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Starmer announces resignation as prime minister and leader of the Labour party
(www.theguardian.com)
Good riddance.
Let's hope something worse doesn't show up.
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Fookin hell mate, I leave for a few days and all hell gets loose?
Let's hope the next PM is less of an undercooked potato than Starmer was.
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.
Truss, She was fantastic. For a week or two. Crashed the pound and made it cheaper to send my UK daughter some birthday money.
Truss, She was fantastic. For a week or two
No, you are thinking of the cabbage!
God, choosing a least bad one is even hard. ~~David Cameron or~~ Gordon Brown? I don’t know if I was just less informed about British politics during their tenures or if they were actually better.
Edit: oof, I forgot about how Cameron handled brexit, not him.
Probably Gordon Brown or John Major.
Brown sold off the gold reserve when gold was at a record low. He tried to increase pre-charge detention to 42 days and to introduce lie detectors into benefits claims.
Never claimed he was perfect. You can find fault with literally every PM that has ever existed. But him and Major seemed to be relatively scandal free compared to many who have come before and after them.
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That’s fair. Major was before my time, so I just did a quick wiki glance, and did automatically dismiss him because he was a conservative in thatcher’s cabinet, but that doesn’t make him inherently worse than the rest on this list.
Plus, we just saw what you get from a former civil rights lawyer in the Labour Party
Cameron brought us get the unemployed to work unpaid for private corporations to keep their unemployment benefits.
If you want to argue that is technically paid work you can buy then it was paid at £1.60/hour, far below minimum wage and the tax payer was paying it rather than the corporation benefiting from it.
Slavery runs strong in British history
I realized after I commented that he was also the one who brought the brexit referendum forward
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Name a good one. In the non-gaslit version of history even Churchill ("our greatest PM") was despised. Seems to me each PM is used to get the Establishment over a bump and then dispensed with in favour of another "jam tomorrow" character who'll take the country's ire over the next crisis. It's systemic.
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A lettuce?
I would like to believe that this is causal not correlative. You leaving caused this to happen. You are too powerful.
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Can't wait for the media to work their magic on Burnham until he too is universally reviled. It already seems to have started.
It wasn't the media's fault that Burnham basically up and said "I agree with everything Labour has done under Starmer".
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You okay Britain? You've been going through PMs like DiCaprio goes through 20 year olds.
Murdoch says we need a new PM so...
If only more countries did the same
After burning down the UK, he gets to enjoy his golden parachute how lovely!
"Burning down the UK" like introducing a massive renter's rights bill?
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To be fair, Conservatives started the fire more than a decade earlier. Starmer just failed to meet expectations, sometimes in egregious ways.
Was he saying he's a leftist but acting like a rightist, or a rightist who was always going to be so?
There's only really those two types left in Labour globally.
He presented himself as a moderate, which in reality means he wanted to pull the labor party back to the right again. The very first thing he did was purge the left wing of the party
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Comes in, shits on table, leaves
Epstein pedophile handing contracts to pedo Peter Thiel’s palantir
Cannot wait for trump to take credit for this.
The long-running London production of "The Government" is about to announce its new lead. Don't worry, everything about the show is the same and you'll still be able to buy refreshments during the interval - though the Cost of Living Crisis means prices for beers, wine and choc-ices have to be increased by 50%. "The Government" became a hit when it promised change to the usual Westminster shows but, over the last 50 years has declined in popularity.
"Pure knockabout theatre," is how one critic has described the show while Muddy Wokenfield of The Guardian called it "Vaudeville and Pantomime at it's British best!"
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