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Well, no, not really

But they are questions that Burnham will now have to answer

Andy really doesn’t have to answer indignant questioning from some random blogger, no.

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rhoda klapp
rhoda klapp
23 days ago

What’ the answer for quangos?

Burnham.

What’s the answer for migrant hotels?

Burnham

And HMOs?

Burnham

What’s the answer to two-tier justice?

Burnham.

See, He’s the answer to these and many other problems faced by the UK.

Boganboy
Boganboy
23 days ago
Reply to  rhoda klapp

Sure you don’t mean ’cause’ rather than ‘answer’ Rhoda??

rhoda klapp
rhoda klapp
23 days ago
Reply to  Boganboy

It’s best read out loud.

Bloke in South Dorset
Bloke in South Dorset
23 days ago
Reply to  rhoda klapp

Took me a couple of goes to get it!

andyf
andyf
23 days ago
Reply to  rhoda klapp

At least the problem of Racheal from Accounts will shortly be solved.

Martin Near The M25
Martin Near The M25
23 days ago

I guess he doesn’t have another shot at vermine then.

Bloke in North Dorset
Bloke in North Dorset
23 days ago

Related:

The meltdown by Labour MPs and their supporters because Kemi called Phillipson spiteful and incompetent has been a joy to watch.

This from a party that calls Tories “scum”, leavers “Nazis”, moderate Muslims “Uncle Toms”, Kwasi Kwarteng “not really black”, Liz Truss “a lettuce”, Covid “The Johnson Variant” & Kemi Badenoch “blackface for white supremacy” and su on and so on.

Norman
Norman
23 days ago

When you’re taking flak you’re over the target, and Kemi was spot on.

dearieme
dearieme
23 days ago
Reply to  Norman

She’s come on quite a bit in two years. Whether she can rescue her horror show of a party is another question.

Deveril
Deveril
23 days ago
Reply to  dearieme

If the Tories had any shame, much less any sense of the betrayal and disaster that they have visited on the country, they’d take themselves into a room with a tumbler of whisky and a revolver and do the decent thing.

I don’t want them rescued. I want them ended.

Interested
Interested
23 days ago
Reply to  Deveril

100%.

The first election at which my two eldest could vote was 2019, when they (like my wife and I) voted Tory.

I remember saying to them the next day, when Johnson the Traitor won his 80-seat majority, ‘OK, now we’ll finally sort out Brexit and all the other bollocks’.

I’m ashamed at my naivety, though to be fair I believed basically in ‘the system’ then, a belief which was carpet bombed by the Covid shit.

Never again, you utter cunts.

Not unless you exhume Enoch Powell and Maggie Thatcher and put them in charge, and even then I’d need you to neck shoot half your MPs.

andyf
andyf
23 days ago
Reply to  dearieme

It’s a great pity she was eliminated in the 2022 leadership race. Without Truss and Sunak’s contributions things could have been a lot better.

Deveril
Deveril
23 days ago
Reply to  andyf

2022? So before she became minister for communism?

john77
john77
23 days ago

What would they have called a male leader of the Conservative Party who habitually wore a black shirt?

Grikath
Grikath
23 days ago
Reply to  john77

A Metalhead.. 😛

dearieme
dearieme
23 days ago

I’ve been on holiday. May I just say “Fuck the NHS”? Fucking, fucking, fuck the NHS. Bastards.

Wot does Burnham say to that?

P.S. To elaborate on Charles Moore – I don’t like a smirking socialist who likes to wear black shirts.

Bloke in North Dorset
Bloke in North Dorset
23 days ago
Reply to  dearieme

I’m sure Andy Burnham would see your “Fuck the NHS” and raise you one Stafford Hospital Scandal:

Overview of the Stafford Hospital Scandal

The Stafford Hospital scandal involved severe neglect and high mortality rates at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust during the early 2000s. The hospital, now known as County Hospital, was criticized for its poor care standards, which led to the deaths of many patients. Investigations revealed that management prioritized financial surpluses over patient care, resulting in inadequate staffing and training.

Andy Burnham’s Role

Position and Responsibilities

Title: Secretary of State for Health

Tenure: Burnham served during a critical period when the scandal was unfolding.

Criticism: He faced scrutiny for his oversight of the NHS and the handling of inquiries into the scandal.

