General British politics discussion thread

I wasn't counting Brown, and yes, wasn't Blair North East actually.

Very Northeast

Blair also grew up near/in the area, relatively rare for MPs in general due to the way aspiring candidates get assigned constituencies.

She's about as elitist as it gets. But you got my point i'm sure about the North/South divide. I'm serious when i say this, Lancs, Yorkshire, Northumberland would have more in common with the Irish than they do with Londoners/Home counties.

How, can i put it, well they are just a bid odd down south. When i say odd. I mean racist 🤣

But for all i kind of jest having family in Herts and spend quite sometime working back and forth london, there is a massive divide in that country

More referring to the home counties actually. Canterbury is a wonderful place to go and watch the cricket and very welcoming, may i add

He wouldn't have the support to beat Burnham, he'll leave him to it and get a top job. In fairness Wes is more than capable, very articulate, would be better than Starmer anyway. I wonder what Burnham will do with the radicals

I use the term loosly, but the usual suspects, the more left leaning, John, Zarah, Angie

If by 'Angie' you mean Rayner, she'll be back in the cabinet and she's not really very 'radical'.

John McDonnell? Where has he been for the last few years?

Zarah is gone, both from Lab and possibly from Your Party now too.

The rest are a small minority, who probably won't have the same aversion to Burnham as they have to Starmer.

17 million people across distinctive regions all "like the Irish". Areas like Cumbria, North Yorkshire and rural Lancashire are like Ireland how ?

The north voted heavily for Brexit thanks to a very insular anti immigrant English exceptionalism attitude. How is that like the Irish ?

Irrelevance is what happens when you are a useless leader.

Top article on Guardian UK by the way including pictures of and quotes from Badenoch.

London, on average for the last 15/20 years, about a week for every 6 weeks, Portsmouth is a dump (in comparison to Southampton & Bristol only across the bridge to get to Cardiff airport on a few occasions). Not sure what your point is though

A story that's getting slightly overlooked in all this is how Reform UK and Farage are starting to struggle somewhat and have lost momentum from where they were 6-9 months ago. A big issue is that the 'right wing' vote is clearly fragmented between Reform, the Tories and Restore Britain.