Will Andy Burnham become an MP in 2026? – politicalbetting.com
Will Andy Burnham become an MP in 2026? – politicalbetting.com
This market from Ladbrokes does not expect Andy Burnham to become an MP and I agree, the key quote from the Sunday Telegraph about Andy Burnham winning over the NEC
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The 'major' parties can only dream of such success.
https://x.com/HaterReport/status/2050717420713627671
https://x.com/keir_starmer/status/2050848136776622272?s=61
@DPJHodges
At last year's Labour conference Keir Starmer framed himself at the man who could defeat Nigel Farage. From what I heard in Washington, the irony is he's actually throwing Nigel Farage a political life-line.
https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2050856611787280595
It drove so many people mad especially when Sir Keir was cleared.
https://x.com/keir_starmer/status/2050848139972587885?s=61
I share TSE's scepticism as expressed earlier in the (previous) thread.
These stories are clearly coming from the Burnham camp, with absolutely no cooroberating evidence. "Story" is an apt word for them because they are fiction. The Telegraph doesn't mind running them because they serve to undermine Starmer. But I remember the times when those on the left didn't lap up every word they read in the Telegraph as the gospel truth.
Reality is that Starmer has ensured that the factional right in the Labour Party is absolutely dominant in terms of the NEC officer posts, with the exception of Lucy Powell who they could not prevent from being elected as Deputy Leader. Even if some of them have decided that Starmer has to go, then such is their factionalism that they are not going to try an engineer a drawn out coup that would somehow usher in the favoured candidate of the Socialist Campaign Group, just because he is the candidate most likely to appeal to the general public. They will try a reset with one of their own, which means either getting behind Streeting or, if they think Streeting has no hope of winning a member ballot, they might just compromise a bit and favour someone with broader appeal like say Cooper. But with Burnham flying his left wing manifesto from the rooftops, no way will they facilitate a route for Burnham.
I cannot find the quote right now but there were some Labour MPs speaking off the record saying it would look hypocritical to criticise the tax affairs of Farage & Tice when you're led by somebody who has been fined by HMRC.
Exclusive: Brainchild of Dominic Cummings, Aria is aimed at funding ‘crazy’ scientific projects to benefit the UK
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/03/uk-invention-agency-aria-pledges-70-million-public-money-us-tech-venture-capital-dominic-cummings
Bringing forward the Miami grand prix by three hours because a bit of bad weather.
You wouldn't see this nonsense in Europe.
https://t.me/noel_reports/45857?single
Ukraine also hit a couple of oil tankers outside the export terminal at Novorossiysk.
We hear people saying they’ll never vote Labour again, Labour is finished etc etc.
If they get a new leader people don’t hate it will change.
Farage is only popular because Labour isn’t.
But this will only matter if Labour change leaders. They must.
SNP on 57 and the Greens on 11. Greens look a little low to me. The SNP may well have a serious apathy problem but not enough to cause them major problems. Labour on 16 would be not much short of catastrophic. Reform on 19 would be a major change in Scotland.
Bit like Burnham.
Did Kemi Badenoch really use footage of Bloody Sunday to hail the awesomeness of the British Army?
Not policies or values - just the Popular Front For Judea vs The People’s Front for Judea.
1) It's about defending UK veterans from prosecution
and
2) She's done a Starmer and blamed her staff.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/02/kemi-badenoch-social-media-posts-bloody-sunday-footage
https://x.com/thatbloodymikey/status/2050503751547469942?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
Their deputy leader on the other hand, how can anyone justify having him in place?
Betting PostF1: my incredibly sleepy bet is Leclerc, each way at 6.
https://morrisf1.blogspot.com/2026/05/miami-2026-pre-race.html
The premise of the cartoon is thuddingly crass and unfunny - that's what people should be focusing on. "Har har he attacked the police verbally so I'm going to show him attacking them physically har har har."
Your latest comment has the potential to get PB into trouble.
