Sir Keir Starmer has resigned after 718 days as prime minister, ending a tenure marked by incompetence and chaos. His departure was inevitable, but his words after the 2024 general election will haunt him: 'Things really didn’t get better under Starmer. For tens of millions they got decidedly worse.'
Starmer's legacy of failure
Under Starmer and Labour's heavy socialist boot, the government trampled pensioners, farmers, business owners, savers, strivers, and those grafting to better their lives. He trotted out the same old lines, but left the country angry and resentful. The Labour Party, created in 1900 for working people, failed to serve them.
Starmer attempted a joke after the election, saying: 'Across our country people will be waking up to the news, relieved that a weight has been lifted... the sunlight of hope, pale at first but getting stronger through the day.' His robotic words were empty then and ring hollow now.
Burnham's hostile takeover
Andy Burnham, who finished fourth in the 2010 Labour leadership race behind Ed Miliband, David Miliband, and Ed Balls (but ahead of Diane Abbott), is now viewed as Labour's last hope. His biggest achievement in 25 years is capping bus fares on Manchester's Bee Network. He doesn't know how to run a bath, let alone a country.
Burnham and his giggy acolytes, including Louise Haigh and Lisa Nandy, have staged a coup without a mandate. They stand ready to inflict more pain on a country that has not scrutinised, let alone approved, their agenda. This is a hostile takeover that would shame a banana republic.
What Burnham's rule means
When Labour seized power, it immediately increased borrowing by tens of billions of pounds. Get ready for more as Burnham and his loony Left pals turn on the taps of public spending without the foggiest idea how to fund it except through more taxation and more borrowing. If Burnham really thinks he's the answer, let him go to the country and call a general election.
