Did not expect Andy Burnham to break into poetry

Guys running the country like it's a tiktok feed. Each day a new no detail announcement where people go "well that sounds good." Next day another one and another one and people quickly forget whatever was said before. No details either no scrutiny. Like scrolling through reels forgetting what you just watched. Brainrot politics. Oh also the north.

@JimmysJobs @andyburnham @TomMcTague at @NewStatesman picked this up in his profile with him last year.

@JimmysJobs @andyburnham Why not? Knowing and using poetry is in the old Labour tradition.

@JimmysJobs @andyburnham Agreed - but not sure I remember Starmer, Corbyn, Milliband, Brown or Blair doing it an interview. I thought it was cool - but just unexpected that’s all!

@JimmysJobs @andyburnham Starmer certainly didn't, for sure. What drew me to Labour during Corbyn's leadership was John McDonnel at a party conference talking about a 4 day working week so people had more time to live well and enjoy the Arts, among other things, and citing literature, poetry, music.

‘Did you like him?’ Is the most common question I’ve been asked since. Yes is the short answer, below is the longer explanation 👇

@JimmysJobs @andyburnham Ah great we have a PM quoting Arthur Scargill.

@JimmysJobs @andyburnham Good Lord this is embarrassing

@JimmysJobs @andyburnham Why is it?

@JimmysJobs @andyburnham He is fiddling whilst Rome burns

@jimmym @JimmysJobs @andyburnham Eh? In what way? Do explain, because this doesn’t make sense.

@jimmym @JimmysJobs @andyburnham The grotesque waste of tax payer funds on the opening of 10 North, a DJ set, scripted ‘chats’ and interviews, a pub snack review, a sketch on bread rolls etc. All of this is an embarrassment when we need a serious PM to put the country back on track after the Starmer debacle

@JimmysJobs @andyburnham Ok i'll start There was a guy from up north Who replace a guy who loved pork sword ..... .......

@JimmysJobs @andyburnham He’s an English literature graduate, with ankle of Larkin. Most people have an inner canon of all sorts of memorable stuff from all over the place, low and high brow, Shakespeare as well as scargill.

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@JimmysJobs @andyburnham Ode to bullshit

@JimmysJobs @andyburnham come friendly bombs and fall on slough?

@JimmysJobs @andyburnham Its starting to look like Andy Burnham only knows what his dad has told him.

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@JimmysJobs @andyburnham a twat just like Starmer...only this one a narssist too

@JimmysJobs @andyburnham Errr. Ummm, err… is he sure about that?