The Duran Podcast - British Deep State Lines Up Starmer Replacement

Episode Date: June 16, 2026

British Deep State Lines Up Starmer Replacement

All right, Alexander, let's do a very quick video on what is happening in the UK. What is going on in the UK? What is going on with Stommer? He's still there. He's still hanging around. And he's also seizing a Russian Shadowfleet tanker. I don't know if it's a Russian tanker or a Russian flag. But he's very proud of himself for taking that tanker.

Anya, what is going on with your Stommer in his government? It's not a Russian flag ship. The point is, Stama had to do this because, as you've reported, he's just lost his entire defense ministry leadership. The defense minister, John Healy, resigned. He supported it. The assistant defense minister, Kans, who's a former military man, also resigned. They criticized Stama because he's not spending enough on the military and not supporting Ukraine strongly enough. I mean, that was the subtext. I mean, that's incredible to think that that's what they,

what's, that's what they are saying. So what that tells me is that everybody now expects that Starma will be gone within a few weeks at most, and that there's already preparations for a battle for who is to become the next prime minister. And Healy, I suspect, plans to become, wants to run as Prime Minister, perhaps not so much because he expects to win, but because by campaigning as the next Labour leader and Prime Minister, he wants to make absolutely sure that commitment to Project Ukraine in Britain

remains total, and commitment to the defence buildup remains total. And by campaigning, by involving himself, that will pull. push people like Burnham, assuming it is Burnham, or Raynor, whoever from the so-called left, they're not real left, stands for the Labour leadership. They're going to be told, look, if you're going to become Prime Minister, you have to go along with Project Ukraine, because if you don't, these hardliners are there, always ready to take over. That is my assessment of this move.

I think it was much more carefully planned and far more carefully prepared that some people are saying. Yeah, absolutely. I agree with you. I'm no expert of the UK. But when I saw the Healy letter, his resignation letter, the first thing that I thought of is that this was carefully planned. And this was all about Ukraine and the military industrial complex. And to put focus, I mean, that whole resignation letter was all about putting focus on getting more money to the military and keeping the money going to project Ukraine. And that's the message that they wanted to get out there.

And basically the deep state, the UK deep state, told Healy, look, it's a sinking ship anyway, resign. We'll put together this resignation letter. And you're going to do your part to keep the money flowing and to keep Project Ukraine going. That's what the whole thing was about. And He said, sure. What does he have to lose? He gets out of the Stammer administration. And he prepares for the next move.

Exactly. Your assessment is completely correct. So they're preparing for the post-Starmer era, but they're preparing to make sure that the policy remains unchanged, which of course, dooms Britain to a continuation of a policy, which, as we've discussed many times in many programs, ensures further economic decline. Well, it's all about military now. I mean, everything in Europe is about the military. Everything in the UK is about the military. It's really strange, ironic projection, I guess you could call it, but they were going on and on about how Russia's in a war economy

and Russia's turning into a war economy. They were basically telegraphing what they're planning to do, which is their entire economy is going to be built on war, on military spending, on military funds, on project Ukraine, on all of these things. Which having now been in Russia, I can only quickly say that the Russian economy is not. But you're absolutely correct. This is all about also sustaining indefinitely the geopolitical conflict with Russia.

What is happening with Stamer? The plan that we talked about about three, four weeks ago, which was to keep Stommer in place, at least until Burnham is ready and seems to be what they've executed, right? Yes, yes. So that's what's going to happen. There's going to be this by-election in McAfield. The expectation now is that Burnham will probably win. If he wins, he's already made it clear.

He's going to challenge Stama. I think at that point there's a fair chance that however stubborn he is, Starrma will resign. And we will have Andy Burnham, basically crowned Prime Minister almost immediately. So that then, of course, already has the deep state ready to tell you with this healy move to make sure that Burnham sticks to the course

that's been set. So that's one possibility. There's still an outside chance. Burnham could lose, but if he does lose, I think already the assumption is the universal belief is that Starma is so unpopular and so discredited that in that case there will be a challenge probably from Angela Raina, who's now got the tax issue behind her. She will probably be the next person to bring the challenge. She will become the new prime minister and the new Labour leader. But the Healy Khan's resignation, the statement, all of those things, again, have set her the limit as to what she can do. So they're already planning for the world, the political time before Starmer. They want to make sure that when Stommer goes, whoever takes over continues in exactly the way that he has been.

Right. All the policy has already been decided on, the foreign policy, Russia, the immigration policy. All of it's been decided. The question is now, who do we put in place to take over for Stommer? How long, just the final question, how long could a Burnham or Rainer, or whoever it is, how long could they last as Prime Minister? Is there a chance they could go for for one, two, three years? Yes. To be looking at another rotation after, say, another year or so.

I think, provided they stick to the line that they're being given, which they will, they will continue until the election. It will be like Rishishish Sounak. Rishish Sounak took over from Boris Johnson, if you remember, because in circumstances that were in some ways similar and other ways different. but once the decision was made to appoint Sunac, they couldn't really do it all over again. So Burnham, however unpopular, you big, let's ever see if it's Burnham, however unpopular and unsuccessful he becomes, he will nonetheless drag it out all the way to the general election. When, of course, he will go down in exactly the same way that Sunak did in the election in 2020. Which is when, real quick?

Is it 2029 or 2028? It's 2028. Okay, we'll see. Anyway, okay. They can get there. All right, we'll end the video there. We're on duran.orgals.com. We're on next.

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