Exactly one year to the day after launching "Phase Two" of his premiership, Starmer is now announcing his resignation from the House of Commons. So typical of this small, peevish man to resign on the same day Burnham goes into the House for the first time, derailing Burnham's chance to see the agenda without interruption and setting up a tricky by-election that will sap Labour resources. The bitterness of Starmer's weird, gnarled faction is going ty be a major problem for Burnham. There is much to say as an analyst about Starmer, who will no doubt now get some cushy defence company gig lobbying for forever wars. But as a resident of Holborn & St Pancras, I'd like to say with my whole chest: good riddance to an MP who has betrayed his multicultural, progressive constituency with his "Islands of Strangers" immigration-bashing, complicity in genocide and a war on the welfare that has terrified and destabilised the lives of so many elderly and disabled constituents. Dishonest, thin-skinned, politically vacuous, morally bankrupt. A fundamentally indecent man who will no doubt now go make his money and get his freebies from other indecent men. As we say in South Africa, voetsak wena!