Starmer Resigns as PM, Burnham Tipped to Succeed

16 minutes ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

The problem is the laws are dangerously vague and subjective.

"Grossly offensive" has no clear legal definition. It's whatever senior police, prosecutors, or (often) complainants decide it is on a given day. A rude joke, strong political opinion, meme, or criticism of immigration/religion/gender can qualify.

"Causing distress or anxiety" is even lower-bar. Persistent annoyance or "needless anxiety" covers a huge range of normal online disagreement.

These were written in 1988/2003 for phone calls and early internet — not for mass social media where billions post daily. Courts and the Law Commission have repeatedly flagged them as problematic for over-criminalising speech.

You know that saying "speak English" could be considered a hate crime in the UK.

Well, golly. Browsing most of the comments above suggests that Brits hate each other every bit as much as Usofans hate each other.

Whatever happened to 'democracy'? (a once-popular concept for helping people to get along even when they disagree about things).

8 minutes ago, Effective altruism said:

You know that saying "speak English" could be considered a hate crime in the UK.

I know it's hard to believe ?

It's a symptom of the same overreach that's led to the high numbers of social media investigations.

Many Brits (across the political spectrum) see this as two-tier policing and institutional madness, especially in areas with high immigration where integration concerns are real.

9 minutes ago, mfd101 said:

Well, golly. Browsing most of the comments above suggests that Brits hate each other every bit as much as Usofans hate each other.

Whatever happened to 'democracy'? (a once-popular concept for helping people to get along even when they disagree about things).

Massive over reach by the left.

That's what happened.

Now we are getting the push back. I'm here for it.

1 hour ago, newbee2022 said:

What's wrong with the British?

6 PMs in the last 10 years.

They can't do better?

Even Thailand can👍

Our political system is broken.

It served us well for a century or so, when our political class were people of principal, who had political principles, and were prepared to govern fairly and in the interests of the nation as a whole.

More recently they only serve the groups within the party system and establishment who keep them in power.

Once you have captured your party, as Starmer did (and then lost) and Burnham has; then our archaic first past the post system puts you in power, no matter what the electorate say.

The wider electorate away from the party cabals have very little say in it.

18 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

I am talking about diplomatic civility and mutual respect for global leaders.

Why would you want to have any civility or respect for any globalist political leader that has sold out their country and citizens?

Give me a nationalist political leader any day that calls a spade a spade and puts their national citizen’s interests first, ahead of any elitist’s globalist political policies.

Personally I think Labour are going to regret this just as the Tory's have whether they admit it or not.

All talk is as if Burnham has already got the job to me that stinks like is some sort of massive stitch up.

Now Starmer has resigned there should be a contest with more than one candidate.

My choice would be Former Royal Marine (SBS) Colonel Al Carns DSO OBE MC

If anyone want to know a bit more about him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Carns

He is just the sort of man we need to knock the country (and Trump) into shape.

Anyone crying for a General Election might just as well piss themselves it just aint going to happen.

35 minutes ago, HuaHinNew said:

Why would you want to have any civility or respect for any globalist political leader that has sold out their country and citizens?

Give me a nationalist political leader any day that calls a spade a spade and puts their national citizen’s interests first, ahead of any elitist’s globalist political policies.

Don’t wallow in your negativity and look at the countries that are able to successful balance the influence of political and economic elites with the needs of everyday citizens. Nations that are able to achieve equilibrium through highly regulated wealth distribution, transparent governance, inclusivity and bottom-up citizen participation. Quite a few in Europe and Asia.

2 Tier Kier will be remembered as the worst Prime Minister the UK has every had can't make decisions known better as a Human Rights Minister

He was more for looking after people on Benifets who dont want to work and illegal immigrants before taxing the hard working British public to pay for these stupid decisions

4 minutes ago, shackleton said:

2 Tier Kier will be remembered as the worst Prime Minister the UK has every had

Quite a lot of competition for that honour over the last decade ...

16 hours ago, connda said:

The way things work in the West nowadays, whoever takes the head leadership positions? You get Bibi Netanyahu.

Very true.
Its the same as the US - you can't gain power in Yookay without submitting to the Israel lobby jews

Burnham will continue the Zionist occupation of the UK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dZ6VklviC4

'The Lobby': 4 part series onjewish Infitration of UK Politics

16 hours ago, Tourist2 said:

Sorry but I'm a bit busy rn.
Read it slowly or ask an educated adult to explain for you (minimum English O Level / GCSE C grade or above).

Nobody likes a smartarse.

20 hours ago, rocketboy2 said:

He will be remembered as a w!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Come on he was on par with joe Biden!&🤔🤣🤣

3 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Massive over reach by the left.

