What I've heard, is that Rainer remains obscenely unpopular with her peers serving IN the Party, so they are going to unite around the landless Prince of Manchester. The fact that he doesn't have a seat right now, is a problem.
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What I've heard, is that Rainer remains obscenely unpopular with her peers serving IN the Party, so they are going to unite around the landless Prince of Manchester. The fact that he doesn't have a seat right now, is a problem.
@AnarchoNinaWrites I'm not convinced he'll get enough support, he's far too left for a lot of the party, despite being strongly in favour of the nuclear family and dropping proposals for more taxes when he went for the leadership 10 years ago.
@craignicol I mean I don't think they intend to adopt his mayoral platform - but I don't have access to someone who could answer that question for me. My guess is the plan is "same ole Labour with a new face." How Burnham feels about that is a mystery to me - I don't know him, or even for that matter anyone who works for him.
@AnarchoNinaWrites not sure what his platform would be, but there's definitely forces in the Labour Party who are very much against him for things like this, so would object no matter what policies her stands on, because talking to anyone to the left of them is seen as a betrayal.
More or less - if the polling wasn't what it was, if they didn't think the local elections were a harbinger of a national contest, Starmer would probably ALREADY be out. And if you're going to use him as a human shield to get your ducks in a row long enough to install Andy Burnham - it doesn't really do you a lot of good to undercut your own Prime Minister in the meantime.
But I am being told the decision has been made. It's a done deal. There is no bridge back for Keir now.
Whether or not that means an actual CHANGE in Labour Party politics and policies? I am skeptical. Sounds to me like the guys who decided Corbyn had to go and Starmer was the light, are still in charge, and much more concerned about keeping Angela Rayner out of the PM's office than you know - beating the right.
