UK Report says UK PM Starmer ready to quit, but source says he is still focused on the job - The British leader said on ⁠Friday he would fight any challenge to his position and urged Labour not to tear itself apart with infighting.

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Britain's Observer newspaper said British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was expected to resign on Monday and set out a timetable ‌for his departure, though a government source said Starmer remained focused on getting on with the job of governing.

The threat to Starmer's position, which has been building for months, increased sharply on ⁠Friday when his rival Andy Burnham won a seat in parliament that would allow him to launch a formal leadership challenge.

The Observer report said Starmer was discussing the matter with his wife at his Chequers country residence before making a final decision, but that senior Labour figures expected a clear statement on his ‌future ⁠as early as Monday.

However, a government source said Starmer remained focused on his job and pointed to previous statements he has made to that effect.

The British leader said on ⁠Friday he would fight any challenge to his position and urged Labour not to tear itself apart with infighting.

More ⁠than 100 elected lawmakers in his party - roughly a quarter of all Labour representatives in the House ⁠of Commons - have publicly said they want Starmer to quit or set out a timetable for his exit.

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So what is it exactly that made him decide to resign? General disapproval? I've been out of the loop for months.
Basically he's now at the point where he can be challenged for his leadership.
Question, does the word Queer carry the same connotations in UK land, and if so, why was this not used as part of the Two-Tier nickname?
Because the police would be around your house to arrest you for wrongthink
Its fairly normal isn't it? If Trump resigned, Vance would take his place without an election.
Yes but, see, Vance has already been elected. He was on the ticket with Trump. People voted for Trump knowing that if Trump died or resigned, Vance would be President. This is why Gerald Ford was a minor controversy. He wasn't elected to the office of Vice President, he replaced Spiro Agnew, and he wasn't elected to the office of President.

Only 24,000 people actually voted for Burnham and therefore had a say in who the next Prime Minister would be.
 
Yes but, see, Vance has already been elected. He was on the ticket with Trump. People voted for Trump knowing that if Trump died or resigned, Vance would be President. This is why Gerald Ford was a minor controversy. He wasn't elected to the office of Vice President, he replaced Spiro Agnew, and he wasn't elected to the office of President.

Only 24,000 people actually voted for Burnham and therefore had a say in who the next Prime Minister would be.

Everyone had a say in which candidate they voted for to be their MP, and it's those MPs who decide who the next prime minister will be.

Similar to how if Trump and Vance both resigned, the Speaker of the House would become president, without the direct endorsement of a popular vote.
 
If nothing else, i'm glad I won't have to hear his nasally little faggot voice for much longer. Something about it just fills me with this inexplicable hatred and desire for violence, and I don't think it's the man's actions (or lack therof), it's just his fucking voice
 
The replacement is not gonna be any better. Burnham has literally nothing to offer other than a slightly new face for the policies Kier was pushing and lip service to Labour cliques on shit like trannies and feminism.

The only people celebrating this are total morons who have no idea what politics are actually like in the UK. Which makes sense because the type of retard who voted Burnham into power is exactly the total niggercattle "I vote Labour because my Father and Grandfather did" without paying any attention to anything else and who also thinks that the UK government is in any way good just slightly incompetent.

They will pay for turning on Queer Stalin. The Labour Party shall not survive to see the dawn of the next decade. Starmer's vengeance shall be swift and brutal.
 
Is he resigning his seat in the commons as well? This only applies to MPs who lose or otherwise vacate their seat. Prime Minister's who resign that office typically remain an MP at least for the duration of the current parliament.

The office of Prime Minister has different rules for pay and compensation.
He is entitled to:
Ministerial severance (PM role): £18,860 one-off lump sum
Public Duty Costs Allowance: up to £115,000/year for life (office/staff, reimbursed on actuals) + 10% extra for staff pensions
Parliamentary/ministerial pension: from full MP + ministerial service
Plus special tax-unregistered CPS/DPP pension (2008–2013, created via secondary legislation): accrued £336,000 in benefits by 2013 (on £200k salary).
Doesn’t count toward Lifetime Allowance cap (avoids 55% tax on savings over £1.07m)
If he resigns from his MP seat, he'll also earn that severance payment I highlighted in my original post.
 
