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By Boiler
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And with that, usher in a Tory/Reform coalition?

Did I read somewhere that Beff Rigby is already gunning for Burnham?
By mattomac
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I can hear her monotone voice shouting “General Election” already.
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By Oboogie
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For whatever it might be worth, Alastair Campbell also thinks Streeting is going to be offered Chancellor.
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By Abernathy
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Watching Keir Starmer delivering his notice of resignation out side the front door of number ten, I felt disgusted, saddened, and angry at the grotesque unfairness of what has been done to a fine leader and the best PM the UK has had in twenty years. It just seems so wrong - apart from anything else, the Labour Party just doesn’t do this sort of thing . Fuck knows, we tried to do it when the party was led by an incompetent charlatan who was taking the party to the brink of electoral extinction , and it didn’t bloody work then. The Tories used to do it every six months, and look where it got them. Why on earth are we doing it now to a deeply principled leader of immense integrity and decency who, unlike JC, at least has the pragmatic nous actually to pay attention to the concerns of his parliamentary party ? Have we learned nothing ?

Finding it very hard to accept, but I dare say that’s Realpolitik.

For probably only the second time in forty years, I’m considering ending my membership of the party.
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By davidjay
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To which I can only echo what I said earlier - if the good people leave, the duplicitous bastards are left. I'd say I hope we get what we deserve but many of us don't deserve this.
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By Malcolm Armsteen
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It's one of the negative results of a landslide - the B and C teams get elected, but not given wisdom, intelligence or character.
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