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The Owen Jones Podcast

Labour FINISHED After Burnham Blocked - It’s Greens V Reform

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0

Labour is finished. Finito. Capot. May you rest in peace. Blocking Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater

0:08.4

Manchester, from standing in the upcoming Denton and Gorton by-election, which is a sort of C, normally

0:14.5

you would just weigh the vote for Labour rather than bother counting it. That really seals their

0:18.4

fate. That really is the last nail hammered into their

0:21.8

coffee with much aplomb, I have to say. Andy Burnham, of course, is one of the only Labour

0:26.1

politicians who isn't slightly less popular than most strains of the bubolic plague. Now, look,

0:31.3

a controversial opinion here, totally rational on the part of Starmer's goons to block Andy Burnham.

0:36.4

If the survival of Starmer's goons is their

0:40.1

only priority makes sense burn him isn't standing let me just put this gently to add a bit of magic

0:46.4

a little bit of you know jeune-se-cois to stammer's team and really turn it all around for them

0:51.1

the real reason is he wants to overthrow Kirstarman a coup

0:55.1

when Labour is inevitably thrashed in the coming May elections. In his letter written in support

1:03.3

of being able to stand in the by-election, he said he would be there in Westminster to support

1:08.3

the work of the government, not undermine it. He didn't say was loyal to the prime minister. You see, this is what was going to happen. In May, there are

1:16.0

parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales and local elections in England. Labor is going to get

1:20.1

wiped out. In Wales, Plaid Cymoury are set to form their first ever government. They're set to

1:26.3

take the post to first minister.

1:28.7

Let me put that in perspective. Welsh Labour is the most electorally successful party on the face

1:33.7

of the earth. I am not exaggerating. That is not me kidding in any shape or form. As long as democracy

1:39.7

has properly existed in this country, Welsh Labour have always won in Wales. Do you know what they got

1:46.3

on a recent poll? 10%. Now, if Bernie was back in Westminster, implied country were on our

1:52.4

screens doing rousing renditions of the Welsh national anthem to celebrate forming their first ever

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