Rayner calls for Burnham's return and warns Starmer needs to 'set out change'
Angela Rayner has called on Sir Keir Starmer to “set out the change our country needs” as she warned Labour is facing its “last chance” after a disastrous set of election results.
The former deputy leader and Ashton-under-Lyne MP, widely seen as a potential successor to the Prime Minister, stopped short of calling for him to quit but set out a series of steps he needed to take to win back working-class voters.
Angela Rayner has called on Sir Keir Starmer to “set out the change our country needs” as she warned Labour is facing its “last chance” after a disastrous set of election results.
The former deputy leader and Ashton-under-Lyne MP, widely seen as a potential successor to the Prime Minister, stopped short of calling for him to quit but set out a series of steps he needed to take to win back working-class voters.
By gum this is all so embarrassing. Not only has our democracy obliged us to treat Starmer's rabble as the government, but now Andy Burnham, a dud from Manchester who isn't even an elected MP is being touted as the chap to put things right.
Meanwhile we have to accept Angela Rayner as some kind of pantomime dame pundit in the thick of it all, 'thick' being a not inappropriate word.
Meanwhile we have to accept Angela Rayner as some kind of pantomime dame pundit in the thick of it all, 'thick' being a not inappropriate word.
On reflection though, now I have a fresh mug of coffee to hand, it would not be easy to be worse than Starmer. Possible though, Labour still has enough duds for that. Superduds even - like Ed Miliband.
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As anticipated, Catherine West MP and her 'challenge' fell flat. She has had her two minutes of 'me, me, me' in the national press and can now go back to well deserved obscurity.
However, pop into the garden of no. 10 and watch the vultures circling.........
Can't wait for the next episode of this soap to find which of the jostling duds feels the need to put his/her head above the parapet.
Oh good grief; this foul jamboree is the 'great and good' to whom we should show deference.
It's a race: will Weird Ed become PM before he's put in a strait jacket and taken away?
I cannot type fast enough; now 'two short planks' Rayner is having a stab. (Between the shoulder blades actually.)
Perhaps the old looney bin at Friern Barnet could be reopened for him, together with Labour MP Catherine West.
The Brothers have never elected a woman leader and La Rayner would be a particularly daft one with which to break their record. I think they should look outside for talent: why not have Jerk Palooka and Ed Davey as joint leaders?
P.S. Why do we call the twerp Prime Minister when Number 10 is not a prime number? The mysteries of life, eh?
Chris - ah, so she has retreated already. Yes it is a foul jamboree, easy to make fun of and maybe that's worthwhile as ridicule does undermine them.
dearieme and DAD - he seems strangely quiet at the moment, has he been shut away in that room with duvet wallpaper?
Chris - 'two planks' Rayner lowers the tone of the foul jamboree too, which must take some doing.
dearieme - that's a point, Number 10 is not a prime number. Subprime Minister is a tempting alternative.
Maybe that's why nowadays the PM lives in the flat above Number 11.
dearieme - I wonder where his wife lives?
Which of his wives do you have in mind?
dearieme - the one who always looks as if she'd prefer to be elsewhere and usually is.
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