Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year?
oeuf@slrpnk.net 15 hours agoI’m actually a bit worried about Burnham winning the byelection. If he becomes PM we’ll be having a political crisis at the same time as an economic one.
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
To be fair, I think we’ve been in the midst of a political crisis for some time.
Although I agree - I think Andy Burnham winning Makerfield would be the flashpoint for the leadership contest that has been looming for the past few months.
Maybe this is the only way things will settle down.
oeuf@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
My concern is that he’ll be under a lot of pressure to call an early general election. And an election campaign will completely suck the energy out of dealing with the shit really starting to hit the fan with the economy. Worse still, it will probably be followed by a chaotic Reform government, or months of wrangling over a coalition.
I think it might be actually be better in the long run if he loses the byelection. It’s hard to see any positive change happening any time soon though.