And he'll be just as powerless to solve any of the big problems as the last half a dozen PMs.
Just a symptom of late Capitalism. They are all like this one but with different flavor.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
The issue isn’t the Labour Party it’s the entire country. Brexit has been a disaster, energy costs are through the roof, housing is becoming more costly, and there’s been no real economic growth in a decade. But no one wants suffer the temporary pain to make the reforms needed to change it. They just want to grumble and say the current leader isn’t any good before moving onto the next one, rather than admitting they…
> no one wants suffer the temporary pain to make the reforms needed to change it If you could get one bill through Parliament, what would it do?
Repeal Town and Country Planning Act 1947
Re: Britain's prime minister to step down, Burnham puts himself forward as successor
#33And he'll be just as powerless to solve any of the big problems as the last half a dozen PMs.
There is one thing that might be in his power: to stop censoring and arresting people protesting against genocide. Edit: lol thanks HN for the usual downvote! :) I love this place!
You mean Palestine Action specifically, because the leadership of that group are violent terrorists.
It's weird how you people never notice that NOBODY else is "arrested"
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#34Out of the frying pan and into the fire?
Why not like borrow lots of money and spend it all? That would be so cool!
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#35Whilst the value of the pound and NHS backlog did slowly improve under Starmer, my favourite part of his term was the 2024 interview where he described himself as not dreaming or having internal thoughts. I don't expect huge improvements under Burnham but I hope for at least some police manpower numbers to recover. There have been intermittent stories of planning, FSA and trading standards personnel being threatened…
I know you probably didn't mean it that way - but people with aphantasia are often very creative, and visionary despite.
Aphantasia doesn’t preclude having dreams or internal dialogue/thought.
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#36Ridiculous and undemocratic. Burnham (for those who are unaware) can be best described as a Tony Blair B-side, and is most notable from his previous stint in government for his role in the Private Finance Initiative disaster, eg: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jun/28/labour-debt-peter...
Agree with your first sentence but he is described as being on the very left wing of the party and, if he becomes PM, it will be with the support of the left wing, not the blairites.
Then we will have a hot-minute before they're utterly hating him and demanding he goes too
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#37Whilst the value of the pound and NHS backlog did slowly improve under Starmer, my favourite part of his term was the 2024 interview where he described himself as not dreaming or having internal thoughts. I don't expect huge improvements under Burnham but I hope for at least some police manpower numbers to recover. There have been intermittent stories of planning, FSA and trading standards personnel being threatened…
Well the bigger issue is that none of the major parties in the UK have any kind of sensible list of priorities, that they can actually whip the MPs to stick to.
So governance is, at best, semi random…
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#38Starmer was the UK version of Joe Biden. He was the right guy to get Labor back on track and sort out the financial disaster left by the Tories. But he couldn't build a convincing vision of the future.
But replacing it with another guy that has no mandate is a fatal mistake. What Labor needed was an internal contest to fight for the best ideas, even if the winner was already pre-determined. A single local poll can't possibly decide the future of the country.
But perhaps the idea is to trigger a re-election because a "continue as usual" will be fatal for Labour and the country.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
> no one wants suffer the temporary pain to make the reforms needed to change it If you could get one bill through Parliament, what would it do?
Rejoin the EU, single market, customs union, drop sterling and take the Euro. This would almost certainly start a civil war in the UK (I am not being dramatic) but its what is needed. Brexit was -8% GDP, according to Bank of England.
Oh, no, we don't want you, keep your mess to yourself instead of making it EU's