Will we see a Burnham balls-up?

Tuesday blog

All the political chatteratti are wetting their knickers/pants over the prospect of Starmer being forced out and the ‘King of the North’ – Manchester mayor Andy Burnham – rushing in to replace the (IMHO) useless, incompetent, hasn’t-a-clue, recidivist liar Starmer. But there are great dangers with this scenario.

To become the next PM, Burnham would have to give up his position as Manchester mayor and fight a by-election to become an MP. The risks are:

• If there was a by-election, even in a supposedly ‘safe’ Labour seat, people are so angry with this pathetic, out-of-its-depth Labour government that Reform might beat Labour and the ‘King of the North’ would have lost his Manchester kingdom and be seen to have failed to become an MP. There woukld be no coming back from that blundering balls-up
• There would have to be a new election for the position as Manchester mayor and, for obvious reasons, if Reform put up a decent candidate, Reform might win that too

A Reform win in the ‘get-Burnham-into-parliament’ by-election would be a disaster for Labour. This disaster would be exponentionally worse if Reform could also win the election of a new mayor for Manchester.

That’s why I doubt the ‘King of the North’ will risk taking a punt on becoming PM. He and Labour have too much to lose if Reform stomp all over Labour. So, get ready for a new PM from the wide pool of Labour talent, for example David ‘Mastermind’ Lammy or PM Shabana ‘Religion of Peace’ Mahmood.

What have we done to deserve this?

Aaaarrrrggggghhhhhh!!!