Starmer Is Now Gone

The end of Starmer. Where to now for the UK?

The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has just announced his resignation. In office for less than two years, he will soon be replaced. Andy Burnham, the former Manchester mayor, has challenged Starmer to become his replacement. That follows on from Burnham winning the Makerfield by-election of 18 June. That return to Parliament meant he could challenge Starmer for the top job (even though he has not yet been sworn in).

After the recent local council elections held in May which were so disastrous for Starmer and Labour and so good for Farage and Reform UK, the writing was on the wall for Starmer. Bear in mind that the conservatives had previously been in power for 14 years, starting with David Cameron and ending with Rishi Sunak.

So when Starmer got elected with such a big winning margin almost two years ago, so much was expected of him. But his rule was one of stumbling and bumbling, with things like rising immigration and rising energy costs a major concern, his appointment of Lord Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to the US who had deep ties to Jeffrey Epstein, to name but a few.

He had simply become so very unpopular for far too many Brits. So now we will have six British Prime Ministers in seven years! Indeed, it will be seven Prime Ministers in ten years. The names are these:

David Cameron: 2010 – 2016 (Conservative)
Theresa May: 2016 – 2019 (Conservative)
Boris Johnson: 2019 – 2022 (Conservative)
Liz Truss: September 2022 – October 2022 (Conservative)
Rishi Sunak: 2022 – 2024 (Conservative)
Keir Starmer: July 2024 – 2026 (Labour)
Andy Burnham (?): 2026 (Labour)

Burnham next?

Starmer will go on through to July at least, with a July 8 nomination process beginning. A successor will hopefully soon be chosen by then. Indeed, a new man for the top job will be necessary before Parliament will resume sitting in September after the summer recess finishes.

Assuming it will be Burnham, questions arise. The 56-year-old will have to somehow show the UK and the world that Labour under his leadership will be different from Labour under Starmer. He has no clear policies, and whether he just seeks to keep the status quo or branch off in quite new directions remains to be seen. But he will not be moving to the right. If anything, he will go further left than Starmer.

Burnham twice lost Labour leadership votes – in 2010 and 2015. So he has little past history of winning anything of substance. He may replace Starmer simply because the latter was so universally disliked, even by most of his own party. If he gets in, and with no real policies on offer, many are already calling for a general election to be held soon.

Commentary

A few quotes from those reacting to the news of his resignation:

Nioh Berg: If Labour has any survival instinct at all, they will now abandon the tyrannical behaviour that made Keir Starmer so hated. This includes:
-Digital ID
-The Online Safety scam
-The 16 and under social media curfew
-Placing violent illegal migrants in HMOs next to vulnerable families
-Jailing people over mean tweets
-Banning conservative activists and politicians from entering the country
-Ranting and raving against the “far right”
-Going after X for allowing free speech
-Declaring nationalism a form of extremism
Of course, we all know they have learned no lessons from this.

Inevitable West: Everyone from every walk of life is celebrating Starmer’s downfall today: Farmers. Children. Christians. Veterans. Pub owners. Sports fans. Pensioners. Everything British, he hated. This is the beginning of the fight back…

Eva Vlaardingerbroek: Today is a good day. Thanks to the mounting pressure of British and European Patriots, Keir Starmer is finally gone. He will go down in history as the man who allowed migrant gangs to rape over 250,000 British girls, jailed ordinary citizens for their opinions and let uncontrolled immigration destroy the UK. Good riddance, Two Tier Keir! PS. Hope they’ll let me back in the UK again soon.

Nigel Farage: To men like Burnham, democracy is only a means to an end, to be discarded as soon as it is inconvenient for his personal ambitions. That is not what I stand for, and it’s not a kind of politics I could ever support. That is why we must have a General Election at the earliest possible opportunity.

Rupert Lowe MP: The worst Prime Minister of the worst Government of the worst party. Good riddance.

Tommy Robinson: Crocodile tears from the professional snake. Patriots 1, Establishment 0. We’re coming for you all for crimes against the British people.

Chris Rose: 19 seconds in Southport laying a wreath, no tears. No tears for British farmers who committed suicide. No tears for pensioners. No tears for betrayed British veterans. No tears for the victims of illegal migration. No tears for Henry Nowak. Tears for himself only.

Dr. Maalouf: STARMER: “Muslims are making a huge difference in British society, greatly contributing to education, culture and economy. They are delivering every single one of the government’s missions. Muslims are the most generous group in the UK.” He has now resigned. Good riddance!

Weronika Rogowska: It’s time for Keir Starmer’s exit in the UK. People can see it clearly: the abuse of power, the neglect of his own citizens, and the prioritisation of migrants over British people. Crime is surging while the economy is collapsing. Socialism never works. Censorship creates agitation. The British people are starved for freedom and strong leadership. When you try to appease everyone, you satisfy nobody. The British are more than ready to turn the page.

Liza Rosen: The Fall of the Ayatollah of Englistan. The Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and the IRGC lost one of their greatest allies in the West.

Amy Mek: Keir Starmer has resigned as PM of the United Kingdom! NOW arrest him and call a general election!

Ada Lluch: Hours after Abelardo de la Espriella became the President of Colombia, Keir Starmer resigned as UK Prime Minister. The world is healing!

Claire Adams: Where did it all go wrong, Starmer? The moment you called us “far right” for caring about raped and murdered children. We never forgot.

Heidi Bachram: I will never forgive Keir Starmer for recognising the State of Palestine while Israeli hostages were being tortured, starved and sexually abused. It was an obscenity to reward Hamas for evil.

Make England Great Again: Burnham has no manifesto and no mandate – we want a General Election.

Drew Pavlou: Albanese is following the exact same trajectory as Keir Starmer.
-Win huge majority off the back of a relatively low primary vote in the low to mid 30s.
-Jihadists and foreign criminals start carrying out atrocities.
-Struggle to deal with popular anger about the atrocities, blame the far right.
-Approvals start plummeting, right wing populists start dominating in polls.
-Pretend to come out against migration, give ”Island of Strangers” speech.
-Atrocities continue, completely lose the public.
-Do random sh*t that doesn’t address public anger, like attempting to ban social media for under 16s.
-Eventually collapse.

Craig Kelly: Starmer resigned not because of any personal failings – he resigned because he was a clueless socialist who adopted woke feel-good leftist policies (Net Zero, mass migration & attacking freedom of speech especially) that were destroying the nation. Albanese is no different.

Prue MacSween: Good riddance to Starmer. Using his resignation speech to rewrite his performance. Like Albo here, he has destroyed his country. Starmer is reading out a long list of the achievements he has delivered in his own mind. He is delusional & his performance as Labour PM is unforgivable. RIP UK.

Aus Integrity: Kier Starmer is OUT. Anthony Albanese is NEXT. We must not tolerate government or leaders that do not put Australia FIRST. Globalists are cooked.

The Babylon Bee: Prominent Muslim leader resigns.

Spiritual considerations

As I often say at times like this, I pray daily for many of our political leaders. A major prayer of mine is simple: I ask God to improve or remove these folks. By that I mean help them to get so much better (including by means of them becoming Christians), or seeing them removed from office, however that might occur.

That can include illness or death, resignation, or by being voted out of office, and so on. So my prayer list goes up and down in length, with names being added to or removed from the list. Starmer’s name will now be replaced by another’s – possibly by Burnham’s.

I encourage you to also pray for our political leaders. As the Apostle Paul put it in 1 Timothy 2:1-2: “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people—for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.”

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