STARMER SHOULD HE STAY OR GO? McSWEENEY RESIGNS!
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Jon Gaunt
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🗓️ 8 February 2026
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STARMER SHOULD HE STAY OR GO? McSWEENEY RESIGNS!
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BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney has resigned. Another senior figure gone. Another fall guy exits the stage. And once again, the same question refuses to go away: how many people have to walk before the buck finally stops with the boss?
Earlier today Pat McFadden was out defending the Prime Minister, urging calm and insisting this is all being overblown. But tonight, that defence looks weaker by the hour. Because Keir Starmer didn't just inherit these problems — he made the appointments, he trusted the judgement, and he signed off the decisions. Now one of his closest operators has gone. So let's be honest: If advisers fall on their sword… If senior figures resign… If reputations are sacrificed… Surely the buck stops with Starmer.
Let's also restate the uncomfortable fact everyone keeps dancing around: Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted sex offender. That is not opinion. That is public record. So why were associations waved through? Why were warning signs ignored? And why are we still being told this is all about how difficult Donald Trump is to deal with? That excuse is wearing thin.
And one final question the media still won't touch: should the three months' salary taken after being fired be paid back — or do the rules simply not apply at the top?
This isn't gossip. It's about judgement. It's about standards. And it's about leadership. Tonight, you decide. 👉 Should Starmer stay — or should he go?
Live debate. Live vote. No hiding places.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, good evening. This is the big one. Stama, should he stay or should he go now? |
| 0:10.0 | I wrote that title about three hours ago. Then the shit really hit the fan. |
| 0:17.1 | His right-hand man, so to speak, has gone. |
| 0:20.9 | You won't know him. |
| 0:21.8 | That's his face there for you. |
| 0:23.9 | But Morgan McSweeney has resigned. |
| 0:27.6 | Did he resign? |
| 0:29.1 | Was he pushed under the bus? |
| 0:31.5 | Who cares? |
| 0:32.7 | All I know is, Starmer, the clock is ticking ticking and it's really speeded up. |
| 0:39.3 | In fact, I spent an hour polishing my dancing shoes because I can't wait to dance |
| 0:44.8 | on Keir Stama's political grave. |
| 0:48.4 | This man has single-handedly, well, along with Morgan, wrecked our great country, attacked the people who were born and bred here in favor of people who want to come over and get in in their flip flops, in their designer gear at Dover. |
| 1:06.9 | The man's a disgrace. He's got the backbone of a jelly. He's got the spine of an amoeba. And this man's a disgrace. He's got the backbone of a jelly. |
| 1:11.5 | He's got the spine of an amoeba. |
| 1:14.3 | And this man, in 18 months with 18 U-turns, has deliberately, in my opinion, tried to wreck our great country. |
| 1:24.5 | And, of course, the final act, he wants to get us back in the EU. He is a traitor. |
| 1:32.0 | The sooner he goes, the better. And I think today is now very, very much the beginning of, |
| 1:40.0 | well, not the beginning. It's the second act of the end. It's got to be, hasn't it? |
| 1:46.2 | And so I'm asking you your views. Should he stay or should he go? Who would you like to replace him? |
| 1:52.4 | And here's a more difficult question, because we've been talking about would it be |
| 1:56.2 | Lammy, would it be so and so, Angela Rainer, but maybe none of them should replace him. |
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