One Cannot Rely Solely Upon the Makerfield Mandate
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One Cannot Rely Solely Upon the Makerfield Mandate
Sunday 21 June 2026
It is right that Sir Kier Starmer, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, should announce his decision to step down but in an orderly manner.
I am surrounded by people with the Trump/Sugar Your Fired approach.
When I see the PM’s work at home, yes, I sometimes am frustrated.
When I see his work on the international stage, I have a sense of pride and accomplishment.
Only history, distilled after all the shouts and screams egged on by a vicious media (across the board, and is so, with any and every politician) will we get a handle on Sir Kier Starmer’s premiership.
He has served this country well.
I am a junior lawyer (retired - 73) and I’ve always looked at the PM’s work (and formerly also as the Nations’ Director of Public Prosecutions) in that light.
I recall well how QCs (now KC) work.
In 50 years we had around seven prime ministers. In 3.5 years we are now moving to our seventh or eighth prime minister.
Now THAT is what I call the Trump/Sugar problem. It is now in every walk of life.
Just count up the trail of fired soccer managers over twenty years.
When a builder fails to repoint the bricks regularly then the wall will eventually fall when the storms hit it relentlessly. We stopped repointing around 1989-1995. Now we pay the price.
There is much good in this country. We do not need the extremes of right and left. God forbid.
I will support the new PM but I am bound to ask:
“Sir. You cannot rely upon the Makerfield mandate. Your mandate, any PM’s mandate, must come from we the People of the United Kingdom. Only then, should you win, do you then have the authority to act here at home, and also begin to build the crucial international relationships that will safeguard all of us here and in Europe in this very, very dangerous 21st Century. Thank you, Sir. I bid my leave.”
Sunday 21 June 2026
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