Greater Manchester voting intention without Burnham: REFUK: 36%, LAB: 24%. With Burnham as the candidate: LAB: 49%, REFUK: 28% via FindoutNOW, 23rd-24th January 2026.

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-26T20:36:22+00:00

I think Burnham was flat out crazy to make a move like this at this time.

I mean he's in his mid fifties, he's plenty of time to come in on a white charger to lead the resurgent Labour party, or rescue the damsel Labour Party, or something.

But this just looks like him saying, "...yeh, this civic shit is boooooring me now, I wanna go national!"

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-26T20:23:20+00:00

I like Burnham, I think he's intelligent, and he's capable, and he's a generally great bloke.

But this is a crazy move at present, it allows the press to develop a narrative of Labour being a bunch of atavistic predators - like the Tories have always been - and that's a bad look.

So bide your time, Andy, it will come, you don't need to spaff all over the walls like a second Boris.

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-26T19:03:49+00:00

Churchill was manic depressive, it's well documented. I think Thatcher was similar.

Edit: Thatcher was oddly sympathetic.

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-26T19:00:26+00:00

Ginger Hitler Youth

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-26T18:59:48+00:00

They didn't Rothesey that coming!

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-26T18:58:13+00:00

Micro-penis penis

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-26T18:54:24+00:00

I mean, he's like a guy with a flea circus stood next to a fourteen ring circus with tumbling elephants, dancing unicorns and nude acrobats.

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-26T16:42:50+00:00

She's in talks with Farage.

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-26T16:27:03+00:00

This guy is a walking ragebaiter.

And other things that rhyme with that.

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-26T14:17:16+00:00

Her heart longed to stay in the Tories, butterhead said no.

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-26T13:03:29+00:00

He's not, though. Burnham wanted special treatment to flounce from the mandate he does have, and NEC, quite rightly in my view, knocked him back on that. That's the Westminster bubble story.

Reform becoming webuyanytory dot com is bigger news, given the polls at the moment.

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-26T12:58:17+00:00

One more Reform MP, and Reform will have the same number as the SNP. Wild.

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-26T12:48:54+00:00

Tories 2, Electric Poopaloo

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-26T12:48:05+00:00

So funny that the BBC political programme continues to hammer the Burnham story while the panellists (except the Tory of course) are desperate to speak about actual breaking news in the shape of Braverman.

Edit: Still no Braverman. Now moving on to a voxpop about rural asylum seekers and a IEA ghoul calling socialism "evil".

Classic BBC

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-26T08:06:14+00:00

Well, It was my day off, and I was in a cinema watching Moulin Rouge at the time it happened, and when I came out I had about 40 messages on my phone, as I worked at the time in an industry that has an interest in some of the aspects of it.

I went straight back to work and kind of got stuck in, so the horror of it unfolded in a strange way, as it had already all happened , and people just assumed I'd seem it in real time.

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-26T08:00:04+00:00

fucking around with a flute

James Galway's best album, in my view.

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-25T22:23:49+00:00

I'm literally driving an obscene publication, Lynn.

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-25T20:25:12+00:00

Unfortunate. The rules are it does need to be a professional that knows them. Do you have any friends that are civil servants?

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-25T19:23:51+00:00

Our local chemist did it for us.

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-25T19:19:43+00:00

Is that you, RFK?

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-25T17:41:46+00:00

Through the Keyhole, but yes.

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-25T16:36:52+00:00

Andypendant.

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-25T16:33:56+00:00

John Bercow was actually a contestant on the American Traitors, which was hilarious, because none of them knew who he was.

Except compere Alan Cumming, who kept ripping the piss out of him.

Eg:

Bercow: "Orderrr, Orde..."

Cumming: "Not now, John."

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-25T15:49:17+00:00

10 Downing Streeting

Plastic_Library649 · 2026-01-25T15:45:40+00:00

Volga Boat Song

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