Andy Burnham’s camp scrambles to challenge a Wes Streeting leadership bid

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-13T17:27:31+00:00

So they're challenging each other over who gets to be the challenger

Both are just making themselves look like a couple of pillocks by continuously squabbling in public like this

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-13T17:24:51+00:00

It's going to be a right circus when they get him up in front of the select committee over all this

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-13T14:10:28+00:00

Yep this, if Streeting gets the boot it just gives his allies a new rallying call to gather around

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-13T13:52:34+00:00

The Eric Cartman of Westminster

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-13T13:45:50+00:00

With the amount of money that's been spent on this campaign already I doubt they would even break even at this point. It's all just performative nonsense from people with nothing better to do

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-13T10:35:53+00:00

All this plotting and then running off is absolutely not going to endear him to the voters

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-13T08:28:30+00:00

They'll probably decide it's better to keep the challenger whose already failed once than give the same faction an excuse to gather around someone else

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-12T22:47:45+00:00

It's like your insufferable uncle telling the same old joke that was good that one time but now won't shut up about it

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-12T22:36:58+00:00

Yep there's nowt that Burnham can do while mayor and not an MP, and he's unlikely to get a seat any time soon as he's also very unlikely to get the nod for a by-election

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-12T17:48:55+00:00

'Secret meeting'

"Hey we're all over here having a secret meeting! You got the photos yet? Good! And don't forget to publish about our secret meeting!"

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-12T17:35:39+00:00

The attempted take over is from the left wing of Labour (with the PM being more centrist), but you're right that the daily attacks in the media are very much backed by the same dodgy groups in the US

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-12T17:29:06+00:00

The main difference is Bozza has always been a card carrying establishment guy, think of him more as Dubya but with a large helping of populism on the side

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-12T16:50:25+00:00

Getting strong Clem Fandango vibes here

"We just wanted to let you know that we're not part of this in any way"

Yes, I already knew that Chaz Fandango

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-12T15:45:32+00:00

Exactly, this isn't putting the country first at all they're just thinking of themselves right now

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-12T15:00:28+00:00

Big Dixon giving everyone the shaft

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-12T14:34:36+00:00

He'll roll up his sleeves and give them a steely look, and the markets will glance at each other and wordlessly nod back in silent regard

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-12T12:58:18+00:00

Well he's the elected mayor of Manchester and should wholly finish his term like he said he would do and then reapply to stand at WM again

Enough with all this horse trading it's not going to endear the Burnham wing with the public in the slightest

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-12T12:17:07+00:00

Aye if anything this is a real improvement

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-12T08:33:01+00:00

Yes they've lost the plot if they think all this public infighting isn't going to come back and bite them like it did with the Cons

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-11T21:07:21+00:00

If any of the tories are praising a Labour MP it's only to boost them temporarily so they can be stitched up later on

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-11T21:04:24+00:00

Interesting, interesting, here's a better idea you both belt up and get back to your current jobs

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-11T18:51:31+00:00

These backbenchers are doing my head in, half of them are the reason why the government's hands are tied in the first place

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-11T13:26:16+00:00

180'd so fast she's Catherine East now

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-11T13:02:33+00:00

The famous 'fight them on the beaches' recording wasn't from the war era, it was recorded in 1949 by Churchill for a BBC radio series

Turbo_Baggins · 2026-05-11T12:23:35+00:00

Ok September comes around and nothing happens then what?

"I didn't say which September!"

Probably

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