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Wes Streeting quits cabinet and calls on Starmer to resign (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Veserr@sh.itjust.works to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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[–] florge@feddit.uk 12 points 4 months ago

What a waste of time this is all gonna be

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (7 children)

He hasn't pulled the pin on the leadership grenade yet. If he doesn't do it soon he will be seen as just talk.

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

He'll do it, he's insanely ambitious despite being one of the few potential Labour leaders who'd be even worse than Starmer.

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[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I don't think he has the numbers to do it, imagine not being able to able to find 80 MPs to support you against Starmer

And he certainly doesn't have the numbers with the members vote, his best bet is for Burnham and Rayner to split the vote.

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[–] gedhrel@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

The leadership contest uses ranked preference voting. There's no vote-splitting.

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[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago

In that case hes fucked

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[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

Feels like there's an intentional delay to get Burnham in now as well.

Probably been told to hold off at the cost of burning political capital

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[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

Knowing Wes he would only do that if he knows he can't win himself. He leaked he was sending in his letter so he had to do it when he did but the actual next step was missing so now he loses all momentum

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[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago

It becoming obvious that we'd be looking at a leader handover if Burnham won.

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[–] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago

Oh God, he even fucking looks like a twat. No, thank you.