Keir Starmer is hanging on by what few gnawed-off stubs of fingernails he has left.
Brutally and definitively rejected by British voters after only two years of lies, horrific deaths, a continued devastating economic slide, a storied military sunk so deep into a moribund morass it may never arise again, the abrupt erosion of cherished rights and the traditional way of living for a once proud people being trampled by the rise of an authoritarian state, all amidst an unceasing influx of foreign personages so completely alien to the British way of life who are glaringly favored by the British government over their own native sons.
Starmer, in his deluded progressive existence, somehow feels he has a mandate to finish what he started, even after the drubbing he received, which, by all rights, should have had him frogmarched from No. 10 in shame after resigning, with Larry the Cat hissing and spraying as he left.
The great thing about being a progressive ideologue, though, is that there is no such animal as ‘shame.’ They can’t feel it. They can’t experience it.
They are not subject to shame’s effects as the rest of us are. ‘Cringe’ is a word used that means nothing to a progressive when one is describing their actions – it only describes how a rational, civilized person either feels watching a progressive in action, or would feel were they the ones behaving in such a manner…which they never would be, because?
‘Cringe’ is a self-regulating emotion. Stops the rational person dead in their tracks, or at least gives them enough time to salvage the situation.
Ah, but progressives.
NAH
So, here’s the British Prime Minister, announcing that the Europeans, specifically the European Council (who can keep track of all the Euro _____[fill in the blank] crap they have going on), have at long last agreed to the United Kingdom-Europe Summit he’s been desperately trying to finagle, believing it would save his butt. Or at least let him look manly for two seconds on the world stage.
And believe me, everyone has fun kicking this milque toast loser around. The Europeans trolled him along for months over this. Starmer had originally pushed for March and pre-election. It then got pushed back to May for negotiations over the European student deal, which then saw it postponed until this full-of-bollocks announcement today from the PM himself, which has been royally overshadowed by Trump at the G-7.
Today I’ve agreed with @eucopresident that we will hold the second UK-EU summit on 22 July.
My Labour Government is delivering on our promise to reset our relationship and put Britain at the heart of Europe.
Together we will tackle the cost of living, boost jobs and create…
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) June 16, 2026
…Together we will tackle the cost of living, boost jobs and create opportunities for young people.
No one believes a word of it, and, in point of fact, a ‘reset’ with Europe is the last thing a majority of Britons want.
This will not save Starmer, who is waiting on another electoral axe to fall, as his primary replacement competition, Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, must prevail in a special election for Parliament on Thursday.
According to Labour rules, one cannot stand for the top spot if one is not a member of Parliament (MP). Burnham, quite hilariously, lost his own seat in the carnage that wiped out Labour as a power party at the beginning of May. Now – here is an illustration of just how jacked up the Parliamentary system is – a Labour MP from Makerfield obligingly stepped aside from his seat so that Burnham could run for it (I can’t imagine what the payoff was). In theory, Burnham wins the MP seat Simon vacated for him, and then becomes Prime Minister when he, now as an MP, officially challenges Starmer to a no-confidence vote next month, and the Labour Party can officially dispense with its Starmertross.
This only works if Burnham wins the Makerfield election in two days.
It’s not all 100% in the bag for Burnham, and that could make things really interesting. Another of the Labour pretenders to the No. 10 digs is a guy named Wes Streeting, who had been Starmer’s health minister until he resigned to challenge the boss for his job. Streeting has come out publicly in the ‘rejoin the EU‘ camp, which as everyone knows is the firm and ardently held belief of every single true Labour elected official.
The utter and complete disregard for the twice-expressed through binding referendums’ explicit wishes of the British people by Labour is part of the reason for Reform’s huge appeal to regular British voters.
I call it The Paul Ryan *spits* Syndrome. Where a party’s politicians are elected to do something expressly in line with voters’ wishes, only to decide they know better. These self-annointed sages, once safely in office, ignore directives and work openly to enact precisely the opposite, secure in their inherent vast superiority over the knuckle-dragging dupes who elected them.
Mr. Streeting is open about his rejoining EU advocacy. Mr. Burnham, who is the default Prime Minister-in-waiting, is also an advocate, but he has to win Makerfield to secure the PM chair and foil Mr. Streeting’s ambition.
Here’s the rub – Makerfield is a town of knuckledragging Brexit voters. Is this not delicious?
What to do, what to do?
Lie to voters before the election, of course.
…Andy Burnham is the current mayor of Greater Manchester. He is currently the favourite to succeed Starmer, but he must first win a by-election to become an MP. According to Labour Party rules, a prime minister must be a sitting member of the House of Commons.
Burnham will fight a June election in Makerfield, a constituency near Wigan and Manchester in Britain’s working-class northwestern heartlands where the sitting MP, Josh Simon, stood down last week to allow him to run. His main rival, Streeting, this weekend called on Labour to commit to rejoining the EU, putting Burnham on the spot to support the policy, which is popular with Labour’s core membership.
However, almost two in three voters in Makerfield – which will now make or break Burnham – voted for Brexit in 2016. Local polling shows that most remain eurosceptic. The Manchester mayor is pro-EU but has ruled out rejoining. “I respect the decision that was made at the referendum,” he said, urging a focus on “fixing the fundamentals of our own country”. “It’s going to undermine everything I’ve said about strengthening democracy if we don’t respect that vote.”
Makerfield was historically a firmly Labour-voting constituency, but voters swung behind Farage’s Reform party in local elections on May 7, making the contest a high-stakes gamble. Reviving Britain’s Brexit rows is Streeting’s best strategy to replace Starmer, because if Burnham fails to win the seat, Streeting will become the clear favourite to replace Starmer without facing an election.
