All right, Alexander, some uh some

breaking news that everyone expected. Uh

but uh but the process is is interesting

and you'll explain uh what's going on.

Astromemer has indeed resigned and he

has set out the uh the way things will

work over the next couple of weeks as he

transitions out and someone will

transition in. Uh most likely by mid

July if there is no one um opposing

uh Burnham then Bernham will step in as

prime minister in mid July. If there's

some sort of of an opposition, then then

you'll have a contest that takes place

and that will take us to September.

Stmer will remain as prime minister

until that contest is sorted out and the

candidate is is picked and then stmer

goes there's a recess for uh for the

parliament for the House of Commons as

well which is going to to happen over

the summer. So I I guess to summarize,

we could be seeing Stalmer go by mid

July or we could be seeing Stalmer

hanging around until September. It all

depends on on Burnham and if anyone's

going to to oppose Burnham. Is that

correct? Is that is that pretty much a

summary a simple explanation of what's

happening?

>> That is exactly correct. And the words

hanging around are exactly right and and

they basically um explain everything.

Let let's let's let's unpack this. Now

the first thing to say is that um

Stalmer by any objective political

criteria should not be prime minister.

Now um if you go back and look at our

earlier programs going all the way back

to the summer of last year um it was

already becoming clear that his

political position

was collapsing. He was the most

unpopular prime minister since um well

in polling history, modern polling

history. It was obvious that he was

unable to

perform the job of prime minister

effectively. He wasn't even interested

in performing the job of prime minister

effectively. his focus overwhelmingly

was on one issue which is supporting

Zilinski and Ukraine. Um he was

repeatedly insane you know embracing

Zilinski going to one meeting after

another with Macron trying to set up the

coalition of the willing but in every

other respect he was failing. There were

people were calling him already last

year never here.

And yet

despite the fact that his political

position was clearly unsustainable,

he just kept on going for weeks and

months. He went through got got through

the new year. At one point I thought he

would fall before the new year, but no,

he kept going through the new year. He

kept going through the Mandalsson

scandal which undermined him even

further. And the reason he was able to

keep going was because the Labour Party

had could agree on no one to put in his

place. Um none of the alternatives

Angela Raina West Streeting people like

that in Parliament were at all

convincing.

Last Thursday, all that changed when

Andy Bernham won the Makerfield

bi-election and was elected to

parliament. Now, um Bernham, in my

opinion,

is as inadequate a figure to become

prime minister as Star himself is. But

that's my opinion. The Labour Party

mysteriously has convinced itself that

Andy Burnham is the person who is going

to save it and enable it to win um a

general election and to succeed as

government. So after Thursday there was

an alternative to Starmmer and from that

moment the weakness the underlying

hollowess of Starmmer's position became

obvious. He made a major effort on

Friday and over the weekend to shore up

support.

It became very clear immediately that he

had no support. Remember, I've often

said in programs that um when there's a

political crisis in London, the weekend

is the crucial period. That's when

people go out, consult the party

membership in the country, take

soundings, and then it's on Monday after

the weekend that the prime minister

either survives or goes. This time he's

announced that he's had to go. But this

is where we get into an extraordinary

situation because though he says he's

going, he's not gone. He's still prime

minister. He's going to be prime

minister for at least a further month

and conceivably

all the way to September. And that tells

us a number of things about how um

broken down the political process in

Britain is because the Brit political

process in Britain is very different

from that of the United States.

We do not have or have never had

political transitions in Britain. If the

prime minister loses the confidence of

the House of Commons, he is expected to

resign immediately.

This prime minister clearly does not

have the confidence of his own party and

that means of the House of Commons and

yet he is proposing to cling on for at

least another month and if there is a

contest for leadership of the Labor

Party until September. Now that means

that for at least a month and perhaps

throughout the summer, no government

business, serious government business

can get done because the prime minister

himself has no authority, no ability to

force ministers to do what he wants them

to do. They are not under any obligation

to carry out his instructions because

they all know that in a few months time,

in a few weeks time, he's going to be

gone. So what Starmer and the Labour

Party are now giving Britain and the

Conservatives by the way under um you

know Johnson and whoever did exactly the

same. What they are

giving Britain at this particular point

in time is weeks and months when to all

intents and purposes there is no

government at all.

>> Who who's going to oppose uh uh Burnham?

Sorry. Who's going to oppose Burnham? Uh

West Streeting, Angela Rener. I've I've

understood that they're not that they're

not interested in it anymore. or at

least they're not viable opposition to

to Burnham anymore. I mean, who's who

else is there?

>> So, I mean, we're probably looking at

>> at mid July for Stalmer to go.

>> Yeah. Or or is streeting going to to

say, you know what, I am interested.

>> Well, he has previously said that he

would be interested, but I don't think

anybody takes that seriously. So, that

brings us exactly to the logic of your

question. West Streeting is very

unlikely to stand. Angela Raina will not

stand. I mean she backs um she backs

Burnham. So inevitably we are it it is a

certainty that we are going to see a

coronation if you like of Burnham in

July. So why must we wait until July?

Why not do it now? Why not do it today?

Why not talk to West Streeting and all

of the rest? Why not have West Streeting

today confirm that he backs

Andy Bernham for prime minister? Bernham

in return gives West Streeting some big

job in the government. Not just e

education minister but or rather health

minister which is what health treating

is but something more important maybe

chancellor or foreign minister or

something of that kind. These were the

deals that used to be done in Britain in

which case Stalmer could have gone to

the king today.

