If Burnham decides on an early election, it’s a hung Parliament.
If he waits, an election, in 3 years, is impossible to predict.
In between, the economy tanks.
More likely the government collapses as the chaos starts.
As protests get more extreme, services break down and Parliament turns into a futile gathering of corrupt gasbags, the country will descend into mayhem.
Who takes over then? Will we see a Lebanese style war of attrition?
We will see. But his investing in the economy and extra refining capacity points to opposing the bankers financiers and mega rich families who are aiming to make hard cash worthless.
There’s a difference between the Israelis and the organisations that manipulate the world’s economies.
Using derogatory terms for people of any religion is no basis for debate.
'Consequently, our last hope is to take this to the streets. We are not voting our way out of this mess.'
Exactly right, Pete. In fact, I am now of the mindset that I would welcome it. We are close to being unable to ever do anything about the total destruction of the UK. My concern is that good people will die. And I feel wicked for visiting this wish on my children and their children. But how else do we stop this ruination?
I'm afraid your characterisation of Reform is one that i do not recognise.
Your bleak portrayal of Reform fails to reflect the energy, enthusiasm and determination of everyone that has flocked to it's cause.
I think, sometimes, people forget that Reform is only a 2 year old party, trying to vie with parties and and an establishment that has been around for hundreds of years.
Reform have made huge strides in their short existence. The first General Election they ever ran in garnered them 14% of the vote and 5 MP's. And all this with the lowest funding of any other party.
In 2025 they swept the board across the country, and also came 2nd in around 100 councils. They broke through in Wales to become the official opposition party and made big gains in Scotland, making them a truly national party.
They had done all this in ONE YEAR!
Yet you are not happy. You said yourself that never had any faith in them from their conception and have been complaining, criticising, and whinging about them ftom the get go, so you will forgive me if i do not accept your overly pessimistic and depressive.
You would do better to point to the gargantuan effort that accomplished these feats, or to bring into the focus the immense pressure they are under from the establishment and MSM, who recognise the threat Reform poses to the whole political monopoly of the Uniparty and the system that protects it, and their efforts to destroy Reform.
They finally have some proper funding, which can only help to strengthen some of the organisational issues that you seem to believe are lacking, they have produced several policy documents, not the single one that you wrongly suggest, in fact, the erroneous descriptions and conclusions that pepper your article are too many to entertain.
Reform are not perfect, indeed they are not yet fully formed, they can make mistakes.
Yet, they have already exceeded all expectations, but there is still a lot more to do, against many challenges. That will not change anytime soon.
So either get behind the ONLY party that has the chance to save our, once great nation, or get out of the way. Because Reform are coming through.
Doom and gloom or as the old saying 'abandon hope all you enter here'.
This unfortunately seems to be our destination for some years to come.
The Conservatives are making some of the right noises but, at the moment, I can't really believe they will actually do as they say?
Can reform change in such a relatively short time even if extended to 2029 as Mr Burnham says.
Where can they find the necessary talent with both the knowledge of parliamentary procedures, able to control the civil service and convince parliament that their view is correct, or at least better than we have now.
The difficult we do now, the impossible may take a little longer.
What Kemi says is 'sensible' but it's nowhere near radical enough to make the changes our society and nation need to resurrect UK plc. I like her, but so what? She's no Boudicca.
You do wonder how these people could be so feckless when so much is at stake? We can at least live in hope that worth Burnham bottling an election there is time for Reform and/or Tories to sort themselves out. The economy, creaking infrastructure, cost of living and social tensions will all get worse and may concentrate minds.
I upticked your comment because I hope and pray you are correct. Pete North makes whole number of valid points. I was just reading another post about grooming gangs in Wales and northern England, which claimed that Reform councillors are not making much impact in forcing the establishment to acknowledge its complicity. It’s true that some reform councils are making progress, but there doesn’t seem to be much evidence of a future administration with the competence and bottle to take on the establishment and win,
If Burnham decides on an early election, it’s a hung Parliament.
If he waits, an election, in 3 years, is impossible to predict.
In between, the economy tanks.
More likely the government collapses as the chaos starts.
As protests get more extreme, services break down and Parliament turns into a futile gathering of corrupt gasbags, the country will descend into mayhem.
Who takes over then? Will we see a Lebanese style war of attrition?
The future looks pretty grim.
