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Starmer Government Collapse Begins – HotAir

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Keir Starmer has been trying to staunch the bleeding, insisting that everything is fine and he is the right man to lead the UK. 

It isn’t working. His government is falling apart. One of his main rivals for power, Health Secretary Wes Streeting, has released a blistering resignation letter blaming Starmer for the failures of the Labour Party and implicitly throwing his hat into the ring to replace the Prime Minister. 





It could turn out to be quite a race. Now that the dike has broken so much that no Dutch-Boy Starmer can plug the hole, the collapse of the current Labour government is almost inevitable, although a leadership battle will not likely lead to the collapse of the entire government and a new election. 

Streeting is only one of several likely challengers for the top spot. Others include Angela Rayner, who has a fair amount of stink around her for ethical lapses regarding taxes, Andy Burnham, who is currently not a Member of Parliament but rather the Mayor of Greater Manchester (Labour could arrange a by-election to get him into Parliament), and Ed Miliband, my current favorite because he is especially awful. He is the Net Zero fanatic who is destroying Britain’s energy infrastructure and driving it into poverty. 





WES STREETING MOVES

His resignation letter is a character assassination of Starmer, accusing him of failing to take responsibility for his own failings and presiding over ‘vacuum and drift’. It is about as personal as it gets

‘Where we need vision we have vacuum. Where we need direction we have drift’

He says that Starmer has failed to take responsibility for his own failings and that ‘too often that has meant other people falling on their swords’. He accuses him of taking a ‘heavy handed approach to dissenting voices’, saying it ‘diminishes our politics’

‘It is clear now you will not lead the Labour Party into the next general election film and thag Labour MPs and Labour unions want to debate about what comes next for to be a battle of ideas’ 

He says the election results were unprecedented both in terms of the scale of the defeat and the ‘consequences of that failure’ 

He says the rise of nationalists resents an ‘existential threat to the values and ideals that have made this country great’

Progressives understand the threat but are ‘increasingly losing faith’ that Labour is capable of rising to the challenge

He singles out stripping people of the winter fuel allowance be the island of strangers speech as examples of info individual policy failures but more broadly says the country ‘does not know who we are or what we stand for’

Starmer has been bleeding support for a long time, but the massive unprecedented losses in the council elections sealed his fate. Labour went from being in first place in popularity to an also-ran, with Reform, an also-ran not so long ago, surging in support and into the #1 slot. 





Streeting is a peach of a man, with a mean streak as wide as the Thames. He has mused about killing off people he dislikes, although not with quite the vividness of Jay Jones. Musing about the death of political opponents is now a thing on the left side of the aisle, and as a younger man, Streeting jumped on that bandwagon early. 

His nastiness should be no obstacle to success on the leftward side of the aisle, just as Miliband’s determination to destroy Britain will not likely be his Achilles’ heel. Ditto for Angela Rayner’s tax avoidance. 

They are leftists, after all. 

It could be that Burnham’s status as a parliamentary outsider will work to his advantage. He will have fewer internal enemies and be more of a blank slate on which people can project their ideal candidate. It is not too difficult for a party to get a preferred person into Parliament if they feel the need—the Conservatives did that in Canada when Pierre Poilievre lost his seat in the last election. 





NEW: Leadership timelines:

** There is no contest at the moment, and will not be until 81 names are submitted to the NEC 

** Wes Streeting has specifically asked for a long contest, that allows Andy Burnham to stand. 

** If this happens, this is likely to mean it concludes around conference at the end of September

** In the first instance, No10 likely to emphasise there is no contest underway. But if it formally begins, will No10 press for a quicker resolution – the PM ++could++ make the argument it’s in the national interest to get this over with.

** Andy Burnham could forward with a constituency name today; if he triggers the contest, then nominations would have to stay open for 6/7 weeks while he gets an MP – if he wins the vote

** Some NEC members want Team Burnham to put forward a plan for the Manchester Metro Mayor job that doesn’t involve installing a sitting MP. Gary Neville is a name that some talk about, but I’m told he may not have been approaches so could be utterly wishful thinking.

Leadership battles have a habit of taking longer than expected and can produce unexpected results, so the list of potential Starmer replacements could easily grow. 





It’s gonna be an interesting week or 8 in London. 


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