I think he would, I think he'd be less divisive. I take your general point on the lack of political talent about at the moment though (on all sides).. if that was your general point. Parliament as a whole is grim.
Burnham or any other Labour politican willing to stop the continuing scandal of privatisation. Our energy/rail/water bills are the highest in Europe, not only can the public no longer afford it the costs to consumers are prohibiting growth within the wider economy.
And back on the subject of HoC bars and restaurants, car parking etc.
Cost to taxpayers per ammum 17 million.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/food-poverty-parliament-mps-taxpayers-cost-of-living-subsidies/
Meanwhile;
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/hospital-parking-charges-nhs-staff-23769443
Yawn indeed.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nurse-salary-strike-disparity-with-mps_uk_636cf2d5e4b06d3e42583882
The more valiant point is the country would still tick along fine without MPs, just look at Matt Hancock fucking off to Australia. This country would fucked without nurses.
As for HoC bars and restaurants. Most are Mps/staffers guests only.
https://w4mp.org/library/researchguides/welcome/access-to-refreshment-facilities-in-the-palace-of-westminster/
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/mar/15/parliamentary-bars-what-really-like
No its because as announcements go its an irrelevant announcement to people's fucking lives.
People are dying on waiting lists, starving outside food banks and unable to heat homes, yet posh lad makes a silly dig about Twitter
"I've no idea what she does"
'If it wasn't for this thread wouldn't know about it"
"To say I don't care would be an understatement"
"Couldn't give a fuck"
"I'm just saying'"
Good old Mr Benn. A bit of history. Their was one book out of fourteen the bbc refused to make, they deemed it too controversial. Mr Benn the Convict.
In it Mr Benn is disillusioned by the drab surroundings of prison life and decides to amongst other things brighten it up by painting the cells. Mr Benn was apparently one the most popular programmes shown in jail and the BBC thought the Convict episode could put ideas in prisoners heads.
https://www.britishclassiccomedy.co.uk/mr-benn-1971
Edit; Ironically half of the BBC presenters ended up in there for real. So the moralising might have backfired a bit.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/02/nhs-under-intolerable-and-unsustainable-pressure-say-medics
Those Thursday nights on the doorstep seem a thousand years ago.