That's what happened.

Now we are getting the push back. I'm here for it.

🇬🇧 Another UK regime change.

Keir Starmer consistently served Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) interests.

As Director of Public Prosecutions, he played a central role in the legal pursuit of Julian Assange while Assange was exposing information that challenged military, intelligence, and government institutions.

As Prime Minister, his role has been to maintain public support for policies that channel billions of pounds into what amounts to a MIC stimulus programme, marketed as the defence of democracy in Ukraine.

At the same time, growing social and economic tensions are being used to justify increased surveillance, digital identity infrastructure, and expanded Technical-Industrial Complex (TIC) control.

Now that strategy is escalating and becoming more difficult to sustain politically.

The next leadership phase will, in my view, monetise civil unrest for the Technical Industrial Complex by amplifying strategic tensions and manufacturing division through political and media nodes such as Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe, and others.

Next comes the Technical Industrial Complex stimulus cheque: more policing, more surveillance, more Palantir, more digital infrastructure, all sold as the solution to the instability that the system itself helped create.

The same playbook is emerging in the United States, positioning figures like JD Vance as the political vehicle for the next phase. When Thailand?

Time to put lipstick on a new pig.

Nothing more.

Nothing less.

Another UK regime change that changes nothing.

The faces change.

The agenda remains.

https://x.com/SimonDixonTwitt/status/2069051606977442267

1 hour ago, Bannoi said:

Now Starmer has resigned there should be a contest with more than one candidate.

Labour has 400+ MPs. They are all such talentless clowns that they had to get a sitting MP to resign his post so Burnham could get a seat in parliament to become an MP and then the PM uncontested. Starmer is recorded as the most unpopular PM in history yet not one of that 400 is considered capable of meeting this incredibly low bar. Burnham is also a 2 time loser and has lost leadership contests to Corbyn and Milliband previously. Labour probably do not want anyone to challenge him with that kind of record just in case he loses again.

What an absolute mess of a political party.

26 minutes ago, James105 said:

Labour has 400+ MPs. They are all such talentless clowns that they had to get a sitting MP to resign his post so Burnham could get a seat in parliament to become an MP and then the PM uncontested. Starmer is recorded as the most unpopular PM in history yet not one of that 400 is considered capable of meeting this incredibly low bar. Burnham is also a 2 time loser and has lost leadership contests to Corbyn and Milliband previously. Labour probably do not want anyone to challenge him with that kind of record just in case he loses again.

What an absolute mess of a political party.

Mess of a country due to it being owned by the City of London Bankers / Financial Industrial Complex.

The owners want to turn it into a mass surveillance state and likely will achieve that.

Yookay is still somehow seen as a beacon of light in the deMoCraTic world so what happens here

will soon be rolled out elsewhere - including places with low or no reputation for hUmaN rIGhtS

Just seen Angry Bootneck describe it as,”replacing Garry Glitter with Jimmy Saville”

Sounds about right.

2 hours ago, mfd101 said:

Quite a lot of competition for that honour over the last decade ...

Indeed. People are conveniently forgetting PMs like Johnson and Truss!

5 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Massive over reach by the left.

That's what happened.

Now we are getting the push back. I'm here for it.

'Here' being a place 6,000 miles from the UK

5 hours ago, JAG said:

Our political system is broken.

It served us well for a century or so, when our political class were people of principal, who had political principles, and were prepared to govern fairly and in the interests of the nation as a whole.

More recently they only serve the groups within the party system and establishment who keep them in power.

Once you have captured your party, as Starmer did (and then lost) and Burnham has; then our archaic first past the post system puts you in power, no matter what the electorate say.

The wider electorate away from the party cabals have very little say in it.

I would move for an effective system of Proportional Representation, in tandem with a principle (established perhaps by a national constitutional conference - perhaps mandated by referendum) that a Prime Minister who is removed by party political action has to call a general election.

48 minutes ago, Tourist2 said:

Mess of a country due to it being owned by the City of London Bankers / Financial Industrial Complex.

The owners want to turn it into a mass surveillance state and likely will achieve that.

Yookay is still somehow seen as a beacon of light in the deMoCraTic world so what happens here

will soon be rolled out elsewhere - including places with low or no reputation for hUmaN rIGhtS

Something wrong with your caps button?

Suggest getting help from someone with GCSE who might be able to show you how to type.

I'm not sure what GCSE is, as at the Grammar School I attended we only had O and A levels.

21 minutes ago, RayC said:

'Here' being a place 6,000 miles from the UK

It's 2026 Raymond.

