statesman in Starmer, and it's a shame. Politics has never been a dirtier game than it is now.

Win leadership election promising unity and consensus. Kick out and alienate half of the party. Win huge landslide at GE anyway as Tories so unpopular. Ignore landlside and continue to focus nearly all energy on attacking own party. Suck up to Israel as it commits genocide. Offer no hope for the future to your supporters or wider electorate. Resign. The Starmer formula. 😂

Though joking aside I’m pleased as I think Labour under Burnham has the beating of Restorm/Farage’s Tory Rejects.

I agree, but neither party calls a GE just because of a new leader.

I think at the very least, it should be law that a new leader has to be voted in by their party/MPs in a proper leadership election.

It's been a travesty that we have had "unelected" prime ministers, such as Gordon Brown, Rishi Sunak, etc - the common factor is that they've never lasted long and were ousted at the next GE. We need to learn from that!!

I didn’t realise Angela Rayner was the mouthpiece for the entire country (or indeed the Labour Party)-when did that happen?

I thought he has been very unfair to those vulnerable in society and has acted more like David Camerons era then a true Labour government.

Cutting the LCWRA element by 50% for new claimants.

Stopping HAF food vouchers for children on free school meals

The whole WASPI fresco

Family farm taxes

A few things that come to mind but I'm sure there's many more.

I have to agree. I don't see how Burnham, who's failed in two leadership challenges already, will muster much support among the party if things go pear shaped. It's so unedifying.

I can already imagine a comedy Westend show, “Yes Prime Minister”

Ai wrote me a poem which is on the money

Theresa May walked in with a plan,
“Strong and stable,” best she can,
Dancing through Brexit, step by step—
Turns out that tune was hard to rep.
Oh the door keeps spinning round,
New PM, new sound,
Number Ten’s a musical chair,
Blink once—there’s someone new there.
Then Boris rolled in, hair aflame,
Jokes and Latin, part of the game,
“Just one more party,” he would say—
Work emails sent at end of day.
Oh the door keeps spinning round,
Cheers and scandals, pound to pound,
Promises high, delivery thin,
Cue the next one stepping in.
Liz Truss tried a turbo beat,
Markets tripped over their own two feet,
A lettuce watched from the side with grace—
Outlasted Liz in a viral race.
Oh the door keeps spinning round,
Shortest set in Westminster town,
Forty-something days and gone,
Like a very brief pop song.
Rishi Sunak, suited tight,
Numbers glowing late at night,
Calm and careful, steady tone—
Trying to fix what he’d been loaned.
Oh the door keeps spinning round,
Spreadsheet king in a shaky town,
Holding on through stormy weather,
Keeping all the threads together.
Now Starmer steps up to the mic,
Measured words, a different style strike,
Less of the chaos, more control—
A lawyer’s rhythm, steady goal.
Oh will the door slow spinning down?
Or keep that Westminster merry-go-round?
Eight years, five leads, quite the show—
Who’s next up? We never know.

Is this a joke?

What's your point? You don't even live here 🙄

The media treated him with kids gloves compared to Corbyn. He’s gone because he enthused hardly anyone within his own party never mind the wider electorate. He thought he could just ape Blair’s 3rd way softcore Thatcherism. Problem is it’s not 1997 anymore and the country is in dire straits in terms of cost of living, public services, housing … you name it. And he didn’t even possess 10% of Blair’s cunning and faux charisma.

And Cameron “brayed” for one when Brown took over from Blair but then there was May, Johnson and Truss

Spot on