Technically, neither, but don’t get used to it. You’ve got really fucked up and shitty election about to happen. And it doesn’t look like it’s gonna end well.
Andy Burnham, who won a compelling majority in the Makerfield byelection overnight, is expected to travel to London on Monday to meet MPs in the expectation of becoming prime minister within weeks. One cabinet minister – who has not previously told the prime minister to go – said his departure was now inevitable.
Unless Andy does a 180, he’s a competent socialist leader.
I think the bigger question is whether or not the system will allow him to deviate from their current course of self destruction.
He’s already committed not only to not sacking the loathsome Shabana Mahmood, but promoting her. He’s not going to change Labour’s Reform-Lite anti-immigrant policies, he’s unlikely to change the UK’s support of the Gaza genocide, he’s not going to stop the persecution of trans people, and he’s going to continue Rachel Reeves’s servility to the City of London on economic policy. But he might put water and the railways under state ownership, though where the money will come from is a mystery while Labour is still bound by the fiscal strait jacket.
Technically, neither, but don’t get used to it. You’ve got really fucked up and shitty election about to happen. And it doesn’t look like it’s gonna end well.
last week tonight segment on the subject
Edit: excuse me, but it appears that my information is a bit out of date
Unless Andy does a 180, he’s a competent socialist leader.
I think the bigger question is whether or not the system will allow him to deviate from their current course of self destruction.
He’s already committed not only to not sacking the loathsome Shabana Mahmood, but promoting her. He’s not going to change Labour’s Reform-Lite anti-immigrant policies, he’s unlikely to change the UK’s support of the Gaza genocide, he’s not going to stop the persecution of trans people, and he’s going to continue Rachel Reeves’s servility to the City of London on economic policy. But he might put water and the railways under state ownership, though where the money will come from is a mystery while Labour is still bound by the fiscal strait jacket.
Oh, what wonderful news!