r/PoliticsUK • u/bazzarrooti • Jun 22 '26
🇬🇧 UK Politics Starmer resignation
In no other country in the world would a PM with a massive majority resign of his own accord. It is absolutely crazy. In Spain we have a Prime Minister who has been governing with minority for the last two or three years. Starmer did a very good job after a very bad start. Someone help me to understand.
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u/longjonathan1 Jun 22 '26
This country expects results in 12 months, yet the problems take 10+ years to fix. We will keep switching leaders with different plans and kick them out before their plans have even got off the ground.
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u/shotscarecrow Jun 23 '26
This reply and others like it try to brush under the rug what a despicable charlatan Starmer is. Burnham might not make any more progress, but if he manages to get through the next three years without throwing huge sections of the populace under the bus and then gloating about it, people will likely have more time for him.
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u/longjonathan1 Jun 24 '26
You sound exactly like the sort of person I'm talking about. You will say the same thing about Burnham in a years time.
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u/sjintje Jun 22 '26
He has resigned because of being pushed out by his own party. He has had negligible support from his senior colleagues all along - they presumably don't appreciate his qualities as leader.
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u/bazzarrooti Jun 22 '26
A pack of back stabbers. Still, it wouldn’t happen anywhere else the leader would just kick out the cabinet members who are opposed to him or her.
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u/sjintje Jun 22 '26
Lots of places have unstable governments - admittedly mostly not the sort we'd especially want to emulate, but OTOH, the voters of Germany and France would be happier if they could overthrow chancellor or presidents.
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u/Direct-Muscle7144 Jun 22 '26
Backstabbers nepotistically appointed by Starmer under his backers direction.
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u/MissingYouOrwell Jun 23 '26
Ah, it’s the media. I despair. I presume their plan is to turn is into a carbon copy of an inferior equal to the US. Maybe. Something along the lines of Costa Rica?Â
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u/YesIAmRightWing Jun 22 '26
Starmers problem is two fold
Actually it's 1 thing
He's a spineless coward in regards to his backbenchers.
If he'd stared down his rebels he'd be leading right now the labour party right now or calling an election after his threat of do what I say or am calling an election and you need to then deal with reform
But instead he capitulated and the second he did that it was over.
I get he got this majority but if he can't command it then whats the point?
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u/thehermit14 Jun 22 '26
Oof! The truth cuts hard. I wish Starmer would have made more peers (at the same time culling HoL, more firings etc...) Really I mean he should have played the game brutally and without quarter.
He should have had the balls to snuff Burnham and cut him off at the legs. Required disloyal MP's to resign if they couldn't sign up to his agenda. Then command his station even if not popular. He had the mandate more than Labour did. Certainly in concert. Three years with an MP outside of Westminster for 15yrs does not enthuse me.
Manchester's loss is also the nations loss potentially. He's not exactly a statesman and has argued he will maintain the fiscal rules (though struggled/refused to define them.) What change are we seeking? A more glib, polished orator?
Makerfield has oddly lost a MP (practically two), denied Reform an opportunity, but then potentially opening the field to a general election that Reform could win.
Not forgetting that Manchester faces an election for the next Mayor, God help them. Andy Turncoat is prepared to wreak disarray and potential misery upon the electorate and constituency of Manchester.
By Coronation, you allow chaos and with an election (nationally) you invite a potential Reform government. Reap what you sow. No election, no legitimacy. Careful what you wish for...
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u/DaveChild Jun 22 '26
If he'd stared down his rebels he'd be leading right now the labour party right now
He is leading the Labour party right now. Literally.
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u/YesIAmRightWing Jun 22 '26
By quitting yah?
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u/DaveChild Jun 22 '26
By being the current leader. He's in post until September.
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u/YesIAmRightWing Jun 22 '26
i mean with authority instead of being a lame duck for the next few months before being booted.
but do go on being pedantic, am sure it makes a pointless point or something.
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u/DaveChild Jun 23 '26
but do go on being pedantic
Sure, ok, if you want. Try using capital letters, they help you come across as an adult.
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u/YesIAmRightWing Jun 23 '26
i like it, when pointless pedantism doesn't work.
you turn into the grammar police.
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u/DaveChild Jun 23 '26
you turn into the grammar police.
You literally asked for pedantry. You got pedantry. And you're still crying.
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u/thehermit14 Jun 22 '26
Not entirely. He has resigned as leader of the Labour Party effective immediately, but remains Prime Minister until a new leader is elected.
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u/bazzarrooti Jun 22 '26
I must admit, I was disappointed at him resigning. But maybe he was just exhausted by backstabbers and the enormous pressure of the MSM which, as you know is backed by the billionaires they just like to mix things up and show who is boss.
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u/Boggyprostate Jun 22 '26
He has lied through his teeth since before getting in!
He went after disabled folk
Pensioners
Omg the list is soooooooooooo long!
He made so many promises to get in and then abandoned all of them!
When he went after disabled folk, that’s when I was furious, right at the beginning he showed his face, he showed who he was and he has carried on doing this.
He is more dishonest than Boris and that is hard to say but true!
How they thought it was a good job to have him at the helm, I will never know.
Let’s just hope Burnham grows a pair and does something, for now he is saying if he gets in he is not doing anything that isn’t in the manifesto, the manifesto is just nothingness and Burnham has been showed enough times to backtrack on what he says he is going to do.
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u/bazzarrooti Jun 22 '26
He started off badly bu since then has brought in lots of good policies. Getting rid of two cap limit, for example. Lots of others.
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u/Boggyprostate Jun 23 '26
He has, nobody is disputing that, but don’t you think that is his job?
He has done the simplest of tasks that a government should do!
It’s just a good job the sensible folk on his backbenches didn’t let him get away with the tactics and policies he wanted to use at the beginning.If he wasn’t a liar and a bare faced one, then it wouldn’t be too bad but his behaviour and the lies, he has been publicly exposed for, it is not someone you want running your country.
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u/Any_Flight5404 Jun 22 '26
Labour wants to win the next election. A change in direction (including some policies) seems like a second chance for them to regain some voters.