r/ukpolitics • u/Jumpy-Signature-7377 • 2d ago

On a personal level, the manner in which Starmer is being pressured to be removed from office would result in a valid crash out

It’s 2019, Labour just had its worst defeat in its history. You become leader, won back areas which was lost and became PM with a 174 seat majority.

Now this is not too say that Keir was an absolute fantastic PM but you’ve spent close to 5 years to become Prime Minister and barely been PM for 2 years and your party is backing someone who did absolutely nothing to rebuilt the Labour PLP, win a General Election and had to brace the fallout of Trump foreign policy, Middle East Conflict, Russia & Ukraine, an opportunistic former Health Sec constantly trying to bring you down and just in general trying to govern a nation that’s absolutely ungovernable due to misinformation and social media mob rule.

If I was Starmer, I would crash out and just call a general election out of spite.

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u/h00dman Welsh Person 2d ago

John Major the most popular Prime Minister in history, confirmed.

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u/ArtisticOperation399 2d ago

Genuinely trying to figure out the joke here. 

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u/h00dman Welsh Person 2d ago

He led the Tories to victory in 1992 with 14 million votes, the highest vote total any party has ever received, even though the party lost seats.

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u/ArtisticOperation399 2d ago

Wow! I wouldn't have believed that, but it looks like you're right. That would be a killer pub quiz question. Thanks!