Save Our Seats.. it is selfish MPs’ plea

BRITAIN has seen more than its fair share of slippery MPs.

But for sheer selfish, save-your-own-skin audacity, the Labour intake of 2024 will take some beating.

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Labour’s slippery MPs are more focused on saving their skins than delivering what the country needs Credit: PA

Andy Burnham’s by-election victory has plunged Labour into more uncertainty Credit: Reuters

This is the bunch, you’ll remember, who rebelled against Keir Starmer’s plan to save what now seems a puny £5billion from the welfare budget.

In April 2025 more than 120 signed an amendment to block the proposal, effectively torpedoing the Government agenda.

Now the same gang are flocking behind Andy Burnham to try to force out Starmer without so much as a leadership contest.

Never mind that nobody, including Burnham himself, has any idea how much damage the already sinking economy will suffer from his spending spree on nationalisation and welfare.

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Or that he has no plan to tackle mass migration except by mass taxation.

Or even that he has an idea of who will be Chancellor. Such a change of agenda deserves a General Election, but we may not even get a leadership election.

Yet the Parliamentary Labour Party couldn’t care less. All they’re interested in is saving their seats, and for them the King of the North is the man to do that.

Mr Burnham won the Makerfield by-election with 25,000 votes.

But he now wants an elected PM who got 10million votes and a majority of 174 less than two years ago to slip out of No10 and leave him the keys under the mat.

However unpopular Sir Keir is, anyone hoping to replace him should present voters with a proper agenda which is scrutinised and debated.

Only a Labour leadership contest can do that, but the party’s self-serving herd of MPs are moving against one.

Plans to usher in our seventh PM in 10 years are well advanced. One Burnham ally said: “The ball is in the PM’s court.’’

No doubt he’d like to see Sir Keir out before Wimbledon.

He cannot be serious.

No excuse for theft

LISTEN to the bleeding-heart liberals of the Left and you’d think shoplifting was a natural response to grinding poverty.

According to them, desperate families nick from stores just to make ends meet.

Human rights groups see theft as a petty action from those unable to put food on the table. They even rally against CCTV.

But what did a scheme between police and the Co-op uncover when items were branded with a special DNA code?

Many stolen goods were tracked to the shelves of small stores less than a mile away.

Shoplifting is crime. Don’t let anyone try to persuade you otherwise.