Bye Bye Keir

[Pathca]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxd00lg599o

[ajm]

The final U turn. We hope.

[Bayleaf]

Maybe conscience got the better of him. Don't expect anything better from Andy Burnham - also in Israel's pocket.

[Polarengineer]

My view is that this Burnham bloke is only there for the glory and not for the work. I’m already fed up with his face in the papers. Sad day yet again for UK.

[exile]

Burnham has worked very hard indeed in creating a new Manchester, where people want to invest their businesses and where the general population have some benefits from that success through things like cheap public transport.

Whether he can do the same for the whole of the UK is another matter; but I for one will give him time to try.

[demi]

I feel that democracy has been swerved.

The MP for Makerfield resigned to let Andy Burnham (hopefully) take his place. I would be very annoyed if I lived in that constituency.

Kier Starmer resigns & Andy Burnham seems to have a direct path to leadership of the Labour party.

Something about this feels wrong to me.

[Chappers51]

Unfortunately it was Starmer who blocked Burnham from standing in Groton and Denton, when Andrew Gwynne resigned.

Andy Burnham was my MP, elected in 2001. I lived in the Leigh constituency and worked in the neighbouring one of Salford at the time. He was well thought of by many of his constituents.
Just an interesting coincidence, in 2003 I went to work in Andrew Gwynn’s constituency when he was a councillor and served on local governing bodies.

I was pleased when Starmer was appointed and really thought he could unite the country and bring about appropriate change but, in my opinion, he didn’t have the charisma nor decisiveness to convince the voters in the traditional labour heartlands which had moved towards Farage and Reform.

Needless to say, I’ve followed these developments with interest and I’m with exile, we need to give Burnham a chance.

[Hotrodder]

Unfortunately it was Starmer who blocked Burnham from standing in Groton and Denton, when Andrew Gwynne resigned.

I was pleased when Starmer was appointed and really thought he could unite the country and bring about appropriate change but, in my opinion, he didn’t have the charisma nor decisiveness to convince the voters in the traditional labour heartlands which had moved towards Farage and Reform.

Sadly, charisma is not enough in today's world. Do people really think that idiot Boris was fit to lead a county? People still love him but he was not much more than a clown. Government is serious business, not a game for personal gain.
In case nobody has noticed, we are worryingly close to World War III. Starmer has been standing up to the Orange Menace and being seen at the top with European leaders in standing up to Putin. He is seen as a proper statesman and will be missed. It is a shame there was so much opposition within his own party and fires fuelled by the media constantly chipping a way at his efforts.