If the dire polling didn’t already make for grim reading about Starmer’s popularity with the public, a viral petition will hammer home the point. A petition demanding a general election was launched on Saturday – and it’s now closing in on an eye-watering 2 million signatures. That’s a blistering pace of 60,000 signatures an hour, or 1,000 every minute. Starmer can’t even get a cup of coffee without another few thousand people calling for his head…
At this rate, the petition will blow past the infamous “People’s Vote” petition in just 69 hours – a mere 2.8 days. By the time Guido finished writing this post, another 11,543 signatures have rolled in. For a government barely five months old, it’s hardly a vote of confidence…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”