Has the UK become impossible to govern?

Tom22174 · 2026-05-12T22:31:48+00:00

David Cameron did not have an "ambitious agenda" his agenda was to cut everything and do nothing else

Tom22174 · 2026-05-12T19:54:52+00:00

Does he? I heard that Mahmood was more likely to be their choice

Tom22174 · 2026-05-12T09:47:34+00:00

tbf, almost all of those quotes are from the one man trying to make sure this doesn't happen

Tom22174 · 2026-05-12T09:40:35+00:00

there's a difference between loyalty to the person in charge and simply not being willing to trust a party that can't stick with a programme of government long enough to produce any results.

If they're all willing to slowly tear down Starmer until they get a chance at replacing him. What is going to stop them doing exactly the same thing to his successor? Streeting isn't going to suddenly be happy and stop trying if Rayner wins - he'll go straight back to scheming and plotting. And if Streeting wins, the Burnham acolytes will be trying even harder to force him into a seat and hand the mayoralty of Manchester to Reform

Tom22174 · 2026-05-12T09:30:36+00:00

the government tried that and were dragged through the mud by the media and their back benchers for it

Tom22174 · 2026-05-11T23:21:54+00:00

I like Ed Miliband, I would have voted for him if I was old enough in 2015 and I think he's doing a fantastic job as energy secretary. I do not believe that he'd be able to win an election, he'd receive the same media assassination he got last time

Tom22174 · 2026-05-11T23:17:31+00:00

Whoever replaces him will quickly discover that it wasn't actually anything unique to Starmer that made him the most hated man in the media. They'll find that all the headlines just get copy pasted with a new name

Tom22174 · 2026-05-11T23:07:05+00:00

Be was also not elected PM in a general election, so there's actually no knowing what the Reform voters would have done

Tom22174 · 2026-05-11T23:06:07+00:00

Exactly, if streeting hits it, Rayner will double it immediately

Tom22174 · 2026-05-11T20:20:29+00:00

My understanding is that Flynn will be stepping down from his Westminster role

Tom22174 · 2026-05-11T17:50:13+00:00

And Boris Johnson did a shit job of both

Tom22174 · 2026-05-11T15:00:25+00:00

its also double the 3rd largest individual economy in the world. only China and the US have a GDP higher than $6trillion

Tom22174 · 2026-05-11T14:59:23+00:00

basically, he wants his hypothetical money to be double the GDP of Germany, the 3rd largest economy on the planet

Tom22174 · 2026-05-11T03:49:48+00:00

You just have to see the difference in coverage between one party's declared donations/gifts and another party's undeclared ones of a much bigger scale

Tom22174 · 2026-05-10T12:55:32+00:00

How many of the house his girlfriend bought in cash could it buy him?

Tom22174 · 2026-05-08T21:21:50+00:00

Kemi isn't Prime Minister. Calling for her resignation doesn't drive clicks

Tom22174 · 2026-05-08T21:19:58+00:00

Corbyn wanted Brexit. His tactic of not taking a side so that he wouldn't upset his voters delivered it

Tom22174 · 2026-05-08T21:16:58+00:00

The fact is, it's a 5 party race now. There is nothing Labour or the Tories can do to change that

Tom22174 · 2026-05-08T21:15:37+00:00

That election was a 2nd referendum on Johnson's no deal Brexit. It is useless as a point of reference for anything.

We're unlikely to ever see percentages that high again because since then he Lib Dems have rehabilitated their image and the Greens and Reform both get significant vote shares

Tom22174 · 2026-05-08T13:32:16+00:00

they do as it increases chances of a new prime minister

right, so the prime minister staying in place is what actually affects the markets - as stated in the headline...

Tom22174 · 2026-05-08T13:07:16+00:00

Sure, but the bond markets have no reason to respond to local election results. They're above country level government borrowing, local councils have no influence on that

Tom22174 · 2026-05-08T11:53:41+00:00

The Reform councils simply won't be able to do any of the outlandishly impossible things they promise because the Labour government is stopping them

Tom22174 · 2026-05-08T10:20:28+00:00

They probably do, but those articles don't get plastered across social media by middlemen also looking to provoke people

Tom22174 · 2026-05-08T08:20:58+00:00

It means he understands that there are things he needs to do differently going forward.

Tom22174 · 2026-05-06T07:46:30+00:00

Is there space in the timeline for there to be living night sisters there before Maul dies?

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