midlandsgrimpeur
Senior Member
If anyone within Labour had common sense they would have kept the status quo and be using current revelations about the £5 million to absolutely batter Farage and his 'man of the people' b*******.
Starmer's vision quest
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If anyone within Labour had common sense they would have kept the status quo and be using current revelations about the £5 million to absolutely batter Farage and his 'man of the people' b*******.
Psamathe
Legendary Member
Good point. Labour will now fill the front pages and focus on investigative reporters and Farāge get little scrutiny.
Pross
Veteran
Ah, OK I get you - you're saying that they're doing alright at the moment but if there's a change Streeting is likely to be the least damaging. Glad to get that sorted out and apologies for the misunderstanding.
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TailWindHome
Über Member
Stevo 666
Guru
I wasn't talking about current performance, you were. Try sticking to the point.
Stevo 666
Guru
I'm still not convinced he will go for it yet - just read a report on his resignation letter and there appears to be coded reference to wanting Burnham in the contest. Which is a way makes sense, as even if Streeting did win with Burnham unable to run, that wouldn't be the end of it as far as the left of the party is concerned.
Although I could be proved wrong anytime soon...
TailWindHome
Über Member
Starmer:" Hi Ang, glad the tax is sorted, tell me this, how would you feel about a return to Government, a vacancy has opened up at Health?"
deptfordmarmoset
Über Member
I may have got this little bit of the rule book wrong but I thought that following the resignation of Streeting, he's no longer eligible to be elected as Prime Minister - because replacements are from amongst ministers. So if Starmer now resigns, Streeting is out of the picture. Not that Starmer is going to resign at this stage - he's lashed himself to the wheel and is navigating the storm with zero visibility.
TailWindHome
Über Member
Not ministers, MPs
TailWindHome
Über Member
Stop, this is too much
Pross
Veteran
I'm assuming a wider re-shuffle. As others have said, getting rid if Mahmood would be a good move.
Pross
Veteran
Someone is bored of the anonymous backbench life obviously.
bobzmyunkle
Veteran
I didn't quite realise what a diamond geezer he is. And the echoes of Thatcher in the rhetoric. He's got my vote.
wakemalcolm
New Member
This is a step change in your self awareness which I wholeheartedly applaud.
Well done Stevo.
deptfordmarmoset
Über Member
Ah, ok, I appear to have misread this bit from a Guardian briefing this morning.
But the Labour rulebook appears to make its own additional stipulations. “In opposition,” Johnson explains, “if a Labour leader resigns, the deputy automatically becomes acting leader. But in government, the rules say the cabinet – in consultation with the NEC – selects an acting leader from among their own ranks.”
That last bit could prove important. It appears to open up the possibility of a scenario in which Streeting resigns from cabinet, Starmer immediately steps down as leader, and Streeting is at that point ineligible to become prime minister – because he is no longer at the top table. Again, there is little clarity.
