Burnham wins Makerfield

[00:00:01]Hello everybody. Andy Burnham has won the Makerfield by-election. It wasn't clear until the results came out who was going to win. It could have been Andy Burnham of Labour. It could have been Rob Kenyon of Reform. Those were the two people that everyone was saying that they were most likely to vote for. But in the end, it wasn't even close as you've probably seen. So Andy Burnham got over half the votes with nearly 55% Robert Kenyon of Reform got 34 and a half percent. Um what happened here was very interesting because um the Tory green and Lib Dem votes collapsed and it looked like or looks like almost everyone who would normally have voted Lib Dem and green had switched to vote Labour to keep Reform out. And also the turnout, astonishingly, was higher than the turnout in the previous general election. The turnout was up by 6.2% which is hardly ever heard of. Normally in a by-election the turnout for um the number of people who vote goes down by about 20%. Sometimes even 30%. So for the fact that the turnout was up, more people bothered to go and vote in this by-election than in the general election means that the people of Makerfield who went to who were able to vote were very very engaged in voting. And I think there's another thing here that happened is a lot of people just have had enough of Keir Starmer. They want to get rid of Keir Starmer because he's dreadful, he's horrible. Uh everything that has happened under Keir Starmer the last 2 years of him being Prime Minister has been absolutely dreadful. Every single thing that he's done has been awful. Life is worse for schools, for pensioners, for farmers, for businesses, for workers, for households with energy prices going up and all kinds of other things. So, people voted they wanted to get rid of Keir Starmer. And I think maybe that's one reason why people who don't normally vote turned out and they voted for Andy Burnham.

[00:02:34]Not because they like Labour, but because they want to get rid of Keir Starmer. They've had enough of him who and in now this is going to play out.

[00:02:43]So, Andy Burnham will have to give up his seat. Here he is actually, so I should have put the picture up of him earlier. That's Andy Burnham, of course you know who he is. He was the mayor of Manchester, but no longer. He's going to have to resign very, very quickly as the mayor of Manchester to take up his seat in Parliament as an MP. So, there will be another by-election coming up for the mayor of Greater Manchester if the electoral drama of Makerfield wasn't enough for everybody. And he's going to be in Parliament, I don't know, either from today or from Monday. Friday, today is Friday. So, normally actually today MPs go home. Most MPs go back to their constituency and do surgeries and meet constituents on a Friday. Not very many MPs stick around the House of Commons.

[00:03:35]But, he's going to have to move quickly because everybody is expecting that he is going to lay down a challenge to Keir Starmer to get rid of him, to to to challenge him for the leadership of the Labour Party. And then of course that means the leadership of the country, who will be the Prime Minister. So, it's could he could uh get signatures he needs. I think he needs something like 80 signatures, 80 MPs to back him to make a challenge. Uh he might get that today or it might be on Monday, but he's going to have to move fast um because otherwise people are going to start uh asking questions.

[00:04:15]In fact, uh the media machine is so crazy that only just got the result a few hours ago and already the headlines in the the papers, the news outlets are already changing to say, "Well, now, uh when is he going to make a a challenge?

[00:04:34]What would a Burnham Prime Ministership look like?" You know, and everything.

[00:04:38]The When Now, people are just waking up and hearing the news that Andy Burnham has won uh this uh by-election. So, what would an Andy Burnham premiership look like?

[00:04:51]Well, it wouldn't be anything different to a Keir Starmer premiership in terms of policy or direction. He's still going to continue leading the country not into managed decline, but managed destruction. He will still continue the program of mass immigration, replacement migration, net zero nonsense where we don't have uh enough cheap, reliable energy when we got plenty of it in this country where uh carbon-based energy will be replaced with unreliable, expensive wind and solar, which is destructive to the countryside, but very, very productive to the wind barons and so on that own these things and get billions of pounds in government subsidies. That's not going to change. He's not going to do anything to help household energy bills, business energy bills. Um he's going to continue the war program. He's obviously connected to labor friends of Israel, so the direction in terms of this country's involvement in the Middle East and providing support to the entity that calls itself Israel is is going to continue.

[00:06:03]The war machine will continue under Andy Burnham.

[00:06:07]And financially, are we going to start to reduce our national debt and get back to any kind of common sense in terms of government finance and fiscal responsibility? No, it'll be even worse. However bad it is under Kier Starmer and Rachel Reeves and is terrible, we now have a 3 trillion pound national debt, which is increasing by about 130 billion pounds every year.

[00:06:35]Burnham is going to make that worse because he's he believes in more tax, more spending, more borrowing. What we actually need is less spending, less taxation, and zero borrowing. We need to get rid of our fiscal deficit entirely. Stop borrowing more money, cut back on spending, and there's so many things that we spend every year that we really don't need to spend. Foreign aid, war in Ukraine, HS2, migrant hotels, migrant welfare, you know, net zero, subsidizing wind farms, subsidizing solar panel arrays. You know, you get rid of those things, you cut the national debt almost entirely, and then you can get rid of some of these quangos and stop funding NGOs, which have no business getting taxpayers' money anyway. If it's someone's an NGO or a charity, Uh, should fundraise for themselves, not say, "Oh, yeah, I'm I'm woke. Give me some money." And Labour says, "Oh, yeah, okay, you're woke. I'll give you some money." It It's ridiculous, isn't it? And they perpetuate the, um, decay and decline and destruction of our nation and culture. That's what we're going to continue under Andy Burnham. So, people who have voted for him, um, thinking that they're going to change get a change, they're actually not just going to be disappointed. They're actually going to find out that things are worse because the whole uniparty is a disaster. The whole uniparty is destroying our nation. It doesn't matter whether it's Tory, Labour, Lib Dem, Green, Reform, which is full of the old Tories that have just gone to Reform to try and, uh, jump on a bandwagon to continue and perpetuate, um, whatever disastrous political career they had.

[00:08:34]Look at Reform. They've got Nadine Dorries, who championed the online safety bill and all this, uh, restrictions and censorship of people on the internet. You've got Nadhim Zahawi, who pushed the vaccines.

[00:08:50]Got 55 million people in the UK injected with a poison.

[00:08:55]You've got Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman, who were in charge of the Home Office and the immigration system when we had the biggest surge of migration in the country's history.

[00:09:08]They've all now gone over to Reform, which is Tory 2.0. It's part of the uniparty. They're not going to be any different. I People voted for them because they think they are going to be different, but they're not. They're just another head of the same beast. Um, so, that was another deception. You had people voting Make UK a Field, they voted for, uh, the uniparty and the fake opposition, which is part of the uniparty.

[00:09:34]So, as always, I would appeal to you to come and join the Heritage Party and in the medium term and the long term, we're still going to be here. We we know our principles, our policies, are what we need to put the nation right again.

[00:09:48]You're not going to get that from Labour or Reform, the Tories, the Lib Dems, the Greens, any of them. We need something different and you didn't get the opportunity to do that in Makerfield.

[00:10:00]So, but you will in many, many other elections in the future. So, please come and join me on a heritageparty.org.

[00:10:10]Very interesting result. It's going to be a very, very interesting few days.

[00:10:15]Almost certain that we are going to get Andy Burnham as the Prime Minister over the next few months. It's It's not a question of if, it's just a question of when.

[00:10:26]Are things going to change? No, they're not going to change with anyone in the uni-party. So, there we go. That's the result and we shall watch this space. Stay with me on my channel. Thanks for listening and God bless you all.