Off-Guardian – July 21, 2026
As of yesterday morning, the United Kingdom has a new Prime Minister, and his name is Andy Burnham.
In a startlingly low-Democracy effort, even by modern standards, a sitting MP resigned his safe seat so Andy Burnham could “contest” a by-election with the express purpose of ousting Sir Keir Starmer as Labour leader.
Less than 30,000 votes – that’s the Burnham democratic mandate.
And ever since that transition became inevitable, the PR machine has been working overtime to sell us the kind of “simple, decent” image.
We’ve been told how he likes his tea (milk first), that he’s not going to wear a tie outside Parliament, and witnessed his (totally not staged) little one-on-ones with the public.
For his first speech outside Number 10, he waved the lectern away, and just had a good old chinwag…
I don’t use a lectern either! OMG he’s just like me! https://t.co/VouMeEcHIE
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It’s all a very David Brentish, “Just call me Andy” vibe. Like a substitute teacher who sits backwards on his chair and uses the word “jam”.
The “I’m so nice” PR extended into policy already. Having left poor, boring Keir to finish off the bad news last week, good old Andy has jumped at the chance to end VAT on energy bills, and “scrap” digital ID.
His cabinet is, naturally, the same old faces in different jobs. Wes Streeting has been paid off for refusing to contest a leadership election he would have lost with the Defence Secretary job. Ed Miliband moves from Energy to Foreign Secretary. Yvette Cooper is still around somewhere.
As we’re fond of saying, the British Cabinet has ever been a game of musical chairs where nobody ever takes a chair away.
Burnham’s spouting Corbyn-lite “new politics”, but it will be meaningless in the end. A puppet who doesn’t wear a tie is very much still a puppet.
But maybe you disagree.
- Will Burnham last longer than his predecessors?
- Do you buy his “man of the people” schtick?
- Has Digital ID REALLY been “scrapped”?
- Will Burnham reverse any other Starmer-era policies?
Discuss in the comments below.
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andy burnham used to wear eye makeup
he was very promiscuous
and has an arrhymia or heart condition
this would all make him vulnerable to mr tothshild
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Just be a good slave and vote. You know it makes sense. After a lifetime of cunts, look how utopian britain is. Burn ’em alive will save you. All he has to do is get rid of the foreign nigger that’s the aptly-named foreign secretary (the one who thinks men can have babies), fire the raghead who’s in charge of stopping rhe ragheads invading, kill the raghead who controls your capital city along with the rape gangs therein, slit the throats of the pedo royals, open up the north sea gas and oil wells, drive out the 50% of britain who are invaders, fix the murderous and corrupt No Hope System, and kill all the jews. That should be easy. If only he wasn’t a jew himself…
Ee by gum… he seems sooo nice…. real down t’erth……can’t yer juss giv’im a chance?
Metrosexual Manc with all the gravitas of a “Uni” assistant lecturer in sociology
🙄🙄🙄
And dont get me started on those limp-wristed faggots and idiotic womyn he’s surrounded himself with! 🤣
What a worthless twat..
Neoliberalism likes socialism when it means people [and some businesses] donate to foodbanks to keep hungry Britons fed, and it likes socialism when public money goes to big business in tax breaks and research & development funds, or paying the wages of trainees and making up low pay with benefit top-ups. So they don’t mind socialism so long as the right people get the money. But Andy Burnham stands somewhere to the left of cruel hard-core neoliberalism so whatever he will do they will not like it. If he managed to cut crime in half they’d deny he’d cut crime and say under him crime has become more organised and just less visible. It’s just so easy to lie like that.
I did better under Rishi Sunak than I ever did under Keir Starmer, and though I don’t expect much from Burnham regards Gaza genocide and sucking up to Trump his first two announcements will help me and others like me: ending VAT on electricity in January and a cap on bus fares. Already there are shameless greedy b*st*rds attacking him for it and he’s not been PM a full week yet.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Does he also have rent boys?
Kosher Socialism 2.0.. yawn
not a 4skin in sight
A very pretend celebration welcoming Andy Da Nose to rule over the Phoenician colony of Great Britain.
Oh WOW, Great Britstain has a new primed minnista. Hurray and Hipp with another Array! Of we go again to rule the waves (or was it the sea or what they see) and knight a few more Paedophiles while we are at it along the way to patch up the em(pty s)pire!
All the “volunteers” cheering on Andieeee Burnhim in the 10th stage show of “Carry On” are on the Go-vermin payroll of plenty – if I am not mistaken as a foreign $ubject of the crown?
Butt, where in the Pic are all those important brownies/blackies all Poms talk about – ALL the time? Out buggering the few English roses that are left without hangovers?