While we're looking at our midterm elections here in November, and while primaries in the several states are in many cases already underway, in the very different system the United Kingdom uses, one Prime Minister, the feckless and incapable Keir Starmer, has stepped down, and another Labour Party apparatchik, Andy Burnham, is about to step into the big chair. That's how things work in the UK. But this time, the British people are apparently demanding an election, rather than putting off a vote until the regularly scheduled 2029 election.
In fact, one recent Daily Mail poll has the number of Brits demanding a snap election at around 90 percent. That should bring out some sweat on the foreheads of Labour politicians.
Andy Burnham is set to be installed as Prime Minister in just three weeks – despite having the feeblest mandate in British political history.
The self-styled 'King of the North' is on course for a 'coronation' next month after Keir Starmer dramatically resigned less than two years after his landslide election win.
But Daily Mail readers led the call for an early election on Monday night, with 90 per cent of more than 100,000 online votes telling Mr Burnham to go to the ballot box.
Now, disclaimer: This would appear to be an online, opt-in poll, wherein the numbers often tip towards the disgruntled. But it's no secret that the British people have been unhappy about how Labour has been running the country over the last few months. The Tories and, more to the point, Nigel Farage's Reform Party, have some ideas on how the British people might become once more gruntled.
On Monday night, the former Greater Manchester mayor was scrambling to draw up a programme for government after Sir Keir set a timetable that could see him anointed as Prime Minister as early as July 17.
Opposition leaders questioned the right to govern of a man who was backed by just 25,000 voters in the Makerfield electorate – barely 0.05 per cent, or one-2,000th, of the electorate.
Nigel Farage called for an immediate general election, saying it was 'ridiculous to pretend that Andy Burnham has any kind of meaningful mandate to lead the country'. He added: 'If Labour thinks it can shove another professional politician into No 10, it has another thing coming.'
So, what does Labour fear that would keep them from calling a snap election?
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Well, Labour is likely hesitant to call such a snap election because they are afraid, as my British friend would put it, that they'll bloody well lose. We've seen a lot of news, a lot of reporting about regular British subjects (and if you ask me, the fact that they are still "subjects" is a big part of the problem) who are unhappy about the seemingly-endless waves of "migrants" invading their country, making a mess of their cities, not to mention forming grooming gangs that Labour pols seem reluctant to mention.
Such an election could well be a game-changer. In his 1908 poem, The Secret People, G.K. Chesterton wrote:
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget.
For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.
There is many a fat farmer that drinks less cheerfully,
There is many a free French peasant who is richer and sadder than we.
There are no folk in the whole world so helpless or so wise.
There is hunger in our bellies, there is laughter in our eyes;
You laugh at us and love us, both mugs and eyes are wet:
Only you do not know us. For we have not spoken yet.
I don't think the English people are content to stay silent anymore. It looks like they are about to speak. The new Prime Minister may not be so anxious to hear their voices.
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