How long can Starmer survive? Getting popcorn ready 🍿🍿

Thank you graphite, for posting that article which describes exactly how many people viewed the appointment of PM as ambassador, at that time.

Primrose53

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My local village used to be a thriving busy shopping area with busy restaurants but now businesses are closing down and going online. This is due to business rates increasing 3 fold, less customers/footfall because parking is no longer free, rises in national insurance payments and so on. I have to ask if local decline is across the UK? If so, what economic benefit has this given the government?
Even more alarming than the publicity surrounding Epstein and Mandelson is the social impact Rachel Reeves’ poor decisions are having on our daily lives. Life under Labour is not working is it?

Life under Labour is definitely not working!

Pubs are closing down around here at an alarming rate as are many independent shops. It is depressing to go to small towns and see empty shops with whitewashed windows. It is very difficult to find a bank in most towns now and even shops like Holland and Barrett and The Original Factory Shop have closed their stores. Family businesses are throwing in the towel now after trading for many decades.

I know my weekly shop has gone up quite a bit and all my friends say the same. You really do have to shop around to get the best prices now.

Unfortunately spent far too much time this last year in hospitals and very disappointed to see how they are overcrowded, how services have been cut and you wait weeks for appointments at GPs and months and years in hospitals.

Didn’t a lot of this start under the Conservatives? And is probably a social thing and not just a result of government policy? People buying more on the internet. Internet banking taking over. People staying at home with a drink watching Netflix etc. Parking charges in city centres.

Thank you for posting Primrose53. I was beginning to think that I was living in a parallel universe….. although sad to realise the extent of decline in just a very short while. Reeves is clueless. All this noise about Andrew and Mandelson is a distraction from the disaster of Reeves.

MayBee70 Reeves is making life impossible for the high street to continue to thrive. Reeves has increased national insurance rates and business rates for premises. Reeves. Not so the conservatives.

The decline of the High Street in the face of exponential growth of online shopping began long before Starmer and shows no signs of abating. Not enough in itself to say Labour isn't working and remove KS as PM.

Under the Conservatives, between January 2022 and January 2024 food prices increased by 25%. General inflation was much higher under the Conservatives also.

Labour is doing better- UK current inflation was 3.6% in June 2025, whilst food shop inflation at 4.5% in the year to June 2025. The State Pension will increase by 4.8% from April 6th.

In the 3 months up to November 2025 average regular earnings growth excluding bonuses in the UK was 4.5% year on year and public sector pay has accelerated thing a 7.9% increase in the same period.

Reeves clearly doesn’t want a high street? Or hospitality sector? Who on earth would make it so hard for small businesses to thrive?

I’m no fan of Starmer but the thought of Rayner is horrifying. Talk of Milliband being in a position of power such as Chancellor also beggars belief. Hold on for a bumpy ride ending in a totally destructive crash.

Breaking News - Mandelson’s two residences are being searched by Police right now.

Starmer must be quaking in his boots.

Primrose53

Breaking News - Mandelson’s two residences are being searched by Police right now.

Starmer must be quaking in his boots.

Why?

My gut feeling is Starmer will soon be gone.

Angela Rayner ready to step in apparently. Can you imagine her in that position?

Quaking in his boots- why?

Starmer was not mentioned in the Epstein files once.

Oh dear.

More sleaze.

I am set to win £1 if he is still in office at Easter. Nobody will want to inherit this mess and he definitely won’t go of his own accord.

There seems to be a big appetite for displacement of Epstein crimes and any adverse collusion of PM with Epstein onto KS. The media and political players plotting for KS’s downfall have many self interests and motives of their own to seek KS’s demise and I doubt the Epstein victims are at top of the list of their self interests and motives.

As ever KS is too much of an indignant Boy Scout and not good at political parry. When KS was asked at PMQ did you know PM had a relationship with Epstein after his earlier conviction he rightly answered yes but should have looked to his side, backwards and in front of him and said several times “ but so did all of you”. He should have said and been briefed to quote verbatim Nigel Farage’s statement to DM that he as leader of Reform also thought PM was a good appointment. He should have said all of you knew what I knew but not one of you public ally made statements against the appointment at the time.

Like or loathe Starmer, vote with wherever your allegiance takes you at the next GE- but Starmer is not mentioned once in the Epstein files and this displacement political theatrics benefits neither the country or the Labour Party.

I also doubt KS will not go of his own accord. steering was PM’s mentee for goodness sake having suppers at his house. Angela Rayner had recent HMRC error of judgements of her own.

Streeting not steering

Primrose53

My gut feeling is Starmer will soon be gone.

Angela Rayner ready to step in apparently. Can you imagine her in that position?

Why? Is she too common?

Kemi is great at marketing, but then SHE does not have to get the country out of the bankruptcy that her party put us in. And make no mistake, that is where we are.

His performance so far is working, but he needs to take more time. Bit of a Tory type ploy I think. He will do the work needed, but he will be deeply unpopular, so they will let him carry on until just before the election, a bit like Maggie/John Major

Facebook, yes, I know, needs verification, but a post is showing a poll allegedly on GB News, asking will Starmer survive this crisis.
80 per cent of the voters said YES!
Will keep looking for other accounts of this.

Maremia

Facebook, yes, I know, needs verification, but a post is showing a poll allegedly on GB News, asking will Starmer survive this crisis.
80 per cent of the voters said YES!
Will keep looking for other accounts of this.

What do they know? Just guesswork isn’t it.

I think he will hang on until the May elections, which will be so dire that the party will ditch him.

I don’t feel in the least bit sorry for him, he’s always been in the wrong job.

FranP

Kemi is great at marketing, but then SHE does not have to get the country out of the bankruptcy that her party put us in. And make no mistake, that is where we are.

His performance so far is working, but he needs to take more time. Bit of a Tory type ploy I think. He will do the work needed, but he will be deeply unpopular, so they will let him carry on until just before the election, a bit like Maggie/John Major

Kemi is great at marketing, but then SHE does not have to get the country out of the bankruptcy that her party put us in. And make no mistake, that is where we are.

Of course we are not!

Where is MaizieD to explain?

Have any of our GB News fans seen that viewer poll where 80 per cent felt that Starmer would survive this crisis?
Seems a very high number, believing that he will get through it.