Josh Simons to resign seat for Burnham

Makerfield

Am I missing something? This is going to be a very tight race.

If he weren't so obsessed with representing somewhere within a stone's throw of Manchester, he could have got himself a nice safe seat in London or somewhere.

Wot Chuffy said though. This chap Simons will be happy.

He could get blocked

He could lose to reform

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Thats a shame I would LOVE to see Zak Polanski go for the seat as well they would all eat each other.

So if he can’t get back into parliament he’s fvcked. 
 

Big Ange bides her time 

Party Wes takes a few more poppers. 

Meanwhile the markets laugh. 

Well done Labour you bunch of utter charlatans 

It's where he grew up. Who knows really but I would be surprised if he doesn't get in by a whopping majority. 

The labour leadership election so far:

  • hobbled PM soldiers on
  • Health secretary fancies job, resigns (on day a bill enabling a top down restructure of the NHS which he said he wouldn’t do and wasn’t in the manifesto is laid in parliament), but doesn’t have enough votes to trigger leadership election
  • Big ange (who is on record for demanding elections when PMs are replaced) pays HMRC for not paying taxes (awkward given her public stance on tax evasion) and bides her time, perhaps waiting for…
  • …King of the north burnham, who strong arms a sitting MP to give up his space for a by election which would delay any leadership process for months
  • Ed Milliband desperately orders a search of landfill for a big stone tablet 

    luckily there’s not much going on in the world which requires a stable Government with a clear vision to help navigate us through

    Thank god the adults are back !

 

Absolutely.

Meanwhile Nazi Nige trousered 5 large and it’s - basically - crickets 

It's where he grew up.

Is it? Wiki says he grew up in Culcheth, which is in Charlotte Nichols' constituency 

He’s soft on grooming gangs and people won’t like it being treated as though Labour ‘own’ the seat. 

His best way to campaign is directly as ‘Labour to get rid of Keir starmer’

Although not a perfect analogy, it didn’t work when Labour tried it for Patrick Gordon walker

I don't know where the boundaries go, he's definitely from that area, maybe not that exact constituency but certainly would be considered a local.

I have to say I am with the loyalists on this.  Starmer is not popular but they have to hold their nerve, there is still three years to turn things around.  Chopping and changing leaders continues the narrative of the previous government and in plays into Farage's hands who has been a steady constant in the publics minds (admittedly largely thanks to ludicrous over exposure by the media) for well over a decade.