Apparently, the people of Makerfield have voted for ‘change and hope’. Whoopee-doo.
Two years ago, the country elected Keir Starmer on the promise of change and no doubt that came with a dollop of hope too.
As the Parliamentary rats desert his sinking ship, we must surely ask: Change from, or to, what? A new Prime Minister, obviously, but then?
Surely, the leader of a provincial fiefdom whose greatest claim to fame is failing to win the Labour leadership twice then running away from Westminster does not inspire much hope.
The only changes we are likely to see are the further ruination of the economy (Ed Miliband as Chancellor? Angela Rayner as Foreign Secretary?), more extreme left-wing policies and Andrew Burnham’s smug satisfaction at slipping into Number Ten by the back door.
As Karl Marx said: ‘There is no change without sacrifice.’ Keir Starmer will not be the only sacrifice on the altar of Burnhamism.
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