Turning tide of global history is bailing out clueless Labour… lucky Burnham would be a fool to call an early election

Comment now Next PLENTY of political experts will tell you that Andy Burnham will call a snap General Election in the spring of next year — but why should he? Councillor Burnham enjoys a massive majority. Advertisement Advertisement 6 Donald Trump’s Midterms disaster is a big break for unelected PM Andy Burnham Source: Getty 6 Donald Trump’s waning influence could prove a major political advantage for Andy Burnham as he considers when to call a General Election Source: Shutterstock Editorial The very latest he can have a General Election is Thursday, August 15, 2029.

And while there are certainly some tempting reasons to go to the country early — Kemi Badenoch is growing in Burnham’s rearview mirror, and unelected Andy has no mandate to crawl back to Brussels — there are even better reasons to wait until the dying days of the summer of 2029. If I was Andy Burnham’s Chief of Staff, I would give him this advice. GO LONG, CHUCK! The Midterm elections in the United States were a referendum on the President.

The Yanks revealed they are sick of Donald Trump . He may still be in office, but he is no longer in power . He is the lame Donald Duck President. And this is fantastic news for Mr Manchester. Unlike Theresa May , Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer, Burnham does not have to pretend that he thinks the sun shines out of the American Nero. Advertisement Advertisement 6 Burnham may be tempted by an early election as Kemi Badenoch looms in the rear-view mirror – but waiting until 2029 could be a masterstroke Source: PA 6 Trump’s war with Iran and the mullahs’ grip on the Strait of Hormuz have hammered the economy – but Burnham could reap the rewards of a recovery Labour did nothing to deliver.

Source: Reuters Thanks to Trump starting a war with Iran that he has no idea how to end, the Strait of Hormuz is now effectively a toll booth controlled by the mad mullahs in Tehran. This has been devastating for the world economy . Trump’s catastrophic foreign policy has increased the price of the food on your family’s table. But this unpopular war with Iran — Trump’s Vietnam — will end. I can’t see how America gets out of the conflict without forfeiting the Strait of Hormuz to Iran.

But the war will end, and end it must, and that will not simply be good for the price of “gas” in America. Moment Andy Burnham falls over while playing cricket in Antigua as he admits 'my running needs a bit of work' CAUGHT BY SLIP Video Player is loading. Play Video Pause Skip Backward Skip Forward Unmute Current Time 0:06 / Duration 0:36 Loaded : 100.00% 0:06 Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:30 1x Playback Rate 2x 1.75x 1.5x 1.25x 1x , selected 0.75x 0.5x Chapters Chapters Descriptions descriptions off , selected Captions captions settings , opens captions settings dialog captions off , selected Audio Track en (Main) , selected Fullscreen This is a modal window.

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Close Modal Dialog This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. Up Next - Cringe moment Ed Miliband awkwardly tries to dance along to steel drums as he joins Burnham in Caribbean Ending the conflict with Iran will be hugely beneficial to the UK economy , too. Oil prices will inevitably fall. Inflation will drop. A decline in living standards will be reversed. Andy Burnham’s lucky day.

Because this healthier economy will have bugger all to do with the cack-handed policies of our socialist government. But you can bet your life that the comrades will try to take all the credit. So, why call a snap General Election now, our kid? Trump’s threats about running for a third (and unconstitutional) term now sound like the ravings of a loon. Advertisement There could well be a Democrat President destined for the White House by November 2028.

Our socialist masters no longer have to be embarrassed about the rude things they said about Donald Trump on social media. Don is done. Who knows what he may do in the coming two years. It would be ridiculous to claim that Donald is without power. He still has his trembling finger on the most powerful nuclear arsenal in human history . But Trump’s fall is a big break for Burnham. The tide of history is turning — and in favour of a clueless Labour government who will always, always be the enemy of working people.

So, resist the urge to call an early election, Prime Minister. The way things are going, you could still be cocking up the country in 2034. John saved grim ’70s with the Purdey 6 John Frieda created his iconic Purdey haircut for Joanna Lumley during the bleak days of the Seventies, giving Britain a glamorous new look amid strikes, blackouts and mass unemployment Source: Alamy Advertisement 6 Celebrity hairstylist John Frieda, who has died at the age of 75 Source: Getty JOHN FRIEDA, the celebrity hairstylist who has died at the age of 75, cut the flowing locks of rock stars and royalty.

