Burnham Victory - Should Kier Starmer Watch his Back? | Trending Ep361

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Friday's episode of Trending. I hope you're well. Well, the big news here from the UK overnight is that former Manchester, well, now former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has won a by-election in Makerfield, an area of northern Manchester, as it signals his intent now to return to Westminster and challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership of the Labour Party. He's somebody who stood against Jeremy Corbyn right back in 2016, I believe, or just before that. He stood for the leadership twice and he's never won. He then went to become Manchester Mayor, rebuilt his profile, was ridiculously named the King of the North. And then now, as pressure has risen on Starmer, there's been calls for him to go back to Westminster. He wanted to stand in the by-election last year in Gorton-Denson. He was refused permission to do so because when you're in a mayor position or another elected position, for you to stand in another one, you need to have permission from the Labour Party board, because obviously now there needs to be a new mayor election, which they say costs too much money, all that anyway. It was clear that when he got his position and opportunity, he was going to do it again. And he now has. So he will go to Westminster, and this will almost certainly trigger a leadership challenge against Starmer. Former Health Secretary Wes Streeting has already said that he will take part in such a challenge as well. And it's just essentially rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. These people represent the same thing, they represent the same people, and the outcome that they will try and produce will be the same, which is people's lives won't improve, people won't have more money, people won't feel safer, people won't get better healthcare, better education. The same agenda that we've seen unfold over the last century will continue and continue and continue. Starmer is a system stooge. Burnham is a system stooge. They all are. And I I shared a story around Andy Burnham when we spoke about him when he first announced his uh intention to run into this election. And I think it's important to reiterate that in case anybody watching didn't see that previous episode. So when he took over as Manchester mayor, one of the things he wanted to do or claimed he wanted to do was solve homelessness in Manchester, which, as any of you that have been to Manchester will know, is an incredibly big issue up there. And especially in that part of the country, during the winter months, it's very cold, it's very icy, it's very uh grim. So living on the street must be uh living on the street at any time would be tough. But living on the street in those conditions during those months of the year would be incredibly tough, and I'm sure lots of people lose their lives as a result. So he started working with a guy that I know called Jed, who ran a barber shop in Salford. And what Jed used to do is he used to go out and cut the hair of homeless and try and help make them feel more human and part of society and that somebody cares about them. He used to raise quite a lot of money for them as well for things like tents and sleeping bags and so on. And Andy Burnham was always the first to be there when there was a photo opportunity with him. He said that you know he was there to work with him, but he never was. He was there when the Manchester Evening News turned up to take the photographs and so on and made it look like he was this guy that was gonna, you know, this working class hero that was gonna come and solve these problems. Well, we were in Manchester for an event back in 2017. We were raising money on the back of a book launcher David's, we were raising money from an auction that we were doing to give to local charities, and we were meant to give money to this charity. And Andy Burnham, after hearing our event got cancelled or got moved from Old Trafford Manchester United's football ground, told him that don't take their money. And I'm gonna go out on a limb and say he didn't replace the money that we were meant to give them. Um and then basically a few years later, this guy Jed apologised to me and said that I shouldn't have done that, and that I realized very quickly that actually these guys don't stand for what they claim to stand for, they don't actually care. But he was new into this, and he thought getting in with the mayor and getting a politician to support his cause would help his cause, and he realized very quickly that it was it was about the photo opportunity at the end. It wasn't about actually helping people, it wasn't about actually trying to make a difference and an impact. And if you look at the homelessness statistics in Manchester, they have risen under Andy Burnham, not gone down. So, how this guy is has got any support, I don't know. I think mainly the support maybe people have for him is that he's not Keir Starmer. Uh, so he won 55% of the overall vote in this election. He won 25,000 votes, and he'll now take his seat in Westminster. What happens and how quickly a leadership challenge happens is for all to know, but it's just gonna trigger egos fighting egos, and once again the people will suffer. Because politicians don't make any difference. You might have individual politicians that might make impacts on local levels and on particular issues in particular areas of the country or the world, but as a collective, politicians never change anything for the better. They never change anything for the better because they don't work for us. So, although it's important to highlight what's going on in politics so that people are aware, and it's important to understand and know who