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Starmer announces resignation as prime minister and leader of the Labour party
(www.theguardian.com)
Good riddance.
Let's hope something worse doesn't show up.
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Fookin hell mate, I leave for a few days and all hell gets loose?
Let's hope the next PM is less of an undercooked potato than Starmer was.
When was the last time there was a good one? In my lifetime there's been Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer. Name one good one amongst that rogues gallery. I will not hold my breath.
Truss, She was fantastic. For a week or two. Crashed the pound and made it cheaper to send my UK daughter some birthday money.
Truss, She was fantastic. For a week or two
No, you are thinking of the cabbage!
God, choosing a least bad one is even hard. ~~David Cameron or~~ Gordon Brown? I don’t know if I was just less informed about British politics during their tenures or if they were actually better.
Edit: oof, I forgot about how Cameron handled brexit, not him.
Probably Gordon Brown or John Major.
Brown sold off the gold reserve when gold was at a record low. He tried to increase pre-charge detention to 42 days and to introduce lie detectors into benefits claims.
Never claimed he was perfect. You can find fault with literally every PM that has ever existed. But him and Major seemed to be relatively scandal free compared to many who have come before and after them.
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Cameron brought us get the unemployed to work unpaid for private corporations to keep their unemployment benefits.
If you want to argue that is technically paid work you can buy then it was paid at £1.60/hour, far below minimum wage and the tax payer was paying it rather than the corporation benefiting from it.
Slavery runs strong in British history
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Brown probably, but he didn't have much time to screw anything up.
Brown is frequently cited by economists as the person who did most to repair the world economy after 2008 and prevent the collapse from being catastrophic.
I was in Finance in Britain at the time.
He was the one who saved banks with unconditionally given public money, then turned around and put them in a special "hands-off" management structure where basically the bankers managed themselves.
Royal Bank Of Scotland did not restructure their Investment Banking operations for almost a decade and kept losing billions of pounds every year. I actually worked there for a bit during that period and they were spectacularly inefficient and chaotic compared to other Investment Banks I worked in and under no pressure at all to improve.
Oh and Zero Interest Rate Policy in the UK - that started under Gordon Brown too.
The 2008 Crash recovery was one of the slowest recoveries from a Financial Crash in History.
All this crap then led to Austerity (by then under the Tories), which in turn fed the mix of discontent and scapegoating of the EU that led to Brexit, which in turn put the UK in the sorry state it is today.
Gordon Brown did not repair even the British Economy, much less the World's.
I remember those claims back then already and they were complete total bollocks fed by a handful of opinion makers in British newspapers and New Labour politicians - as far as I know, not a single international Economist endorsed that idea that Gordon Brown saved the World's Economy: the whole thing was just one big circle jerk of New Labour politicians and supporters.
I think you've been watching too much BBC and reading too much The Guarding - they're the ones who invariably spin "Briton saves the world" stories out of British politicians swiping British problems under the carpet and leaving them for others to solve later.
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A lettuce?
I would like to believe that this is causal not correlative. You leaving caused this to happen. You are too powerful.
I've got an idea!
I will start a holiday fund. Whenever y'all want a new PM, just donate enough so I can head off for a week or two. With a country of 60 million people... If just half of you want a new PM, a single one penny donation will make it happen.
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Can't wait for the media to work their magic on Burnham until he too is universally reviled. It already seems to have started.
It wasn't the media's fault that Burnham basically up and said "I agree with everything Labour has done under Starmer".
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Maybe I've not been playing close enough attention to politics, but I'm not entirely sure what he's done so wrong to warrant this. He's very middle of the road, hardly wowing everyone, but hardly very scandalous either (well, apart from appointing Mandelson I guess). Is this now just going to become the norm, changing PM's every year?
Under his tenure:
- terrorism laws have been exploited to criminalise property damage and the holding of signs by pensioners
- the nation's medical records have been sold off to the known foreign fascist controlled private company Palantir
- our freedoms on the internet have been curtailed
- he appointed a known friend of a paedophile and twice previously disgraced minister as US ambassador despite vetting saying not to
- austerity has continued
- the broken workfare (not welfare) system has continued
- the UK has continued to supply weapons and intelligence to a genocidal state
- trial by jury is looking likely to be abolished
- private water is still a fucking disgrace with little done to remedy it
He's a wet blanket who's incapable of commanding a cabinet, and spends more time making stupid TikToks like he's on the campaign trail than doing anything of substance. His actions, cabinet, and command of that cabinet, contradict everything he says he stands for.
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Absolutely nothing. He's not been amazing by any stretch, but his net approval rating is -46, beating Liz Truss at the height of her unpopularity by a mere 1 percentage point. Liz Truss crashed the economy and the entire country knew it, while Starmer has... U-turned on a few things. Generally been a bit milquetoast. Speaks with a nasal voice?
His unpopularity is deeper than Boris Johnson, who was swilling wine with his mates while the rest of us were enjoying the delights of yet another quiz on Zoom, who illegally prorogued parliament to deliberately impede the democratic operation of parliament, ever reached.
And the same will happen to Burnham, and in two years we'll be going into another general election with the least popular PM ever and the Labour party will again be tearing itself to shreds, and hand the country over to Reform or whatever even more nakedly racist self-consciously obnoxious bile has emerged out of the right wing.
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The majority of the public is desperate for change, and running out of patience with a political system that doesn't deliver.
Starmer ran on a vague platform of change and competence, but since taking office Starmer has shown have little political vision or political acumen to move the country forward. The Labour government has been less beset by personal scandal, but the bar for that was already incredibly low.
There hasn't been any specific event which has cost him his position (at least, not known to the general public). His problem is that there's basically nobody who likes him, and the only reason he got selected in the first place is that nobody particularly hated him either. Now new parties have sprung up to fill the void left by what were traditionally the majority parties, so "he's not the other guy" isn't going to swing it any more.
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You okay Britain? You've been going through PMs like DiCaprio goes through 20 year olds.
Murdoch says we need a new PM so...
Comes in, shits on table, leaves
After burning down the UK, he gets to enjoy his golden parachute how lovely!
"Burning down the UK" like introducing a massive renter's rights bill?
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The long-running London production of "The Government" is about to announce its new lead. Don't worry, everything about the show is the same and you'll still be able to buy refreshments during the interval - though the Cost of Living Crisis means prices for beers, wine and choc-ices have to be increased by 50%. "The Government" became a hit when it promised change to the usual Westminster shows but, over the last 50 years has declined in popularity.
"Pure knockabout theatre," is how one critic has described the show while Muddy Wokenfield of The Guardian called it "Vaudeville and Pantomime at it's British best!"
Was he saying he's a leftist but acting like a rightist, or a rightist who was always going to be so?
There's only really those two types left in Labour globally.
He presented himself as a moderate, which in reality means he wanted to pull the labor party back to the right again. The very first thing he did was purge the left wing of the party
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Epstein pedophile handing contracts to pedo Peter Thiel’s palantir
Cannot wait for trump to take credit for this.
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