This demonstrates how ineffectual our so-called PM is. He's doing nothing while his party colleagues are literally setting in motion actions that could potentially lead to his downfall, in full view of everyone, including Starmer himself. He'll go down in history as the Prime Minister who did nothing!
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Chris Ellis
in reply to dick_turpin • • •Wish he would just do the honourable thing and resign. His lack of vision and communication ability is mostly what got us into this mess.
Let alone his inability to listen or take accountability for the consistent u-turns, resets and failings.
dick_turpin
in reply to Chris Ellis • •It seems abundantly clear to me that he is bereft of any skill or ability. Most of these damaging tinkering, such as winter fuel payments, have been instigated by others, and anything he does seems to blow up in the Labour Party's face. We have a fuel crisis at the moment, along with a whole host of other problems, and he just sits in number ten watching events unfold. It wouldn't be so bad if Burnham and Streeting et al were being devious and carrying out their manoeuvres behind his back; it's the fact that it's all out in the open that's mind-blowing.
At least when John Major stabbed Maggie in the back, he did it behind her back.
Chris Ellis
in reply to dick_turpin • • •yeh, agree, he turned out to not have enough integrity to actually stand for anything. It's impossible to know what his own position is on anything.
He made some good positive appointments early on, then nothing ever seemed to come from them.
No doubt we're going to blunder through this crisis without doing anything about the root cause again and just crank up inflation.
Part of me thinks this is happening in the open due to Labour party processes which seem unsuitable.
dick_turpin
in reply to Chris Ellis • •Chris Ellis
in reply to dick_turpin • • •Starmer could always make him a Lord to speed things up, lol.
I think that demonstrates a bigger problem, a lack of any decent candidates in a party of over 400 MPs.
Not that I think there is that much talent across all the parties these days.
dick_turpin
in reply to Chris Ellis • •Potentially, there's only Reeves, and she's not had the best of starts. I know I've been joking about Raynor and Abbott, but my worry is that factions may well think that Raynor is a viable option. Don't forget, there is still a powerful lobby within the Labour party who think it's still 1970.
Raynor would have been in her element during the 70s and mid 80s. She would drag us back to those times if she could.
Chris Ellis
in reply to dick_turpin • • •I think Reeves would be a useless as Starmer.
At least Raynor actually stands for something and can communicate that.