Retired, not dead. Proud father of two excellent young men. Married to a wonderfully unhinged Italian who can really cook. Left Britain before it lost the plot.
A truly dark and horrid day for Labour and our country.
A Prime Minister hounded and bullied from office by people impatient and fickle, who rate showmanship over substance and flip-floppery and sugar coated weasle words over honesty, maturity and integrity.
Hounded out by right-wing media.
He lost his brother months into his leadership and still carried on with grace.
A shameful moment in political history
Starmer was hated. Says far more about the electorate than the man. Impossible to govern when people want welfare, triple lock, tax loopholes, NIMBYist vetoes, while also hating the low growth, high debt economy this entails. Starmer was a good man leading an ungovernable country
A remarkably dignified resignation speech. A very sad day for Starmer but also for the country losing an honourable and dedicated public servant. I think many will come to regret this moment.
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A STRANGE KIND OF FAILURE
NHS waiting lists falling.
Workers' rights strengthened.
Rail nationalised.
Immigration down.
Child poverty down.
Pensions protected.
Yet we're told this is failure.
The irony is obvious.
If this is what failure looks like, what exactly would success have looked like?
#Labour #KeirStarmer #UKPolitics
If Burnham is so desperate to be PM, he can wait his bloody turn and offer himself up as leader when a vacancy occurs. There is NO VACANCY NOW, and for the foreseeable. Trying to force his way in via a coup disqualifies him forever, in my view.
Dear @uklabour MP. If u push Starmer out now, the consequence will be the Party gets crushed at next GE..not from strength of other parties. But the sheer disgust of an electorate that voted Labour 2024 and who won’t trust you with their vote again. Don’t fall for this coronation
The only reason for @Keir_Starmer to resign is because that snivelling weasel, @ChrisMasonBBC and the useless @BBC have banged on about it as nauseam.
You make me sick: all of you. Twats.
I backed Keir from the very start of his leadership campaign in Manchester, and I back him today. As the saying goes, you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. For the sake of both our country and our party, I hope my Labour colleagues & friends know what they are doing.
When the illusion finally shatters, what remains isn't disappointment,it's humiliation.
The man you poured your faith into was never a visionary, never a savior, never even remotely exceptional.
He was a hollow fraud wrapped in ego, fueled by noise, and sustained by endless self-promotion.
Every boast, every grand promise, every display of swagger crumbles the instant reality enters the room.
What looked like confidence was arrogance.
What looked like strength was insecurity.
What looked like leadership was little more than a carefully marketed illusion.
Scratch beneath the surface and there's no hidden brilliance, no master strategist, no misunderstood genius. Just an impulsive, self-absorbed figure stumbling from one failure to the next, desperately trying to drown incompetence in a torrent of bluster and spectacle.
In the end, the strongman image collapses into exactly what it always was: cheap theater.
A gaudy performance.
A caricature masquerading as leadership.
A salesman peddling an image he could never live up to.
And the hardest part isn't watching the act fall apart.
It's realizing how long you applauded it, defended it, and mistook obvious bullshit for substance.....