Andy Zaltzman

And he's come out fighting the Prime Minister, come out fighting like a potato in a compost bin.

He's vaguely still there, but long term, it doesn't look tremendously good.

He warned that any potential leadership contest, and Wes Streeting has said that he will stand for leader of the Labour Party, would, quotes, plunge us into chaos.

which, given the state of the Labour Party, is a bit like plunging the Titanic into the North Atlantic now in the year 2026.

So it's quite hard to see how it's come to this so quickly.

It's something we've sort of discussed in previous issues of The Bugle, but people clearly tired in this country of the sort of chaos we had with Brexit and then Boris Johnson and then Liz Truss and Keir Starmer represented a kind of dull managerial technocratic option.

And unfortunately, he's managed to be dull, managerial and technocratic in a completely chaotic way.

So in a way, I guess that's something for everyone.

And as I said, it's less than two years since Starmer won a mandate from the voting public at the election, albeit with our first-past-the-post voting system, one of those weird half-arsed conditional mandates in which the electorate clearly had its fingers crossed behind its back.

He got about 20% of the overall vote.

33% of the actual votes with a low turnout and still got a massive majority, which is essentially the public saying, we're really not sure about this.

Like using a dating app at your own wedding.

It's not sending the right signals.

Well, in terms of rejoining Europe, next month will be 10 years since Brexit.

which happened during the Bugle hiatus between the John Oliver era and the, well, what everyone clearly thinks of as the Alice Fraser, Josh Gondelman, plus others era.

And is Britain, I don't think this nation is thirsting to rejoin Europe now, 10 years on from the vote.

And I think it's what, five or six years since Brexit actually came into effect.

But I do think a significant majority of this country is thirsting to go back in time to before Brexit.

which is different to wanting to rejoin Europe and possibly equally achievable, to be honest.

I mean, clearly, you know, Brexit has not been an unqualified success as yet.