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Software engineer & #music lover. Strong interest in #politics. #Queer thinking, straight talking. #MadonnaFamily #Sheffield #UK #Remainer #PeoplesVote #FBEU

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@sales_belinda It's worth looking into the guy who stood down for Burnham. He had to resign a ministerial post just a few months earlier, so the whole standing aside for Andy thing is a way of not leaving in disgrace.

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@Disco_Stooo_ @sales_belinda We don't elect prime ministers.

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@sales_belinda There is no election to PM. It is a post appointed by the monarch.

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@JohnPri59190318 @MaryCreagh_ That first part says more about the electoral system than anything else. The votes only changed by 500k (a reduction). The real difference is that the Tory vote collapsed.

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Lied to get there but thought he could carry on in the same vein once in office.

His large parliamentary majority didn’t give him immunity - it actually contributed to his demise as his own MPs weren’t afraid to call time on the charlatan for fear of losing their own seats.

Good riddance.

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@MaryCreagh_ A landslide??? 66% voted *against* Labour and he got 500k fewer votes than Labour did under Corbyn in 2019.
And, if people had known what a shitshow we were going to have over the next two years, it would have been even less.

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@MaryCreagh_ Liar

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@Cllr_Seb @andreigheorghe0 @CarverEmily Two thirds didn't want Labour at all. That's the real underlying problem; our electoral system.

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@intermax @CarverEmily Took Major about eighteen months as well.

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@news4reformuk @SangitaMyska Dig back far enough and you'll find Tories calling for an election when Brown took over. They both try it on in opposition.

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@BarryLButcher @PostFromProtest @SangitaMyska Sure, but these by-elections should have happened months ago, long before the one Burnham just won.

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@CryptoDank420 @SangitaMyska @AdamHardie89 The media plays a large part in this, especially since the start of televised debates. They are trying to push us towards US-style elections when our system is significantly different. People elect a local representative. The next PM is likely to be leading a coalition.

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@Gaynor_PE @SangitaMyska So.... pretty much exactly like when Rishi Sunak became PM then? And Gordon Brown before him?

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@heartofmatcha I feel sorry for all the people who voted for him as Mayor only for him to waltz off barely two years later. Always been selfish though.

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@moon63 @bbcnickrobinson "overwhelmingly voted"?? Labour under Starmer in 2024 got 500k *fewer* votes than Labour under Corbyn in 2019. 66% of voters didn't want them.

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@KwazyJ @StevieDeeOTT @StevenTank40953 @AdamJSchwarz He knew he'd win by doing fuck all, because the Tory vote would inevitably collapse. Labour under Starmer in 2024 got 500k *fewer* votes than Labour under Corbyn in 2019.

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@StevenTank40953 @AdamJSchwarz The thing is, we don't get to pick. Only two people in that picture even led a successful general election campaign. Much as the Republican party keeps Trump in power, so the Tories gave us these reprobates.

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@menuntied @TStandfield1789 @KemiBadenoch @Conservatives Didn't for Brown.

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@JPThrough1 @TStandfield1789 @LoziCamp @KemiBadenoch @Conservatives You must have missed the part where he was an MP for 16 years, serving in the Blair & Brown cabinets before stropping off after he lost the leadership election to Corbyn.

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@Matthew96296853 @TStandfield1789 @KemiBadenoch @Conservatives And yet Gordon Brown had the easiest ride to #10 of anyone this millennium. No doubt Burnham will follow in his footsteps with the way he's been lined up to take over. Even Truss had to win a leadership election.