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- The power of having a parliamentary system. Combined with the power of 77,462 residents of Makerfield.
Love the UK - we can be brutal if MPs want a leader .
by bmsleight_ - Same problems, different face.
- >It paves the way for Britain's seventh leader in 10 years
How come the revolving door? I'd like to taste a bit of that here in the US, but isn't such frequency societally destabilizing? I am not up on UK election process (I assume elections happened), forgive my ignorance.
by stasomatic - Will he last longer than a cabbage?
- Hopefully the successor will clean the mess still left realted to the Pakistani rape gangs and police collusion.
The entire UK society seem to have been trying to ignore the issue rather than solve the root of it (which is not necessarily immigration itself but political correctness)
by davidguetta - Ridiculous and undemocratic.
Burnham (for those who are unaware) can be best described as a Tony Blair B-side, and is most notable from his previous stint in government for his role in the Private Finance Initiative disaster, eg:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jun/28/labour-debt-peter...
by mellosouls - And he'll be just as powerless to solve any of the big problems as the last half a dozen PMs.by bluescrn
- Whilst the value of the pound and NHS backlog did slowly improve under Starmer, my favourite part of his term was the 2024 interview where he described himself as not dreaming or having internal thoughts.
I don't expect huge improvements under Burnham but I hope for at least some police manpower numbers to recover. There have been intermittent stories of planning, FSA and trading standards personnel being threatened by armed gangs in the last few years which is an indicator of some new severe gaps in state capacity.
by OgsyedIE