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Time for a new election?
The Guardian
|November 26, 2024
It's been four whole months and Starmer still hasn't fixed things
It's the logical conclusion to the disposable society. Don't like the result of the last general election? Then just have another one. Who cares if the new government has only been in office for four months? If you're not feeling markedly better off already then the new prime minister is clearly a dud. No matter that it actually might take years to turn around an economy that has been on its knees for more than a decade. Just never give Labour an even break. Keir Starmer is like a Premier League manager after a run of bad results. On borrowed time.
At least that's what Nigel Farage and Elon Musk would have you believe. So thoughtful of the world's weirdest man to take such an interest in us poor Brits. You'd have thought he had enough on his plate running the new department of government efficiency for Donald Trump. He could start by sacking himself. That would save several hundred thousand dollars.
This story is from the November 26, 2024 edition of The Guardian.
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