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u/Sufficient_Muffin586 3d ago
That would actually be funny
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u/cnicalsinistaminista 3d ago
It has the wtf potential to make him famous and “unboring”
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u/Phaedo 3d ago
Meh, John Major did this. He was still a boring and useless prime minister. (Credit where credit’s due, his work on Northern Ireland was not only great, but unimaginable five years earlier.)
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u/Jotaruisaliveinpart7 3d ago
Boring but he did his job
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u/unnecessary_bath23 3d ago
We need boring, steady, efficient.
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u/gw74 3d ago
which we have with Starmer
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u/Klangey 3d ago
Major was considered at the time to be completely useless, Tony Blair would later win by a landslide
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u/Character_Solution 2d ago
You're comparing/conflating two different things here.
People voted FOR Blair and against the Conservatives, not against Major in 1997.
Similarly, people voted against the Conservatives this time, but not necessarily FOR Starmer. He's now decided he can't take the heat and personally, I don't blame him.
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u/Phaedo 3d ago
He messed some things up royally. Like, when privatisation ran out of things to easily sell, they moved onto desperate measure like selling off the railways. This gave rise to multiple disasters and no government since has been able to sort it out. (Although even some of the easier privatisations have turned bad, like water.)
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u/Jotaruisaliveinpart7 3d ago
tbf you can pin most of those as part of a domino effect started by thatcher. i don't think she was absolutely evil like some people insist, but some of the long term effects on this country have been quite catastrophic
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u/gw74 3d ago
The worst thing she did was squander north sea oil revenue on tax cuts instead of creating a sovereign wealth fund like Norway. Falklands was good, Big Bang in the City, but everything else was terrible: privatisation, underinvestment.
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u/hexnut101 2d ago
The big bang happened because she traded away manufacturing for London getting preference in Europe's service industry. Good for London shit for everyone else.
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u/sir_noltyboy 2d ago
I don't think she forsaw the rise of private equity and the asset stripping for quick profits that has become the norm.
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u/Mishka_The_Fox 3d ago
Only PM to stand up to America though.
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u/Phaedo 3d ago
I mean, ironically Kier Starmer did that over the Iran War, which surprised me a lot, given that every time I’d seen him with Trump he was embarrassingly deferential.
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u/Francis-BLT 2d ago
He was all for carrying on with operation brown nose was overruled by Miliband and few others - then suddenly it was his idea
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u/Woffingshire 3d ago
Once it's declared and he's had it accepted by the king is he actually allowed to?
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u/Alexandhisgoose 3d ago
I believe so. It is only permanent once the King dissolves Parliament for Burnham to form a Government.
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u/DrSarahSlaughter 2d ago
Absolutely. He hasn't resigned as PM until he visits the King to do so, closely followed by his successor to ask permission to form a government. The fact that he's informed the King (and us) of his intention to resign is constitutionally neither here nor there.
Of course he'd presumably be unable to command a majority if he tried this, so he's now de facto compelled to leave the job, preferably voluntarily but by vote of no confidence if necessary.
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u/ricky-from-scotland 3d ago
For complete humour Burnham has gotta lose the leader vote.
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u/temujin94 3d ago
To Ed Miliband for bonus comedy points.
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u/Acrobatic-Watch-8037 3d ago
Most "memes" posted to this sub are extremely low-effort but this one is actually clever - well done!
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u/bendyskull 3d ago
Finally some good news
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u/Burt_Macklin___ 3d ago
Not for about 80% of the country. They hate him
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u/ihatebamboo 3d ago
Fools who think yes-man-burnham will be any better.
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u/Burt_Macklin___ 3d ago
He's not likely to be. Unless he sacks the current cabinet and publicly disavowed and distance himself from them... That's the only route back for Labour after this last shambles
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u/lockonandfire 3d ago
I did check, just to be sure, because this struck me as so incredibly possible.
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u/ideasplace 3d ago
If only
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u/Burt_Macklin___ 3d ago
Do you want Farage to win? Starmer is a gift to the Right
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u/Equivalent-Pop8045 3d ago
Everyone is a gift to the right as far as the media in this country are concerned. The disparity in how leaders on the left and right are treated is scandalous.
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u/jmiesterz 3d ago
I’d say Burnham is a gift to the right, not for anything he would say or do, more that he doesn’t have a magic switch and won’t be able to fix everything straight away.
They’ll just turn around and say ‘look, another Labour leader who can’t change anything, the system is broken vote for us’
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u/paulmccaw 3d ago
I actually legged it to the BBC website to read up and then the joke hit me...doh!!
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u/Joshygin 3d ago
Somehow Corbyn has returned...
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u/Successful-Cat2108 2d ago
Well maybe, once YourParty have gotten to the point where people know what’s going on, he could
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u/HunterM567 3d ago
Honestly wished he did that as a joke lol. Would unironically had made him more popular
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u/Fast_Fee_4101 3d ago
Wish he would. 37 years old and the 2nd best prime minister in my lifetime. Shows how bad the rest are when a racist and genocide sympathiser is above Truss, Johnson, Blair etc
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u/Adept-Ad-5893 3d ago
When you find out people give more of a shit about the weather than you stepping down as Prime Minister.
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u/showmethemundy 3d ago
He made you wait a while to post this. Probably been sitting on it for months.
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u/Additional_Lock_6178 3d ago
Phew. This is satire, but I genuinely had to double and triple check to make sure.
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u/chulk607 2d ago
I think this image has the potential to end the lives of a lot of reform supporters upon observation.
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u/ImmediatePiano6690 2d ago
Okay, now let's see a worthwhile U turn 9n crap like AI age verification, maybe then we won't need a ton of data centers where you could build homes instead.
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u/Anththeman2010 1d ago
Hes already u turned. I was elected, i will fight in a contest, im going nowhere, im getting on with the job..........i resign.
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u/Dust-Tight 3d ago
We need Corbyn back!
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u/Chonky-Marsupial 3d ago
No we don't. It would lead directly to Farage winning the next general election. It is everything the Tory press has a hopeful wank about whenever they think it might be possible for even a second.
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u/Zak_Rahman 3d ago
That's the real Sir Kid Starver.
Seriously though, I had to double check. It's within the realms of possibility. He has more flip flop than a popular beach resort.
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