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Disowned by his MPs, despised by the public, Starmer must know the game is up
The Telegraph ^ | 04 February 2026 | Gordon Rayner

Posted on 02/04/2026 8:14:56 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

According to the bookies, Sir Keir Starmer is odds-on to leave No 10 this year, and if they are right, history might look back on Feb 4 as the day his departure became inevitable.

With two U-turns in the space of a day, with his political guru Morgan McSweeney standing on a trapdoor, and with Angela Rayner biting at his ankles, Sir Keir’s authority has been shredded.

Even before the Mandelson row exploded underneath him, Sir Keir was the least popular prime minister on record, dismissed by the public as useless and by his own MPs as a deadbeat.

Rumours of a leadership challenge had been dominating Labour politics for months, with only the timidity of his rivals keeping him safe. May’s local elections – despite Sir Keir’s attempt to game the result by cancelling lots of them – were seen as the moment of maximum danger.

All that has changed, though, with the wholly avoidable scandal brought down on Labour by Sir Keir’s highly controversial, and possibly career-ending, decision to appoint Lord Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to Washington in February last year.

Sir Keir was the man who promised to “turn the page” on the chaos and scandals that dogged the Conservatives, but instead he has put his party at the centre of the biggest political betrayal since Profumo. The anxiety felt by Labour MPs over the opinion polls (dominated for a year now by Reform UK) has turned to anger.

Whenever prime ministers are toppled mid-term, there is a moment when the mood turns irreversibly against them, even if they manage to limp on for a while longer.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; england; europe; starmer
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1 posted on 02/04/2026 8:14:56 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Difficult to imagine a more deserving dork.


2 posted on 02/04/2026 8:22:20 PM PST by Cuttnhorse
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To: MinorityRepublican

If past performance is any indicator of the future, they’ll replace him with someone worse. Maybe a full blown Muslim cleric or something stupid. They’ve made their bed, they CAN’T reverse course NOW.


3 posted on 02/04/2026 8:52:09 PM PST by FrankRizzo890
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To: MinorityRepublican

He should just wank off.


4 posted on 02/04/2026 9:09:52 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: FrankRizzo890

No doubt, as bad as Starmer has been, it could get a lot worse, a full-blown Trump hater who pulls a Spanish Prime Minister move by legalizing hundreds of thousands of people who have crossed the channel.

You can probably guess after Starmer a while male, the next PM will be anything but a white male....


5 posted on 02/04/2026 9:18:04 PM PST by srmanuel ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Amelia for the win!!


6 posted on 02/04/2026 9:55:38 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: MinorityRepublican

I don’t pity the British at all. He was asked “Westminster or Davos?” would he listen to, he said “Davos” and they elected him anyway. Also being a Sir, it seems like you could buy a knighthood pretty cheaply. All the musicians who have been knighted for singing songs. That never happened before the 20th century.


7 posted on 02/04/2026 10:19:51 PM PST by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

He doesn’t care about the game as long as he can change the playing field, ignore the rules, and control the scoreboard.


8 posted on 02/04/2026 10:48:38 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Disowned by his MPs, despised by the public”

The next line should be “hunted like an animal”.


9 posted on 02/05/2026 4:09:24 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
Hahahah. I don't keir!


10 posted on 02/05/2026 6:29:36 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Yesterday only comes one time. —Sorrells Pickard)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Brits are just rearranging the deck chairs at this point. The ship is going down, or rather, muslim, and nothing is going to stop it.


11 posted on 02/05/2026 6:39:51 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: MinorityRepublican

This pathetic tool has attained the height of Putz-dom.


12 posted on 02/05/2026 7:19:39 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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