NIGEL FARAGE: Burnham’s coup is so brazen it would make commanders of a banana republic blush
Ten years ago this week the Brexit vote created an earthquake in Westminster.
When the result was announced the landscape of British politics was permanently changed.
You can still feel the shock waves of that seismic moment echoing in our country today. Sir Keir Starmer, who believed he could bring stability after the chaos of previous years, limped out of Downing Street with his approval ratings plummeting.
He is the sixth person in a decade to prove completely incapable of taking any control of the country.
Meanwhile, rather than face the music at the ballot box, his party is engineering Andy Burnham to seize power in a brazen way that would suit the commanders of a banana republic. blush.
Burnham, who won the election in Makerfield last week, plans to follow Starmer to Downing Street next month, not only without direction from the public but also (so far) without any back words from senior colleagues.
Such behavior shows that, in all the post-Brexit upheavals, Labor – like its Conservative predecessors – has failed to learn the lessons of the last decade.
Because the will of the people in this country is repeatedly violated or mostly ignored.
Even during the Makerfield by-election, Burnham was everywhere and made good on her promise to compensate Waspi women within hours, writes Nigel Farage.
Make no mistake, the old political certainties are dead. Six prime ministers in a decade and a seventh on the way, telling its own story. Andy Burnham has shown he has a talent for warm words, but the British public has left them all behind. What we need in this country is truly radical action; Something Burnham cannot and will not provide.
What bothers me most about Burnham becoming Prime Minister, and as many of you suspect, is that she will come in 10th without winning the general election. He wasn’t even an MP at the last election, for God’s sake, and yet he’s about to be dragged into Downing Street as if the post of prime minister were his God-given right.
Instead, he spent the last nine years as Mayor of Manchester; This was a largely ceremonial function, I was told, and involved a lot of ribbon-cutting.
We keep hearing that he is a popular figure around Manchester and has apparently done a good thing or two for buses. Good for him. But the rest of the country is completely in the dark about what kind of person he is and what he plans to do to the country.
As for her policies, I’ve been researching Burnham for years and have no idea what they are.
Observing his political career was like watching one of those Peter Sellers comedies in which he played half a dozen characters, each more ridiculous than the last. One minute he’s a Blairite, the next he’s backing Brown. Then he serves under Jeremy Corbyn and his lunatics.
Even during the recent by-election in Makerfield, Burnham was everywhere, making good on her promise to pay compensation to Waspi women within hours.
I’m certainly not shedding any tears over Sir Keir’s departure of Starmer. He was an utterly terrible Prime Minister; An incompetent, indecisive and completely uninspiring Prime Minister. Worst of all, he blamed everyone but himself.
But for his own MPs to go and dump him in favor of someone who wasn’t even an MP just a week ago shows a degree of arrogance that even the Conservative Party would struggle to cope with.
The truth is that trust in our democracy has already hit rock bottom because the political establishment has begun to view general elections as an inconvenience. Just look at how the government acted earlier this year when it tried to cancel nearly 30 local elections. They would probably have succeeded had not the Reformation UK secured a judicial review which forced them to back down.
Now Downing Street’s revolving door has turned once again, and once again the public is expected to accept the new resident without question. This is disgusting.
Andy Burnham’s government will lack any legitimacy unless it calls an election.
We’ve seen how this plays out before. Rishi Sunak’s government could not bring about radical change because it did not receive a mandate from its party and the public.
The country will steadily decline to ensure Andy Burnham achieves his dream of becoming a prime minister. Britain is broken and the only way to fix it is to give voters a choice at the ballot box.
