Starmer has been a completely average prime minister, doing an ok job. Far from perfect but also far from terrible.
Why the media is constantly pushing for him to quit is beyond me. We are never getting anywhere in this country if we want to constantly change PMs every couple months.
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pixter1 day ago
+65
The media wants Farage as PM , and you can be 100% sure that there will not be calls for him to quit no matter how bad things get.
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EconomicRegret21 day ago
+15
How's he getting such powerful support?
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Nolsoth1 day ago
+50
The far right is prepared to pay whatever it takes to win.
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Wind_Yer_Neck_In1 day ago
+23
Just look at the ownership of the major newspapers. Or the fact that GB News was set up basically to be the UK version of Fox News and push whoever the Murdoch family want in power.
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Nolsoth1 day ago
+3
I think that dingo stole the wrong baby, it should have been Murdoch.
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Dontaskmeforaname1 day ago
+10
The US supports him heavily. Pag probably working hard on it.
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Theratchetnclank1 day ago
+15
Russian money.
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TheMechanicusBob1 day ago
+7
. ~~Russian money~~ Anonymous crypto donations
. The Murdoch propaganda machine
. Rothermere and the Daily Heil
. Online bots
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Theratchetnclank1 day ago
+3
American healthcare also pushing his support because they want him to abolish the NHS.
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No_Doubt_About_That1 day ago
+4
From pledging to fix the problem he created
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Vectorman19891 day ago
+1
Most of the news outlets in the UK are run by right-wing millionaires/billionaires so whenever there's a Labour PM they basically just scream until they're gone.
It doesn't help that there are also various countries and groups that want Farage as PM because it'll destabilise the UK. Russia, China, the US, Iran, terrorist groups etc.
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Bruvvimir1 day ago
+4
i'd say that's too ridiculous to be true, but in this timeline...
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windsynths1 day ago
+9
there is no other timeline.
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iwishihadamustache1 day ago
+3
Please stop crushing my dreams to wake up one day and have this all be a dream
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Frosted_Tackle23 hr ago
+1
Idk maybe lead by the left media instead but I think all outlets in media would be pushing for Farage to quit after a year too…they need chaos to keep up the clicks/eyeballs and will push for it when it doesn’t make sense or is hypocritical to get that continual chaos. Best weapon the public can do is ignore the articles and tv news discussing the topic unless you genuinely believe it’s needed.
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bsnimunf1 day ago
+23
When a Prime minister quits in haste you often end up with worse leaders always incompetent and so lacking in charisma that the public will never support them. Liz Truss for example or Kemi Badenoch etc. Starmer isn't the best but he is the equivalent of Theresa May. If he goes quickly a hastily replaced leader will be much worse.
That's what the media wants because they support farage.
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axw35551 day ago
+8
A simple question provides the answer - who owns the media companies? It serves them to destabilise labour because most of them are tory or reform donors, and they want their mates in power.
What labour don't seem to be doing is looking at what happened to the tories when we had 4 PM's in 3 years (hell, 3 PM's in 2 months). It destabilised things and made them look utterly incompetent.
And in this case, the "event" is one that's utterly expected. The mit-term locals always go badly for the party in westminster because people use it as a protest vote against them, because they know how little the local elections actually count for. They can vote for parties they wouldn't normally because local councils have so little power that the can barely scratch the locals life.
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vargyg1 day ago
+3
A lot of his own MPs want him out.
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DubSket1 day ago
-6
>Starmer has been a completely average prime minister, doing an ok job.
According to who exactly?
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1rexas11 day ago
+10
Everyone paying attention and not just parroting the rhetoric from the media.
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Mitchverr1 day ago
+8
According to the statistics? Before the Iran crisis came around, wages were starting to go up a bit, house pricing was relatively stable, making it easier to begin getting a home, inflation came down, interest rates were coming down, jobs numbers were improving with more higher paying jobs coming also. There was major reform and improvements in employee rights, sick rights, renter rights.
Then you have the NHS waiting lists coming down in good time too, you had actual investigations into fixing the water problems, transport problems, cleaning up of the hell that was military procurement.
Like, across the board the UK began its recovery period after 15 years of austerity, recessions and stagflations. The reason you didnt read about any of that, is because the media doesnt ever like Labour leadership.
