Nigel Farage must be rubbing his hands with glee even as he faces a formal enquiry into his £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire. Whatever Reform and its leader get up to it cannot be more embarrassing than the current activities of the Labour Party.
Starmer maybe a decent person but to date he has been a poor prime minister. Does this merit a challenge to his leadership? Would his colleagues be any better? Almost certainly not and nothing justifies the current political circus as the country struggles with multiple problems.
Labour has got itself into an awful mess as it grapples with changing its leader. Equal support for Starmer, Burnham and Streeting. Ministers and backbench MPs in equal numbers calling for Starmer to go or stay. As authority drains away from Starmer’s government, it now seems less likely Starmer will hold on. It feels as if the excitable media is getting its way.
Whilst we await Streeting’s rush to challenge Starmer before Burnham gets into parliament you may ask why doesn’t he concentrate on turning round the NHS? Why doesn’t Burnham concentrate on running Manchester? Why doesn’t Angela Rayner concentrate on sorting out her tax affairs? Why doesn’t the government govern?
Changing prime ministers every five minutes is no solution to improving how the country is run. Just ask the Tories. The country currently feels ungovernable, certainly not governable by second rate politicians and the public are entitled to despair. Not only over the behaviour of the Labour Party but because there seems no other alternative.
That 25% support for Reform, putting it in first place in the polls looks more significant by the hour although not yet enough.
Not yet two years after a general election, political gridlock? Is that now the only option? How thoroughly depressing.
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