Question, does the word Queer carry the same connotations in UK land, and if so, why was this not used as part of the Two-Tier nickname?
Other posters have already answered but I personally look forwards to various tragedies in the future leading to some more nicknames.

If he's charged with stalking and has a restraining order laid against him he could become Too Near Keir for example.
 
Well, fuck it. If you need me there to run things, I'll do it. Just let the Chuckster know.

Sorry for the multiple posts but I cannot remove them.
 
At this rate the Spectator is going to put out an article detailing the people behind sourcing/crafting each PM's respective resignation podium, the way Angloid politics have been going.

A prayer has been answered. UKtards, vote wisely in the upcoming elections; there's one hell of a mess to clean up.
This isn't like our president resigning (though even in that case, it'd just make the VP president), when Starmer's talking about elections in his resignation speech, he's talking about politicians in his party voting for who replaces him. Public doesn't get ahold of this until no later than 2029.
 
The new guy is just as bad as Starmer was, maybe worse.

There is no saving the UK now, there are too many browns, the institutions are all captured by crazy lefty ideologues, the schools are teaching your children to hate themselves and their history, your economy is trash and getting worse each and every day thanks to all the green programs and no matter which way you vote the only answer you will ever get is "more immigrants and migrants will fix everything!".

So long Britbongs, it was a real nice Empire you once had. Much thanks for the tea and crumpets but better luck next time chum. Maybe don't let the crazies run the asylum huh? Oh well, hindsight is 20/20 I guess.

Not that Canada and Australia are any different, just a few years behind the UK that's all. In the end it will be the US who stands alone as the last gasp of a free and independent people before the darkness of the last days comes. The end of histroy isn't just a phrase, it's a mantra.
 
There is no saving the UK now, there are too many browns, the institutions are all captured by crazy lefty ideologues, the schools are teaching your children to hate themselves and their history, your economy is trash and getting worse each and every day thanks to all the green programs and no matter which way you vote the only answer you will ever get is "more immigrants and migrants will fix everything!".
The U.K. is vastly more White than the U.S.

The numbers and opposition have been worse, in a worse situation, in history prior. The crusades were not something that did away with muslim filth in Europe overnight, the Reconquista was an effort that took generations but was accomplished. And that was against a people who actually wanted to be there, rather than disaffected garbage from other nations who fled for access to vulnerable women and a lawfully-restrained society in which men won't hang you by your entrails as you deserve for taking advantage of said vulnerable women.

To repeat that last point, the majority of these people were fleeing their homeland so they did not have to face hardship, in favor of a land where they were treated like royalty for nothing. As soon as things get difficult, they will leave.

Massively retarded people mistake adherence to order and civilization as cowardice. The same reason that you do not see these people currently slaughtering the animals in their midst is the same reason they occupy a longstanding civilization as its heirs in the first damn place. It is also the reason sane people do not want this to devolve into mass violence. If it does it will be total and systemic, revenge has a habit of causing atrocity when done at scale, even if the Brits at this point would be fully justified in mass homicide.

The brits, if anything, will likely end up showing us in the U.S. how it's done and leading the way for Europe, on the jewish question, and the non(-White) question, alike.
In the end it will be the US who stands alone as the last gasp of a free and independent people before the darkness of the last days comes.
Our country is the most diseased among the Western lot. If "freedom" is mongrelization and faggotry, yeah, we've got that in spades in the U.S.

Reminder to everyone here messianic self-absorption is nigger shit and should be discarded. Your country is as good as its people. The U.S. has more niggers than Europe. Do the math.
 
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