The biggest rock stars – Mick Jagger was a client – and the most iconic royals in history. John perfected Diana Spencer’s hair for her official Bambi-eyed engagement portrait. But the thing that John Frieda is most famous for is a haircut he invented when the Seventies were at their bleakest. There was mass unemployment, strikes everywhere and long winter evenings when the electricity was cut off. But in the midst of all this doom and gloom, John created his iconic “Purdey” cut for Joanna Lumley , right.

The look was named after Joanna’s character in The New Avengers . The first episode was broadcast on October 22, 1976 – just one month before the Sex Pistols released Anarchy In The UK. Peak Seventies. And while The New Avengers itself was little more than a cynical knock-off of the James Bond franchise – John Steed, standing in for 007, was the smirking posh chap who could kill you with his deadly brolly – Joanna Lumley as Purdey looked better than any Bond girl ever did.

The New Avengers’ plotlines were slightly creaky, but Purdey was a female sidekick that far surpassed any Ian Fleming fantasy. Advertisement Pussy Galore, eat your heart out. John Frieda came up with that iconic cut at a time when barbers were still asking boys and men, “Something for the weekend, sir?”. Something for the weekend? The Purdey was a haircut to haunt your dreams for ever. BRAND A VAIN WOLF RUSSELL BRAND replaced heroin with sex and later he replaced sex with religion.

Brand’s Bible will not be enough to stop him being served a custodial sentence for rape and three counts of sexual assault tomorrow. I remember Brand when he lived in Hampstead in the early part of the century. He was a twinkly charmer, wandering the leafy streets without entourage or minder, happy to chat about his astonishing 2007 autobiography, My Booky Wook. “If this is what I am telling you,” Brand wrote in the follow-up memoir, “can you imagine what I am leaving out?”

One of the things he left out was rape – committed at his lovely house in Gardnor Road – and one of the sexual offences that will send him to jail tomorrow. Brand was all charm and ex-junkie charisma in those days, like David Niven doing an impersonation of Keith Richards. But even when he was at his most winning, Russell Brand looked at women and girls as if he was a starved wolf glaring into a butcher’s window. Vicious predator Russell Brand had sex with so many women that he thought he could have sex with all of them.

Brand had sex with so many women that he believed he could do whatever he liked with them. He saw women as disposable commodities, the prosecutor said in court. Brand was wrong, wrong, wrong. WHAT makes the John Lewis Christmas ad so awful are the children. From the moment they barge into “granny” Kristin Scott Thomas’ home, they totally wreck the joint. Are we missing some-thing? Are they meant to be adorable? The message John Lewis apparently wants to convey is,“don’t give up on giving”.

Those brats would make any grandparent still in possession of a few of their marbles give up on living. A GOD AFTER FAITH GEORGE MICHAEL: The Faith Tour is a concert film that captures George at the flamboyant peak of his powers. I remember it well. Faith was when George was happiest. He was young, healthy and on top of his talent. George had been famous during the years of Wham!, but his solo career took everything up to another level.

George was unchanged by global superstardom. The only way you knew that Faith was making him the most famous star in the world was when you looked out of the back window of his home and there was often a photographer crawling through the bushes. The night before my wife Yuriko and I got married, we met George in a Japanese restaurant. It was a Friday night in July 1992, and the restaurant was packed. The door flew open and there was George, looking like he does on the cover of Faith.

Biker jacket, carefully torn denims, designer stubble – and a baseball cap worn as a useless stab at anonymity. Everybody in the restaurant turned to look at him. Then, as one, they all turned away. “Some w***er trying to look like George Michael,” concluded one diner. That’s how famous George was after Faith. Even when it was really him, nobody could quite believe it. THE King turns 78 next week. His tour of the Caribbean was a reminder that he has been an infinitely better monarch than anyone ever anticipated.

Advertisement Because Charles is a diplomat of genius. As the demand for slavery reparations reached a crescendo, Charles gently reminded his hosts that the Royal Navy fought the slave traders for SIXTY YEARS. Even as Labour politicians grovelled and mewed about slavery, it was left to our King to state that this country was fighting slavery when some African nations were still growing rich on the vile trade. The King, head of the Commonwealth , said the “complex” history must include, “the good . . . as well as the wrongs”.

Thank goodness we don’t have Ed Miliband as our head of state.