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Were I rich enough to understand—and afford—lettuce futures, I’d be very excited about this #AndyBurnham chap.
#ukpol

That's it then, he's met the king and is the new PM.
Reckons that first things first, he's going to end rough-sleeping. Apparently something they tell me he achieved in Manchester.
Corbyn's big first day announcement if he won was going to be that he would end homelessness immediately.
Which can only really mean putting the homeless into hostels and hotels.
But good. Certainly that's an about-fucking-time sort of announcement.
If he ends people having to sleep on the streets in the first week then I can only approve of that.
#burnham #homelessness #ukpol

So, maybe all you really can hope for from an acceptance speech is a bit of empty rhetoric, but that is indeed what we got here.
Unity and decentralization and a promise that he has a plan.
Unity is easy to say, but requires unity to achieve since you ain't in control of all the factions.
Decentralization tends to be fought by centralized powers, and is a tactic really not a strategy. What do you hope to achieve with it? Can end up just remote offices for centralized power.
And that plan he reckons he has? I look forward to hearing what it actually is.
#ukpol #burnham

Burn ham or Burn Oil?
Sounds like first policies are going to be more oil drilling and taking "control" of Thames Water.
Note that more oil drilling will NOT reduce the price of energy to the consumer, nor do much to increase sovereign energy independence. It will however mean lots of profits to the party donors from the oil industry, and of course mean more heat-domes and wildfires and floods and rising sea levels. More death from heatstroke.
Note also that "control" of Thames Water is not nationalization, not "ownership", it's just really more (likely toothless) regulation of private industry.
Welcome to the new boss, same as the old boss.
RE: #labour #ukpol #burnham

Burnham has been made leader of the Labour party then. No other candidates got the required number of nominations so it's a coronation.
He has a few things to say.
He's proud. The party is united, he says, and now they'll put that power of unity to give people hope back. And he is ready to build on Kier's foundation. Thanks Kier, for all the NHS work and renters rights and rebuilding the nation's reputation (??).
He does like to name-check all the various towns and unions of the country. Just listing them. They made Labour, apparently.
We must recognize that this generation of politicians, including Burnham himself, have failed. Four decades of neoliberalism have not been kind to all those places he listed.
He pledges to be better, and will do five things.
1) Work relentlessly to build a culture of one Labour team. No infighting. Wants to eradicate the split. End factional politics.
I guess end Starmer's war on the left then? 🤨
2) Work to build a new politics. This is the last chance for change, and we must take it together. Tell people what Labour will do, not just pick fights with other parties. Seek consensus with those other parties instead, to improve the political discourse.
3) Change political direction: know exactly where he stands and set a direction that is distinctively Labour. No out-greening greens or out-reforming reform or wearing tory clothes. Boldly confidently authentically Labour.
Housing, water, energy, transport, all broken due to privatization and concentration of wealth and power.
Four decades of political power draining from regions to corporations and central government ends now.
Take back the slogan "take back control" from the right, who gave away power to corps and quangos.
Life should be more affordable.
4) Be a leader for the north, south, east and west, for Scotland and Northern Ireland (aw, shame for the midlanders 🤣 ).
Gonna do to everywhere what he done for Manchester he reckons.
Kids shouldn't have to leave their home towns to prosper.
5) Take power back from westminster and give it to the place where you live.
More power for regions, to run trains for passengers not shareholders. Improve high-streets, and back shops and pubs, and education, and reindustrialization.
He's gonna be pro-business.
Add all that together and he reckons we'll bring back hope.
Thanks a few people in particular.
He says he knows what he believes and what he wants to do, he has a plan. He wants change, to be close to the people.
He wants it to be Andy 4 us. Labour 4 us. Bring back hope.
#ukpol #burnham #labourParty

France is on fire, Britain isn't far off. And yet the right wing parties in the UK are united on their policy of: *fingers in ears* lalalala.
Could almost make you nostalgic for Boris (I said almost).
#ukpol

Burnham removing Mahmood from Home Secretary is great. Being an authoritarian monster, she belongs on the back benches not anywhere near the seat of government.
👂️👈
Wait, I'm hearing that she's to be the chancellor instead?
Well, um. Oh. Okay.
Promoting Shabana Mehmood to chancellor seems to be the most weak dumb move Burnham could possibly make.
She's authoritarian and fiscally inexperienced having shown no sign she understands what money is or how investment works or what a fiscal multiplier is. She'll likely treat the budget like a household or business accounts.
Good luck everyone.
#ukpol #ShabanaMahmood

Binface has been doing daily videos the last week or so. Of variable quality. Didn't really like the Divine Comedy karaoke one.
Here's his message to the aliens though.
These guys on this planet are using "democracy", well, some of them are.. Sort of.
Everyone come visit, but not all at once, the humans can get a little bit prickley about immigration.
#ukpol #clacton #binface

The press have been hounding Farage. Pointing out his corruption. Asking what he has spent the millions of pounds he's been gifted on.
Question doesn't really make sense to me. Money is fungible. The money went onto his money pile. He's spent money since, but was it that money? Or different money? How do you even know or measure that?
Anyway, he's fed up with it all so is standing down to cause a by election. At which he will stand. Imaging, wrongly, that this might make corruption charges go away. Other parties seem to be saying they won't dignify it with a contest, so he might be unopposed.
Could be just him and Count Binface. Would be properly hilarious if Binface won. I'd vote Binface in that case for sure.
#ukpol #farage #corruptFinance

Lots of media saying that it's a huge gamble for Zack to try and win Starmer's seat.
As though they think if he loses the media will all call for him to resign. 😆 They're doing that either way, duh.
A bigger gamble would be to put forward a lesser candidate and lower the chances of winning.
Here he is talking to Owen Jones about it anyway.
#holbornAndStPancras #byelection #ukpol

Less than a year ago Starmer argued that a mayor couldn't stand down early because of the cost to the party and the country of running an election.
Today we learn he is gonna quit being an MP.
I' not quite in the seat, but I'm close enough I could go campaign I suppose.
#ukpol #starmer #byelection

This is a pretty good seat for Zack Polanski himself to sand in actually.
Would be great to get him into parliament, beat Labour in London, boost the party and Zack's own voice.
Really might have to do some volunteering 🤔
#green #ukpol #holbornAndStPancras

Congratulations to Andy Burnham's new government in their huge achievement of arresting hundreds of terrorists today. What a coop! The streets will be safer tonight thanks to Burnham's quick thinking action in arresting hundreds of people for...
What? Really?
..arresting hundreds of people for planning to read poems in a terrorising manor, saying "Good Morning" to some protestors in a terroristic way, setting up a terror stage for terror music to be played on, clapping terroristicly, and holding up terror signs.
Some might say it's the state and police forces doing the terrorising here but of course don't say it in public or you'll be arrested and thrown in jail for terrorism.
#ukpol #terrorism

Owen Jones has gone down and interviewed some randoms. Only seems to have found one sane one.
Not a great deal of hope for Binface fans here though I'm afraid.
His supporters are so cynical about politics they don't care, they're all like "all politicians are doing it" which isn't true at all but they doesn't get through to people
That sense of cynicism and pessimism saturates this country
#ukpol #binface #farage #clacton

Burnham's team have a plan of some sort coming in a book #ukpol #burnham #manchesterism #productiveState