Thanks Brah but I wouldn't say it was a crazy call. Burnham has been planning this for yonks.
IMO the Brexit vote broke the country where the politicians and public have become more divided. No one has tried to repair it. The Tories spent most of their time on putting themselves before country. Fun fact, when the PM changed, there was no immediate election which happened four times!.
I do have to say, what doesn't help is the British public being fucking stupid. There's so many studies out there which show the public as a whole overestimate how many immigrants there, how many teen pregnancies there are, how much is spent on unemployment benefits. If you don't know the fucking truth about things, you end making assessments which are out of reality.
Coupled with social media algorithms which is designed to make you angry and fake news, we're pretty fucked as a country. People do not fact check and the average reading age for an adult is between 9 and 11 so a shit tonne of people are unable to comprehend anything with nuisance or with detail. There is no willingness or ability to fact check.
The last bit drives me crazy. I'm the offspring of uneducated third world Muslim immigrants. I am the literal demographic, most people in the UK and Europe do not want. Guess what? I can fact check and comprehend complex arguments unlike of my fellow Brits. The education system needs to introduce critical thinking.
/rant over
Yeah, I got me some reminders of how the brexit vote happened ten years ago (as if I needed a reminder: you guys are pretty much our neighbors).
Majority of Britons: naaah, I don't feel like voting whether we're in or out of the EU.
48% of voters: we want to remain in the EU
52% of voters: I hate illegal immigrants so I vote to leave the EU. That'll show 'em!
Politicians: with this landslide victory, we'll declare ourselves independent!
France, Belgium: okay, sure. Then we'll stop illegal immigrants trying to enter the UK anymore.
Politicians: wait, no...not like THAT! Quick...someone prime minister someone that'll put the EU in their place.
Johnson: I'll do...
Politicians: no, not YOU!
*later*
Politicians: okay...NOW you try.
Johnson: *does personal scandals*
Politicians: NEXT!
Starmer: hello...I'm trying to get us closer to the EU but not in a way to piss off everyone who's been spoonfed lies about them for their entire life.
But really: I can make fun of the tories all day long, but I can't see much difference in labour. Perhaps a friendlier atmosphere, but "being more on speaking terms" isn't bringing you guys back in the UK.
So...again: what is this Burnham bloke going to do regarding the brexit/EU situation? Or the cost of living? Or Ukraine? Or the US tariff threats? I mean it: I know as much about this guy as about binface (that IS the "it's but a flesh wound" knight from monty python and the holy grail, yes?). So is there going to be a change in policy at any level?
...and while writing, I accidentally got a mental vision of count binface being elected and being set to Donald Trump to talk about whatever bully idea Trump got in his idea regarding the UK.
