Burnham confirms he wants to stand in the by-eleciton – politicalbetting.com
Burnham confirms he wants to stand in the by-eleciton – politicalbetting.com
I have today written to the Chair of Labour’s National Executive Committee seeking permission to enter the selection process for a candidate for the forthcoming Gorton and Denton by-election.Read my letter here.?? pic.twitter.com/TwKgADsuSB
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Polanski should now run in order to beat Labour's currently popular recovery choice, that would ruin morale.
I'd love him to stand and lose to the Greens!
@JohnRentoul
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At exactly 5pm, on the deadline
Anyone know where the nearest poorhouse to Sheffield is?
It seems likely to have been, and I wonder under what agreement it was restricted.
Partly as I have £15 on the Greens.
Partly because we have a needless sideshow which will harm the govt and distract from the business of the day.
He might just have undone all the work he's done rebuilding his reputation since he was last in Parliament.
As Cookie's comment suggests.
https://x.com/David_J_Bier/status/2015089069953343817
Reports are that ICE also arrested witnesses.
Out of control thugs.
So on a scale of 1933 to 1936, where are we so far ?
His non denials to over the last 24 hours or so were a huge pointer that he was going to stand.
https://x.com/TimesRadio/status/2014680441937138136
Andy Burnham would win Andrew Gwynne’s Manchester seat by a landslide rivalled by Kim Jong Un, says The Times’s chief political commentator @PatrickkMaguire.
Despair hardly describes it
TSE's modesty is legendary.
If yes - trouble at t'mill.
If no - trouble at t'mill.....
This isn't the peak Blair-era when, during by-elections, Labour could run pretty much whoever they wanted and be assured of victory. Labour are polling as low as 14%.
It depends just how strong his personal brand is.
Whether we are at "Where are your troubles now?", or "Even the orchestra is beautiful"... The end point is coming into view.
A bientot.
* I know one doesn't normally find Starmer and sensible in the same sentence.
Gratitude is a bit like respect in that people who are msot obsessed with demanding it rarely ever show it to other people, and actively discourage it as a result.
I really thought he would wait until 2027/28 - so losing Manchester to Reform would not look so bad.
Don't take tips from me.
"Are you going to get rid of that stupid twat of a Prime Minister? If so, you've got my vote..."
"Er...."
My advice to Starmer: chill out and just let it happen. If Burnham is elected, welcome him warmly, and just take if from there. He's promised not to undermine you in his letter: take him at his word unless/until there's evidence to the contrary.
But I think the same of Starmer and Badenoch, so perhaps my standards are too high for 2026.
Will Labour let Burnham stand, will Polanski stand, how’s about Gorgeous, and will Reform find a former Tory MP?
Could this be one of those where 25% wins it?
https://x.com/rapidresponse47/status/2015105148880671153
Rumour is that the brass hats at the Pentagon were furious with him, and rightly so.
I read this morning that Trump was concerned that Minneapolis wasn’t playing well for him. It was supposed to create confrontation and increase the salience of immigration, thereby favouring Trump. Instead it just looks (and seems to be) like a gang of masked thugs running riot on the streets of a major U.S. metro.
I would be deeply ashamed and depressed if I were American, and I’d hope I’d have the courage to protest against these outrages against the rule of law.
America has its ICE-atollahs.
Humility is not necessarily, er, necessary, but disguising ambition and narcissism can be important to be likeable.
I don't get a massive ego vibe from Burnham, though as a senior politician I'm sure he has one, that kind of self-belief is useful to get ahead.
So he can fxck right off and the damage has already been done.
At least SOMEONE in the administration cares about UK-US relations.
Ariel soap
Chery (EV brand)
Victorian Plumbing
Which matters on the national scene in a way that it doesn’t as a metro mayor.
As equal 8th I have no prospects and can just say what I like.
Suggests somebody senior in the military stood over him and said "Sign this."
I also think he should not have put his hat in the ring, and he should finish his term as mayor, and that he isn't close to being PM material. My guess is that he is also far from a certainty in the by election.
(Carney has rather raised the bar as to what the PM of a middle ranking great country should be like. Starmer isn't all that close, but a lot closer than Burnham.)
But he’s not out of the woods next.
I’d hope that Charles was taking Canadian advice as importantly as British counsel.
Trump really would be behaving better if Kemi was PM.
And it's all a nonsense anyway - some offensive comments are not why we (and others) need to urgently separate ourselves as much as possible from the USA. It is because Trump (and Vance and co) has made it very clear their view of America First requires allies to subordinate themselves to the USA, and accept diplomatic, economic, and possibly even military aggression if they resist.
Even if the latter is just 'tough talk' game playing, it is not a game allies should be subjected to, and not a game we want to still be involved in. And we cannot assume the game will stop just because Trump will not be there forever.
Nor has he said that the original words were wrong or incorrect. He has written over his script but not deleted it.
His judgement has often been suspect and his ruthlessness unrelenting.
As Jeremy Thorpe famously said quoting Wilfred Owen.......
"Greater love hath no man than this; that he lay down his friends for his life"
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/love-bombing
But we know what you mean
I have been battered this afternoon by the PB Tories for my hostility to their boy Burnham. I was critical of Johnson for his blind ambition (and Jenrick). So I may be a James Hunt (rhyming slang) but I am a consistent (Emmanual) Kant.
A fair bit of his appeal is that he hasn't had to do anything politically unpleasant for ages. The smart thing would be to offer AB a job he can't refuse, but also dips his hands in the blood of unpopularity pretty quickly.
Wonder what works best?
Is it not possible that this is just a basic belief that Starmer is leading Labour and the Country in the wrong direction and that he believes he can do a better job? Is that ambition and narcissism or just normal behaviour? In any walk of life if you think someone is doing a bad job and will elad you to disaster the you do something about it. In Vietnam they fragged their officers.
You clearly are not taking this well
So it's two pages of disingenuous crap, then.