Richard Littlejohn: Starmer spent four years trying to reverse the Brexit vote. Will you then agree to call another election?

More than 2.2 million people and counting have signed an online petition calling for an immediate general election.

It was initiated by the West Midlands republic and has now crossed the threshold where it can be considered for debate in Parliament.

The petition on the government’s website rightly accuses Labor of not delivering on the promises made before the last election in July.

Mike Westwood, owner of Oldbury’s Wagon and Horses, says he sells the cheapest beer in Britain, costing just £2.40.

But now he says his business is under threat from increases in employers’ National Insurance payments and the landslide minimum wage announced in the recent Budget.

A frequent storm of dark clouds over the hotel industry means that Bart looks like a small problem. Mike Westwood’s warning was largely echoed by Tim Martin, chairman of Wetherspoon, which has a £60m-a-year cost overrun. Will definitely close more pubs.

Westwood said: “The British public feel they have been betrayed by the promises made before the election and that what has been delivered since then is nothing like what was promised.

“I think people have had enough, they have also seen what happened in the United States and I think it has had an impact.”

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You certainly don’t have to go out of your way to experience widespread buyer’s remorse, even among many who voted Labour.

The speed at which the Starmer government has collapsed is astonishing. One by one, the bets made on the stump have fallen down.

The promise not to raise taxes on the “worker” is ruined. Workers will have to pay the bill for Labor’s bias and majority towards the public sector customer base.

Pensioners have been stripped of their £300 winter fuel allowance. Ed Miliband’s ill-advised bid to make Britain a “world leader” in net zero gambling has left millions facing high energy bills and long, cold winters.

Companies, big and small, warn of hiring freezes and job losses Everything is going up in price because of the IN and minimum wage increase. There will be no more lower price shots for Wagon and Horses controllers.

Discontent is everywhere, most notably among farmers who marched in Westminster last week to protest the imposition of inheritance tax on family farms.

Support for the Labor Party fell, a huge drop for a government elected just four months earlier. Without Brexit, the party is three points behind a crippled Tory Party that was thrown out of office after 14 years of largely neutrality.

Discontent is everywhere, most notably among farmers who marched in Westminster last week to protest the imposition of inheritance tax on family farms.

A tractor drives through Parliament Square as thousands of farmers protest against the estate tax in Westminster.

The petition, started by a West Midlands advertiser, has already passed the stage where it can be considered for debate in Parliament.

According to recent polls, 70 percent of people now believe that things have actually gotten worse under the Labor Party.

So don’t be surprised when millions more join the more than 2 million who have signed petitions calling for a new general election.

And this time Brenda, from Bristol, would not mind Britain returning to the polls after such a short gap.

It’s not going to happen. The Labor majority is so large, thanks to our electoral system, that it is unlikely to even be debated.

But, true to form, Starmer should welcome other selections. After all, he is the one who spent four years trying to reverse the result of the Brexit referendum.

Hardly a week went by without Starmer complaining that the country had voted for Brexit on a false forecast and calling for a second “popular vote”. He insisted that 52 percent was not enough of a majority to leave the EU.

So how can you argue that the minuscule 33.7 per cent of voters who voted for Labor in July give it carte blanche to cut and burn for the next five years ahead of us?

The turnout was so low that Starmer only received the support of one in five of those eligible to vote. With most of its 174 seats built on sand, not to mention a treacherous projection, the so-called Red Wall seats are particularly vulnerable.

Starmer knows this, which is why he will hold office until the last minute, unless a Black Wednesday-style generational financial crisis overwhelms the government with the weight of its incompetence himself. And with the latest restructuring in the army, I think a military coup is out of the question. It would be difficult for them to organize a concert without a battalion.

In 1997, at least the incoming Blair government could have a popular prime minister and a cabinet of great talent. The class of 2024 are running the country like a bunch of sixth form student activists, except for Martha Reeves, a Treasury Department of Labor expert who managed to come up with a budget that makes Liz Truss look like Warren Buffett.

After only 150 days, he will already be a one-time government. Yesterday, during a brief state visit to Britain, Starmer dismissed the claim out of hand.

He even admitted that “many people did not vote for the Labor Party (so) I am not surprised that many of them want re-election.” Our system doesn’t work that way.’

Our system isn’t working on a second Brexit referendum, but that hasn’t stopped Starmer from campaigning for one.

Almost twice as many people voted for Brexit than Labor in July. Two thirds of the country voted against Labor last time.

But as for the possibility of holding another election in the short term, I guess not before July 2029.

Not even a horse and cart could pull the star before.