The Burnham Years - Can the new(ish) broom sweep clean?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Angela Rayner on Conservative severance packages, including those to people who rejoined just months later: 

"After the mess the Tories have left our country in, they should be hanging their heads in embarrassment, not walking away with an enormous payoff.

"At a time when people up and down the country are struggling to pay their mortgages and put food on the table, it shows a staggering lack of shame for them to accept this money, but is exactly what we've come to expect from a bunch of Tories who only care about themselves."

Angela Rayner on her severance package, upon rejoining the government some months later:

"No, my severance payment was given to me at the time, I had worked in government for a period of time and then I came out of government for just under a year."

Pausing to eat some of the waffle she had just presented, Rayner said she had "unfinished business" in government. The former deputy PM, pushed into resigning after breaching the ministerial code, did not specify which free concert tickets she wants to make sure she gets this time round.

 

[The Kraken]

Ange has always been a bit of a liability to Labour. Shes pretty gobby, not all that bright, and by various counts wasn’t ever that much of a great local MP. Never saw the appeal of her being so high up other than that she was obviously working class, making a success despite an impoverished upbringing.

Would still love a go, mind.

[Farmer Saint]

11 hours ago, The Kraken said:

Ange has always been a bit of a liability to Labour. Shes pretty gobby, not all that bright, and by various counts wasn’t ever that much of a great local MP. Never saw the appeal of her being so high up other than that she was obviously working class, making a success despite an impoverished upbringing.

Would still love a go, mind.

She's got some massive norks.

[Whitey Grandad]

12 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

She's got some massive norks.

I noticed them too but unfortunately they're not real. £5,600 of borrowed money. Sounds familiar for a Labour politician. 

[Challenger]

1 hour ago, Farmer Saint said:

She's got some massive norks.

But unfortunately a face like she's permanently on a choppy channel crossing with a belly full of beer and Biryani.

Edited 13 hours ago by Challenger

[Sir Ralph]

18 minutes ago, Challenger said:

But unfortunately a face like she's permanently on a choppy channel crossing with a belly full of beer and Biryani.

Anyone that has looked at Angela Rayner in any form of lustful way has very low standards.

[Farmer Saint]

1 hour ago, Challenger said:

But unfortunately a face like she's permanently on a choppy channel crossing with a belly full of beer and Biryani.

True story.

[badgerx16]

1 hour ago, Sir Ralph said:

Anyone that has looked at Angela Rayner in any form of lustful way has very low standards.

Where do you keep your secret stash of Liz Truss pictures ?

[hypochondriac]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

Where do you keep your secret stash of Liz Truss pictures ?

Priti Patel is the one I want as head of my cabinet, 

[hypochondriac]

Not a big fan of this number ten north gimmick. It will be junked once Labour are out of power so seems completely pointless.

Edited 9 hours ago by hypochondriac

[Whitey Grandad]

3 hours ago, Sir Ralph said:

Anyone that has looked at Angela Rayner in any form of lustful way has very low standards.

Hello 🫡

[whelk]

16 hours ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Angela Rayner on Conservative severance packages, including those to people who rejoined just months later: 

"After the mess the Tories have left our country in, they should be hanging their heads in embarrassment, not walking away with an enormous payoff.

"At a time when people up and down the country are struggling to pay their mortgages and put food on the table, it shows a staggering lack of shame for them to accept this money, but is exactly what we've come to expect from a bunch of Tories who only care about themselves."

Angela Rayner on her severance package, upon rejoining the government some months later:

"No, my severance payment was given to me at the time, I had worked in government for a period of time and then I came out of government for just under a year."

Pausing to eat some of the waffle she had just presented, Rayner said she had "unfinished business" in government. The former deputy PM, pushed into resigning after breaching the ministerial code, did not specify which free concert tickets she wants to make sure she gets this time round.

 

I think it is disgraceful given the nature of insecurity of these Cabinet positions that they don’t automatically disqualify previous severance package if you then turn up again.

