BREAKING: steamedhamms publishes his private WhatsApp messages. They reveal: :: He “deeply respects all his followers and their good judgement”. :: He’s semi-regularly getting 4-5 laugh reacts in the groupchat. :: Just some of the best banter you’ve seen in a while really.

funny that it’s clear everyone else had decided to wait and wes is like “no I’ve got more!!”

given how bad a position it is, i am kind of fascinated by how people would play it: you’re starmer. everybody thinks you’re toast and either hates or pities you. you love a list. what’s your top 3 actions? (don’t just say “resign”, will take that as read)

quite funny that the entire Labour party has been spending months saying "let's wait for our Welsh and Scottish colleagues to be massacred before doing anything hasty" without really thinking through if anyone outside of England could hear them

well anyway good news about the pride in place funding

huge relief the nec voted to avoid all the psychodrama anyway

this anas sarwar is about to call for him to quit stuff. lol and furthermore lmao

The flaw in the McSweeney/Starmer project can be summed up with "the people whose pitch to the electorate was they were serious also had no interest in policy", and when stated that bluntly it seems extraordinary it got this far

woah slow down egg head

it’s so over

always knew my posts were both art and relatable

reckon you can legitimately argue the toss on the extent to which you are a strategic genius if you oversee a landslide on ~33% of vote but do so by massively constraining your options in government. impossible to argue the case for the job he’s done post-GE where PM is now historically unpopular

do we have any sense if we are talking weeks or months for the Rayner tax thing to be sorted

decent free kick that

as long as he starts exhibiting qualities and demonstrates a skillset and level of analysis so far completely absent from the evidence of his career so far, i reckon Starmer can survive this

if Starmer now stays, he does not have the “sack mcsweeney” lever to pull if the by-election or the may elections go as badly as expected (whether he’d ever have used it or not)

can mcsweeney allies decide if he’s the Real Prime Minister or whether he was just advising

In a touching tribute to his mentor, Morgan McSweeney has resigned in disgrace.

does pat mcfadden still think this? can someone give him a call?

while we are all making our jokes we should all also remember this is a deeply personal career tragedy for mr mcsweeney because that makes the jokes more funny

Right that the prime minister has resigned. His successor, Keir Starmer, has a very difficult inheritance.

starmer now confronted with difficult questions such as: “what do I think?”, “what do I do?” and “wait so how DOES the dlr work?”

Byeeeeee

England are going to lose this

pleased to read in the Sunday papers that Mr Starmer and Mr McSweeney are miserable. perhaps next they can stop moping and take some responsibility though

I think a lot of politicians & commentators see all this very differently from most of the country. They see it as part of an ongoing story about decision-making, personalities, probity, money etc. For everyone else it’s part of a long series of events: Saville, Huw Edwards, Rotherham & more (1/)

@drrosena.bsky.social : "There are people in cabinet who need to question their own positions, they were very close to Peter Mandelson, they may have known what was going on.. they know who they are" We do too.

mr mcsweeney, these terms are weird terms to call your own

prime minister’s allies: “hi we are mental”

all been there brother (from @morganj0nes.bsky.social’s “No Second Chances”)

they’re questioning your integrity because of that thing you did prime minister

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starmer’s supposed obsession with the fact mandelson lied is absolutely mental. it’s basically irrelevant as a defence! sends me spinning every time

big recommendation: don’t get shingles

Labour needs to clear house tbh. There shouldn’t be one of these scandals but two is insane!

an aaron bastani article in unherd is probably not typically going to be a hit on bluesky but i think he’s basically right that on the evidence of atleast the last ten years we need primaries or we need voting system reform unherd.com/2026/02/the-...

i am quite frustrated by people who last week were upset about Reform or Zack Polanski but this week are being soft on Starmer. ultimately, voters have been repeatedly insulted by the standard this government and previous governments have held themselves to.

From this week’s Beano.

these people are gangsters

have to accept the narrative pull of us getting relegated to league one exactly ten years on from winning the league feels strong rn

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this does not feel like it’ll end well for those involved

in exciting news, the pharmacist says i have shingles. quite annoyed by the one anti-viral every 5 hours and 5 a day instruction and the pharmacist did not agree with me that it was relevant that this added up to 25 hours

a qu i wish someone had asked him is whether he would have called on boris to resign over it if he'd been the one to make it. because he absolutely would

you watch starmer in a q&a and think “oh i didn’t realise anyone could be a successful lawyer”

i find the “starmer is actually a decent guy“ stuff the most infuriating i think. decent people don’t ignore this. i don’t care if you know him personally and he remembered your grandma’s birthday if he’s going around appointing paedo pals