people are and know what their you know positions they're coming from, and what when they say this, what that really means. Of course, that's really important. But we shouldn't get caught in the concept that politics is actually going to change anything, because it's not. Andy Burnham becoming Labour leader is not gonna change anything. And you know, given some of the things he's said, it might change your taxes for the for the worse, and I'm not sure that was possible. The way he's spoken about things like pensions and income tax and capital gains tax and so on. Is anyone really voting these days thinking it's gonna make any difference? Do the people of Makerfield, who already had a Labour MP who stood aside to let Burnham run, do they really think he's gonna be any different? In other politics news, uh in Aberdeen in Scotland, the Scottish Conservative Party won a by-election for the first time in more than 50 years, taking a seat from the Scottish National Party. Um, it just signals the fact that the SNP are very much imploding. They've been really tarnished with this Nicola Sturgeon corruption situation, they've been really tarnished with their former leader and is standing up going, this position, he's not white, he's white, he's white, he's white, he's white in a country that's overwhelmingly white and tried to insinuate somehow Scotland was a racist society. You know, he lost his seat very quickly or lost his leadership very quickly. So the SNP have done everything they can to implode over the last 20 years by focusing on independence and nothing else. Sturgeon was incredibly unpopular, Alex Salmon and the corruption claims and sexual assault allegations against him as well, and then obviously Yusuf as well. They've done their best. They've done their very best to destroy themselves. So, where we go from here is a an interesting one. Um, former Cabinet Minister Louise Hale, who has been managing Burnham's campaign, is a longtime ally of his, says that she hopes the Prime Minister will reflect on this result, as it's the first by-election result since he's taken over that Labour have actually won. And I hope that he will consider an orderly and managed transition. But the Prime Minister said yesterday that he has no intention of walking away, and that a leadership challenge he is warning him against because it creates chaos within the party, it creates division, and it's not good for the country. That's Starmer's words. Well, I don't think Starmer is good for the country, I don't think Burnham is good for the country, I don't think West Streeting will be good for the country. I think what would be good for the country is people in politics that actually care. People in politics that actually are in there to make lives of people they represent better, not to represent a force way above them, dictating and trying to take the world and the country in a direction which is not for the benefit of people, it's for the benefit of them, whether that be financially, whether that be with control, whether that be the spiritual defeat of the rest of humanity. I'm I'm all I'm I'm sort of in favour of that, I have to say. But Andy Burnham will almost certainly portray himself now as this success story. You know, I left Westminster, I went to Manchester, I made a massive difference, I changed Manchester for the better. I'm this working class hero, I'm one of you, I'm not from North London, where most of where the last two Labour leaders have been from, Corbyn and Starmer. I'm not part of the London bubble, I'm from the North. Just like Angela Rayner, I might talk a bit different. Makes me sound like I'm common, makes me sound like I'm one of you. Maybe you'll believe me more when I sell you something which is not in your interests. Maybe you'll believe me more when I tell you that things are gonna get better, when I tell you things are gonna change, when I feed you another pack of lies to get you to get engaged with politics once again. Well, I sincerely hope that people don't fall for it. I sincerely hope that the the traditional Labour vote of people who working class communities who feel completely let down don't fall for the fact that all of a sudden now they've got somebody back. I don't think they will, because as I said, this guy stood against Corbyn, and one of the major reasons Corbyn won twice is because people saw him as that traditional Labour type ideology, and they saw Burnham and they saw Angela Eagle and other people that stood against him as everything the Labour Party has become that it shouldn't have been. So I sincerely hope that people don't forget that and that they remember who this man really is, and they don't, you know, fall for the concept of being re-engaged with politics. Because if we do that, that's another four years, it's another three years, it's another kick the can down the road, and their agenda gets further and further along the way towards its end goal. And it's very important that we continue to go, no, not buying it, mate. Not buying it. Because politics isn't going to change anything, because politicians don't change anything, they just represent themselves and nobody else. Well, they represent the people above them that usually put them into those positions of power because they're far more afraid of them than they are of us. And it's time to make them far more afraid of us, not violently, just by refusing to accept anything less. Right, if you're watching with us on Twitter or YouTube, head over to iconic.com. We're going to talk about some more stories, we're going to talk about a truly bizarre story from Norfolk. We're going to talk about um fertility, we're going to talk about some good news to finish this morning's episode. I'll see you then.

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