The United Kingdom is about to have a new prime minister. Andy Burnham is in the photo above. He is standing on stage with Sarah Wakefield, the Green Party candidate for the Makerfield by-election in Greater Manchester, along with a trash bin and a fox.
You may remember Wakefield for her recent viral moment when she expressed surprise that the laws of supply and demand apply to immigration and housing. Her corkscrewed face became famous. Wakefield got 308 votes in the actual election, about 0.7 percent of the final tally.
Burnham was the runaway winner. Now that Labour has forced out Keir Starmer, they seem ready to give Burnham a go at prime ministering. This bodes poorly for the stability of the office, but that seems to be the new normal in Britain.
Starmer was willing to say that a woman is an adult human female. He welcomed the April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling clarifying that “woman” and “man” under the Equality Act refer to biological sex, even for those holding a Gender Recogni…
