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David Hancock's avatar

Brilliant! You’ve captured it perfectly. Of course the VC of Labour Together gave up his seat for Burnham. There’s no such thing as a free seat

Olivia X. LaRosa's avatar

You have outdone yourself in this analysis of Sir Keir Starmer's enlightened reign.

Sir Andy Clift's avatar

And the biggest tool his mother ever produced was kier himself.

Roger Toby Bourgein's avatar

Starmer was a politician to despise, and I do. If only Jeremy Corbyn had been our leader our world would be a much much better place !!!!

Olivia X. LaRosa's avatar

We in the US feel the same about Bernie Sanders. The Dumocrats did everything they could to keep that reasonable man from office in both 2016 and 2020.

Adeel Mirza's avatar

However, Corbyn was 10x better than Bernie. Bernie is a massive Zionist and therefore also a disciple of the Devil. The Antichrist.

JennyStokes's avatar

Bernie Sanders who could not defeat the Dems. so he joined them!

JennyStokes's avatar

Just take a look at the British people............ugly/dirty and non stop drinking. Ugly human beings.

damien flinter's avatar

Relax...they've a fresh Zionist lined up.

Anark Whelm's avatar

“The British people love this shit, especially when it’s in their rivers.” 😂😱💩

Rod Dawson's avatar

Remember when Brexiteers used to whine about being 'ruled by Brussels'? And then 6 PM's in 10 years proved that anything Brussels could do, they'd fuck up royally? Whilst lying, supporting genocide, and setting the police against their own most decent people? Let us pray fervently that Andy Burnham has some Belgian in him.

Feral Finster's avatar

There's a new corporate imperialist sockpuppet.

Oh well, he'll enjoy a honeymoon of a few months, and that will be all he needs.

Chris Hale's avatar

Excellent summary of Starmer. I do not see Burnham as any cause for celebration though. I can remember when Burnham was an MP, and was unimpressed then by his lack of principles. He was well immersed in Blairism, which has evolved into Starmerism, all the while being run by the same cabal of party functionaries, with a Commons full of hand picked apparatchiks.

If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would suggest that having failed to successfully steal Farage Ltd’s clothes with Starmer, they have realised that there may be space for a “soft left” candidate as leader, so will run Burnham as a “clean pair of hands”.

Same party, refreshed paint job, same zero chance of meeting the basic needs of the struggling rather than the millionaire class.

Lenny Cavallaro's avatar

How sad that Democrats in the US weren't able (under our DREADFUL KKKonstitution) to force Biden's resignation in 2023 -- and in favor of anyone BUT Harris. We might have been spared the horrors of Trump.

It remains to be seen whether Labour can get their heads out of their collective arses and actually DO something. However, it has been clear for a while that Starmer would achieve only one objective, and that was to turn the UK back over to the Right.

Feral Finster's avatar

The uk political establishment, Labour and Tory, has no priority other than the War On Russia, namely getting Americans to fight that war for them.

Burnham will seek to use his honeymoon to that end.

Baz's avatar

FF do you do have anything other than the war with Russia thing we can pin on those cowardly British?

Feral Finster's avatar

If they would stop acting so...british, I would stop calling them out for acting so british.

JennyStokes's avatar

Ha. The British do not know how to stop being "British" until a Russian bomb lands on their heads.

I have 2 Grandkids in Britain: I keep telling them to get out........one of them is moving.

Feral Finster's avatar

Even if Russia were to finally respond, the british political class will be snug as a bug in a rug in their bunkers.

As for the poor buggers who go up in a mushroom cloud, oh well, can't be helped now, can it?

JennyStokes's avatar

Other way round Feral. Britain is the 'proxy' for the USA

Feral Finster's avatar

Note that Charles specifically went to the US to beg for more American involvement. Similarly, the G7 meeting. Note how the brits whine like schoolgirls getting dumped at the thought that the US might abandon the war.

Britain always seeks to stir up strife so they can show the Americans who is the most loyallest little bitch. One sees similar behavior in a dog. The dog barks at the mailman, but he wants Master to fight the postman while Fido barks from a safe distance.

Baz's avatar

It’s so unfair, Laura has squeezed every last drop of satire out of that, barely a crumb for us amateurs to play with.

Mark Maguire's avatar

That is a perfect summary of Starmer's calamitous regime.

Perhaps with the notable exception of Truss and BoJo, I cannot think of a more unsuitable; more loathsome person to hold sway over this Country's affairs. Starmer, and his cabal went out of their way to alienate and disenfranchise as many people as he could by pandering to Farage whilst preaching from the Neo Liberal Bible about the inevitability of cuts to public spending whilst pumping billions into war zones and sundry proxy wars.

The most irritating thing about Starmer will be his legacy. Epitaphs such as "an honourable man" and "a fundamentally decent man" are doing the rounds despite being utterly divorced from reality.

Despite his failings, he will reappear as either an EU Commissioner; NATO Ambassador or spokesperson for a "Think Tank". Watch this space!

Baz's avatar

Fundamentally decent at not using the word ’genocide’.

Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

Well, you traded a head of lettuce for a turnip. All you can make with that is soup.

JennyStokes's avatar

The British people can't see the wood from the trees. They still think they are an Empire.

Howard's avatar

The DNC in the U.S. is licking its chops to hire him as a consultant. To give it that PBS "British class" factor.

JennyStokes's avatar

This why he resigned........more lucrative position just like Tony Blair!

Magnus's avatar

It's also not a good look locking up pensioners. But then again, I'm no human rights lawyer, so what do I know.