Rob

Insufferably pessimistic.

[Rob @rjar1980]

'We cannot go through another decade like the one we just had....'

Narrator: Burnham was an MP during the decade we've just had (he left parliament in May 2017).

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Andy Burnham says that for too long Britain has been run in the interests of the few rather than the many

He says that people will rightly ask: 'What hope can we have that it will be different this time?'

'Westminster hasn't been working for people. It hasn't been working for a very long time. In fact it is broken.

'We cannot go through another decade like the one we just had. We need a new determination to raise living standards. We need to change politics and we need to do it now.'

[Rob @rjar1980]

It won't even be 10 months before he's just as hated as Starmer.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔴 Burnham: Give me 10 years to transform Britain

https://t.co/h7QTLHI7vq

[Adam Wren @aswren]

This is what high trust and respect for institutions looks like in practice. This is what made us great, much of the rest of the world does not operate like this

[Rob @rjar1980]

@dxrelish @RunItBackPhilly You may as well pin this on your t-shirt right now.

[Rob @rjar1980]

@JohnBlackt548 @ClarkeMicah @GuffyNicola Blocked her long ago for being an unserious timewaster.
Nothing but a bore who lives on twitter.

(She really does. 246k tweets since December 2012 is an average of around 50 per day, every single day).

[Rob @rjar1980]

Has nothing else been happening in the last few days, lads?
Nothing at all?

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

[Rob @rjar1980]

@JamesMelville @AndyBurnhamGM He'll do none of these things.

[Rob @rjar1980]

@ltg1810 @DraperOr Milivolts as chancellor!!

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Enjoy your second day of popularity Burnham, it's all downhill from here:

Call an election or not - legitimacy against losing a lot of colleagues that just backed you

Appoint a Chancellor: appease the left who got you elected or appease the bond market you're borrowing £280bn from this year.

Call Donald Trump: do your Hugh Grant and worsen the special relationship without a State visit up your sleeve or snivel like a toad and piss off your party.

Tack left or tack right: do you care more about Green lunatics or the red wall

Net zero : retain a pointless target or risk the wrath of Miliband and the truant.

Gone in 6 months.

[Rob @rjar1980]

@angiebUK @Steven_Swinford True but it won't take anywhere near two to three years for Burnham to become deeply unpopular.

[Rob @rjar1980]

A national debt of nearly £3 trillion? Rookie numbers, apparently.

I find it incredible that anyone could look at the last 15 years and conclude that Britain's problem was that we didn't borrow enough.

[Sam Coates Sky @SamCoatesSky]

EXC

Burnham advisor says government should borrow more

Jim O’Neill tells me as part of Manchesterism film:

“I've tried to encourage this government to be bolder about. I think the second part of the fiscal rule on borrowing to invest I think that could be explored a lot more, and not in a way that freaks out the financial markets.
“I don't think you'd necessarily have to rip up the fiscal rules. I think you just need to be bolder about borrowing to invest. A lot of people right now, given Britain's history for 30 years or more, think any kind of borrowing just means wasted money. But if you borrow for things that have really positive multiplier effects.”

[Rob @rjar1980]

@DraperOr @ltg1810 @OldRoberts953 Understandable viewpoint, but look at it like this; We're stuck with economically illiterate leftists in charge until at least 2029. Does it really matter whether it is Starmer, Burnham or someone else?

[Rob @rjar1980]

@ltg1810 @DraperOr @OldRoberts953 On the contrary, I *want* Starmer to continue. I want any leadership contest to be protracted, bad tempered and damaging.
We're pretty much stuffed until at least 2029 anyway, may as well have a glass or champagne while we watch the disaster unfold.

[Rob @rjar1980]

@DraperOr @BobHRoss @VintageMrHobbes @AkkadSecretary You're right, it is likely - and it's why I believe Burnham’s premiership will quickly fall apart.

[Rob @rjar1980]

@DraperOr @BobHRoss @VintageMrHobbes @AkkadSecretary A Burnham administration will fall apart in a couple of months. There will be a couple of weeks of "the adults are back in charge" BS from the usual suspects, but it will quickly become obvious that Burnham has no more idea than Starmer.

[Rob @rjar1980]

@KathrynPorter26 @UKLabour There is zero chance Burnham calls a snap election if he replaces Starmer. Why would he risk a) losing the seat he had just won in the by-election and b) Labour outright losing their majority?

It surely can't have escaped him how unpopular his party is.

[Rob @rjar1980]

@JohnHundeslit @David__Osland Osland paid Musk for a blue tick, makes money from engagement farming like this, and doesn’t care at all that he is spouting idiotic opinions.

[Rob @rjar1980]

@narindertweets @BethRigby Great trolling.

[Rob @rjar1980]

@VintageMrHobbes Starmer is so desperate to have Burnham back in government that he blocked him from standing in the Gorton and Denton by-election. 🥴

[Rob @rjar1980]

@AllisonPearson Look at how well such a ban has worked in Australia and explain how it will work any better here.