🇬🇧Starmer is out, undone by immigration and energy, and the man about to inherit Downing Street unopposed is the last person likely to change the policies that sank him...
Patrick Christys laid out why that's the real story.
With Keir Starmer resigning and Andy Burnham the presumptive successor with no challenger declared, Burnham is under no obligation to publish a manifesto.
He can take the keys on vibes alone, in roughly 20 days, and nobody yet knows where he actually lands.
Patrick's frustration is less about Burnham the man than the pattern.
His case: at every election for 15 years, British voters backed whichever party promised to cut immigration, and every time the numbers climbed instead.
Even Brexit, he argues, was answered not with less immigration but with a different mix of it.
The throughline he keeps hitting is consent, the sense that the public never actually voted for the scale of change they're living through.
He stacks the grievances high.
The scrapped two-child benefit cap, military barracks being converted to house thousands of asylum seekers in villages of a few hundred, a 900-million-pound processing center not due to finish until 2029.
To him that last detail is the tell: you don't build for 2029 if you plan to stop the boats.
His sharpest line was on Burnham's record, not his rhetoric.
Greater Manchester sat at the center of the grooming-gang scandal, and Patrick argues Burnham let the police mark their own homework rather than force a reckoning.
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