I RESPECT THAT VOTE – TRUST ME
That’s the intrigue in now Reform-leaning Makerfield, and with the two main pretenders to the Prime Minister chair, Streeting and Burnham.
But what about Britain? Staring down the abyss of two Labourites lined up behind Starmer, who are even more blatantly Eurocentric than he can be publicly, are the British ready to roll over for Ursula’s evil wand waving again?
Well, it turns out, actually, they’re not.
A clear majority of the country wants to remain Britain, not become a vassal of the Brussels Brahmins, no matter what sort of flowery lingo Starmer or anyone else puts on it.
Newly released polling data surveying 2016 Brexit referendum voters throws a spanner in the works of Labour’s EU reset deal, leading Eurosceptics have told GB News.
Pro-Brexit campaign group Britain Unbound revealed earlier this month how more than 12 months of polling on the UK’s relationship with the EU had not seen the light of day.
The polling, conducted by Opinium for The Observer, consistently showed support for staying outside the EU rather than rejoining. Starting in May 2025, the polls continue to track the mood of the nation in July, September, November and December last year.
…Initial polling conducted by Opinium found that, as of June 3, 55 per cent of those surveyed wished to remain outside the EU, compared to 33 per cent in favour of rejoining and 12 per cent who were unsure.
Interestingly, those in favour of rejoining had dropped since the last survey on May 20, while those wishing to remain detached had seen a spike – with the public casting increasing doubt the more Labour edges towards rebuilding ties with the Brussels bloc.
Veteran Brexiteer Lord John Redwood pointed to what he described as “the most crucial” dataset, revealing 59 per cent of voters oppose Britain sacrificing powers to rejoin the bloc.
This is what all of Labour in their obstinate arrogance refuses to acknowledge. The British people see right through it, and they have had enough.
*spits*
“Today I’ve agreed with @eucopresident” = I am announcing this on social media before Parliament because I fear my own MPs more than I fear you.
“We will hold the second UK-EU summit on 22 July” = We are meeting to discuss how to reverse Brexit without using the word Brexit. The… https://t.co/yXI189ixtK
— Christian (@InTheTrenchesUK) June 16, 2026
“My Labour Government is delivering on our promise to reset our relationship” = We promised we would not rejoin. We promised we would respect the referendum. We are now doing precisely what we promised we would not do. Reset means undo. Relationship means subjugation.
“Put Britain at the heart of Europe” = You voted to leave. I am ignoring you. The heart of Europe is code for absorption. For assimilation. For the slow erasure of the vote you cast in 2016.
“Together we will tackle the cost of living” = The EU will not lower your bills. The EU will not fill your shops. The EU will open your borders and call it opportunity.
“Boost jobs and create opportunities for young people” = Freedom of movement returns. Your children will compete with the world for minimum wage. Your wages will stagnate. Your rents will rise. And we will call it opportunity.
The unspoken: I know you voted Leave. I know I promised to respect that vote. I know this is betrayal. But I believe you are too tired to stop me. Too divided to resist. And by the time you realize what I have done, it will be irreversible.
I am not resetting the relationship. I am resetting your democracy. And I am betting you will let me.
KEIR STARMER, PRIME MINISTER = KEIR STARMER, MAN WHO WOULD BE EUROPEAN.
Sadly for Sir Keir and Labour, the EU isn’t signaling that a team is being hitched to the Welcome Wagon, either.
Splendid News
Let’s have no more of this Rejoin EU nonsense
They don’t want us and we don’t want them!
Instead lets proudly stand on our own two feet in the Big Wide World.
Making alliances and doing deals where we can and where they benefit us
But being UK! Not just a… pic.twitter.com/V7GJgN6X26
— Latimer Alder (@latimeralder) June 16, 2026
According to every report, if Britain wants to crawl back…
…But rejoining the EU would involve controversial negotiations and a new membership treaty that would commit Britain to higher Brussels budget contributions, as it would lose a past rebate, as well as opt-outs that previously allowed the UK not to join the euro or Europe’s border-free Schengen travel area.
…it will do so as suppliants begging for alms. No more special flowers. And what’s money to a progressive?
…In May, The Telegraph reported that the EU would insist the UK give up the rebate it had if it asked to join the bloc.
The rebate was won by Margaret Thatcher at an EU summit in Fontainebleau, France, in 1984 after she had declared: “I want my money back.”
Mr Juncker said: “If Britain would start by saying, ‘We want our money back’, we would say, ‘There is no money there’.”
None of these requirements would, no doubt, be an issue with Starmer or any of his successors, as they seem more than willing to subject the UK to whatever debasements and public humiliations it takes to be a club member instead of a sovereign nation of proud Englishmen.
It might well make the national crisis that a GB News analyst says they seem to be ‘sleepwalking into‘ cause a loud enough noise to wake someone up.
IF PEOPLE HAD THEIR VOTES HEARD, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO PUT THE CORK BACK IN
Triggernometry w/ Peter Bleksley and Patrick Christys
Britain is a powder keg.
Riots every summer.
An economy that can’t afford its own debt.
People too scared to report crimes.
And the politicians are sleepwalking.
Patrol the border. Start deporting. Ignore the ECHR.… pic.twitter.com/KaZNRg0yLH
— WDYFW (@WDYFW_PodClips) June 15, 2026
That’s what happens when a party ‘out of touch’ level hits ‘staggering.’
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