Morgan McSweeney gone - What Now For Number 10?

Sir K S is in perilous position. He's very upset and angry with himself for letting himself be persuaded that Mandelson was fit to be our ambassador in the US.
He has been disappointing as PM. But he seems to be a man of good faith who is learning to communicate. And the
unseemly recent churn of PMs is to be avoided. I hope he sticks this out.
churn of PMs

There is always a tweet.

Anas Sarwar:

4 April 2025: It was great to catch up with my old friend and the UK’s (relatively!) new Ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson.

x.com/AnasSarwar/status/1908204710143942907

The Labour Party is lurching from disaster to disaster; the threat to the cabinet and to the country today is, would you like a General Election. (the veiled threat being Rayner or Miliband.)
What it really means is that Labour knows full well that Starmer did not win the election, the Conservatives lost it. Many laughingly voted for Labour' because it cannot be any worse than the Tories,'
Well, they are not laughing now, and they will take far more care over whom they honour with their vote. Labour knows this, and is desperately, none more desperate than Starmer, clinging on to their jobs in the vain hope that things will improve.
Starmer has his own agenda which he does not deign to share. Labour will not improve until he has gone, and it is my firm conviction that he cares neither for his party nor his people, only for his own career.

He never appeared to me to be a man of vision.

Even less so now.
He appears to have totally relied on advisors.

Woe, woe, and thrice woe eazybee.

eazybee

The Labour Party is lurching from disaster to disaster; the threat to the cabinet and to the country today is, would you like a General Election. (the veiled threat being Rayner or Miliband.)
What it really means is that Labour knows full well that Starmer did not win the election, the Conservatives lost it. Many laughingly voted for Labour' because it cannot be any worse than the Tories,'
Well, they are not laughing now, and they will take far more care over whom they honour with their vote. Labour knows this, and is desperately, none more desperate than Starmer, clinging on to their jobs in the vain hope that things will improve.
Starmer has his own agenda which he does not deign to share. Labour will not improve until he has gone, and it is my firm conviction that he cares neither for his party nor his people, only for his own career.

Well said eazybee

People like MacSweeney virtually dictates what the government does in many way.

Remember Steve Hilton sand his Blue Sky thinking nonsense.

Starmer is a wet lettuce and needs to go.

But who will replace him?

Please God. Save us from that awful Angela Raynor woman. She makes Thatcher look like Tinkerbell.

🙏🧚👎

None of those ‘front runners’would be a good look really. I’d imagine Starmer realises that and that is possibly why he is clinging on.

nanna8

None of those ‘front runners’would be a good look really. I’d imagine Starmer realises that and that is possibly why he is clinging on.

So presumably he thinks he is doing a good job. And that people would choose him as the best of a poor bunch.

I am very impressed by the number of contributors on this thread who know Keir Starmer so well and intimately!!

We know his record and performance as PM and Leader of the Opposition and it is not impressive.

Casdon

Woe, woe, and thrice woe eazybee.

Well it is for Starmer!

Now I’m imagining men in togas surrounding him with evil expressions…

Beware the Ides of March😲

Oreo

Beware the Ides of March😲

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So we've got another month to endure all this!🙈

More like 3 months until the local elections in May.
Enjoy!😄

Could they get all cancelled??

No. The option to cancel was for councils which are being merged only, and the deadline to get them cancelled has passed.

But anything is possible?

And legal?

No. The deadline was 15th January. According to the Local Government Association:

‘Labour controlled councils make up the largest number of those seeking a cancellation, with 15 having made a request to cancel while four have said they want elections to go ahead. Three of the nine eligible Conservative councils have set out their capacity constraints.

Just one Liberal Democrat council has sought to cancel its elections. Cheltenham BC said the fact that it held all-out elections in 2024 means no councillor has served for more than two years already.

A further 10 councils that are under no overall control also wrote to the minister about capacity constraints.’

Thanks Casdon at least you know the full facts and don’t speculate 👍

To survive Starmer now has to move leftwards that will leave him less money to invest in growth, its hard to see him lasting long. Maybe poor results in the council elections will be his final coffin nail.

Here is the updated position regarding which elections are taking place, this one is dated 28th January, so includes the full picture, mayors etc as well, following the 15th January deadline.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/local-elections-2026

David49

To survive Starmer now has to move leftwards that will leave him less money to invest in growth, its hard to see him lasting long. Maybe poor results in the council elections will be his final coffin nail.

How do you work that out, David?

The government could invest £billions any time it wants, regardless of its position on the left to right spectrum. It’s ,faulty economics that is holding it back, not capacity or political stance.

David49

To survive Starmer now has to move leftwards that will leave him less money to invest in growth, its hard to see him lasting long. Maybe poor results in the council elections will be his final coffin nail.

It would be nice if a politicl party put the electorate before petty party politics. If it did, it would be shifting rightwards, not lefwards.