Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation today demonstrates that the Labour Party did not expect to win the next General Election under his leadership. He admitted as much in his resignation speech, that “The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed to lead us into the next general election.”

The catalyst is the Andy Burnham’s victory in the Makerfield by-election. Burnham’s defeat of the Reform UK candidate in that by-election is viewed as Labour’s only hope of preventing Nigel Farage winning the next General Election and becoming Prime Minister. Nigel Farage interpreted it the same way.

Yet again, Nigel Farage is the king-maker. Maker-field cleared the field for Andy Burnham’s path to the British Prime Ministership.

All the incompetence of the Starmer premiership can be blotted out by this facelift. “It is not Andy Burnham’s fault” that all these disastrous policies were implemented.

If Burnham becomes Prime Minister by coronation or default, he will be the first Roman catholic UK Prime Minister. Such a religious connection is reckoned to be of little account nowadays, with an atheist Prime Minister in the UK married to a Jewess, a Hindu Prime Minister before him, a muslim Mayor of London and a muslim former First Minister in Scotland. Really? Let us see. Within 24 hours of Burnham’s succeeding to be UK Prime Minister, the news will be that he is the first Roman catholic to occupy the position. There will be much Romish joy at what is truly significant news. Softly, softly is the longterm Roman policy. The anti-globalist lobby will speak against the WEF, the UN, the WHO, and whoever, but it ignores the international influence on national politics by this global player. “Hidden in plain sight” comes to mind.

Burnham is on record as saying: “I’ve always said, and some people won’t like this, what I used to have to read in the [Roman catholic] catechism, the enfranchisement of it on Earth was the Labour Party.” Ever since being a Roman catholic altar boy, he has been guided by Roman catholicism. Who thinks that religion and politics do not mix? Andy Burnham is not the first person to give the lie to this mantra. Shirley Williams said decades ago that the social policy of Europe was based upon Roman catholic doctrine. Little wonder that Burnham is a Europhile and a multinational corporatist.

What is being labelled Manchesterism is akin to the global C4 Mayors Agenda, promoted by London Mayor Sadiq Khan but now in Burnham’s hands to implement the growing power of this new international oligarchy.

UK instability

The instability of UK governance is seen in the careering see-saw of public opinion between Jeremy Corbyn’s Momentum, then Boris Johnson’s electoral landslide, followed by Keir Starmer’s electoral landslide, followed by Reform UK’s meteoric rise under Nigel Farage, and the spin-off political parties once Nigel Farage broke the two-party dominance and hegemony of British politics.

The instability is also seen in the ease with which Burnham can map his way to 10 Downing Street, possibly by the end of next month, without being an MP, using his base as Mayor of Manchester, without being tested in public debate, without a published programme for scrutiny. Like David Cameron’s winning the leadership of the Conservative Party, this is another beauty contest with little public understanding of what is in store for the country.

I am very pleased that Starmer and Rachel Reeves are going. Neither were on top of their brief, if they even knew what it was, and the country suffered as a result.

Understandably, Nigel Farage has called for a General Election, but as Labour has its large majority in the House of Commons, a General Election will not come soon. The danger is that the public will be taken in by this facelift. It happens in politics and religion and it will continue as long as we have a politically and religiously illiterate electorate.

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23 Jun 2026: Starmer fell on his sword just in time for today’s 10th anniversary of Brexit; ten years of trying to leave the grip of the European Union. The BBC could find no space on its front page for the anniversary. Instead the headline was Peter Murrell, former CEO of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon’s former husband, has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison for embezzling more than £400,000 from SNP Party funds. Yesterday the former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Jeffrey Donaldson was found guilty of 18 child sex abuse charges, including one charge of rape. Each area of the UK has manifested the failure of political leadership, with Labour’s loss of control in Wales at the recent May 2026 local Elections contributing to Starmer’s demise. The character of Britain’s politicians reflects the low state of Christianity in these islands.

25 Jun 2026: veteran commentator Andrew Neil supplied a catchy phrase on discussing Andy Burnham’s route to being Prime Minister, as “a coup and then be seen as not having much of a clue what to do next”. A coup with no clue!