By Liz S
Andy Burnham was interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday 27 September.
Kuenssberg reminded him that “in July 2026 you said he would go as fast as you can in sorting out care for the elderly and vulnerable for England, Social Care. Where have you got to 3 months later” ?
Burnham’s response “We are making really good progress”.
Then Burnham started to speak about his Dad and also about when he was formerly an MP, where he mentioned that his Gran was going through the Care system and so as Health Secretary he remembered saying “We shouldn’t let what happened to my grandparent’s generation happen to my parent’s generation”.
He said “It’s devastating to be here and it has happened , parliament just ignoring this issue cause they consider it too difficult. Is there any wonder that politics is in such low esteem with the public when it can’t fix something as basic as the Care we give to each other”.
“So it can’t carry on, somebody needs to grasp the nettle“.
“I will be the one to do that”.
Great , so he is reaffirming that he will “do politics differently” and also confirming that he is going to act “grasp the nettle” on Care (in England), as he will “fix something as basic as Care in England“.
So that sounds as if he has a plan already and so he and his government are ready to proceed asap with that Social Care plan for England.
However Saul Staniforth in his X account showed the part of the interview with Kuenssberg where Burnham had said that he was:
“Not going to do politics as usual as prime minister” and that “Politics has let people down, backed away from difficult issues,” and that “I am not going to do this.”
Staniforth then showed this post on X by Beth Rigby Sky News:
“Andy Burnham has suggested he could delay his free national care service well into the 2030s to avoid having to raise taxes to fund it”.
I mean Burnham’s words , his conference speech and his overall rhetoric has been receiving many plaudits by many people.
Yet now it seems that Burnham’s promises, just like Keir Starmer’s, soon begin to either fall away or just never materialise.
Talk is cheap , it’s action that people need to see.
So when a new PM says he will “do politics differently” and so pledge to take on issues, like Social Care in England, that others before him have ignored as they were considered as too “difficult” , but then later he announces that he intends to kick the can (of Social Care reforms further) down the road .
Well why ?
Is it because for him and his government it is indeed too “difficult an issue to tackle and so then resolve (fix) “?
But then last Sunday he suggested to Kuenssberg that as an issue it, Social Care, was not “difficult” but it was fixable as it was something that was a basic issue.
So how then can he and his party now expect people to still trust him and so then still retain any “hope” of “change” on , not just Social Care in England, but also on all of the other pledges that he has made as the new PM ?
See Burnham is actually turning out to be just like a Continuity Starmer , the only difference being that he, Burnham, is being promoted as being an ‘ordinary lad from the North who has done well for himself’, he’s one of us, one of the working class.
However that then does not make him automatically more suitable and so then more able to do the job , compared to those whom we have all had to suffer before, what with all of the previous rubbish PM’s that we have had in the UK State, does it?
The end for him will , I think, end in a similar way as it did for some of his predecessors in that job as the UK PM, so either he will jump or he will be pushed (out).
Liz S
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*you said he would go as fast as you can
you said you would go as fast as you can
*confirming that he is going to act “grasp the nettle”
confirming that he is going to act in that he will “grasp the nettle”
*I mean Burnham’s words , his conference speech and his overall rhetoric has been receiving many plaudits by many people.
I mean Burnham’s words , his conference speech and his overall rhetoric has been receiving many plaudits from many people.
Perhaps I should proofread the posts that I write on TUS, before I submit them as comments .
Bloody shocking so they are !
Wot ignorance I be showing in me grammar and tings with all wot I write on here, Don’t ya tink .
Liz S
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‘Perhaps I should proofread the posts that I write on TUS, before I submit them as comments?’
Who has tmie fro thta?
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aH aH
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They call me aerodrome coz ah couldnae spell palindrome.
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A very good account online is David Osland BlueSKy account.
He posted this on BlueSky on 29 September:
“There wasn’t a social care crisis when local authorities provided the service free of charge. Then Thatcher privatised it and private equity bosses started charging £8000 a month”.
On the 27 September he posted this:
“Laura Kuenssberg – who is paid over £400k a year – asks Andy Burnham where the money to pay for social care will come from. One obvious answer would be higher taxes on people paid over £400k a year”.
I mean it’s hard to disagree with him is it not.
Liz S
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HS2 £Billions wasted. Hinkley Point £Billions wasted. Brexit £Billions wasted. More than enough to pay for a care system.
Scotland has personal care. Letting the elderly stay in their own home. Residential and hospital care much more expensive.
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STV News reports:
“Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch is adamant that, despite Andy Burnham’s defence of the United Kingdom earlier this week, Labour is not serious about keeping the Union intact“
“keeping the Union intact” ?
What Union would that be ?
STV also mentioned that “Burnham has long been criticised for snubbing Scotland – after excluding it on his August summer ‘listening’ tour” .
Mind you when do we ever see Kemi Badenoch, current Tory HQ leader, make a conscious effort to come up regularly to Scotland to reaffirm her supposed support for Scotland within the UK State, other than when it is a time that is prior to some election happening.
Badenoch also said to STV that “We need oil and gas, we need nuclear, we need renewables, we need to get serious. And right now, we have a lot of very silly people who are running energy policy, not just nationally with Labour but with the SNP.”
So they , the rest of the UK State, needs what is largely , via capacity and potential, our Scottish resources and also Badenoch incorrectly attributes the SNP as also being part of a group of “silly people who are running energy policy” (when Energy is a Reserved power held by the UK government).
#FakeNews
Badenoch also stated that “They (Labour) may have changed leader, but the party is still the same old Labour party. All they care about is welfare”
Well funnily enough that could also be said of the Tories (exempting the Welfare part obvioulsy).
As they too have “changed leaders” (plural) far too many times (Badenoch is the fifth one since 2014) .
Also they too are the “same old Tory party” and “all they care about” as Tories is that the rich keep getting richer while the poor need to just try to “live within their meagre means” (meagre due to Thatcher and also the austerity policies introduced by the Cameron/ Clegg coalition UK government).
Badenoch refers to the SNP as “Separatists” , a term that is meant to be negative, yet any sane and fair minded person would look at her , her party and her UK and think , no bloody wonder some within Scotland want their country to be separate from the UK State.
The UK State is a S***hole and the UK political parties are promoting hate and divisive S***, yet somehow for them the SNP are to be labelled as being the baddies of UK politics !
So who are those who are to be considered as being the supposed ‘Force for good’ within UK politics ? (Not meaning Alistair McConnachie’s rogue outfit).
Certainly not Badenoch or her Tory party that’s for sure, or indeed any of the other pro UK political parties either.
Liz S
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