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Starmer being able to lay out his own departure timetable (potentially over months!) is silly. You don't give a PM a farewell tour, you do the numbers over the weekend, roll him at 10am, and tell the voters he's gone to live on a nice farm in the country. You amateurs. You absolute toddlers.

Patrick Stokes

@patrickstokes.com

Hell, even our most fascist-adjacent state premier tried to lay out a timetable for leaving (declaring in October 1986 "I will resign on the eighth of the eighth, eighty-eight") and didn't make it to Christmas.

22/6/26, 6:40 am0 reposts32 likes

*October 1987

He'll even get to award "resignation honours" ffs! THIS is your idea of rolling a PM? You don't all sign the card and chip in for a spa day voucher, you airbrush the guy out like Yezhov next to Stalin!

YARDCG

@yardcg.bsky.social

22 June

Eh, it did happen in my state just like that once.

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zz9pza

@zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social

22 June

It’s not possible to do it cleanly in these days of rank and file members getting a vote for the new leader. You’d have Lucy Powell appointed as PM until they can conduct a mail in ballot to select a new leader (and thus PM)