Wes end goals – politicalbetting.com
Wes end goals – politicalbetting.com
I’m told govt whips believe: 1. Wes Streeting will make his move on Thursday, to avoid clashing with King’s Speech; 2. Andy Burnham doesn’t have MP ready to quit; 3. Besides 87 MPs who’ve publicly called for Sir Keir Starmer to go, same number privately want him to step down.
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/27241568/wes-streeting-deny-burning-pet-shop-conspiracy/
I wonder how long this situation will linger.
The rest of the useless crowd obviously and quite correctly judge that their constituents might not like the downgrade.
More interesting is the much larger number of MPs who have expressed no public opinion either way.
Which suggests the majority of the parliamentary party has yet to decide which way it will jump.
Burnham has disappeared up his own arsehole.
It won't go down well with the British public, and nor will his "Madchester" act.
Coningsby is set in the early 1830s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coningsby_(novel)
@garius.bsky.social
A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet.
which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.
Who can appeal to them?
As we're all wondering about the challenge to Starmer.
I can’t be bullied. I can’t be bought. I’ve stood for the same principles for many decades.
https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/2021872161204400631
"I can't be bought" was, of course, Trump's line.
What can the Greens say now that Polanski has been caught out . Reform given Farages dodgy donations really should stay quiet . So that leaves the Tories and Lib Dem’s who can make political capital out of it .
I still think it’s very risky for Labour to try and replace Starmer with Rayner until her tax issue has been resolved.
Why it’s taking so long to resolve is hard to understand.
Labour-backing trade unions just stuck this out collective statement, saying Starmer will be gone before next election and can we have a leadership election “at some stage” please.
https://bsky.app/profile/jim.londoncentric.media/post/3mlpqhci5dk2f
The idea that HMRC can do anything complex in a time frame of less than a decade is unheard of.
And Rayner can’t get special treatment
There's never a perfect plan, sometimes you just have to go with what you have.
I mean nobody can be that thick, especially after the Liz Truss experience, can they?
I don't see Streeting vs Farage as anything other than a first round knockout. Punters will be angrily demanding their money back.
18 months ago I took my pension under the Mcloud remedy, and am due several thousands in income tax refund but 18 months on they still haven't recalculated my contributions. I am not allowed to calculate them myself it seems.
God begins to cry
Shit, yes. Boring, no.
The longer this drags out, the worse, more entitled, arrogant it looks.
See the prognostications of The Verruca during the Greek Crisis.
He's got a compelling backstory.
New: Starmer loses the unions.
“It is clear” the PM will not lead Labour into the next election, unions affiliated to the party said.
A statement issued by 11 unions including Unite, Unison and GMB, said a plan will have to be put in place for the election of a new leader.
They said it was clear Labour “cannot continue on its current path”.
https://bsky.app/profile/generalboles.bsky.social/post/3mlm4ouq4fs2s
Before that, UKIP.
Before that, Referendum Party.
Or just watch it.
Tennant's version of Hamlet (saw it live; good, but not brilliant) is available on iPlayer.
Olivier's 1948 film will be on one of the streaming services; there's also the Branagh one. etc
Ornery buggers, them voters.
It took two years. The cleared me.
Two years of stress though.
https://x.com/paulmasonnews/status/2054229532404519082
But secondly, the policies they really would like to put in place won’t help the country or its fiscal situation, and no leader change will fix that (indeed it will make things worse).
What we really need is a grown up party taking reasonable measures on fiscal restraint and institutional/regulatory reform. Unfortunately that’s not sexy enough for Labour MPs so they’d rather live in a fantasy world instead.
A bunch of teenagers managed to engage in a conspiracy that meant no witness ever came forward, no evidence was found, no pictures taken.
Or
It’s made up.
And they clearly cannot wait. I got the Taktika just after Christmas, I waited a quarter of a century to get this translation of The Marshes of Mount Liang, and Thief of Time is a delight to read that also completes the Death Collection.
The main, maybe only, thing he has to do now is make sure that, when he goes, the shortlist for his replacement is better than Burnham, Rayner or Streeting.
Does he have the numbers to trigger now?
If so is he more likely to win by triggering now than by holding off?
If it's 'yes' to both he launches a formal leadership challenge after the King's Speech. So later this week.
If it's 'no' to either question he doesn't and it falls to Andy Burnham to make the next move.
Burnham will never be PM. He is unlikely to be an MP again
Hope you don't think I'm Being Boring by mentioning this again!
I had a completely trivial matter with them which their own guidelines say should take 40 days.
It took two years.
They kept losing paperwork (and why did I have to do these things on paper in 2026?), issuing contradictory instructions, ignoring their own guidelines, going of at irrelevant tangents, threatening me to get information I'd already sent, often more than once, forgetting about it for long periods despite repeated prompts, etc. etc. etc.
Basically a parody of an arrogant, unaccountable, incompetent bureaucracy.
In fairness they did subsequently apologise for their really extraordinary conduct.
Unlike, say, the Passport Office, who in my experience are pretty good most of the time, HMRC are truly dire the moment you have something that is even slightly out of the ordinary.
“You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”
Politicians have these Cunning Plans. Then reality does the wrong thing.
See the previous thread, Ed Miliband will stand to stop Wes.
Whoever comes next really DOES need new policies new ideas new attitudes, or they will soon earn the same disdain if not quite the same loathing
They will also need as much time as possible. Three years minimum, I’d have thought, to make a material improvement
That time is rapidly running out
It's rather that many are of deeply questionable benefit.