My god if people think the lump of granite that is Starmer is bad, Comrade Burnham would be worse, far worse. Yeah, and not that beloved by folk in Manchester either. He calls himself King of the North, they have another name for him. Raja Mia doesn't have a good word to say about him and his cover up of the grooming gangs either.
Let's not forget, this c*nt went all in on the jabs, jab passports and is fully in favour of digital ID and 15 minute cities, those dystopian hellscapes they want to imprison us all in. He can f*ck right off.
Wow Toffeepud. I expected people to find him a bit of a figure of fun, like I see him. But it seems there’s more vitriol floating about for little Andy than I anticipated!!
Yes. 🤣😂 We don't forget and we don't often forgive. Little Andy Burnham might like to think he's well beloved and all, but in reality we can see him for what he is - a career politician on the make. We can sniff out a wrong'un a mile away 😂
I remember him as the secretary for culture, media and sport. Useless lightweight.
Manchester may have lots of shiny new buildings, courtesy of his dodgy deals with developers, but the number of homeless sleeping rough in the city centre is a disgrace.
Burnham, in common with all denizens of the HoC, will have spent today assiduously scrubbing his social media feeds to remove all mention of his connections with My Noble Lord Fumblebum. Too bad all texts & pics have already been saved & archived...........
He may have won every Manchester borough but then proselytised about Brexit voting when 7 out of the 10 boroughs voted to leave.
That includes about 64% of Wigan (69% turnout) that included his former Leigh constituency that was so sick of the shenanigans it voted Tory in 2019 for the first time ever.
Our Andy got his position as Mayor thanks to 63% of voters on a 32% turnout.
But that's democracy. Much like claiming to love Manchester so much but living in Cheshire the whole time
"And in the end, she had him decapitated." - I stopped reading Game of Thrones in the first book when Stark got the chop. It was too much like real life.
Oh my goodness I thought I was the only one. That and them killing the kid's dire wolf made me shut the book and unknowingly reclaim hundreds of hours of my future life.
The comparison to Ned Stark is sharp. Burnham's pattern of misjudging party machinery twice in leadership bids signals something deeper than bad luck. I've seen similr dynamics in corporate governance where people confuse popularty in one domain (local leadership) with transferable power at another level. The NEC maneuver was textbook defensive power play.
Brilliant breakdown of how Burnham got completely outmaneuvered. The point about him falling for a rule change from just three weeks ago is kinda wild tbh. I remember watching local politicians back home pull similar stunts with zoning regulationsand thinking the same thing: if someone cant see that coming they probably shouldn't be running anything important. It really does expose how much of this "King in the North" thing is just branding over actual political instinct.
Andy Burham is exactly the sort of person you do not want as Prime Minister. He has never had a job outside of politics/government. Allow me to quote from wikipedia
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Burnham joined the Labour Party when he was 15.[12] From 1994 until the 1997 general election he was a researcher for Tessa Jowell.[8] He joined the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1995. Following the 1997 election, he was a parliamentary officer for the NHS Confederation from August to December 1997, before taking up the post as an administrator with the Football Task Force for a year.[8][13]
In 1998, he became a special adviser to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Chris Smith, a position he remained in until he was elected to the House of Commons in 2001.
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He was then an MP until he became mayor of Manchester. At least 2 Tier was a barrister. Yes a well connected one, but he didn't actually get paid by HMG or do politics.
The only good thing about this whole affair is that it gives Reform a wedge to get a genuine Mancunian in because there has to be some group of Labour voters who want to give 2 Tier a good kicking for this blatent rules changing
Yes Francis. I was writing about Burnham being a ‘Westminster Insider’ and checked his cv too. It’s mad that someone whose knowledge of the world comes from the square mile around Parliament Square- and now of course the top tier of local government- thinks they have the breadth of experience to run a country.
> their holy crusade to transform Britain into an equitable, kindly, internationalist, communist nirvana.
