Meet the man who could ruin the Burnham premiership – politicalbetting.com
Meet the man who could ruin the Burnham premiership – politicalbetting.com
In some ways any British Prime Minister having to deal with Donald Trump has my immense sympathy having to having to react the unstableness of Trump who is ruining American alliances in a way a Moscow plant can only dream about.
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Yes, he will disappoint.
My eyes, my eyes
He will be fresher than Macron, have a stronger domestic position than Merz, run a more important country than Carney and have more international relevance than Meloni.
If he plays his cards right, he could be PM for a decade.
Even if all the sleepy stuff were not true that's such nonsense even for the world's fittest 80 year old, but i don't doubt the poster sincerely believed it.
But i do think Labour could be value for the next GE.
There again the PBers who couldn't contain their excitement at PMs Johnson and Truss are the ones predicting Burnham will be rubbish.
Just sayin'
Missing the Farage shorts photo?
At the moment I sense the world is actually a bit bored with Trump, has got used to the way he operates and is waiting with interest to see if he can recover the sheer political and rhetorical violence of the peak fascist gangster days of last year. Eg would Trump have the will to put the military on the streets to make sure the November elections don't happen? A year ago I would have said yes. Now, not so sure.
What I can't see is Burnham using compliments, smarm and kingly letters in his pocket as a party trick. You can take the boy out of Liverpool but... and all that.
Erdogan, for all his domestic nastiness, has shown for years that a mid ranking regional power can get the better of superpowers if it shows the right amount of chutzpah, with a twinkle in the eye.
Just keep a civil and polite distance from him.
No need to have shouting matches as much as some dream of a "Love Actually" moment between the PM and POTUS, but also no need to suck up to him.
Soaring temperatures force festivals across the country to call time at the bar amid public safety concerns
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/06/21/france-alcohol-ban-heatwave-europe-safety-events-cancelled/ (£££)
I assume I am not included in your observation !!!!!
I wonder if he will go for somebody a bit more to the right.
In general, though, that generation of actor had grown up on the stage where subtlety was barely an option, and then in small-screen television where often they'd be framed in close-up or very small, which combined to give the appearance of mugging.
Old sitcom actors were decent actors and appeared, by and large, in a range of productions. There were the exceptions but generally decent actors.
It's exactly the same mistake that SKS did in replacing the Tories.
Whether he still supports it, and whether he has the cojones to go ahead with it, is another question.
Excellent idea if so. Hope it goes ahead. Won't hold my breath though.
Who does he buy his clothes from?
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116784032456610294
Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from causing trouble. If they don’t, we’ll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116788337995785578
The great man's thoughts on Middle East peace (and grift).
In the Makerfield by-election itself, many of Burnham's supporters are Reform voters, directly crossing over either because they like Burnham or because he is going to get rid of Starmer, or both. BigG's convoluted theory that Burnham drew his support from loyal Tories determined to sock it to Farage was deeply implausible.
A cabinet minister tells me that, despite Donald J Trump’s “scoop”, the PM has genuinely not made a decision to quit, or at least he hasn’t yet. The minister says that if Keir Starmer’s wife Vic were to encourage him to fight on, he might just do that - though the minister assumes there is a low probability of such an outcome.
This is a funny one that goes against party lines, but there would be significant numbers here on both left and right that would support a rebalancing of tax towards land (which is finite) and away from work. There would of course be equivalently significant numbers here, both on left and right, that would vehemently oppose that too.
It reminds me of a West Wing scene where they were talking about Social Security, but housing is arguably the British equivalent to that in significance.
Bartlet: "Social Security is the third rail of American politics. Touch it, and you die."
Toby: "That's 'cause the third rail's where all the power is."
I'd really hate to see the current version of it.
Probably waiting for the Supreme Court to let him know if he should resign.
I expect Farage may leave Reform in the next 12 months and indeed lose their shine as the Andy - Kemi show hits town over the next 3 years
Pay people to be idle and they will.
In one that was of crucial significance they chose Burnham.
Starmer and Reeves' problem is they have drastically reduced immigration, which some might think is a good thing, but haven't got credit for it. If Burnham is serious about growing the economy he will need to reverse their policy and make the positive case for immigration. The easier option for him though is to take credit for Starmer and Reeves actual reduction in immigration.
I know we’re mostly inured to Donald Trump’s disregard for institutional norms and proprieties, but pre-announcing the resignation of the prime minister of America’s supposedly most important ally is pretty extreme, even by his standards. UK ministers are genuinely and understandably shocked
https://x.com/Peston/status/2068705056589758797
3-0 after 23 minutes.
Reminds me of the old days when Conservatives used to tell anyone they couldnt win an argument against to fk off and join UKIP.
Then when they did and stopped the Tories winning seats they looked pretty stupid.
The Tories have pissed off too many people and need to buy the occasional hair shirt
A lot of the presnt mess can be traced back to their stupodity
I wish him well now the Machiavellian mischief is done.
#TooSoon?
Just like inflation falling means prices are not going up as fast, not that they are coming back down.
The number of immigrants per annum does not for immigration to be falling.
Burnham: The Mancunian Candidate?
2 Even if you have taken onboard that Trump is not a nice man at all, he can (and does) still shock with how not-nice he is.
Have no fear
I could go on.
Nothing amuses me more than kamikaze Chris Philp who bravely goes on TV to criticise the government only for interviewres to pull him apart bit by bit as he tries to attack a policy his own party introduced.
By number of immigrants I meant the number of people coming into the country. Not people who already live here, like (I presume) TSE's parents.
The normal meaning of "immigration" in English is surely 'the number of people coming into the country".
Farage or Badenoch would by now have us as the 52nd State utterly subservient and at War with Iran.
Any thought of either of them ever being PM is as dangerous as the Mail and Express wanting Oswald Moseley as PM in 1940.
Immigration is a first order change, it measures the rate of change. Like inflation. Which means like inflation it can mean the number of immigrants in the country can be going up even if immigration is coming down, just as inflation falling can still mean prices going up.
However you changed the language by referring to the number of immigrants, rather than the word immigration. The number of immigrants in this country arguably includes previous migration so is not a first order change, it is an absolute number. The number of immigrants per annum, is what immigration measures, so is the first order change and it falling is a second order change that is possible even if still positive, like inflation.