When is a coup not a coup? When will a Labour MP who wants a change of PM get 80 supporters and start the contest? If they are waiting for Andy, they may have a long wait if the voters of Makerfield say No.
Labour need to change course to win back voters. They are holding a shoot out between four or five wannabes who come to it without guns only to find it is delayed. What they need is a proper debate about what changes of policy and approach could do better for the country and could win back some lost support.
They keep on about how they need to change more, without seeing that most of the changes they have made so far are changes for the worse. The public who voted for them or who did not vote against them did not want higher taxes. They did not want dearer energy. They did not want higher unemployment. They did not want young people to be priced and taxed out of jobs. They did not want our overseas territories to be given away. They did not want more inflation. They did not want more factories and plants closed by net zero zealotry.
The government was elected on three reassuring main wide ranging promises that it would achieve faster growth, it would not put up taxes (except Vat on school fees), and would smash the gangs (end illegal migration). It has broken all three promises . Its specific offer of £300 off fuel bills has also been illusory, and the promised 1.5 m new homes will not materialise. Trying to deliver these should be the changes Ministers want to achieve. Running off to nationalise more industries, to regulate and tax more drivers off the road, to make life more difficult for landlords to cut the supply of rented homes, to regulate and tax small businesses and farms to death, to abolish juries and create monster regional governments will just make things worse. Any further lurch to the left will see Labour scrapping for under 20% of the vote against the extreme Greens.
You can see the government has lost the plot as they think they need to engage more strongly against Reform and copy more of the Green agenda. These are the thoughts of a struggling minority party, not the thoughts of a government with a majority. Their duty should be to govern better. That means reaching out to the voters they have lost, not intensifying their anger by doubling down on more extreme left policies. The UK does need changes of policy, but back to the more moderate Manifesto, not forward to the Corbyn/Green agenda that will destroy growth, deter investment and boost unemployment.
May 17, 2026
Why can they not see that?
Streeting is so wild we might be better off with Burnham.
Incidentally after 15 years of promising that “Climate Change” is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee admitted that it’s own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG!
Climate Activism has been used to scare, deindustrialise and impoverish the western world,
This was one huge FRAUD. Time to ditch it and the sucker Miliband.
May 17, 2026
Their expert “predictions” and Computer Models did not even predict the historic climate changes!
May 17, 2026
Wes Streeting plans to drag Britain back into the EU if he becomes Prime Minister – shattering Labour’s claim it would respect the 2016 Brexit vote.
Before he even thinks of doing that he needs to have a butchers at Article 49 of the Treaty on European Union establishes how a country can join the EU, it’s not going to happen then if he does even try for it that goes against what the liebour manifesto said , so cough up Streeting you would have to call a General Election for your own mandate
May 17, 2026
On Talk Radio just now it seems 1/6 of people on the Sunday Times Rich List have left the UK in the last 12 months. The Doom loop is really speeding up. How much tax take has been lost from these people and doubtless many more slightly less rich ones? Growth, growth, growth they said.
May 17, 2026
John, you can ask Labour to do the sensible thing as much as you like. Unfortunately, they are not listening to anyone including their own MPs. The policy they are progressing in now very openly being stated and it is this.
They intend to return the UK to the EU bureaucrats control as soon as they can possibly bring that about. Each of the candidates for the leadership of Labour have now come out and stated their objective is to return the UK into full EU membership. Burnham and Streeting along with incumbent Starmer have all made this statement.
They have decided (Labour) that the view of the electorate must not be allowed to interfere with the process of pushing the UK back into EU controlled Europe.
We have to stop these anti democratic left wing socialists before it is too late.