"Sir" Keir Starmer Resigns! Toot, Toot Tootsie, Goodbye!

Let's face it, Larry the Cat has been the only dependable personality at Number 10 Downing Street for the last fifteen years.

As "Mouser In Chief," Larry has been more popular than most British politicians and has lasted at Number 10 longer than any of them,

He has seen five prime ministers come and go in that time.

Today, that number rose to six!

"Sir" Keir Starmer announced his resignation as British Prime Minister today, although he will stay on until the Labour Party chooses another leader, who will then become Prime Minister in Starmer's place.

That person will probably be Andy Burnham, formerly mayor of Greater Manchester whose election as an MP for Makerfield last week put the final nail in Starmer's political coffin, as Burnham stated that if elected to Parliament he would challenge Starmer for leadership of the Labour Party.

Starmer, the most unpopular Prime Minister in British history, finally saw the writing on the wall and resigned.

One might easily be tempted to say that Starmer resigned in disgrace because of the scandals involving his ineptitude and the corruption of his nearest and dearest in government.

But more about that shortly.

People, even those within his own party have been calling for his resignation for months.

Members of his Cabinet have been resigning to distance themselves from him, hoping to be reappointed to office by Starmer's successor.

So, how could this happen to the man who revitalized a moribund Labour Party, which then inflicted the most catastrophic defeat upon the Conservative Party in its entire history in 2024?

The answer is simple enough: Starmer and his Labour conies did not know how to govern the kingdom they had conquered, and that became obvious to everyone within days of winning their unwieldy majority in 2024.

The British voters rejected the Conservates because of the disastrous social, political and economic aftermaths of Brexit and COVID that the Tories were either unable or unwilling to overcome.

The Labour Party traded on this, promptly winning a stunning success at the polls and proved to be every bit as incompetent and corrupt as the Conservatives they supplanted.

In doing so, they betrayed their core constituency: the poor and pensioned seniors; the working and lower middle classes; veterans and schoolchildren.

To solve their budget crisis, Labour sought to increase taxes on these people, while ending heating subsidies to the elderly while fuel costs kept increasing.

At the same time, they devised new taxes that would also hit these constituent groups hard, while they themselves were living lavish lifestyles, accepting bribes and skirting laws involving their own real estate and business taxes.

Labour had breached faith with the very people they claimed that their actions were benefitting, when they were only benefitting themselves.

And at the top of all of this corruption and ineptitude was none other than the Grand High Poobah himself, "Sir" Keir Starmer.

Starmer illustrates the contradictions found within the Labour Party in particular and among politicians in general.

He is anti-monarchist but joyfully accepted being knighted by the late queen, Elizabeth II, and adores using his title whenever possible, like that other jumped-up nobody, Rachel Meghan Markle.

He claims to be a man of "the people," but lives a lavish lifestyle that most Brits can only dream about.

He claims to love "the people," but is afraid of them, probably because he knows how quickly "the people" can become a mob, and only appears before them when circumstances dictate that he must do so.

He supports his governments' actions, because he and they are really elitists and believe that they are governing for the "good" of "the people," yet is forever needing to insincerely apologize for his government.

He claims to be well informed about the workings of British government, yet he has been forced to admit he really didn't fully understand Lord Peter Mandelson's intimacy with convicted pedophile businessman and influence peddler Jeffrey Epstein when he appointed him Ambassador to Washington last year.

It was this particular appointment and the release of subsequent information regarding party stalwart Lord Peter Mandelson that caused an uproar among "the people" and disgruntled members of both the Labour Party and the always critical Conservatives that started the hew and cry for Starmer's resignation in the Fall of 2025, which only increased as more information contained within the Epstein Files were released.

So, Starmer kept apologizing, which only increased demands for his resignation.

Which finally happened today.

So what will happen to Starmer once he is out of office?

Who knows?

Who cares?

He never had much of a personality, anyway, and does no evoke popular sympathy for his trials and tribulations, mostly of his own making.

The real questions are what can Andy Burnham really do once he is installed in Number 10?

Will it be more Labour ineptitude in governing the increasingly Disunited Kingdom, or will he actually be able to improve the lives of the average Brit?

And how will Burnham get along with Larry the Cat?

Burnham will be Larry's seventh roommate in his fifteen years at Number 10 and is a lot more popular than any British politician.

And one final word to "Sir" Keir Starmer: Don't let the door at Number 10 hit you on the ass on your way out!