Desist.
Though I've listened to hardly any politics over the last few weeks I've manged to hear Starmer boast that he took the principled decision not to invade Iran a dozen times. It's all I remember him saying. It's like he was presented with a bone at Crufts and won't let go. Someone told him that there was a poll showing that NOT invading Iran was popular and he grabbed it.........
Until then I hadn't worked out what it was that I found so unsellable about Starmer. Dull and uninspired yes but not surely a voter repellent like Farage and Badenoch..............
And there it was staring me in the face. The man's a coward. He lacks the single ingredient a leader needs. The ability to lead. That is something Burnham's got. His past is pretty dire but Manchester is now the fastest growing City in the UK and one of the hottest places to live I believe. So get him in there.
I posted the link yesterday just before she took it down.
Last week I was in Africa with a group of Gen Z/Millennial women. Late 20s to early 40s. They were all pleasant, funny, educated, smart. Nice bunch. We all had a genuinely lovely time
They were also misinformed on lots of issues. They believed lots of woke nonsense and seemed bewildered when I gently showed them the irrefutable facts. So they couldn’t argue. They just went quiet and frowned in a perplexed way, like when you buy a shiny new object and it simply doesn’t perform as expected. I didn’t do this a lot so as to keep the mood buoyant, I could have corrected them on plenty more occasions
Anyway at one point the subject “Manchester” came up and one woman, a mildly proud Manc, mentioned a Mancunian achievement by a Manc guy. He was Jewish so I said, as pure idle chit chat, “yes there’s a big Jewish community in Manchester isn’t there?”
I had absolutely no agenda. It was small talk over lunch. But her face clouded and she looked pained at the very idea - of a Jewish community in her town, of talking about Jews - and she gave the briefest nod and hurriedly said: “Manchester has lots of people from India, there’s a really big Muslim community, I love the food”
Am I over-interpreting? It was definitely odd albeit fleeting. It wasn’t overt antisemitism - “I hate Jews” - but it felt like a flicker of negativity, like a brief wish that the Jews weren’t there
Luke Akehurst
@lukeakehurst
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I suspect this story is being briefed out by the same people who briefed journalists earlier this year that they had a 5-4 majority on the NEC Officers' Group then lost the vote 8-1.
https://x.com/lukeakehurst/status/2050879937268125702
Luke Akehurst
@lukeakehurst
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I suspect this story is being briefed out by the same people who briefed journalists earlier this year that they had a 5-4 majority on the NEC Officers' Group then lost the vote 8-1.
https://x.com/lukeakehurst/status/2050879937268125702
A hooked nose is definitely an anti-semitic trope.
Secondly, I notice that Kemi (or more likely one of her team) is looking at the issue. It's brave raising it just before the elections. Whoever gets elected will have to deal with Adult Social Care without the ability to do anything about it.
- Why don't young women love me like they used to?
- Why don't they smile when I tell them things off the internet like my Twitter friends (who really love me) do?
- Why don't they listen when I lecture them at parties?
It's a mystery, I tell you.In context, Badenoch is pretty young herself, being born well after the events. But if she's going to wade in on the issue, she might at least educate herself, and ditto her staffers.
Is she really claiming that she allows juniors to put out offensive crap under her name without signing off on it ?
One of them was a woke food pundit. She said she’d been writing about how Britain appropriates foreign food and claims it as its own, in a bad way. She wasn’t shouting about it but it was an example of that mild anti-British negativity you get, quite a lot, from woke people
Her example? Was how Britain stole chicken tikka masala from India. She specifically said “chicken tikka masala”, not just “curry”. I GENTLY pointed out that chicken tikka masala was almost certainly invented in Britain. By a South Asian chef probably in Glasgow
She refused to believe this until I gave several unimpeachable sources. She then did the perplexed face I mentioned and then said - I quote - “oh well who cares anyway the British can have it” in a slightly peeved voice
I mean, it’s ridiculously trivial. But they kept saying this stuff and - as I mentioned - I stopped correcting them as it would have soured a properly jolly mood
A fascinating week
Sounds perfect for you 😂
Not all kids are incels
And yes the hooked nose is a definite trope
Turn off replies and it's all "too afraid to let the people reply"
Stay off SM and it creates a void for others to fill.
