Exclusive: Green Party source has withering takedown of Andy Burnham

A Green Party source has reminded Labour members – and voters – of Andy Burnham’s record and given an even more withering verdict on Wes Streeting. Both men are mooted as potential replacements for the hapless Keir Starmer. At the time of writing, rebel Labour MPs prepared to trigger Starmer’s removal are mounting.

As questions swirl over a potential replacement for Starmer, one Green Party source had a withering view on the suitability of Burnham for PM:

Remember this is a man who has repeatedly put himself forward for the leadership and failed. Most recently, he lost to Jeremy Corbyn in 2015, primarily because he failed to rebel on the Welfare Bill. Members correctly assessed he was unwilling or incapable of standing up to the Labour Party establishment.

There’s very little evidence he’s up to the job of taking on entrenched power and transforming our country in the way that’s required -when it comes to it he melts under pressure. The fact he’s now being feted as some kind of saviour says less about Andy Burnham’s merits than it does about the pitiful state of the current Parliamentary Labour Party.

Green Party source: ‘Labour is finished’

The same source, speaking exclusively to Skwawkbox and the Canary, added:

When the alternative is Wes Streeting, who is funded by private healthcare investors and was close friends with Peter Mandelson, I understand why some see Burnham as their best shot.

But the truth is that Labour is finished. Their remaining voters are people who’re well off and don’t understand how bad things have got in this country. Everyone else is desperate for real change. Greens are the only party offering a serious alternative to this failed status quo, and the only party that can take on Reform and win.

There is, given the destruction of Labour and its popularity under Starmer, no guarantee that Burnham would win a by-election even if someone stepped aside to trigger him. Even less chance that the Starmeroid party machine wouldn’t suspend him on a pretext or otherwise block him even standing.

And Streeting’s WhatsApp messages with the disgraced Mandelson show he believes he will lose his own seat at the next general election.

Labour is finished, whoever ends up in Downing Street for the moment.

And the Green Party are increasingly becoming harder to ignore.

Featured image via the Canary