Starmer expected to resign on Monday
On the other hand there’s a deffo whiff of his enemies saying this to the newspapers so as to force it.
So, you know.
Starmer expected to resign on Monday
On the other hand there’s a deffo whiff of his enemies saying this to the newspapers so as to force it.
So, you know.
The really important question is how long after Starmer’s defenestration will Victoria hang around ?
“One Labour peer, who is close to the prime minister, insisted Starmer would not “walk away” from No 10 creating a vacuum but would “arrange a deliberate slow march in good order, as a matter of duty and dignity”.”
Would not know duty nor dignity if they slapped him in the face.
The bottle is in the fridge ready for the occasion. I hope the lying traitor goes in the most humiliating way possible.
Agreed, but look at the rough beast trailing him whose hour has come at last. We’re in for an ‘interesting’ ride, I think, until at least 2029!
Damn, I’m in work Monday, will have to save the half bottle of champagne in the fridge for another day!
He hasn’t got the balls to take the whisky and revolver route
I’ve had Tuesday penned in my calendar as his resignation date for about 14 months. It became obvious as soon as he’d been in Number 10 long enough that he was a clueless numpty. Not that Andy Burnham will be any better, which is why I wasn’t fretting about Makerfield despite being a member of Reform UK.
Which Tuesday? :-p
Keir today, gone tomorrow…?
And we swap a *anker for a plonker.
But it’s been a lot of yesterdays.
Assume Burnham gets in, then decides on a roll of the dice and calls an election …
And a lot of Labour MPs lose their seats & importantly their income & prestige. Are their sufficient sinecures in the public & NGO/charity sectors?
As I said in a previous thread, if the back benchers thought he was going to call an election he wouldn’t get nominated party leader. The party members are delusional enough to believe they’d win an early election because he’s beaten Reform, and by definition the right, convincingly.
Yes, mostly taxpayer-funded, and nicely remunerative for ex-MPs.
TTK is adamant that he is not going to give up. Given his record of making U turns he would be gone by Monday but for the fact that even given all the facts he is very very slow at making any decision.
A gripping short story
Keir hung on by the skin of his fingers. But, alas…
A Russian manicure
I fight on. I fight to win.
Going, going, going, going, going…. going, going… still going…
According to the Commentariat and Punditocracy he’s been a long time “going”. I’ll believe it when I see it.
He does have a trump card… back me or I’ll advise HMTK to dissolve Parliament and we can have a leadership contest whilst campaigning for a General Election.
He is poisonous enough to do that.
Oh I hope so, Reform might not win but we’d have a very different parliament.
Amazing thought…. But that’d mean that it’d be the first time in his life he’s shown he actually has something resembling a spine..
A rare thing in invertebrates..
It would be refused. Rightly. Quite clear that there are other Labour MP’s who could ‘command the confidence of the house.’
Yes, this is quite like CBS firing Stephen Colbert.
On July 17, 2025, CBS announced that it would end The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and retire The Late Show franchise altogether in May 2026
Starmer resigning at a date to be named later is not resigning.
The problem with Starmer resigning is that we saw this here in Canada. Trudeau resigned, and was replaced by Carney.
Were any policies changed? No.
The only real consequence was that Carney was able to pull off yet another election.
Mind you, Trump didn’t help by activating Canadians latent anti-Americanism, and the NDP collapsed, resulting in almost all of those switching to the Liberals.
Canadians latent anti-Americanism
Old joke: What’s the difference between Americans and Canadians? Americans don’t care about the difference between Americans and Canadians.
Has any PM ever said ‘Fair cop. I’m out of here’, rather than claiming he had the duty not to abandon the country in its time of need and to steer the ship of state through? Cameron perhaps, after he failed to get a deal from the EU?
Cameron flounced off in a huff. He needn’t have gone from a personal honour point of view. Honourable resignations are as rare as rocking horse droppings in politicians, PMs or not.
Cameron promised he’d implement the result of the EU Referendum. Secure in his promise, millions voted to leave. Cameron then refused to keep his word and flounced off.
In recent times John Healy and Lord Carrington are all I can think of.
Chamberlain.
The man who bought the year required to get us just enough Spitfires and Hurricanes, and their manufacturing process, but also just enough fighter pilots. We nearly ran out. Al Deere’s autobiography is a good read and makes this plain.
Wilson.
He realised that he was going ga-ga, but left poor Jim Callaghan a similar shitshow to the one we have today.
Fortunately, “Burnham is our anchor” scans just as well.
Apparently there’s been muttering among Labour’s female MPs that if Starmer does go then Labour should have a female because the Tories have had loads and it’s embarrassing.
It would be highly amusing if Starmer does resign and Labour’s women get their act together (stop sniggering at the back) and nominate a woman as leader and the membership then does “a Corbyn” and elects her.
Which one? Which of their screeching, deluded harpies might it be? Harperson?