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Would Burnham have stood to be an MP if Labour were doing well in the polls ?

Why didn’t Burnham stand in 2024 when he would have easily won any election ?

Clearly he only wanted to stand because he saw an opening to become leader and PM . That’s politics !

Those beatifying Burnham shouldn’t clutch too many pearls.

Equally I still think he should have been allowed to stand .

From the NEC

It's disappointing that this doesn't have a Schwarzenegger-style acrostic but other than that this is obviously the correct response.

I don't really understand what Burnham was expecting would happen here.

There is only one solution now left.

It has to be Ed Balls.

As leader, he would free @bigjohnowls from the need to support a fascist party.

Ed Balls has a cushy number interviewing Z listers about their upcoming reality show or tame interviews with lobbyists advancing their cause on breakfast TV

Why would he move away from that.

The Trumpdozer effect.

Europeans travelling to the US falling off a cliff.

https://x.com/ianbremmer/status/2015397168987697528?s=61

Mrs Stodge is very concerned about flying through the US on our next visit to the mother-in-law in NZ.

I'm more concerned about three months with the mother-in-law.

I've suggested we go through Vancouver - adds a bit to the journey time - or we go the other way, via Singapore or Hong Kong.

The huge own goal here is that Labour supporters who want Starmer to go might think they should vote Green in the by election - which will empower people to say “Andy would have won!” and/or make the leadership look even weaker, because if they can’t win this seat they are set for a cataclysmic 2029

They have to get through a catyclismic 2026 first..

From the NEC

Wanted. One backbone. Send to Zack Polanski at Green Party HQ.

https://x.com/meganekenyon/status/2015414803083260191?s=61

That complicates Green odds somewhat, but perhaps it is a tactical play to contrast strongly with Labour.

I think the Greens are a much more devolved party in terms of how local parties relate to the national party, so may be as simple as that.

Today is the day Labour lost the next General Election.

They can't all lose. Last week was the week Reform lost the next election as collateral damage with Trump sliding down the hill into fascist irrelevance. Everyone is sure the Tories lost the next election years ago. The LDs lost the next election a bit after WWI. The Greens are not in the contest but would like you to spend a million pounds on a perpetual motion heating machine.

Today is the day Labour lost the next General Election.

They've not exactly looked like winning it before today.