That's bang-on of course, however if I was lifting it to paste into something I pretended to write I'd add:
... their holy crusade to transform Britain into an equitable, kindly, brown, gender-affirming, internationalist, communist, Islamic nirvana -- like Afghanistan.
Andy Burham is so weak the cabbage patch king corbyn beat him hands down .
He is a waste of space and a complete liar over the predominantly Pakistani rape gangs.
If he was a king is first name would be Wan .
Harsh. But fair.
Control Ev’ry Mountain”
(With polo ties to Oscar Hammerstein)
Verse 1
Fix ev’ry price.
Cap ev’ry rent.
Close ev’ry business—call it “consent.”
Smear ev’ry patriot, charge who we choose,
Law for our allies, examples for you.
Verse 2
Burn ev’ry book not stamped and approved,
Denounce ev’ry hero no longer useful.
Define ev’ry life from office and screen,
Outlaw ev’ry pleasure not officially clean.
Refrain
Control ev’ry mountain,
Fence ev’ry stream,
License each word, pre-approve every dream.
Measure each motive,
Weigh ev’ry case—
Justice has tiers,
And we decide your place.
Verse 3
Open all borders, close local doors,
Log ev’ry thought as a threat or resource.
Read ev’ry message, tap ev’ry line,
Rewrite the past to prosecute time.
Verse 4
Rodney decides what justice will be,
One rule for “them,” another for “we.”
Same law, same act, same evidence plain—
Different outcomes, differently named.
Refrain (stronger)
Control ev’ry mountain,
Ration ev’ry right,
Process for enemies, mercy for “right.”
Silence each critic,
Sanctify lies,
Till “two-tier justice” is never denied.
Finale / Coda
Rewrite the story.
Rename the rule.
Call bias “balance,” call power “cool.”
Smother ambition, flatten all hope—
Then act surprised
When no one believes
In the law
You wrote.
Obviously I meant apologies. Spell check, eh! Still, polo ties is quite entertaining.
Beautifully composed and most amusing, despite the subject matter of the piece.
Sean Bean, has been to Mr Bean. Priceless !
I have to admit, Malcolm. I was quite pleased with that one. 😉
Contention for the Labour leadership is like a bad episode of the X Factor: “This is all I’ve ever really wanted to do, Simon. Please, please!”..
“But you can’t sing, pet. It’s a no from me”. Muppets!
🤣
I read the whole article and could find no irony or satire. Seemed totally honest to me.
Thanks Kate. Exactly what I was aiming for…..
I'm from the North East - that Scouser has never been and will never be my 'King'. And never forget Mid-Staffs.
My god if people think the lump of granite that is Starmer is bad, Comrade Burnham would be worse, far worse. Yeah, and not that beloved by folk in Manchester either. He calls himself King of the North, they have another name for him. Raja Mia doesn't have a good word to say about him and his cover up of the grooming gangs either.
Let's not forget, this c*nt went all in on the jabs, jab passports and is fully in favour of digital ID and 15 minute cities, those dystopian hellscapes they want to imprison us all in. He can f*ck right off.
Wow Toffeepud. I expected people to find him a bit of a figure of fun, like I see him. But it seems there’s more vitriol floating about for little Andy than I anticipated!!
You're not from the North, are you? 🤣
Does it show? 🤣
Yes. 🤣😂 We don't forget and we don't often forgive. Little Andy Burnham might like to think he's well beloved and all, but in reality we can see him for what he is - a career politician on the make. We can sniff out a wrong'un a mile away 😂
Toffepud is usually on the nail.
I remember him as the secretary for culture, media and sport. Useless lightweight.
Manchester may have lots of shiny new buildings, courtesy of his dodgy deals with developers, but the number of homeless sleeping rough in the city centre is a disgrace.
Yes Jeremy. He never made any impression on me. Just sort of bland. An impression which was only compounded when he ran for leadership.
