“…to concentrate on international affairs”.
Presumably someone has offered him a well paid “envoy” job like Tony Blair.
Not a good look.
Not a bad look either, yet. Let’s wait and see.
No, but I am not surprised, and expected it sooner or later. I didn’t much like the bloke but I thought he was badly treated by so-called colleagues and was no worse then the present incumbent who I have got no time for. All mouth and no trousers is an old saying that fits the bill I reckon.
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I think we need to see how Burnham pans out and whether he has genuinely got the ability to do the job better than Starmer - like you I have my doubts but we can hope that he is at least no worse .
As for Starmer - no, I’m not surprised at his resignation either.
From who’s perspective? His wealthy donors? He is already back tracking on water companies. He has promoted a company to look after EV charging or some such around Manchester and his wife and sister are on the board of that company? Please tell me thats not true.
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Or “all hat and no cattle” if you are American.
That’s Texan saying.
My partner’s friend who apparently has inside info reckons he’s going to a job at NATO.
Like keeping the forever war in Ukraine going and giving away British overseas territories for a bag of magic beans?
Blair must be so proud of his apprentice.
The negativity surrounding modern politics is wearing me down - you can’t dislike someone a little bit, it has to be full on, someone can’t be doing their job reasonably well with a bit of room for improvement they have to be a catastrophe etc etc.
OK quite a bit of this is on politicians - I hear Angela Rayner does rather well out of giving after dinner and other speeches, for instance (but she is far from alone), and people tire of hearing how they are all on the make.
Sorry, what?
The rumour was he’s after Seretary General.
I suspect “his” wealthy donors (eg Lord Sainsbury) are in fact just Labour donors - but point taken, see Rayner’s lucrative speaking arrangements for instance, I have to say I think no individual politician should be allowed anything over and above their salary from individual donors or outside “gigs”.
Yes, some of the things he was supposed to have been tackling on which he has quietly changed the narritive is concerning, as you say.
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He is going to come into some flac from his own MP’s very soon as the water companies issue is not going away. Neither is the BS from said water companies who issued a £1B to buy back the water companies which has now become £2 Billion just to worry him. His MP’s such as Clive Lewis etc have already covered this and are pretty pissed off to say the least. That bit that is peasants have at the end of investment advertising. You may not get back what you put in, doesn’t seem to apply to utilities companies. We all need to buy a share then at the AGM pass it back to the country. Small loss of a few pounds but the benefits are far higher.
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Yes, me too. He gave strongly to Labour from the late 90s through the two New Labour governments, to the Starmer Labour Together government, and no doubt as any real Labour donor/ supporter would, stuck with them through their time in opposition…
Oh.
Labour confirmed that David Sainsbury, the former supermarket chair who withdrew his financial support for the party during the Jeremy Corbyn era, has provided his first multimillion-pound donation since 2016.
Sticks with the party through thick and thin does ol’ Dave.
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To be fair Corbyn put a lot of people off.
David Sainsbury has also donated to the Lib Dems so perhaps not wanting to encourage Corbyn is on brand.
But D Sainsbury is Jewish and after the Corbyn debacle with the Zionists it’s not a surprise he changed sides.
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In my defence, I hate almost everyone equally.
Squared.
A few years to wait, surely?
Quitting early was his final u-turn. I find it really disappointing.
We’ll see how Burnham does. The Telegraph is already clutching its pearls and claiming he wants to take the country back to the 1970s, and ridiculing the idea that low growth is the result of leaving the EU, so they seem to be taking him more seriously than his predecessor.
We’re talking about members and donors, not just general people though…
That massive spike during the late 2010s is the action of all the people being put off and standing up to leave? Maybe Dave Sainsbury is in that tiny dip before membership skyrocketed. Perhaps it says something that when he leaves, people join, then when he rejoins membership nosedives…
I’m lightly trolling really, I cant pretend to really care at all 