England’s Keir Starmer, prime minister from the Labour Party, is facing pressure from within and without to step down.
As the pictured cartoon shows, the public is growing increasingly uneasy over immigration policies, and to add to Starmer’s woes, his Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, has left the cabinet over taxation and budgetary issues.
Starmer has vowed to fight on for his job. Though the Labour Party has a huge majority in Parliament, its approval rating has reached rock bottom.
In the U.S., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) is facing similar calls for his demise as leader. Pressure on Schumer is coming largely from the far-left wing of the party
Leaders like AOC and Bernie Sanders, socialists both, are outspoken about Schumer’s stepping down after 8 Democrats joined 52 Republicans in reopening the government without the GOP’s making any concessions about Obamacare subsidies.
When Schumer led the shutdown, he said it was over the extension of Covid-era Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, which were expiring. He demanded that the subsidies be extended before funding for the federal government would be restored.
That didn’t happen.
[PICTURED: Cartoon from The Times of London]