As I said in the piece. I only get to Manchester occasionally, but it certainly has its own ‘identity’. Something London really has lost.
Burnham, in common with all denizens of the HoC, will have spent today assiduously scrubbing his social media feeds to remove all mention of his connections with My Noble Lord Fumblebum. Too bad all texts & pics have already been saved & archived...........
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Ha ha. Thanks such a funny image djm. Like the Americans burning the documents in Saigon before the North Vietnamese arrived.
He may have won every Manchester borough but then proselytised about Brexit voting when 7 out of the 10 boroughs voted to leave.
That includes about 64% of Wigan (69% turnout) that included his former Leigh constituency that was so sick of the shenanigans it voted Tory in 2019 for the first time ever.
Our Andy got his position as Mayor thanks to 63% of voters on a 32% turnout.
But that's democracy. Much like claiming to love Manchester so much but living in Cheshire the whole time
Ha ha does he? In didn’t know that!
Most in Leigh seem to think he lives (at least while he was MP) just over the border in Culcheth.
The following does make you wonder why he's got all NIMBY about this particular project that isn't in Manchester
https://www.leighjournal.co.uk/news/25730614.andy-burnham-major-concerns-tritax-ilp-north-near-parkside/
"And in the end, she had him decapitated." - I stopped reading Game of Thrones in the first book when Stark got the chop. It was too much like real life.
I watched the show Jim. Great until the end of season six with a few good bits in seven. But season eight? It just fell apart.
Oh my goodness I thought I was the only one. That and them killing the kid's dire wolf made me shut the book and unknowingly reclaim hundreds of hours of my future life.
The comparison to Ned Stark is sharp. Burnham's pattern of misjudging party machinery twice in leadership bids signals something deeper than bad luck. I've seen similr dynamics in corporate governance where people confuse popularty in one domain (local leadership) with transferable power at another level. The NEC maneuver was textbook defensive power play.
Exactly
Brilliant breakdown of how Burnham got completely outmaneuvered. The point about him falling for a rule change from just three weeks ago is kinda wild tbh. I remember watching local politicians back home pull similar stunts with zoning regulationsand thinking the same thing: if someone cant see that coming they probably shouldn't be running anything important. It really does expose how much of this "King in the North" thing is just branding over actual political instinct.
It does seem weird. I mean. I would fall for stuff like that all day long. But these guys are meant to be all about the sneaky double dealing.
Andy Burham is exactly the sort of person you do not want as Prime Minister. He has never had a job outside of politics/government. Allow me to quote from wikipedia
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Burnham joined the Labour Party when he was 15.[12] From 1994 until the 1997 general election he was a researcher for Tessa Jowell.[8] He joined the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1995. Following the 1997 election, he was a parliamentary officer for the NHS Confederation from August to December 1997, before taking up the post as an administrator with the Football Task Force for a year.[8][13]
In 1998, he became a special adviser to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Chris Smith, a position he remained in until he was elected to the House of Commons in 2001.
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He was then an MP until he became mayor of Manchester. At least 2 Tier was a barrister. Yes a well connected one, but he didn't actually get paid by HMG or do politics.
The only good thing about this whole affair is that it gives Reform a wedge to get a genuine Mancunian in because there has to be some group of Labour voters who want to give 2 Tier a good kicking for this blatent rules changing
Yes Francis. I was writing about Burnham being a ‘Westminster Insider’ and checked his cv too. It’s mad that someone whose knowledge of the world comes from the square mile around Parliament Square- and now of course the top tier of local government- thinks they have the breadth of experience to run a country.
> their holy crusade to transform Britain into an equitable, kindly, internationalist, communist nirvana.
That's bang-on of course, however if I was lifting it to paste into something I pretended to write I'd add:
... their holy crusade to transform Britain into an equitable, kindly, brown, gender-affirming, internationalist, communist, Islamic nirvana -- like Afghanistan.