I am sure that Burnham wouldn't have been anywhere near as duplicitous as Starmer has been but I have little confidence that he would have the strength to face down the influences behind the current leadership even if McSwindler is sacked. It would be far better were Burnham and those from the soft-left-to-socialist members of the parliamentary party to quit the whip (and the mayoral post in Burnham's case) then either leave politics altogether or find spines and get on board with the Independent Alliance - also resigning and forcing by-elections while they are at it. UK politics is due a shake-up and unfortunately the Sultana-Corbyn thing has already blown the opportunity for that ... hopefully just for now, maybe - but I am not holding my breath.
I left the Party when RLB was sacked from the shadow cabinet - no, not Regis le Bris, though even he has more honesty and integrity in his left big toe than Starmer has shown in the last six years at least. The parliamentary party is fkd, with no chance of rehabilitation (the Tories likewise) ... so to keep fascists out of power in 2029, everyone else (Greens certainly, even the clown Davey) needs to figure out a strategy to stop them, then to agree to a working version of PR. I have maybe ten years left if I am lucky (twenty if I am unlucky) and two things sustain my will to continue for a while longer - to see PR in UK politics and the political immolation of the state of Israel (not the people physically, do not misrepresent these words). Clouds and cuckoos.
Haway the Lads! Yep, I know, sport and politics eh? The Lasses too of course but after losing 5-0 away to Liverpool in the League Cup yesterday ... er ...
I am sure that Burnham wouldn't have been anywhere near as duplicitous as Starmer has been but I have little confidence that he would have the strength to face down the influences behind the current leadership even if McSwindler is sacked. It would be far better were Burnham and those from the soft-left-to-socialist members of the parliamentary party to quit the whip (and the mayoral post in Burnham's case) then either leave politics altogether or find spines and get on board with the Independent Alliance - also resigning and forcing by-elections while they are at it. UK politics is due a shake-up and unfortunately the Sultana-Corbyn thing has already blown the opportunity for that ... hopefully just for now, maybe - but I am not holding my breath.
I left the Party when RLB was sacked from the shadow cabinet - no, not Regis le Bris, though even he has more honesty and integrity in his left big toe than Starmer has shown in the last six years at least. The parliamentary party is fkd, with no chance of rehabilitation (the Tories likewise) ... so to keep fascists out of power in 2029, everyone else (Greens certainly, even the clown Davey) needs to figure out a strategy to stop them, then to agree to a working version of PR. I have maybe ten years left if I am lucky (twenty if I am unlucky) and two things sustain my will to continue for a while longer - to see PR in UK politics and the political immolation of the state of Israel (not the people physically, do not misrepresent these words). Clouds and cuckoos.
Haway the Lads! Yep, I know, sport and politics eh? The Lasses too of course but after losing 5-0 away to Liverpool in the League Cup yesterday ... er ...