As a lifelong Labour voter I should have been elated listening to today’s speech by Burnham. As it is I didn’t even bother to listen to it and the bits I did hear on the news irritated me. I can’t get over the way he became PM. Only a year ago he was still saying that he was committed to being mayor of Manchester. I spoke to someone on Sunday who goes to their village Labour club even though she isn’t a Labour voter and she said that even two years ago they were talking about Burnham becoming leader and asking people of their opinion of him. It reminds me of when I was first a member of the party but left because I just wasn’t left wing enough for all of them ( Chris Williamson was a member of my local group back then). The only reason I haven’t resigned my membership this time is that my MP is really nice and she remained loyal to Starmer.
