Dark day for the UK as Andy Burnham doubles down on disaster

Imagine a country where a politician can waltz into power without ever facing a public election.Where a leader with no mandate, no manifesto, and no mass support can simply seize control and enforce his bleak ideology.Imagine waking up one day to find your homeland is now under the thumb of some grifter you never voted for, barely know and don’t particularly like.Welcome to Britain.Yes, this once-great nation, this plucky island that long fancied itself the mother of modern democracy, is morphing into a banana republic.This week, I and millions of others discovered we have a new prime minister that not one of us voted for. Send help, America! Your cousins across the ocean are laboring under the yoke of an unelected government!His name is Andy Burnham, and on Monday he will officially become Britain’s leader, whether us Brits like it or not. Many, myself included, do not.He’s been a Labor Party high-up for years, holding various ministerial positions in the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.For the past 10 years he was mayor of Manchester. Then — in a coup that would make Pinochet blush — he stood in a by-election in the North of England so that he could challenge useless Keir Starmer for the Labor Party’s leadership.He won, and as a result he was crowned leader of the nation too. He’s been spirited into 10 Downing St.not by the ballots of the people, but on the say-so of Labor Party bigwigs.If such a breezy seizure of power were to occur in any other country, Britain’s chattering classes would be screaming “Tyranny!”But because they like Burnham — and distrust Joe Brit — they have no problem at all with this Very British Coup.Please bear one fact in mind when you see Burnham gurning on your nightly news as the anchor says “Britain has a new Prime Minister…”: we did not vote for him.And what does he stand for?Your guess is as good as mine.His first speech as Labor Party leader, delivered on Friday, was heavy on vibes but li...