‘Lady Luck has smiled on Labour’s future potential basic Andy Burnham for by-election’
“National politics is virtually on hold, frozen, paralysed, until we learn the result in the early hours of June 19. No wonder much of the country wants to go on holiday”
Andy Burnham has launched his by-election campaign(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Napoleon wanted lucky Generals – and Labour’s Andy Burnham has enjoyed a couple of breaks ahead of his Make-or-Breakerfield by-election battle.
The result is on a knife-edge, with the first constituency poll giving the King of the North a slender, vulnerable 43-40% advantage over Reform. But his two most dangerous rivals got off to terrible starts.
What Nigel Farage’s unsavoury flag-bearer, Robert Kenyon, said about Carol Vorderman damned him as unsuitable to represent decent folk before we even consider his violent fantasies and views on people who don’t look like him.
The Greens are in disarray after their initial candidate, Chris Kennedy, pulled out within hours, then apologised after it was revealed he had shared a post calling the firebombing of Jewish ambulances in London a “false flag” – which usually means a stunt. Plus the extremist Restore Britain party of expelled Reform MP Rupert Lowe is standing, and the 7% polling for the Hard Right fanatic is only likely to benefit Labour’s wannabe next PM.
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“Vote Reform to get rid of Starmer” was Farage’s local elections slogan. Ironically, Burnham is the politician most likely to do that, although “Vote for us to deliver what both we and Reform want, for polar opposite reasons,” is what Labour’s man will definitely not say. Not publicly, anyway.
So Lady Luck has smiled on Labour’s future potential general, fortune favouring the brave and ambitious in the mother of all battles. Should Burnham win, more voices will be heard predicting Starmer will stand down rather than face what would be almost inevitable defeat.
The question then would be whether the likes of Wes Streeting will force a contest or accept a coronation and a Cabinet post under only the party’s eighth PM in history.
Streeting is talking a good game but holds a weak hand. Others, like Rachel Reeves, with recent improved growth and inflation figures and a cost of living drive to flaunt, want to keep their jobs.
National politics is virtually on hold, frozen, paralysed, until we learn the result in the early hours of June 19. No wonder much of the country wants to go on holiday.
New Thatcherite plan for right-wing fraud
Sweatshop Britain toiling extra hours is a Thatcherite trademark plan from the con artist Nigel Farage.
Funny how almost every suggestion from a Tory-turned-Reform leader, who banked a £5million gift plus £2m from “second” jobs, will benefit his own financial elite the most at the cost of working people. As TUC chief Paul Nowak observed, what grafters deserve are decent pay rises, secure jobs and better job rights, not Farage’s ever-longer hours.
And if the tycoon-funded poseur was serious about reducing the tax burden on ordinary folk hit by the cost-of-living crisis, he would be demanding all his wealthy mates pay their fair share. Self-pitying Farage is turning into a pathetic Kenneth Williams tribute act.
Now this Putin fanboy is suddenly screaming that Moscow-linked hackers revealed the £5m gift that could see him kicked out of the Commons and forced to fight a Clacton by-election. Nailed for misleading voters about migration when people and boats are way down, Carry on Nigel’s “infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me!” defence smacks of despair.
The country is finally realising he’s a right-wing fraud.
