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Re: This is looking like a coronation and a new PM by July – politicalbetting.com
MaggieStarmer care about Starmer . He threw colleagues to the wolves and civil servants. He must go down as one of the worst MPs possibly eclipsing the utterly useless Brown as the worst PM since my teens.Was your favourite Johnson or Truss?
Re: This is looking like a coronation and a new PM by July – politicalbetting.com
There's £63 sitting at 1.82 on BF if you think Streeting is now defo going to CoE.I am feeling optimistic about the UK and the future.The first Cambridge PM since Stanley Baldwin. The first Cambridge CoE since Kwasi Kwarteng.
Cambridge men as PM and Chancellor.
Trying to find a market on Burnham to win more seats than Starmer in 2024.
Re: This is looking like a coronation and a new PM by July – politicalbetting.com
Under a PM from the dump.I am feeling optimistic about the UK and the future.The first Cambridge PM since Stanley Baldwin. The first Cambridge CoE since Kwasi Kwarteng.
Cambridge men as PM and Chancellor.
Trying to find a market on Burnham to win more seats than Starmer in 2024.
PM Burnham and COTE Streeting represents awesomeness of a scale most cannot comprehend.
Re: This is looking like a coronation and a new PM by July – politicalbetting.com
Streeting probably did have the nominations, but knew he would lose with the members.
Andy_JS
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Re: This is looking like a coronation and a new PM by July – politicalbetting.com
I am feeling optimistic about the UK and the future.We come here for your sense of humour.
Cambridge men as PM and Chancellor.
Trying to find a market on Burnham to win more seats than Starmer in 2024.
Nigelb
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Re: This is looking like a coronation and a new PM by July – politicalbetting.com
I think too many have failed to critically analyse what Starmer's 'landslide' actually was. How we used to complain about Tory government majorities lacking a mandate because less that 40% of the vote got them their. Its hard to make the case that Starmer and Labour won the argument in 2024. Firstly because they didn't make any points in the discussion (Ming Vase) and because in reality they left because the Tories mum called them home for tea. Starmer may believe he had a mandate but what did he do with it?How long are we giving the honeymoon?FPT:
A month? Two months? Over by Xmas?
I don’t like Andy Burnham. I’ve said so on these pages several times and don’t intend to revisit the argument.
However.
If he is to be the next PM, and if he is to effect meaningful change, then I wish him well. I want the government to succeed. Only a churl would actively wish it to fail.
The country can seem ungovernable at times, but that is a symptom rather than a cause of our malaise. When people feel poorer, when standards appear to be slipping, and when government seems cloth-eared to the national mood on issue after issue, no leader or party is given anything resembling a fair hearing.
Labour’s shallow landslide was evidence of this: more a reaction to the Tory omni-shambles than a wholehearted endorsement of Labour’s programme.
Labour can turn this around, but not by persisting with Starmer-style managerialism. Can Burnham bring some of Manchester with him? Can he offer a clearer sense of direction and purpose? Can he make any real difference?
I remain sceptical, but I wish him well.
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As for honeymoon, that rather depends on how well England do at the WC...
Re: This is looking like a coronation and a new PM by July – politicalbetting.com
As I'm trying to avoid some extremely dull admin. Thought I'd plot the durations of UK PM's going back ~200 years - and a second with the outliers removed just to see if it made things more obvious.It's the three PM's in 28 years that is the stonking outlier.
Plot of all
Outliers removed
I'm sure someone's probably done this before - but it was more fun than admin. Average tenure of about 3yrs makes the last few years seem a little less 'out there'.
But that's the politics most of us grew up under. So it seems normal.
Re: This is looking like a coronation and a new PM by July – politicalbetting.com
HMG should stop putting its stuff out on X, which increasingly is used to steer British users towards Lowe’s extremistsHow long are we giving the honeymoon?Burnham has lost the Mail, the Telegraph, the Express, the Sun, the Star, GB News, Talk TV and more importantly X already.
A month? Two months? Over by Xmas?
IanB2
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Re: This is looking like a coronation and a new PM by July – politicalbetting.com
I am feeling optimistic about the UK and the future.Things can only get better?
Cambridge men as PM and Chancellor.
Trying to find a market on Burnham to win more seat than Starmer in 2024.
Re: This is looking like a coronation and a new PM by July – politicalbetting.com
As I'm trying to avoid some extremely dull admin. Thought I'd plot the durations of UK PM's going back ~200 years - and a second with the outliers removed just to see if it made things more obvious.
Plot of all
Outliers removed
I'm sure someone's probably done this before - but it was more fun than admin. Average tenure of about 3yrs makes the last few years seem a little less 'out there'.
Plot of all
Outliers removed
I'm sure someone's probably done this before - but it was more fun than admin. Average tenure of about 3yrs makes the last few years seem a little less 'out there'.
ohnotnow
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