UK Politics

Narrator: "something worse showed up."

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.

A lettuce?

I would like to believe that this is causal not correlative. You leaving caused this to happen. You are too powerful.

If he can at least read the room it would be an improvement. Starmer spent most of his time trying to appease reform voters.

It wasn't the media's fault that Burnham basically up and said "I agree with everything Labour has done under Starmer".

Murdoch says we need a new PM so...

If only more countries did the same

"Burning down the UK" like introducing a massive renter's rights bill?

To be fair, Conservatives started the fire more than a decade earlier. Starmer just failed to meet expectations, sometimes in egregious ways.

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.

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.

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.

Fascist, anti-trans, surveillance kinda sums it up nicely.

The PM is the head of government and is ultimately responsible and accountable for its actions and policies. They are also the head of their political party and thus will have a say on what policies are brought to the table (although they do still need to be voted on in the houses).

Our PM is not technically the head of state (that's the King, from whose power the government derives its authority), however for all intents and purposes they may as well be.

So yes, his resignation will have an impact.

What are you talking about? It's been messy for ages by now.