Mark Mason1h ago
If #burnham wants to cut benefits he could do so quite easily by getting corporations to pay a living wage instead of bonuses and dividends. In fact just make it illegal for any business to payout bonuses or dividends while any employee qualifies for in-work benefits.
Patrick Sudlow2h ago
'What has Andy Burnham actually achieved on housing in Manchester?'
Labour abandon the working class, getting rid of council housing. Manchester City housing is far too expensive!
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26242332.andy-burnham-actually-achieved-housing-manchester/?ref=cprfa
#burnham @UKLabour
What has Andy Burnham actually achieved on housing in Manchester?

Andy Burnham made a series of lofty, if unspecific, promises in a speech on Monday, billed as an opportunity to set out his policy agenda

The National
Show threadDr. Michael Blume5h ago

@kuhlmann1963

Ich gehe noch weiter & sage, dass die derzeitige, politische Struktur alle Parteivorsitzenden überfordert. Ob die spätere Merkel oder Habeck , ob Merz , Lindner oder Baerbock , ob Klingbeil oder Bas - alle werden unweigerlich von fossilen & algorithmischen Konzernmedien attackiert, in die Ecke gedrängt & dann durch Hate-Mobs erledigt. So wird Bundespolitik gefügig gemacht.

Eine Wiederherstellung der parlamentarischen Demokratie unseres Grundgesetzes würde die Exekutive entlasten & aus der jetzigen Sackgasse führen. Es würde fossilen Lobbyismus erschweren & die #Rechtsmimesis stoppen.

Spannend im politikwissenschaftlichen Vergleich die Entwicklung erst von Tory & dann Labour in UK. Korrekt will Burnham die Zentralisierung der Politik beenden und damit die Demokratie stabilisieren. Hoffentlich gelingt es ihm...

#Parteivorsitzende #Merkel #Habeck #Merz #Baerbock #Bas #Lindner #Klingbeil #Bas #Deutschland #Burnham #UK #Politikwissenschaft #Psychologie #Mimesis #Medien

https://www.herder.de/hk/hefte/archiv/2025/10-2025/medien-und-mimesis-journalismus-in-zeiten-digitaler-aufmerksamkeitsoekonomie/

Medien und Mimesis. Journalismus in Zeiten digitaler Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie

Das Geschäft um die effekthascherischste Schlagzeile boomt, dabei nutzen Polarisierungen letzten Endes niemandem. Zudem können Medien durch die Art ihrer Berichterstattung gerade im Bereich von Gewalt und Terror Nachahmungstäter auf den Plan rufen. Doch auch die Konsumenten medialer Kanäle tragen eine Verantwortung.

Glyn Moody5h ago
Labour MPs tell #Burnham to ignore ‘deluded’ calls for more North Sea drilling - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/30/labour-mps-tell-burnham-ignore-deluded-calls-more-north-sea-drilling "Critics debunk economic claims as research finds Rosebank development would produce estimated 250m tonnes of CO2" #kudos to them #climatecrisis
Labour MPs tell Burnham to ignore ‘deluded’ calls for more North Sea drilling

Critics debunk economic claims as research finds Rosebank development would produce estimated 250m tonnes of CO2

The Guardian
Police State UK5h ago

"We have heard this speech before. We heard it from the same podium tradition two years ago, when a different leader, in a different accent, announced his own ten year mission to transform Britain. Starmer too promised devolution. Starmer too promised an end to trickle down economics. Starmer too spoke of grassroots accountability and a new politics built from the ground up."

#UKPol #Labour #Burnham

https://labourheartlands.com/andy-burnhams-speech/

Andy Burnham's Speech From No 10 North: Old Words, Different Postcode - The Heartlands Tribune

Strip the accent from Andy Burnham's first big speech and you are left with Keir Starmer's script, performed by a more popular actor, for an audience the

The Heartlands Tribune
Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦9h ago

I don't think any of us really knows at this stage how good a job Andy Burnham is going to do as PM, assuming he gets the job (as seems overwhelmingly likely).

I for one am certainly keeping an open mind for now.

I'm sure there are many criteria on which he can be judged, but one criterion I shall be using is this:

If the right-wing media publish endless vitriolic articles saying how terrible he is (probably accusing him of being antisemitic, that's usually how it works), then I shall assume he must be doing something right.

#UKPolitics #Burnham #AndyBurnham

Simon Brooke13h ago

Any government which passes this law has ceased to be a #Labour government. It has become a #Fascist government.

Let us all hope that #Burnham will personally vote against it today.

#RefugeesAreWelcomeHere

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/29/asylum-seekers-pay-towards-living-costs-new-uk-law

Totts15h ago

#burnham the frontrunner to be the next PM, just hired a Thames Water lobbyist as his chief of staff. James Purnell's old firm helped water companies fight off fines and regulation, and now he decides what Andy Burnham focuses on

James Purnell was chief executive of Flint Global, paid by Thames Water, BP, Apple and Amazon to help them resist government oversight.

#polanski the #Green party leader in England and Wales, asked why the Labour government appeared to be “so keen on bringing in corporate lobbyists into the heart of Downing Street”. “This is starting to feel like a bit of a Blair and Starmer tribute act, with Labour Together’s Josh Simons also expected to have a senior role,” he said.

Donald R Noble16h ago

#Burnham's silly "No 10 north" stunt yesterday made me make a map.
If you draw a 3×3 grid on England's extreme points, Manchester is very much in the middle square.
If you include the whole of the UK, it is in the southern third!

(edit, updated to highlight Manchester more clearly; edit 2, updated to western point of NI and added midpoint lines)

#UKpol #geography

Mark Burton16h ago

Here's a good initial critique.

Burnham’s promise of ‘change’ will be judged on what comes next | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burnhams-promise-change-will-be-judged-what-comes-next

#Burnham #UKPol #UKEcon

Burnham’s promise of ‘change’ will be judged on what comes next

HEAVY on rhetoric, light on detail, Andy Burnham set out his vision for “change,” delivered symbolically from the People’s History Museum in Manchester this morning.

Morning Star