We will see. But his investing in the economy and extra refining capacity points to opposing the bankers financiers and mega rich families who are aiming to make hard cash worthless.
There’s a difference between the Israelis and the organisations that manipulate the world’s economies.
Using derogatory terms for people of any religion is no basis for debate.
Give it a bloody rest mate with this same old same old anti Reform slop.
Reform aren't right wing.
The necessary BIG changes we need to stop the rot require a government with a clear majority to pass the acts needed to start to put things right.
The trouble is the Left won't even think about doing what is required and the existing Right will never get a working majority to govern as needed.
Prepare for things to get worse before they get better.
'Consequently, our last hope is to take this to the streets. We are not voting our way out of this mess.'
Exactly right, Pete. In fact, I am now of the mindset that I would welcome it. We are close to being unable to ever do anything about the total destruction of the UK. My concern is that good people will die. And I feel wicked for visiting this wish on my children and their children. But how else do we stop this ruination?
I'm afraid your characterisation of Reform is one that i do not recognise.
Your bleak portrayal of Reform fails to reflect the energy, enthusiasm and determination of everyone that has flocked to it's cause.
I think, sometimes, people forget that Reform is only a 2 year old party, trying to vie with parties and and an establishment that has been around for hundreds of years.
Reform have made huge strides in their short existence. The first General Election they ever ran in garnered them 14% of the vote and 5 MP's. And all this with the lowest funding of any other party.
In 2025 they swept the board across the country, and also came 2nd in around 100 councils. They broke through in Wales to become the official opposition party and made big gains in Scotland, making them a truly national party.
They had done all this in ONE YEAR!
Yet you are not happy. You said yourself that never had any faith in them from their conception and have been complaining, criticising, and whinging about them ftom the get go, so you will forgive me if i do not accept your overly pessimistic and depressive.
You would do better to point to the gargantuan effort that accomplished these feats, or to bring into the focus the immense pressure they are under from the establishment and MSM, who recognise the threat Reform poses to the whole political monopoly of the Uniparty and the system that protects it, and their efforts to destroy Reform.
They finally have some proper funding, which can only help to strengthen some of the organisational issues that you seem to believe are lacking, they have produced several policy documents, not the single one that you wrongly suggest, in fact, the erroneous descriptions and conclusions that pepper your article are too many to entertain.
Reform are not perfect, indeed they are not yet fully formed, they can make mistakes.
Yet, they have already exceeded all expectations, but there is still a lot more to do, against many challenges. That will not change anytime soon.
So either get behind the ONLY party that has the chance to save our, once great nation, or get out of the way. Because Reform are coming through.
North can’t tell you who the Right is, let alone the Slop Right!
Doom and gloom or as the old saying 'abandon hope all you enter here'.
This unfortunately seems to be our destination for some years to come.
The Conservatives are making some of the right noises but, at the moment, I can't really believe they will actually do as they say?
Can reform change in such a relatively short time even if extended to 2029 as Mr Burnham says.
Where can they find the necessary talent with both the knowledge of parliamentary procedures, able to control the civil service and convince parliament that their view is correct, or at least better than we have now.
The difficult we do now, the impossible may take a little longer.
What Kemi says is 'sensible' but it's nowhere near radical enough to make the changes our society and nation need to resurrect UK plc. I like her, but so what? She's no Boudicca.
Where is the right in British politics?
You do wonder how these people could be so feckless when so much is at stake? We can at least live in hope that worth Burnham bottling an election there is time for Reform and/or Tories to sort themselves out. The economy, creaking infrastructure, cost of living and social tensions will all get worse and may concentrate minds.
Let's see how a Reform opposition on possibly 150 MPs performs when up against a Burnham PM majority in 2029, or a rainbow alliance.
There'll have to be a successor to Farage.
Let's see if they truly can put in the hard yards and be electable for 2034.
Burnham will introduce PR after the next election and that will be that for the right who won’t vote tactically like the left does.
I upticked your comment because I hope and pray you are correct. Pete North makes whole number of valid points. I was just reading another post about grooming gangs in Wales and northern England, which claimed that Reform councillors are not making much impact in forcing the establishment to acknowledge its complicity. It’s true that some reform councils are making progress, but there doesn’t seem to be much evidence of a future administration with the competence and bottle to take on the establishment and win,