Bottom line is that not all our opinions are equally valid, but that's not the spirit of the age.
No matter how much you try, you’re not going to get us to watch it along with you. Give up
Solipsistic Preener would make a decent username, though a bit of stiff competition over who deserves it most.
Ukraine shot down 249 of 268 Russian long-range drones last night. An impressive 93% interception rate. But still 19 drones got through.
A police cordon is in place in a residential area of Bristol after a suspicious explosion killed two people. Police are also investigating at another address.
https://news.sky.com/story/bristol-house-explosion-latest-two-die-in-suspicious-blast-with-major-incident-declared-13534043
Not terrorism according to police.
And did it in more than one house.
This has happened many, many times before.
(1) The sullen hostility of rail travel. Passengers are treated putative criminals, not customers. I scanned (just one) of my train tickets yesterday so my family of four could go through the wide gate with the pushchair and all our luggage as one at Hampton Court, and then one "friendly" one walked over and scanned every single one of my tickets and then, not being satisfied they hadn't caught us out there, asked to see my Network Rail Card. I didn't get a thank you, Sir, enjoy your trip; she was clearly disappointed. And that's just leisure travel. I often see three lines of defence at Waterloo at peak hours too where you have ticket guards, backed up by revenue protection (as close to a British gestapo as you can get) and private security guards behind them. No smiles. Just looking for prey.
(2) No-one owning a problem. My AEG freezer broke down 2 weeks ago after just 3 years and it was very obvious from the way the engineer behaved from the second they walked in through my front door that they saw their job as to find reasons to void the warranty, not fix the problem. He also inadvertently let slip that his firm was on a fixed price contract. So, he claimed it wasn't installed to 'specification', and voided the warranty. Not helping us in any way to fix the freezer until I asked, and then he mumbled something about a new compressor and re-gassing it - if not a new fridge/freezer - but didn't do it or offer to do it if we paid him. Our original kitchen installer, once contacted, said it was precisely installed to specification and there was no issue, and said it's a fault with the appliance, and AEG's fault. So we have two groups of people more interested in avoiding blame than resolving the problem for the customer. And, consequently, we still have no working freezer.
That's Britain's real problem today: ordinary people are treated as a problem to manage (if not the true problem themselves) rather than people to help, with a real air of mutual unpleasant mistrust and suspicion.
I had thought your username was an ironic reference to the claimed Unionist Dividend for Scotland beloved of Scottish Unionist politicians. But I see now it is a more literal description. You are the embodiment of a unionist dividend for English posters to PB.com.
I thank you for your service.
He's a bad enough cartoonist for that just to be him doing what he does for many of his subjects. He's very poor at capturing a caricature likeness, as opposed to just making his subjects look a much uglier version of themselves.
I dislike his work a lot, but I genuinely can't tell if it springs from malice or just lack of talent.
The clown show continues. Assuming the candidates who are announced on May 15th are the two leaders of the first round* -
Roberto Sánchez - hopecasting from the left
Keiko Fujimori - hopecasting from the right
Sadly, despite repeated attempts with Old Man Fujimori’s desk**, Liz Truss was ineligible. She would be an improvement over both of them.
*This is Peru. Anything can happen. In fact funny business in politics is mandatory - so anything *must* happen.
**Keiko’s father was under indictment, after he presidency. He found a Japanese passport that he’d never applied for (or had a right to) in his desk. So he did the obvious thing anyone would do. Booked a one way flight to Japan. He ended up coming back and getting jailed***
*** Peru has a special jail for ex-presidents. It’s full.