The king could then have invited Burnham

to form a government today and we would

have had Prime Minister Bernham today

and there would have been no need for

this transition. Now that is the actual

constitutional rule that once existed in

Britain and it makes sense because we

end the political crisis. we have an

effective prime minister with the

confidence of the House of Commons

immediately

so that as we say in Britain, the king's

government is carried on. But instead of

that, we're going to have a month of

political paralysis and political

confusion with people asking where

streeting, are you going to stand or

not? and all of us waiting to see if

there's going to be a contest um with no

final decision made until July. It is

constitutionally

ridiculous.

The governmental system of the United of

Britain does not work in the way that

the United States system works. For

Britain, you need an active, engaged

prime minister to get things done. Star

obviously isn't that person. He can't be

now. So, why put it off and delay it in

this way?

>> Well, why?

>> Well, I mean, there must be a reason.

They must be cooking something up.

They're up to something. There's no

doubt about it.

>> Well, I I I What are they cooking up?

>> Well, what indeed are they cooking up? I

I think there's two reasons for this.

Firstly, Bernham, despite all of the,

you know, bravado and the fact that he

clearly wants to be prum prime minister,

is nonetheless very nervous and scared

of moving straight into the position.

Um, he obviously knows the enormous

problems that Britain is facing and he's

not rushing to become prime minister

quickly. Even though if he pushed it, I

mean if if Bernham pushed it, if Bernham

turned up, spoke to West Streeting and

spoke to Starmer to be absolutely clear,

he could be prime minister today. Uh

there could then be a contest for

leadership of the Labor Party. You know,

that's perfectly fine. But he doesn't

have to be he doesn't have to wait until

he's elected leader of the Labor Party

in order to be prime minister. I think

that's a point I ought to have

explained. But these are two different

positions. If he becomes prime minister

and acting leader of the Labour party,

he can invite a challenge.

There wouldn't have been any challenge

and then in July he becomes leader of

the Labour Party as well. So there was

no reason there's no objective reason

why Burnham should not be prime minister

by today. Bernham has chosen not to be

prime minister today because he's

nervous about it. But of course, there's

also something else and this is where uh

the deep state is coming in and all of

that. They want to use the next few

weeks up to July and I think they would

prefer to make it September if they

could in order to ensure that all of the

policies associated with Karma over the

next uh few months are so deeply

embedded that if Prime Minister Bernham

has any ideas about changing anything,

if he decides for example that this

program to manufacture um uh missiles to

be sent to Ukraine. That that isn't such

a good idea after all. By the way, um I

I should say that these missiles I don't

myself think they're going to work, but

that's another story. I mean, the very

idea of doing it is a bad one. But if if

Prime Minister Bernham has any such

ideas of of stopping or reversing those

things, it's going to be made very clear

to him over the next few weeks that he

can't do it. So this is the other reason

why we have this protracted and

pointless transition. And I should say

this is exactly what happened with Rishi

Sunnak. I I know that Rishi Sunnak was

spoken to. I'm not going to explain how

but I mean I was told all about it

before he became prime minister that he

had to commit to project Ukraine and the

same will happen with Bernham and it

won't just be project Ukraine it will be

all the other various things that are

going on you know the uh face

recognition software to prevent 16 year

olds supposedly from accessing social

media except it's not about 16 year olds

or it's not just about 16 year olds that

All of that continues

without Prime Minister Bernham having

any uh dangerous ideas of um stopping it

or reversing it or or changing policy in

connection to any of those things. And

of course, Burnham will have meetings

with all the people who um are there in

the permanent government of Britain over

the next few weeks and all of that's

going to be explained to him.

>> Oh, yeah. They're going to sit Bernham

down. First of all, Bernham doesn't

strike me as a type of person that's

that's going to shake things up. That's

for sure.

>> But they're going to sit him down the

deep state and they're going to do

exactly as you said. They're going to

tell him, "Here's what you're going to

do with the digital ID thing." Is that

okay? He's going to say, "Yes, sir."

They're going to say, "This is what

you're going to do with Brexit. You're

going to continue to reverse Brexit."

Got it. He's going to say, "Yes." Okay.

And they're going to tell him, "First

call to a world leader, Zalinski. Second

call Trump." Maybe first call Trump.

Maybe they do a first call to Trump, but

no doubt about it. Zilinski will be

either number one or number two. And the

first trip outside of the UK, you're

going to Kiev. and you're gonna hug

Zeleki. That's

>> that is exactly that is that's exactly

right. That is

>> Zilinski will go to come to London

>> or whatever whichever however it's done

and the coalition of the willing will

continue and all of this. So this is

what this is for. But of course for the

country it means that for one month

which is a long time we're not going to

have any any any um any real functioning

government. So, let's say that there is

a crisis in the bond markets over the

next few weeks, which there might be.

I'm not saying there will be. I hope

there isn't going to be, and I'm not

predicting that there will be, but let's

just give that as a hypothetical that

there's a crisis in the bond markets in

the next two or three weeks.

We have in charge a prime minister who

is not able to deal with it because he

has no authority. Yeah. Anyway, I was

hoping uh Larry the Cat was going to

take over, but

>> well, that would have been much more

that would have made far better option.

I mean, we could expect sound and

responsible government if that had

happened.

>> Certainly a massive improvement

over what we have over all over what

we're going to get.

>> Yeah, that's for sure. All right, we'll

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