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[Charro]

He’s doing great work in the job he’s doing and it’s filtering across to the wider northern region.

Keep him up here where he’s making a difference.

 

[Eggs]

He’s doing great work in the job he’s doing and it’s filtering across to the wider northern region.

Keep him up here where he’s making a difference.

….as well as Starmer has done, Burnham would be a leader who resonates with the electorate. He’s doing a fine job in GM, he’d be even better in charge of the country, the Conservatives fear him.

 

[Moomin]

Not sure about the wider PLP, but the clique at the top absolutely wouldn’t want him back, he’d inevitably end up as the alternate leader.

I think the membership would back him but you're right about the clique at the top.

 

[Billy Dean]

The PLP don't want him back as an MP, they are not fans of him.

Not sure about the wider PLP, but the clique at the top absolutely wouldn’t want him back, he’d inevitably end up as the alternate leader.

Why is that?

 

[Charro]

….as well as Starmer has done, Burnham would be a leader who resonates with the electorate. He’s doing a fine job in GM, he’d be even better in charge of the country, the Conservatives fear him.

There is absolutely no chance a man born in old roan will ever be allowed to be prime minister unfortunately.

 

[tsubaki]

Why is that?

The group that have clustered themselves around Starmer are in a profoundly weak position; they have very little support from the membership and almost no actual support for them from the wider public (before the inevitable response from the centrists about the poll lead, please ask yourselves how many people in the country want to be ruled by some fresh faced ex-PR and lobby people who’ve never had a real job and who think personally profitable managerialism of the kind we’ve been afflicted with for the past 30 years is grand).

Any rival to the person they’ve attached themselves to must be opposed, and they know they are crap at opposing people who are in post (witness the failure of their attempts to dethrone Corbyn).

 

[Moomin]

Why is that?

They see him as being on the left of the Party.

Plenty of reports and even Andy has spoke up about it over the years.

Andy Burnham urges Sir Keir Starmer's Labour to 'leave me alone'

The mayor has hit out at 'the negative Westminster briefing machine'

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

….pity Andy Burnham is being lined up for a return, ideal seat for him.

Labour would be better for having him back on the team but you wonder if he is committed to his mayoral role for now.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Labour would be better for having him back on the team but you wonder if he is committed to his mayoral role for now.

I'd be disinclined to being part of the first team in line to handle the mess the tory-scum will pass over in a matter of months. If he's going to have a say, let the full scale of the job be coughed up by someone else and so be part of the solution later instead of the horrifying stark fact of the matter of the size and scale of the damage done over these last 14 years. Someone needs to be working on a pun for the treasury...

"adolf cameron made a big deal about a letter left in the chancellors budgetary briefcase reading 'there is no money', well, thanks to 14 years of tory sleaze, corruption and swindling, there isn't even pen or paper now for such a message to be left..."

 

[Eggs]

Labour would be better for having him back on the team but you wonder if he is committed to his mayoral role for now.

….6 months or so ago he said the door was open to return to national office if the position on offer was right. I always thought Starmer‘s objective was to get the Party back on an even keel, I thought he’d set up somebody else to be the next Labour PM but he’s put himself quickly in that position.

Terrific work, but I do think Labour need to be lining somebody up to lead them hopefully into a 2nd term.

 

[Caolam]

There is no such thing as a Labour Party in England and Wales. There is a Tory Party that is less extreme. Labour do not stand in Northern Ireland and they exist as a bulwark to Conservative in Scotland. England is a fascist country and they have the votes to drag the rest of the United Kingdom with them. The sooner Scotland and Northern Ireland leave the United Kingdom the better for all concerned. That will allow both entities to follow their democratic principles it will allow Scotland and Northern Ireland to pursue their natural democratic socialist agendas and will allow England and Wales to fully embrace their fascist ideology.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Centrist Dad party.

 

[Xizor]

If I were Labour HQ I'd definitely get out ahead of the Tory messaging and have some campaign posters made up showing a descending staircase of numbered squares with clear indicators of the increasing Tory chaos & decline the further they go down. Have Rishi down at the bottom looking lost and Starmer up top, looking upwards at another set of ascending squares with the tagline:

"Isn't it time to go back to square one?"

Cut the buggers off at the knees.

 

[Khalekan]

I hate what this party has become.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I hate what this party has become.

"I’ve always been proud to be a Scouser and confident about it too. It’s why I wrote Labour’s plan for the city.

"I’ve found myself in strange places - Westminster being one of them - where you do get an overwhelming sense we don’t belong there. So this clip was me trying to own it with the sense of humour - including self-deprecation - that I grew up surrounded by."

Must. Be. Outraged. By. Everything.