You don't have to be stood in the town centre wearing a socialist workers sandwich board to make a difference anymore. 😉

18 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Labour lasting until 2029? 😃

That's funny H.

They lost their mandate. Need to call a GE immediately. Burnham was a mayor when Labour were elected.

Is Burnham ready for the test, none of this local stuff ,A general election ,it serves as the ultimate democratic poll, giving a public thats been deeply suspicious of a failed progressive experimentation the power to decisively reject systemic progressive policies.

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

It's 2026 Raymond.

You don't have to be stood in the town centre wearing a socialist workers sandwich board to make a difference anymore. 😉

Of course, Jonathan.

I forgot that you playing 'Britain2026' from the comfort of your Sukhumvit pad gives you the full experience of what it is like to actually live in the UK currently.

In fact, you have an advantage over me; I don't own the game and have never been to, for example, Gloucester. You can simply tweak the software and, hey presto, you are there or anywhere else in the UK and therefore fully aware - and living - all the latest local problems😂🤦

Ok let's see what the new one in power will do. If he continues to squander billions to Ukraine and on the other hand neglect the fate of his own citizens in the UK,...he won't last long either in power.

21 hours ago, Tourist2 said:

Sorry but I'm a bit busy rn.
Read it slowly or ask an educated adult to explain for you (minimum English O Level / GCSE C grade or above).

Like Starmer, Burnham is an establishment plant.

The Yookay establishment wishes to fully and comprehensively destroy what are seen as right-wing values, such as nationalism, traditionalism, and religion. These things equip people with powerful personal and group identities, and present as competing loyalties to the state and social engineers.

Hence, said state and social engineers wish to destroy them.

What the establishment wishes to do now is conflate right-wing values with the most distorted and grotesque exaggerations of such values, as were depicted in hugely popular programming, The Handmaid’s Tale (US) and Years and Years (UK).

In effect, they want to “prove” that being right-wing means being a virulently racist, misogynist, homicidal maniac, until we get to the point where people will be so horrified and disgusted by (what will be presented as) “right-wing ideology”, that to continue to call oneself right-wing will become akin to calling oneself a Nazi.

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Now consider the ridiculous jackanory about a white Scottish man running around Glasgow with his top off stabbing brown people.

IF this White Scottish Man did indeed go on a City Wide Stabbing Spree…..

- Where are all the clips/CCTV? - everyone has phones - people would have recorded more of what was happening if this happened in multiple locations?

- Where and who are the Victims? - not a single one has been seen or heard of?

- Why does the attacker have NO Blood on him? whatsoever?

- The audio of him is crystal clear, calm, composed - seems rehearsed & scripted -Why?

- Who is the attacker and what’s his entire history?

- Where is the Muslim Backlash/reaction from the Victims friends & family?

They want to demonise whites who don't like what is happening in England etc wrt freeloaders being put up on hotels, rape gangs, 2 tier justaice and all of the rest of the rage bait.

Seeing as we're generally decent people they are forced to make stuff up - as they did with 'WMDs', Coldvid death projections etc.

More evidence-free and logic-free conspiracy theory nonsense.

7 hours ago, JAG said:

Our political system is broken.

It served us well for a century or so, when our political class were people of principal, who had political principles, and were prepared to govern fairly and in the interests of the nation as a whole.

More recently they only serve the groups within the party system and establishment who keep them in power.

Once you have captured your party, as Starmer did (and then lost) and Burnham has; then our archaic first past the post system puts you in power, no matter what the electorate say.

The wider electorate away from the party cabals have very little say in it.

The political system we have now is largely down to Blair:

☠️Devolution and constitutional meddling via the creation of a supreme court and numerous NGO's.

☠️Costly and lengthy foreign military operations.

☠️The start of the mass immigration trend. ECHR set into UK law.

☠️Record spending on public services like the National Health Service (NHS) was largely wasted on ridiculous management costs.

☠️Almost zero rebuilding of domestic manufacturing industry.

☠️Encouraging half kids into university education, resulting in dumbing that down, as well as losing many useful trades courses.

7 hours ago, Bannoi said:

Personally I think Labour are going to regret this just as the Tory's have whether they admit it or not.

All talk is as if Burnham has already got the job to me that stinks like is some sort of massive stitch up.

Now Starmer has resigned there should be a contest with more than one candidate.

My choice would be Former Royal Marine (SBS) Colonel Al Carns DSO OBE MC

If anyone want to know a bit more about him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Carns

He is just the sort of man we need to knock the country (and Trump) into shape.

Anyone crying for a General Election might just as well piss themselves it just aint going to happen.

Agree. Fine record. Pity he went Labour.

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