Farewell to what for most has been 2 years of broken promises, weakness, let downs, scandal, chaos, greed, chronyism.
But for many of us, 6 years of a spiteful, closed, technocratic, top down, entitled managerial regime which fostered resentment, resulted in workplace stress, ignored political knowledge, talent and achievement in favour of nepotism. Mandelson, glasses, inept, badly-fumbled u-turns, empty politics rejected by voters.
Not legacy, not greatness, not leadership.
Keir Starmer โ ever a man of his word til the end.
In June 2023 he explicitly ruled out ever indulging in a resignation honours list (BBC Radio 4 Today).
Today heโs marked his resignation with 21 peerages, overwhelmingly public-sector/legal jobsworths. Barely a single wealth creator among them.
Classic line up of the New Establishment which has run the country under Labour and Tory governments for the past three decades and is now firmly in control. Largely (if not entirely) with the following characteristics:
*Career almost entirely in public sector, often taking salaries from several sinecures at once as they work up the greasy taxpayer-funded pole.
*Associated with various โright-onโ causes.
*Largely middle class, London chattering class, Oxbridge well represented (of course).
*Fashionable left but not too left. Good mainstream Labour links.
Thus is the antediluvian House of Lords perpetuated by the Left as well as the Right as a comfortable state-funded retirement home for the well-connected โgood and greatโ past their sell-by date โ when it should simply be abolished.
When Makerfield MP Josh Simons stood down for Burnham he said it was in the interests of his constituents.
It's now been announced he will be given a senior policy role in Burnham's No 10.
No surprise, no integrity, no democracy.
That's Labour.
@dphunt88 So I'm confused having read the latest Jason thread. I see no update from the Trust that confirms if the latest debenture wording has been changed to their satisfaction or not. Maybe they have and I haven't received it. So based on that this seems like old news/interpretation.