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Andy Burnham wins huge majority in Makerfield byelection, paving way for Starmer leadership challenge (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] oeuf@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You know I'd never actually heard of Andy Burnham until a few months ago.

He's right to say that this is Labour's last chance. I don't think they will be (or can be) transformational enough though. Just look at the 'heavyweight economists' he's hired to help developed policy. They are all revolving-door 'economic heavyweight' types from the BoE and the OBR.

Once he is PM and it sinks in that nothing significant for normal people is going to change, I think Labour will go the same way as the Tories, and have wasted loads of time while everything goes to shit.

[–] tyranny@crazypeople.online 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i think that's best case scenario. worse than that would be if labour becomes the official opposition against reform, and refuses to die and make way for someone else

[–] oeuf@slrpnk.net 2 points 12 hours ago

I think it depends how disgusted people become by an ineffective Burnham government, not to mention any scandals that might come out. The Tories are officially the opposition right now but are effectively irrelevant and ignored. They just get to ask more questions in the Commons. You could easily be forgiven for thinking it's actually Reform who are in opposition!