A lifelong Labour voter who made Andy Burnham smile on Question Time when she demanded he become Prime Minister said she might move to Spain to flee Starmer.Monica Taberner, who appeared on the Makerfield by-election special episode on June 4, said her patience with the current Labour government was running thin and 'if this carries on, I think we'll go to Spain.'The 74-year-old retired NHS worker from Wigan said she had voted Labour since the age of 18 but got 'the biggest shock' of her life when Sir Keir Starmer stripped pensioners of the winter fuel allowance just three weeks into power.This betrayal compelled her to tell Burnham on air that she wanted him to win the Makerfield by-election and oust the Prime Minister - 'the sooner the better'.She told The Daily Mail: 'When you attack pensioners, you commit political suicide. I couldn't believe what he'd done, taking the winter fuel allowance.'The working people will go on strike, but the pensioners can't do anything, so they think. We voted you in, we'll vote you out. You think pensioners will forget? You're mistaken, pensioners will not forget.'The lifelong party supporter, who worked in the NHS for more than 30 years before retiring in 2015, said her father had been a strong Labour man and that she had always followed suit - but the party was no longer what it once was.'I think we all got fooled because they'd not been in power so long,' she said. 'I just voted Labour because I wanted Labour back in power.' A Question Time audience member says of Sir Keir Starmer: 'Everybody wants him to go'Andy Burnham smiles after Fiona Bruce's interjection following the woman's comments Presenter Fiona Bruce had joked that the woman should 'just say what you really think'She was convinced, however, that Mr Burnham would put things right. 'I will vote for Andy because he's down to earth like we are,' she said. 'I don't think Starmer will remain in Downing Street because I think Andy will remove him. I think he'll walk it. He needs to up the stakes though. I'm pretty sure he will.'She added Mr Burnham mouthed to her 'I will look at that' after the show ended - a reference to her earlier question about raising the tax threshold for pensioners.'I'll say it as it is, I'm a spade is a spade woman,' she added.On Question Time the previous evening, presenter Fiona Bruce had introduced her simply as 'the woman here in the jacket' before she launched her broadside against the Prime Minister.She ripped into Burnham's Labour civil war foe Sir Keir Starmer from the audience and made the Greater Manchester Mayor struggle to hide a smirk as she said: 'Everybody wants him to go, we can't stand him.'She said: 'The sooner the better that Keir Starmer walks out of Downing Street, the better for me and everybody else. We want him to go. Everybody wants him to go, we can't stand him actually. But he's not for the people anyway.'
Labour voter who made Burnham smile reveals why she loathes Starmer
Monica Taberner, who appeared on the Makerfield by-election special episode last night, said her patience with the current Labour government was running thin.













