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Polling day is three months today. If I were Rayner, or Streeting, I’d keep my power dry, and leave Starmer to own the impending dire results for Labour.
ReplyDeleteLabour Party membership has been purposfully decimated. Do we trust McSweeney’s minions to run a legitimate election for a new Leader?
The return of Sue Grey has been floated as the solution to Labour’s problems.
From Grey’s Wiki bio: “Gray took a career break in the 1980s, a step described as "strikingly unorthodox". During this time, she ran the Cove Bar, a pub in Newry, a border town in Northern Ireland, during The Troubles. Peter Cardwell, a former special adviser to several ministers, said it had been speculated Gray was a spy at this time, though Gray denied it.”.
Putting a senior MI5 officer back in as the Chief of Staff for the Prime Minister. Yeah that ought to solve Labour’s troubles.
fair play to you, my fellow "coincidence theorist"
Deleteso many coincidences
The Holyrood election result will have no bearing on Starmer's position as PM. Labour aren't expected to do much in May anyway.
DeleteDavid Lammy sends his minions out to brief that he advised Starmer not to make Mandelson an Ambassador.
ReplyDeleteWhat games are being played?
One potential scenario.
* Lammy initiates a leadership contest.
* Rayner is duty bound to throw her hat into the ring before the May elections catastrophe.
* Rayner becomes Labour leader, and has to own the disaster.
* Wes Streeting wins the subsequent leadership contest. Lammy, Labour Together, McSweeney, and Streeting are happy.
This relies on Rayner being as stupid as you. She’s not. Silly billy.
DeleteIf Rayner ever becomes PM, the UK will have achieved full Idiocracy.
DeleteFor decades, low calibre managers and politicians have been making poor decisions and weak appointments in both the public and private sectors and through sheer weight of numbers have made it to the top.
It's why the health sector, education, transport etc are all a complete shambles. Important roles at every level populated by idiots, promoted levels and levels above their ability, all making scattergun decisions out of panic and self preservation. Strategy is an alien concept.
Is Scotland included? Pretty much, yes. But, with independence we have a chance of turning the tide. Let's get back to being driven by the intelligence and innovation we were once famous for.
Trump had the final say really as to the U.K. Ambassador. It suited the USa, royalty and labour. Of course unintentionally they created the situation they find themselves. Epstein seems to impact more on the U.K. than USA.
ReplyDeletePat McFadden looked gaunt and worried as a friend of Mandelson. Usually quite gung-go but quietly stated they may be some communications may exist between him and mandelson.
ReplyDeleteWho was mandelsons references? Israel and Russia?
ReplyDeleteOne name I've not not seen mentioned is Darren Jones. HPreviously a Treasury goon, he's currently Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, a ministerial office in the Government. Excluding the prime minister, the chancellor is the highest ranking minister in the Cabinet Office.
ReplyDeleteAlthough he doesn't sound like it, he does have a 'working class' background - but is on the Labour right and Blair is his political hero.
He's also a strong supporter of Rachel Reeves and her neoliberal polices.
Balancing all that up, I'm surprised he's not seen as a potential replacement for Starmer.
Some Labour MPs may want a soft left PM, but I don't see that being allowed in view of the overall neoliberal stance of the party.
I don't see how they can stop it, based on their own rule book. They've excluded any chance of the Corbynites winning the leadership again, but the soft left have the numbers to get on the ballot paper, and as we can see from the new Survation poll, they then easily have the numbers among Labour members to win the ballot outright.
DeleteI think the centrists would have to join with the soft left to make that come true. Although the category is ill defined and I agree it seems a very small number, Wiki could only come up with 16 on the soft left, and that includes Andy Burnham and I think a few others not currently in parliament - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_left
DeleteAnyway, my point was to suggest that Darren Jones may enter the fray, and I think enough of the party might vote for him as what they'd see as an experienced 'safe pair of hands' with a working class background.
Have to remember though that a PM is not just a home domestic job - you have to have somebody who can stand equal in a room with world leaders and have global diplomatic nous in very turbulent times. Can you imagine, for example, Zelensky feeling confident in any way during a crux decision-making meeting with the internationally inexperienced Angela Rayner? For PM you need somebody who can do global crisis level stuff. I can't see any of the current suggested replacements for Starmer looking anything but domestic/home 'sort of maybe' candidates. No-one with the real all round experience needed stands out. They are all domestic candidates which is fine for internal UK political small town usual at home navel-gazing politics which entertains and inflames domestic activists - but beyond that - not PM material. Starmer shows what a non really political or Labour bod with a structural legal background and trying to be a PM trying to transfer his legal mindset to governance - is a disaster. Far too narrow and huge lack of self-awareness or what the make-up of the entire country is ie that's people.
DeleteBy getting rid of McSweeney, Starmer will hope all the blame for the Mandelson fiasco will leave with him.
DeleteIt won't.
Starmer is very much on borrowed time.
George, if you were right about the soft left, Lucy Powell would not have got elected as Deputy Leader only a few months ago as Andy Burnham's proxy. She was, in fact, nominated and then elected very easily.
DeleteNow that Morgan McSweeney is gone, perhaps the MSM will start to ask how someone who has never been anything other than a glorified office manager up ‘till July 2024, could afford a three quarters of a million pound holiday home in Lanarkshire.
ReplyDeletePerhaps not.
I see Sir Starmer's Dominic Cummings has just resigned. Awwww. Thoughts 'n' prayers. 😃 😀 😄
ReplyDeleteWe now officially have a new Pro Scottish Independence Party.
ReplyDelete'Your Party Scotland'.
63% of its founding conference in Dundee just voted for it.
The Israeli Genocide in Palestine is still continuing, even if western media ignores it.
ReplyDeleteEven a former Israeli Prime Minister is sickened by it -
"A violent and criminal effort is underway to ethnically cleanse territories in the West Bank.”
— Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert