Ode To Joy plays outside Downing Street during Starmer speech
Keir Starmer announced his resignation as prime minister and Labour Party leader while protesters blared Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' outside Downing Street during his remarks. His exit makes him Britain's sixth prime minister in a decade and follows two years of waning authority and weeks of speculation. The musical interruption, timed one day before the 10th anniversary of the 2016 EU referendum, underscored public anger and the deep political instability now shaping Westminster.
Fascinating how the fall of Starmer is not just explicable and self-inflicted but well within the norms of the system, and yet so many people feel the need to gnash their teeth about how his resignation really shows how we as a country are politically broken bsky.app/profile/olli...
Michael5Lizz Truss broke our brains. Clearly Brexit was a huge destabiliser, but May, Johnson, and Sunak, while sitting at the extreme end, would still just (just) about be a normal run (in a bad decade). The damage Truss did in 40 days is the absolutely crazy bit we're having to deal with.
Sophie Heawood4I know a seven-year-old child who is about to get their sixth prime minister. Are you really going to pretend there's nothing worth commenting on in this?
