Tony Porter Ponders: How many lives does a Prime Minister have and support Ellis.
By the time you read this Starmer may have done the right thing. Ellis is trying to do the right thing.
How many lives does a Prime Minister have?
Sir Keir Starmer has faced many challenges that would have finished off other PMs.
From the clothing scandal involving both his wife and himself, to his son using a house from the same Labour donor to "study for his GCSEs," to policies not in the manifesto like winter fuel allowance for OAPs, death tax on farmers, giving away and paying to do so the Chagos Islands though that is still ongoing and was started by the Tories.
Then we have U-turn central, from the heating allowance, erm the farmers to a degree, and many many more.
Even Laura Kuenssberg from the biased BBC news told him he was the least popular PM in UK history.
By the time you read this he might have run out of people to chuck under the bus like his former advisor Morgan McSweeney ((nope me neither), yet his cabinet are rallying around him, according to press reports, with Wes Streeting saying "Keir Starmer doesn't need to resign; it has not been the best week for the Government. Give Keir a chance." While lining himself up to replace him.
Meanwhile, Keir has said he will not walk away "as long as I have breath in my body" and "I have won every fight I have been in" to Labour MPs.
It is no longer a case of if, but when Starmer goes.
But will this be a good thing? Who could replace him and do a better job?
Angela Rayner is tipped to be the next leader with a £1m fund backed by trade unions. Trouble is she is still awaiting the ruling over her tax issues which led her to resign as deputy leader and cabinet member last September.
Plus remember she called for a general election when the Conservatives changed leaders, so hypocrisy can be added to the list and that infamous video of her in a place of worship pleading for votes promising much as a reward.
Next, two face, sorry Wes, Streeting, saying no need to resign while also attacking Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves’s handling of economy in secret messages with Peter Mandelson, a good friend.
Neither are therefore suitable.
Next, David Lammy, saying he warned Starmer about Mandelson, then tells journos to stop calling for Keir to resign.
Then we have ukulele-playing and bacon butty-eating Ed Milliband, obsessed with green energy at any cost which would cause major havoc to the economy at the very least.
As for the rest of the cabinet, 12 more, there is no-one who I would consider suitable to become the next PM.
So do we need a General Election?
I think no, not yet.
Reform UK are not ready, even with the "experienced" Tory rejects that have jumped ship.
Let us be honest they were not great when in the Conservative cabinet, so why would they be better now?
Sir Keir is either a man who thinks he is doing the right thing, or a spoilt stubborn so 'n so who needs a good talking to by his mum.
On a lighter note I met Ellis who has set up a petition to have a decent skate part built in Mesnes Park. See the interview on Wigan Walks 50. Please sign it.