[Jeremy Corbyn]

2 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

Not a big fan of this number ten north gimmick. It will be junked once Labour are out of power so seems completely pointless.

Inclined to agree, also having in Manchester just stinks of Burnham wanting an easier commute.  Not sure how I'd view it if I was in one of the other corners of the country.

[badgerx16]

26 minutes ago, Jeremy Corbyn said:

Inclined to agree, also having in Manchester just stinks of Burnham wanting an easier commute.  Not sure how I'd view it if I was in one of the other corners of the country.

Probably in the same way much of the rest of the country view everything being focussed on Westminster and the South East.

Edited 6 hours ago by badgerx16

[hypochondriac]

50 minutes ago, Jeremy Corbyn said:

Inclined to agree, also having in Manchester just stinks of Burnham wanting an easier commute.  Not sure how I'd view it if I was in one of the other corners of the country.

Astonishing how they can justify spending tax payers money on a weekly private jet to Manchester -before you even mention the laughable net zero targets. 

[Weston Super Saint]

47 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Astonishing how they can justify spending tax payers money on a weekly private jet to Manchester -before you even mention the laughable net zero targets. 

Surely he's letting the train take the strain?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

3 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Surely he's letting the train take the strain?

He can take advantage of those HS2 plans from 2012, that would deliver a high speed link between London and Manchester. That must have been finished a while back now.

[Sir Ralph]

 

[AlexLaw76]

When will he open No.10 West?

[hypochondriac]

I suspect people will quickly get tired of this faux quirky shtick in the style of the office.

[whelk]

7 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

I suspect people will quickly get tired of this faux quirky shtick in the style of the office.

No doubt your feed will be going overtime about things many people don’t overly care about. 

Edited 25 minutes ago by whelk

[whelk]

I could actually guess who’d be triggered by working from the north

[egg]

3 minutes ago, whelk said:

No doubt your feed will be going overtime about things many people don’t overly care about. 

Yep. Pathetic thing to get worked up over. 

[hypochondriac]

5 minutes ago, whelk said:

No doubt your feed will be going overtime about things many people don’t overly care about. 

Odd. I just watched his latest video and drew my own conclusions. It's an improvement on Starmer for sure but it doesn't make me a fan.

Edited 20 minutes ago by hypochondriac

[hypochondriac]

1 minute ago, egg said:

Yep. Pathetic thing to get worked up over. 

Bizarre that you consider a post on this forum "worked up".

[whelk]

Just now, hypochondriac said:

Bizarre that you consider a post on this forum "worked up".

Would you be much happier if he went around on a bike like that authentic Boris Johnson. Think of all the savings for the tax payer? 

When I say worked up, I am not saying you are overly excitable but think we are a depressing age where people are fed negativity constantly - even a close to perfect creation with few flaws would be slaughtered. That is for any political party btw. What is worrying is that people probably don’t even realise how they are being manipulated  - apologies my superiority complex dictates I don’t feel I get as influenced.

 

[hypochondriac]

8 minutes ago, whelk said:

Would you be much happier if he went around on a bike like that authentic Boris Johnson. Think of all the savings for the tax payer? 

When I say worked up, I am not saying you are overly excitable but think we are a depressing age where people are fed negativity constantly - even a close to perfect creation with few flaws would be slaughtered. That is for any political party btw. What is worrying is that people probably don’t even realise how they are being manipulated  - apologies my superiority complex dictates I don’t feel I get as influenced.

 

Why are you comparing him to Boris Johnson? I've already said I think he's had a good start. I said if he carries on in this vein he will likely win the next election. That doesn't mean I can't find his social media interns and strategy grating and I doubt I'd be the only one. Maybe I'm not the target audience. 

I think that the number 10 north things is silly too but I think he's done the right thing to make gestures towards cost of living and reversing all the major silly things that Starmer did. Personally I idobt think that also requires office parodies and comedy skits.

 

Edited 3 minutes ago by hypochondriac