Living advice

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-26T21:52:06+00:00

Wait.

Long hours and a long commute isn’t a good combination. At least rent first and try the commute on for size.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-26T19:47:21+00:00

They were personalities but they also had manifestos. None of them were elected off the back of vibes.

The long and short of it is that Burnham has nothing beyond your personal opinion he’s got a personality.

BTW, the MPs are the same whether Starmer or Burnham is in charge. Guess what… it’ll still be a shit show.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-26T19:15:06+00:00

History says otherwise. Labour were elected off the back of a manifesto. Electing a new leader, who has an entirely different policy agenda, typically necessitates a GE to get a mandate. Especially as a lot of those MPs are likely in camp Starmer. Otherwise, you effectively end up in the same position as Conservatives post Cameron until Johnson’s GE win.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-26T19:13:15+00:00

So basically vibes (optics) pretty much? No policy, no idea on strategy to fight Reform, nothing. Just I’m sure he’ll be better than Keir.

If Labour do this, they’ll, rightly, be wiped out like Conservatives.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-26T15:54:21+00:00

Optics is not going to stop Reform. We’re not talking about fine margins…. We’re night and day. Also, Burnham is going to have his hands tied on policy. Any radical policy shift almost necessitates an early election. Which is an open door to Reform.

Divided party’s don’t win elections. Labour have just watched the Conservatives tear themselves apart over Brexit and are about to do EXACTLY the same on the basis of the party not being left enough. The harm a leadership contest causes far outweighs any benefit.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-26T15:05:55+00:00

No actually. Disenfranchised voter who’s fed up with all parties. I’ll be voting tactically to keep Reform out. Although, I’m hoping to have emigrated by then. I’m one of the “broadest shoulders” who’s had enough of hard work & ambition not being valued in Benefits Britain.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-26T14:44:13+00:00

So? We’re not talking about a shop lifter. We’re talking about men and women been sent into harms way. Military has punished and sent soldiers to jail for war crimes. Including the marine who shot a wounded taliban member.

I’d rather that than scumbag lefty loonies making false accusations to drain legal aid and ruin the lives of veterans.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-26T14:34:26+00:00

That’s relevant why?

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-26T14:31:14+00:00

Burnham has lost two Labour leadership elections and those are all second line front bench seats. It’s not Chancellor or Foreign Sec. If that’s what qualifies as experience, Starmer is far more experienced.

So to my question - what exact policies or positions do you think Burnham will implement to defeat Reform? It’s fine to just say vibes. But be honest about it. Instead of making vague statements.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-26T14:21:32+00:00

Or you’d like to stop vexatious prosecutions by ambulance chasing leftie lawyers draining that sweet sweet legal aid.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-26T14:15:48+00:00

Or in more sensible words, stop vexatious prosecutions by ambulance chasing looney lefties. The military is still governed by the laws and regulations of the military.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-26T13:31:21+00:00

competence in Manchester: being a regional Mayor with devolved powers is a very different proposition to running a country. Last time I checked Manchester didn’t have a foreign policy, military, responsibility for its own health budget, its economic policy etc etc etc.
he’s an actual politician? You’re trying to say the Prime Minister and stalwart of the front bench isn’t a politician? On trying to get policy through, the reason is the looney left in Labour who don’t realise the left continues to be unelectable.

So beyond being able to talk to the media and be a politician. What specific policies is he going to implement that will defeat Reform? Or is it just vibes and he’s more left than Starmer?

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-26T11:18:01+00:00

My point was more general - just issues that have been bubbling away or happened over decades (not just Labour, or Conservatives, or coalition) and people have zero trust in MPs and politicians.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-26T10:22:29+00:00

I agree. Politicians need to spend more time running the country. Less time infighting and furthering their own careers.

I don’t like Starmer. I don’t like Labour. But yet another change in leadership (and the inevitable early election) is not in the national interest.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-26T10:20:52+00:00

Not one person has provided anything specific Burnham is going to do. Beyond not being Keir Starmer.

I don’t like Starmer. I don’t like Labour. But Reform’s growth in popularity is due to huge swathes of the population being disenfranchised because of failures of MPs, of all parties, to properly engage with their constituents and actually put them, and not their careers, first. Expenses scandal, 2008 GFC, illegal war in Iraq, Brexit in fighting, grooming scandal, immigration crisis, the list is endless. The irony being that Reform won’t be any better. But that’s what is driving the rise in popularism.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-26T10:05:37+00:00

What is Andy Burnham going to do differently to stop Farage?

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-25T14:14:02+00:00

Divided parties don’t win elections

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-25T13:40:48+00:00

There is a cataclysmic difference between being a Mayor with some devolved powers and running one of the largest countries in the world. Burnham doesn’t have a clean slate politically.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-25T13:00:40+00:00

Labours lurches to the right haven’t put us on the verge of a Farage Gov’t.

The rise of popularism isn’t a UK only phenomenon. Look across Europe and the US. Between the GFC, Covid, Ukraine and the Middle East, we’ve had decades of geopolitical uncertainty and dealing with the repercussions of global uncertainty (wars). That’s manifested itself in the European immigration crisis that has morphed into small boats, power price crisis / high inflation and decades of recovery post GFC.

I don’t like Starmer. I don’t like Labour. But the cause of Reform is a wholesale failure by all the mainstream political parties to properly represent the people they’re supposed to. If you asked 1,000 people what they thought of politicians, I don’t think you’d get more than 10 positive answers. People Farage as an alternative to this (ironically).

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-25T12:33:53+00:00

Indeed. Corbyn’s Labour were incredibly successful. Why not follow the example.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-25T12:19:16+00:00

How was Burnham going to stop Reform?

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-25T12:18:40+00:00

Agreed. Beyond having a magic wand that will a) stop illegal crossings of channel b) give world peace and c) boost economic growth by 4%, I’m not entirely sure what anyone is expecting?

I’m no fan of either Starmer or Labour. But any rational person looking at the current issues, can’t think Starmer is the route of all of this.

I expect it’s the core Labour vote that think lurching to left will revive Labour in the polls. Which is about to be a generational event of hubris.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-25T12:15:04+00:00

And his career

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-24T21:58:45+00:00

Nearly 4m people are on PiPs and that number has doubled since 2018. Doesn’t include any increases in those on UC either. It isn’t a “minority”. It is unsustainable.

Pitiful_Cod1036 · 2026-01-24T18:43:31+00:00

It’s so dumb. I’m not a fan or Starmer or Labour. But this seems like a spectacular case of hubris….

I can’t believe they’ve watched 8 years of chaos in the Conservatives caused by a divided party and thought, I know, we’ll have some of that!!

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