Should there be a general election when Starmer gets booted?

[Vinty]

He needs to be surrounded by people who agree with him at all costs, he can't cope with anything else

Thought you were talking about Donald Trump for a moment.

 

[Vinty]

If you follow gods of management he's gone from trying to be a Zeus to Dionysus in just a few months, He sees more comfortable with an Apollo leadership approach.

You are nearly as bad as Boris Johnson.
His motto was, "When in trouble, start speaking in Greek or Latin," most people won't know the difference but they will still think , what a clever bloke.

 

[transam]

Not in favour of a general election because there may be a change in leadership ??

Only two ways a general election can be called afaik

The king dissolves parliament and that ain’t gonna happen

Starner / govermant loses a confidence vote ??

That would require a sizeable rebellion in his own party ( MPs ) unlikely as many would or could lose there seats / jobs

And why would one vote for that if I was an MP I wouldn’t

Best to keep one’s snout in the trough

 

[Murdochcat]

Yeah, that makes sense. So he could call an election before he gets officially booted, if he hears rumblings of mutiny.

Then presumably he's told them he will do this. But they'd all need to think he's mad enough to do it.

There again, he'd get a £115k a year tax-free pension and never need to work again. Not sure what an everyday MP or cabinet member gets, probably little or nothing. So perhaps it is a credible threat. Former PMs always look very sad as back-benchers, it must be a terrible climb-down for them.

Whether he calls an election or not, he's probably permanently destroyed the Labour party anyway, so his legacy doesn't really matter.

Starmer has an undisclosed pension, protected by an act of law, that absolutely nobody knows the details of.

He is very rich now and will be even better off once he leaves the HoC

I think all cabinet ministers need to publish their tax returns, plus their shadows

 

[Vinty]

Labour won’t get in for the next 20 years

They say a week is a long time in politics.
Twenty years is an eternity.
Who knows what will happen in the next year , never mind the next twenty.
If the electorate get a dose of Nigel Farage in government, then you can never, say never.

 

[Dec27]

They say a week is a long time in politics.
Twenty years is an eternity.
Who knows what will happen in the next year , never mind the next twenty.
If the electorate get a dose of Nigel Farage in government, then you can never, say never.

Nigel isn’t going to be PM! That’s just white noise.

 

[Vinty]

Nigel isn’t going to be PM! That’s just white noise.

Turquoise noise maybe.

 

[JohnD]

You are nearly as bad as Boris Johnson.

Tried to follow the Priapus model.

 

[Odds]

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Nigel isn’t going to be PM! That’s just white noise.

That's you putting your fingers in your ears and shouting La La La.

If there was an election next week he'd be the most likely to be PM. Not a done deal but very likely.

Unless everyone except you is wrong of course.

 

[Dec27]

That's you putting your fingers in your ears and shouting La La La.

If there was an election next week he'd be the most likely to be PM. Not a done deal but very likely.

Unless everyone except you is wrong of course.

I wouldn’t mind if he was the Pm instead of Keir; you’ve got me wrong.

But he’s just a posh version of Tommy Robinson. He’s never going to get voted in. We are going to end up with tories again, and again.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Nah, this time's different. We've turned on them, things are going to change. Actual change, not the fake "change" that Starmer promised.

 

[Dec27]

Nah, this time's different. We've turned on them, things are going to change. Actual change, not the fake "change" that Starmer promised.

Things aren’t going to change. Nigel cant please the rich with reforms polices. He’s a little distraction puppet, he won’t be here long.

I’m not saying he wouldn’t do better than Keir, he would and could. But so could every forum member.

 

[Vinty]

Nah, this time's different. We've turned on them

If that's the case, why do you support a Reform leader who let's in Tory refugees from a party which was responsible for the disaster that allowed Labour to win a landslide.

 

[JohnD]

If

That's a very big word.