It's a good thing that (once) Great Britain has declined into irrelevance, because this is bad news for that beknighted country; fortunately, it will have no affect on the real world

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No Starmer’s downfall will have no more effect on its slow collapse than Canada’s switch from Trudeau to Carney, or Chicago’s Lightfoot to Johnson

Fail, Britannia: Meet the New Commie, Worse Than the Old Commie

The U.K.'s most destructively feckless prime minister (since the last one) is history, but Keir Starmer's likely successor could prove Britain's final undoing — if the radical Liberian-born advisor who serves as Andy Burnham's "brains" gets her way.

Burnham, former Mayor of Greater Manchester, won the Makerfield by-election on June 18 with an impressive 55% of the vote — a full rebuke of Reform U.K., too — sending him to Parliament where he'll make a run at Number 10 Downing St. At least one potential rival, Wes Streeting, stood aside and endorsed Burnham on Monday, pretty much clearing his path.

In his endorsement, Streeting said he wants Labour to pursue "a progressive capitalism focused on wealth creation as much as wealth distribution," but nobody seems to have told the "brains" behind Burnham: the Liberian-born daughter of lefty radicals, Miatta Fahnbulleh.

CutMyTaxUK reported last year that Fahnbulleh "was born in Liberia as part of a prominent leftist revolutionary family, has served as a junior energy & housing minister in the Starmer government before resigning to support Burnham." Previously, as the "former head of the far-left New Economics Foundation," she proved "adept at churning out socialist policy proposals."

Or as CMT-UK put it, "Keir Starmer has appointed a Housing Minister who hates private housing."

Another U.K. publication, Guido Fawkes, put all of Fahnbulleh's most radical proposals in one handy list on Sunday:

  • A wealth tax and yet another windfall tax on oil and gas.

  • Mass nationalization e.g. of land, transport, and energy.

  • Extending national [welfare] insurance [tax to include] to investment income.

  • A cap on interest rates and charges on every form of consumer credit.

  • Hiking capital gains tax to income tax levels.

  • Hiking the dividend tax to income tax levels.

  • Abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance.

  • Huge expansion of the benefits system, including a “minimum income guarantee” paid to everyone apart from the rich.

  • Nationalization of banks and creation of new “green” banks with taxpayer funds.

  • Block on private banks lending to anyone with a “large amount of greenhouse gas emissions” and “penalization of banks that provide too many carbon-intensive loans.“

  • Forced sale of existing businesses to employees.

  • A tripling of the stamp duty [property tax, basically] surcharge to 9% for multiple homeowners and an increase to 6% for non-residents.

So, apart from urging the destruction of the energy industry, banking, and investment, ending private ownership of industry and housing, and a massive expansion of Britain's welfare state, she's practically a right-winger.

Cough, cough.