No, I would expect him to announce his intention to resign once a new leader has been elected, and to remain as PM until that point.

I actually think they would do better in the elections if he quit this week than they will do if he stays on. I still expect him to stay on, though.

That’s not a reason for not getting rid of Starmer.

I think we are now at the stage where the results next month would be better if Starmer announced his resignation this week than they will be if he hangs on.

All of us. Starmer promised to put that Tory sleaze and incompetence behind us. Instead he has repeated or even worsened it.

How is saying abusive men should be dealt with, and trans women are not abusive men as TERFS claim, a “defence of men”?

Another pathetic brand new Labour defence account.

And racists need denouncing even when they are women of colour. It’s no good you right wingers trying to weaponise Mahmood’s race and gender against attacks on her evil policies. It won’t wash.

Too many to choose from. Sometimes parties cross a red line for their voters, such as the LDs with tuition fees. Labour has dived head first over red lines on racism, transphobia, disability benefits, criminal justice, protest rights, while not crossing the one red line they should, on the EU.

I get the impression that you don’t have a clue how dismally pathetic that argument is, or how damning of Labour it is that its supporters are reduced to this drivel. BTW, Caerphilly and Gorton and Denton say hi.

Put it this way. If they were deliberately working for Reform, it’s hard to think of anything they would be doing differently.

If you mean in terms of Labour leader, from the current Parliamentary party Miliband, Lewis or Rayner. From outside, Burnham or Khan.

If you mean in terms of parties, I could see PC and the SNP between them on about 60, Lib Dems on around 80, and then the Greens, Tories, Labour and Reform each in the 100-150 range.

No need to apologise. It just came across as unusual, and I was curious.

Don't forget Gary McKinnon, whom Starmer tried desperately hard to extradite to the USA until stopped by the greater compassion of then-Home Secretary Theresa May.

Matt Forde continues to demonstrate what a worthless piece of 💩 he is. Which is sad, because at times he is capable of being both funny and insightful, but he pollutes it with offence crap like this and vile centrist propaganda.

I wonder if she realises that the people she is trying to appeal to would happily do a lot worse to her than just taser and deport her.

I got that too, on my iPad.

Don’t mix up the inquisitorial civil law system of mainland Europe with the common law and adversarial system we have here. There are too many differences for the sort of simplistic comparisons politicians and some others sometimes try to make.

That’s not the image they try to project, though. They pretend that they hate abusive men and that trans women are abusive men. It is worth not letting them get away with that patently false claim.

And dedicating her life to healing people.

You what? Lammy’s jury trials nonsense is absolute both barrels in both feet. Experts say it won’t work. His own party hates it. The public largely opposes it. It is a high profile disaster that is about to trigger a major backbench rebellion.

Depends on definitions. Blair resigned, but not willingly, only because the party had made it clear they would not stand for him leading the party into another election.

The locals will focus minds on the backbenches. Many of them who thought they had a minimum 10 year gig followed by lots of money making opportunities will suddenly realise they are going to be one-termers with no value to the lobbyist gravy train.

Oh look, another newly activated Starmer-defending account. “You see the problem with Starmer is that he is just too pure and honest.”

Oh look, a brand new transphobe account.

Labour are not the left. Not even close. They are right of where they were even at the 2024 election, and that was already significantly right of centre. www.politicalcompass.org/uk2024

You think Labour are holding Trump at bay? Be serious.

I’m not saying there aren’t issues. My point is there have always been male doctors treating women, so why should it matter if a trans woman doctor does? Even to a transphobe?

Low follower count. Newly activated pro-Starmer. Bald.

He’s not the Messiah. He’s a very naughty boy.