The transfer of power is immediate. At 03:00am Starmer became Prime Minister. The Civil service all studied the Manifestos and are ready to greet the new team. Even all of Sunaks belongings and furniture is packed days before so Starmer can take up residence immediately.

He became PM when he was appointed by the Monarch after Sunak tendered his resignation

There is no reason the US couldn't do it

We are only the size of Oregon though, so there's that added practicality.

​​@@dh1380 Americans love to drag things out, that's why it's hard for them. They love the drama and analysis of everything but, if it isn't there, they will make it 😏

AMEN!

You mean the civility?

Absolutely. UK voter here.

Follows suit with..?

@@AC-tn9hg A bowler hat!, obviously

No they are not. Wish the self righteous left would Stop saying this

Absolutely spot on!!

Just wait until they hear Kier Starmer is an atheist! I know there's a fair few Americans who'd think that was even worse! In all seriousness though, I'm relieved and delighted Rishi Sunak's heritage and religion played absolutely no part in the election. (save for a handful of odious Reform campaigners). It was all about policy.

Oh God not 48% again 😅

@@dh1380well you’d need to add the SNP, Plaid and the greens to the total left of centre vote share to get a whole left v right vote share comparison.

@@goldboy150, agreed.

You’re having a laugh

​@@tatumhildebrand5397you'd rather be lied to by a narcissistic psychopathic criminal intent on overturning the Constitution than be governed by a woman of colour. Interesting.

I'd love for an end to FPTP to give the Greens a proper shake of the tree in elections, but the thought of also handing 100 seats to Fuhrer Farage makes my blood run cold. I'm hoping the Greens can learn from the Lib-Dem campaign model which was incredible. It could net you another 20+ seats next time!

Reform disowned one of theirs after the ballots went out, so technically they got 4 too.

No change this guys a clown

@@danielsutcliffe7876 Why?

They're definitely up against it but I'm glad they're in

​@@danielsutcliffe7876what does that make you, I wonder? Let me guess - someone who voted for Reform. _Ad hominem_ all the way.

It is but the meaning is rather different I believe, I.e. to be tasked with specific responsibilities, in a formal or authoritative way.

yeh quite a lot of nonsense spoken in this interview

Add Norway, maybe not the most prominent.

Trudeau is a neoliberal not a socialist.

@David-bh1rn my endless tax rises and the hugely expanded welfare state beg to differ

They might tighten up a few loose ends but he's decided not to touch on that in the first term cos it's a really touchy subject over here. He's a massive moderate and main priority is to restore calm. Mentioning the B word here isn't the best idea at the moment. We are out and sadly a lot of us who wanted to stay in just have to lump it and scceot the fractured country it created or the right wing will throw their toys out of their prams and called u a woke snowflake yatta yatta.

​@joefur1625 unfortunately this is a very fair summing up of the situation regarding Brexshit.

@@joefur1625yep, nailed it completely. I was devastated that we left

Rejoining is probably not really viable but fostering good will and good relations will count for a lot. It will reassure markets and enable more borrowing. Hopefully borrowing money can be used to regrow the middle class in the UK which will stimulate the economy and shift the GDP/debt balance. Think we probably have to accept that Brexit is something we now have to live with, thanks to incompetent Tories.

There is a small minority on either side of that issue who want different things; one side wants it reversed, the other wants it enforced further. However, the vast majority of people in the centre ground do not want that topic opened up again, because it paralysed debate in our parliament for years and caused such a backlog of domestic governance issues which we're now seeing the after-effects today (trouble with healthcare, social care, education, policing, law and order, etc). So the issue is now regarded as something of a red herring, and to be quite honest if any politician tries to open that pandoras box, I suspect the public will punish them by stripping away voter support for them in the next election (which is usually how discontent is made clear here). Historically we have generally been very efficient with our national spending (which permitted us to access good quality at relatively low cost), but ever since the financial crash in 07/08, I would say that the eye has been taken off the ball in that department and we've been throwing a lot of money everywhere with much of it being wasted unnecessarily; so it all needs correcting and tidied up once again.

Cope more, a landslide is a landslide

I don't think Starmer will be complacent on that score. He might seem dull, but he is competent and methodical.

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They literally are. When Biden was a senator he was also considered center left. As for starmer he succeeded Jeremy Corbin who is progressive and starner is known to be significantly less so then Corbin

Starmer definitely is. Biden is in the US.

he's not a GAZA terror man

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Not as strange as whatever goes on in your head, it would appear.

That's just the name of it, new PMs don't literally kiss the ring anymore - that hasn't happened for years!!

@@SarahTheNearlyInSP it is all allegorical, but you would be surprised how religious / superstitious the people in high positions of power really are... they understand better than anybody that the "whole world is a stage" / the cockpit of a plane and the lambskin seats for the pilots is the "most holy", where the people sit is the sanctuary / nave of a church is really a ship... knight orders wearing lambskins can be easily traced to 1430 and the order of the Golden Fleece, but it goes much much further back than that... this is none other than the lamb beast of Rev 13..

If you're born in Britain you are British

on the other hand, we had liberal Obama deport more people than Bush Jr, Clinton, and Trump combined.

Controlled, yes, we're an island, it's a limited workforce. You getting people off of UC benefits and disability to chip in? We need others, get over it! 🙄

Hopefully they speak better English than you.

Labor won't be at all. The Labour Party has a minimum of five years.

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I keep saying this too. I genuinely want to be wrong I really do and I wish Starmer well, I hope he can get things done but he’s sitting on a boiling pot that’s going to be very hard to simmer down

Change the record.

Absolute nonsense

*you're

It'll be about 5, hopefully 10 years.

THANKS I WILL

Boris did not starmer lol

Police found Starmer had no case to answer. Johnson, on the other hand...

Troll farms clearly outsourcing

Actually Starmer is a professed atheist, so yeah one doesn't have to be Christian in a supposed Christian country.

Starmer isn't Christian and his wife is Jewish.

@@georgef822 Starmer grew up Christian but turned against it as he got older.

The uk isn't a Christian country like the US is it has separate church and state and freedom of religion for all member of society including leaders.

@@joefur1625Technically it’s a Christian Country. The head of state is the head of the church. There are bishops in the House of Lords. There is a law that states that all have freedom of religion.

only the start 2029 reform will be the opposition . Europe will be far right just watch the French sunday .

The Reform party are just more populist crap, the last thing Britain needs. Farage is happier licking Trumps butt