Keir Starmer - and his miserable government

Sounds like Starmer will not try to block Burnham from standing as a by election candidate in Makerfield.

On the one hand part of Greater Manchester & near his old seat of Leigh, on the other a slim majority over Reform and the constituency covers part of Wigan where Reform just took 24 out of 25 council seats that were being contested. In addition in Tameside, also part of Greater Manchester, Labour lost its majority for the first time in 47 yrs with council shifting to no overall control after Reform won 18 out of 19 council seats up for grabs.

An then of course the Gorton and Denton by-election.

It may be a tough fight

Dont know there is a difference between electing councillers and an MP

the fact Reform failed to take Gorton from the greens

I mean they always pick dickheads to run as MP's wouldnt surprise me if they use that goodwin bloke again

Streeting endorses Burnham

would Starmer even be foolish enough even now to turn round and block Burnham a second time even though he has said he wouldn't?

If Burnham does succeed in getting nominated for the by election, I would say for all his popularity I would say his chances of winning can't be no more than 50-50. I have a hunch that the local party thingy will probably select him but it could be tight vote.

And if he does launch a Leadership challenge, I think he will split the votes of both Rayner & Streeting if they were to stand

If I was a voter in Makerfield, i'd be sorely tempted to vote Reform just to spite the cunts for creating this shitshow

^ That would certainly work if you want a short term MP as anyone Reform put forward is almost certainly likely under scrutiny to be found to be a wife beater, tax cheat, anti-semitic or generally racist (pick any one or combination thereof)

Maybe I'm past caring...

(15-05-2026 22:22 )SecretAgent Wrote:  ^ That would certainly work if you want a short term MP as anyone Reform put forward is almost certainly likely under scrutiny to be found to be a wife beater, tax cheat, anti-semitic or generally racist (pick any one or combination thereof)

Greens are no better are they? However parties which has a leader which either fails to declare a £5m donation, or not pay council tax or stamp duty on property, can't be trusted - can they?

However reversing the local election results would be a tall order in my book

(14-05-2026 19:18 )HannahsPet Wrote:  Dont know there is a difference between electing councillers and an MP

the fact Reform failed to take Gorton from the greens

I mean they always pick dickheads to run as MP's wouldnt surprise me if they use that goodwin bloke again

have to say I'd vote Loony party just to make things interesting...