Burnham prepares to challenge Starmer for leadership
Andy Burnham is laying the groundwork for a leadership bid amid growing speculation that Sir Keir Starmer will not last in post until the next election.
The Mayor of Greater Manchester has launched a new campaign group calling on Downing Street to introduce wealth taxes, nationalise utility companies and end the two-child benefit cap.
He is expected to explicitly criticise Sir Keir at Labour’s annual party conference later this month, calling for a “reset” to help Labour win the next election.
Presumably Andy Burnham isn't keen on the Keir Starmer reset so he plans to reset it. Unfortunately this appears to be something like the traditional advice for fixing a computer glitch -
Have you tried switching it off then back on again?
In this case, Burnham would switch off any possibility of economic recovery as the first step, neatly blending his reset reset policy with Ed Miliband's similar attempts to reset the electricity supply...
...they don't know what they are doing do they? Never did.
Beyond power and personal advancement it's a void.
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I can't help thinking that replacing an incompetent Socialist Prime Minister with a less incompetent one might not be a remedy for what ails us.
Burnham being a mascara man might get along well with the future President JD Vance, of whom the lefties say is using mascara.
He's about 55 so he ought to press on with it before people say he's too old. He's looking a little bit pudgy: if the weight falls off (by injection?) then you'll know he's serious about it.
I've looked him up on Wokeypedia.
"Burnham was born on 7 January 1970. ... He studied English at the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate student of Fitzwilliam College"
Suppose he stayed on for an extra term at school to prepare for Cambridge entrance exams. His English degree lasts three years. He might therefore have finished his degree in June 1992. But then I read: "From 1994 until the 1997 general election he was a researcher for Tessa Jowell."
So what happened to the missing two years? Why doesn't Wokeypedia tell us?
"So what happened to the missing two years?"
If that had been the 80's instead of 90's I would've said he was in East-Germany, the goold old DDR.
DJ - especially if he turns out to be more competently destructive.
Anon - I didn't know Burnham is a mascara man, does he touch up those eyebrows?
dearieme - it won't be something which adds lustre to his biography, so it could be interesting. Unsuccessful post grad?
Anon - yes, there would be no reason to miss that out. Could be something similar but I'm not sure what.
For some job applicants you wonder whether gaps in the CV correspond to spells in chokey. Doesn't seem awfully likely here tho'. He can't have been a "researcher" for Peter Scandalman, can he?
If they think Andy Burnham will be an effective replacement for Starmer, viz a viz the economy, law and order and taxes, I am of the opinion that he wont be.
dearieme - a spell in chokey would be fun if he ends up as PM, but sadly it seems unlikely. Researcher for Peter Scandalman or association with someone else now tainted is a possibility though.
Tammly - I agree, he has nothing worthwhile to offer.
My wife remarked that she once dealt with a job applicant who had a couple of years missing on his CV. She enquired, he dodged. And a couple of times more. In the end she deduced/guessed that he'd been on the funny farm.
If Burnham thinks that nationalising everything and enacting a wealth tax is going to sort the UKs problems he is completely wrong. Only a complete reset between people and government is going to even start to repair the damage. None of the governing elite seem to have picked up the ominous rumblings coming from the ordinary citizens who have had enough of the nonsense being fed to them on a daily basis. I dont think it will take much more to spark real trouble. Only Farage and a few others have any idea of how close they are to the edge.
dearieme - ah, the funny farm. That's now my no.1 assumption for Burnham. Wanting to be Prime Minister is another clue.
John - I agree, they are wandering too close to the edge and need to wake up and draw back.
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