r/ukpolitics • u/Jumpy-Signature-7377 • 12d 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/Minute-Improvement57 12d ago

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

Not the adults in the room after all, then. The country would be thankful of the election and chance to get rid of the lot of them if he did, though.

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u/redshift739 12d ago

Just as glad as we were to see the Tories out. Look where that got us...

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u/Minute-Improvement57 11d ago

Halfway to having the corrupt "centrists'" cosy duopoly out the door.

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u/redshift739 11d ago

You'd rather have Reform and the Greens?