badgerx16

At the District and Borough level perhaps, but regional Mayors are completely different, probably more power than any non-Cabinet MP.

That just show how far the country has declined economically under Starmer.

Wikipedia summarises the IMF, the World Bank, and the UN. Unless, of course, all of those sources are wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita We are 19th out of 189 in this table just behind Germeny, wnd ahead of France and Italy among so many others. What are the "true issues" ?

What if Burnham doesn't win the leadership contest ?

Of course, Government debt NEVER increased during the many years of Tory Government. Similarly for the military, many years of Tory defence cuts led us to where we are today, and I'm not sure how you expected Starmer to reverse the trend whilst at the same time giving you the reduction in taxes you seem to demand. Militsry expenditure has been an easy target since John Nott in 1982.

I never said he was doing a good job, in fact my assessment a couple of months ago was "disappointing". However, I do not think he has "proceeded to make everything way worse", that is demonstrably untrue.

You look at the World from a seriously skewed perspective.

Sadly, so did the rest of us.

Ange was wrong in what she said, and the history reveals how much chaos such a precedent would create, we would have had nearly twice as many GEs as we actually have.

12.5 overs, 7 maidens, 3 wickets, 6 runs.

Since 1900 there have been 12 "elected" Prime Ministers, many of whom served more than 1 term. There have been 18 "unelected" PMs, some of whom subsequently went on to win a GE mandate.

Evening Major.

That cunt should focus more on trying to sort out his own many failures.

Maybe we need to stop utilising brooms and employ a vacuum cleaner.