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  • Just Tom... 🐁tompearce49@mastodon.scot
    Jul 2, 2026, 10:46 AM

    @Infoseepage
    Saddling your successor with the consequences of those actions. In most businesses you would be given your possessions in a cardboard box and then you'd be escorted off the premises. I get that there's a need for a handover of power but you're right, perhaps a ban on introducing new legislation once you have announced your resignation. But since when have politicians been bound by the expectations and rules that bind the rest of us?

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  • InfoseepageInfoseepage@mastodon.social
    Jul 2, 2026, 10:54 AM

    @tompearce49 Starmer is essentially being forced out by a mix of private and public statements of no confidence from within his own party telling him that his continuing at the helm is an ongoing disaster for the party and that if he doesn't step down, a leadership challenge will be forced.

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  • InfoseepageInfoseepage@mastodon.social
    Jul 2, 2026, 10:54 AM

    @tompearce49 If as a PM you accept that (generous offer) and you're basically acknowledging that your own party wants you gone and that you're being allowed to resign with some dignity rather than being forced out, you shouldn't get to smash stuff and steal the furnishings on your way out the door.

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  • InfoseepageInfoseepage@mastodon.social
    Jul 2, 2026, 10:57 AM

    @tompearce49 Nations clearly need better (popular, imo) ways to recall executives who have broken faith with the electorate or their party. The UK could probably use some sort of caretaker oriented system about now...

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  • InfoseepageInfoseepage@mastodon.social
    Jul 2, 2026, 11:18 AM

    @tompearce49 And that's just it, Starmer is saddling whoever comes next (Burnham) with his post-resignation actions. The party should at the least revamp its own internal process to yank a PM. Removal from power should be sudden and without possibility to do further harm on the way out. In this, the conservatives may actually have the better system with letters to the 1922 committee being able to force a no confidence vote (although the threshold for this has changed in recent years).

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