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Rydychyn1 day ago
+2
Tbf the bar for average has been lowered significantly in recent years.
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Lumpy_Ad_4571 day ago
+23
I’ve had milk in my fridge that lasted longer than some recent UK terms.
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BasculeRepeat1 day ago
+39
And journalists and media companies keep the story going and doing. Almost as though they have an agenda
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mixxituk1 day ago
+14
This drip feed has kept the drama going for two years like my god how many lobbyists want to stop the employee and housing acts is mad
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BeatTheMarket301 day ago
+3
He should not quit. He is a decent person. He won the last general election. People basically voted for him to be PM. Any cabinet ministers asking for his resignation should resign or be dismissed from his government. He needs to fight back.
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gothteen1451 day ago
+4
Thing is, you can say "Oh it's just because of the media" or "he's doing an average job", but that doesn't change the fact that the general public do not like him. Even my leftist friends, most of whom are further left than me though I am left wing, have switched over to the greens or lib dems and do not like Starmer, which is also bad as it splits the left vote between Labour, Lib Dems and Greens which I think showed in the recent local elections.
Am I saying he should definitely quit? Don't know, honestly not sure what the best course of action is here, but just proceeding as normal feels like it's really going to damage Labour even more than they currently are.
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yetzt1 day ago
+4
Release the Lettuce!
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AndreisValen1 day ago
+13
Frustrating. Could they not wait til reform showed how incompetent they’d be
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bsnimunf1 day ago
+13
Reform wont show their incompetence by running local government because the media will blame all the problems on the labour government. Reform will win the next election and then we will see their incompetence.
I bit like when were in the EU everything was blamed on them. Once we left we had to blame someone else.
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Sky_Ninja19971 day ago
+5
A bunch of reform councillors have already quit for a variety of reasons since the elections last week
Some thought it was paid
Some for racist stuff
Some actually died
One didn’t even exist
one was a foreign national without a valid visa
And one thought he was running for parliament
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bsnimunf1 day ago
+1
When I say show their incompetence I mean in a way that makes their voters think yes I shouldn't have voted for them. That hasn't happened yet the resignations for racism will be perceived as good honest folk being forced out due to wokism etc.
Obviously the average non reform voter can see a hundred examples of incompetence just by examining Farage but he doesn't seem to get the same scrutiny as say Polanski for not paying his council tax.
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Sky_Ninja19971 day ago
+1
I think it’s purposeful cos of the media portraying them. I remember back when Greens had more seats than Reform yet reform was constantly getting positive coverage
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axw35551 day ago
+2
When you say "bunch of reform councillors" are you talking about the cohort elected this time, or just in general?
Because from the 2026 cohort, I'm only finding 4 definite, all basically for racism, and 2 tentative for "bringing the party into disrepute".
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vargyg1 day ago
-21
Starmer's already shown his incompetence, would be better to have a new leader to challenge Reform.
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Dry_Departure_78131 day ago
+29
If it wasn't for starmer the UK would be boots on the ground in Iran, both the Tories and Deform wanted to stick our collective dicks in a wasp nest.
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vargyg1 day ago
-2
No one wants them in power. We want a better leader for Labour.
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Jerri_man1 day ago
As an outsider it doesn't seem like Starmer but the whole party. Its policy failure between managed decline with Labour or accelerated decline with anyone else. The country needs a real change in direction and tackling of wealth inequality.
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Political_breeds1 day ago
+2
I believe Starmer will eventually probably resign because he is there for the people just like Joe Biden quit the 2020 election campaign after he felt like he doesn't have the unity he needed.
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tkcool731 day ago
+2
Something someone else brought up the other night was that what's stopping Starmer from going the Samson route and calling a general election right now if they try to push him out
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Re0ns1 day ago
+3
It's always been a repeat of "wow, that guy was bad, let's pick the opposition", and each new "leader" only secures their own benefits of winning
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Left-Night-11251 day ago
-17
Bad leaders seems a trend, Starmer of the UK, Jetten from the Netherlands..
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bsnimunf1 day ago
+14
Starmer is actually pretty good compared to some of the leaders we've had in The past 10 years. One of the problems is we've entered in a very unstable leadership cycle so even if a new leader is competent they can't really get anything down because the knifes are already out for them.
We've been firefighting since 2010 when we actually need to be looking long term and solving long term problems.
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