Henry Crun
Henry Crun
23 days ago

He should have done time for corporate manslaughter.

Norman
Norman
23 days ago
Reply to  dearieme

Had a bit of a run-in, DM?

bloke in spain
bloke in spain
23 days ago
Reply to  Norman

He might have encountered another country’s health care system on his travels. That revelation can seriously change opinions.
I’ve been hearing some whining about the Spanish care system. She is upset because she’ll probably have to wait for a month for something was discovered after a walk in consultation. If only she knew how the “Best Health System in the World” functioned. Soaring heights the Spanish system could only dream of.

Michael van der Riet
Michael van der Riet
23 days ago

Tim, your friend and mine George Mikes would have called them “petulant expostulations.”

jgh
jgh
23 days ago

I’m sure you can get something at Boots for that.

BraveFart
BraveFart
23 days ago

I wonder, has Andy Burnham even heard of, never mind read, the Courageous State and the Joy of Tax?

And if not, why not? Right thinking people and civil society demand a response. PS, you can use AI to send an email on this point to your own MP to apply pressure.

Once Burnham has absorbed and accepted the points made in these seminal texts, he can move on to the Taxing Wealth Report, which sets out the solutions to all of our problems.

I remain available to discuss with him all of the salient points about the direction we should be taking. Reimbursement of modest travel and accommodation expenses would be required. As a primer, I have posted hundreds of videos on YouTube he can watch.

Bloke in South Dorset
Bloke in South Dorset
23 days ago
Reply to  BraveFart

The trouble is, this seems to be how he actually thinks. The only things that made me realise this wasn’t a quote are that it is too moderate, too polite and the spelling is correct.

Matt
Matt
23 days ago

That and no “Two-hundred-and-ninety-fourthly.”

bloke in spain
bloke in spain
23 days ago

Wasn’t the politician’s response to questions patented by the Viscount Wedgwood-Benn?
“That is an interesting & important question. But the question I want to answer is this ……”

Agammamon
Agammamon
23 days ago

Burnham only needs to answer questions from people who vote for him.

He got elected MP – so he doesn’t need to answer the questions of the people in his constituency.

He’s moving to be elected PM – so he only needs to answer questions from those of his party and any coalition he is organizing to vote him into office.

At no point is there any reason for Burnham to feel the need to answer questions from random Britains – they have no say thus they do not matter.

Boddicker
Boddicker
23 days ago

It must hurt a lot when you think you’re as important as he imagined he is and the phone call never comes. (Don’t forget last week he claimed to have changed world policy on wealth taxes)
Nobody answers his questions and the only thing he gets asked is Richard Who? It would make anyone take solace in imaginary friends

Van_Patten
Van_Patten
22 days ago
Reply to  Boddicker

Clarence

The rumour mill is buzzing that Gary Stevenson, who blanked Murphy after reading his output, is being lined up as an economic advisor which might explain his annoyance!!

Bloke in North Dorset
Bloke in North Dorset
23 days ago

From Maddie Grant’s Speccie evening news later, Labour has jumped the shark, or is it Poe’s Law?

Our political editor Tim Shipman’s larest magazine article features an astonishing segment which reveals much about the Labour party’s current state of mind towards the vexed question of female leadership – or lack of it. A senior figure describes Andy Burnham as ‘Labour’s first woman prime minister’.

 

They add: ‘The reason Labour have always craved, but also been cautious about, a female leader is because, in a Labour government, she could have an unashamedly female agenda, focused on health, education, family finances and issues like safer streets, social care, online safety for kids, that are disproportionately important to women. [This would be] unlike the Tories’ female leaders, who are under internal pressure – and the weight of history – to show how tough they are on traditionally male issues. Along comes Andy, surrounded by female advisers and backers, but more importantly, genuinely passionate about all those traditionally female-oriented issues, and much less so with the bombs and budgets. So could we finally see what Labour has failed to deliver all these years – a female PM in all but sex?’’

Norman
Norman
23 days ago

Madeline. I would. In every respect.

Ottokring
Ottokring
23 days ago
Reply to  Norman

A fine filly. Comes across as a bit giggly which makes her even more endearing. And she is very tall.

Norman
Norman
23 days ago
Reply to  Ottokring

She’s a cracking writer. I bet she’s great company with a sense of humour like that.

Grikath
Grikath
23 days ago

All I read in that is an unmitigated disaster…

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