Good day all. Well, it looks like the repeated beating about the head, shoulders and the polls have finally convinced one of the worst British Prime Ministers in the last century, Keir Starmer, that the time has come to hand in his resignation.
I don’t talk that much about the politics of the formally Great Britain except when it affects the United States. Starmer and the Labour Party, (British spelling), was elected in a landslide a few years ago, burning the Conservative Party. Once Starmer and the Labour party took control, they went almost full totalitarian. If you were a patriotic British subject/citizen, especially if you were white, anything you said and did was a crime and they would throw you in jail.
If you were what the British refer to as an “Asian,” especially an Islamic male, you could get away with pretty much anything. One of the biggest scandals in recent British history are the rape gangs and Islamic sex traffickers. Starmer, in an earlier part of his career, did nothing to stop them.
The final straw that seems to have snapped Starmer’s political back, was the murder Henry Nowak. Starmers police goons handcuffed the victim as he bled out after being stabbed, accusing him of being the criminal. This, along with everything else, has led to the Labour Party being routinely slaughtered at the polls. That hasn’t benefited the Conservative party either. People have been moving to the Reform Party. Now, after reports of a massive internal fight, Starmer has announced that he is stepping down. Here are the details from Fox News:
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Monday that he will resign following a mounting revolt inside the Labour Party after devastating local election losses, the resignation of government ministers and growing pressure from senior members of his own cabinet.
Starmer said he would step down as prime minister and Labour leader after concluding he could no longer unite the party, but is expected to remain in office until a successor is chosen.
“Every decision I’ve taken has been about putting the country I love first. That is why I will resign as leader of the Labour Party. I have spoken to his majesty the king this morning to inform him of my decision,” he said while delivering a statement outside of 10 Downing Street.
From what I’ve been reading, everything Starmer has done has not been for the good of the country. His government has been putting people in prison for just speaking their mind, posting memes or even just standing somewhere and prying silently to themselves. If this had been the United States and our leaders were pulling the garbage he was, (And it came close under the Biden Maladministration), well, bad things would probably have happened.
Starmer also acknowledged growing opposition within his own party, saying, “The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed to lead us into the next general election. I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question, and I accept that answer with good grace.”
He was dragged kicking and screaming to the conclusion that he was done as Prime Minister. I don’t follow how things work over there that much, (Britain is a parliamentarian system, unlike our Constitutional Republic), but as I understand it, the worst case scenario could have led to a snap election. The way Labour is seen in the polls right now? It would have been an electoral massacre. Now they have a few years before the next scheduled election to con the voters fix the problems they’ve created.
The announcement follows weeks of turmoil inside Britain’s ruling party after Labour lost roughly 1,500 council seats and control of more than 25 councils in local elections last month, according to reporting from U.K. outlets. The losses were fueled by major gains from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party in Labour’s traditional strongholds and by Green Party advances in urban areas.
The Green party is better known as the “Watermelon” party. Green on the outside, but red on the inside. Still, they might take votes from Labour. There really isn’t that much difference between the two parties policywise.
Still, Starmer put up a fight until he started losing cabinet ministers. In Britain, this is a big deal. A cabinet minister is similar to a cabinet secretary in the United States. They are assigned to run an agency or department. The one big difference is that they don’t give up their seat in Parliament. If they leave the cabinet, they just go back to being a full time member of parliament. In the United States, if a member of the cabinet leaves or is fired, they’re back in the “Dreaded Private Sector.”
Jess Phillips resigned from her government role after Starmer reportedly refused to step aside during a cabinet meeting. Phillips said Labour needed leadership with more “gusto” and warned the government was failing to deliver the change voters expected, according to The Guardian.
Miatta Fahnbulleh also resigned and called for what she described as an “orderly transition,” according to U.K. media reports Tuesday.
More than 80 Labour MPs publicly called for Starmer to resign. Steven Swinford, political editor at The Times, wrote on X, “What is striking is the fact that they hail from all wings of the party,” adding that roughly a third were centrists, while others came from Labour’s soft-left and hard-left factions.
Now the fun begins. There is going to be a discussion on who will succeed Starmer in the Labour Party. The voters will have no say over who is eventually selected. The odds are, it will be someone who’s policies are just as bad as Starmer’s if not worse.
Attention now turns to a potentially divisive Labour leadership contest that will determine both Labour’s next leader and Britain’s next prime minister.
Wes Streeting is viewed as a leading contender from the party’s centrist wing, while Andy Burnham remains popular among Labour’s grassroots having recently won a seat in Parliament. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is also expected to play a major role in shaping the succession battle.
From what little I know, none of these people will be able to save the Labour Party from a well deserved hammering at the polls when they have their next election. Nigel Farage’s Reform party is growing by leaps and bounds. As for America? We have the typical American outlook regarding what the British decide to do.
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