Andy Burnham isn’t just a political dud. He’s an ineffective, screaming hypocrite of a dud. This man has just been party to the ousting of Makerfield’s current MP, Josh Simons, in order to be fast-tracked into Downing Street without even a proper campaign. Although why Simons would step aside for such an unremarkable man as Burnham God only knows.
The only explanation must be that he’s been promised something fabulous, like a peerage, which Andy Burnham as PM would be able to gift him.
Anyway, there was Burnham at the weekend telling the good people of Makerfield how he’d be devoted to looking after their needs, how he’d champion their community and help them with the crippling cost of living.
Does Burnham really think Makerfield folk are as thick and gullible as he and the Labour Party seem to think they are? Does he think they can’t see that his promises are all about what’s best for Andy Burnham, not for them?
Does he think they don’t know that the minute he gets his fat little fingers on the Prime Ministerial crown, they won’t matter a flying fig to Burnham.
If he wins they they’ll have served their purpose in catapulting him into Downing Street to do a job he’s incapable of doing. Back in 2010, Labour knew he wasn’t capable of leading the party, which is when he was first rejected as leader.
Then, in 2015, he was rejected again largely because of his lacklustre ministerial record.
He was seen as a weak, ineffectual minister whose failed policies had cost this country billions.
But the Labour Party seems to have forgotten all that. Suddenly, he’s a paragon, the only living creature who can save the Party.
Which makes me laugh out loud. This dullard is no saviour. Never forget, years ago, he said in a TV debate that the Party (the Labour Party) should come before country - precisely what we’ve been accusing Starmer of.
Andy Burnham is a blessing for Brussels - and an economic curse for Britain - Carole Malone
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Then there’s his less-than-impressive record in the Blair and Brown governments. He was a shockingly bad Health Secretary and tried to underplay the tragic and avoidable deaths of up to 1200 people at Mid Staffs. And he hugely exaggerated the dangers of swine flu to humans, terrifying us all.
His ill-thought-out policies cost this country billions, and he was always too willing to be a slave to the unions. And nothing’s changed.
As for the people of Makerfield, I’m sure they’re way too smart to be hoodwinked by Burnham’s flimsy promises that he has their best interests at heart. The thing, as one Labour minister said of Burnham recently: “Everything is always about him.”
And if and when he’s elected in Makerfield, he won’t give those people a second thought. He’ll be too busy wrecking the country by putting up taxes (he wants to reinstate the 50p tax rate) and trying to get us back into the EU.
Never forget this is the bloke who just last year said: “ I want Britain to rejoin the EU in my lifetime.”
Even at the weekend, he said there was a case for going back in, but then he had to play that down, having realised that 65 per cent of Makerfield voted to Leave.
So, the man we’re told has morals and principles is willing to swallow his to get elected both in Makerfield and Downing Street.
Does that sound familiar?
Make no mistake, if Burnham gets the top job, we’ll be back in the EU on the worst possible terms - with no vote, paying billions, having none of the vital opt-outs we previously had for joining disastrous Brussels schemes.
We’ll have to dump the pound, take on the Euro and yet again be dictated to by a bunch of arrogant, high-handed, unelected officials who made a majority of us want to leave last time round and who’d delight in treating us like supplicants to be trodden on and humiliated to pay us back for daring to leave.
Kemi Badenoch said at the weekend: “Does anyone believe these Labour clowns can negotiate with the EU?”
Of course, they can’t - these weaklings will agree to any terms it throws at us, one of which will be to pay for access to the single market.
And apart from anything else, rejoining would be a total and utter betrayal of a democratic vote which Labour politicians promised would be respected.
But time and again, these past two years, we’ve seen that this Labour Party spits on democracy. It spits on the British people, whom it thinks are stupid and don’t know what’s best for them.
Well, here’s hoping the people of Makerfield realise what’s best for them – and that it isn’t Andy Burnham. Reform won every council ward in the Makerfield constituency during the local elections and took around half the vote, while Labour won little more than a quarter.
So, it’s clear they don’t believe any of the lies they’ve been spun by Labour. Let’s hope their common sense prevails.
And if the self-styled “King of the North” has been such a fantastic mayor in Manchester, why did he waste £100M of taxpayers’ money on a scheme for a “ clean air zone” which then had to be abandoned?
And if he’s so great, how did Labour lose 30 per cent of its vote to Reform and the Greens in those local elections?
Andy Burnham is a bloke who talks the talk – but rarely walks the walk. He says what people want to hear, he promises them change, but he never follows through.
The people of Makerfield have the power to do the greatest thing - to kick Burnham’s self-serving, duplicitous backside out of politics and so spare this country the fiasco of yet another incompetent as prime minister.
Let’s hope they see him for what he is – an opportunistic chancer who will step on anyone to get what he wants and whose hard-left ideas will reduce this country to dust!!!
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