Aight, so check it. Andy Burnham, fam from up North, is out here speakin' real. Dude said he ain't tryna drag us back into that whole EU drama. Nah, he's tryna fix up this country first. Word.

This comes after some other cat, Wes Streeting, was like, 'Yo, maybe we should slide back into the EU.' But Burnham ain't havin' it. He's like, Brexit messed things up, yeah, but rehashin' that beef ain't gonna solve nothin' right now. He straight up said, “My view is that Brexit has been damaging, but I also believe the last thing we should do right now is rerun those arguments.” Real talk.

He's runnin' for some spot in Makerfield, tryin'na get that bag. But he sayin' he gonna put the spotlight on that area and the whole North West. He know that area been strugglin'. He said: “I want to say sorry to the residents of the Makerfield constituency, for the circus that is about to arrive in town and some of the inconvenience they will experience as a result.”

But then he flipped it, said: “But on the other hand, I want to say this to them as well: I hope you feel it’s a good thing as well, that the places that make up this constituency, long forgotten by national politics, finally are at the centre of the national debate. And for the places of this constituency again, you could read many of the similar places in yours.” Basically, he hopin' to put that area on the map for once.

Burnham sayin' Makerfield been gettin' played for decades. Back in the '80s, all the factories shut down. Then came deregulation, privatization, all that bullsh*t. He callin' it “40 years of neoliberalism that have not been kind to the north of England.” Facts.

“Forty years of trickle-down economics that did not, in the end, trickle down very much at all to places to like Platt Bridge or Hindley. In fact, that system has siphoned wealth out of those places and into the hands of people for whom life was already very good,” Burnham said. He speakin' on how that system just took from the poor and gave to the rich. Sound familiar, bruh?

He sayin' this byelection is important 'cause it's time to have a real conversation about how politics need to change to help the North. “I believe the byelection is very necessary. In my view, the time has come for a much bigger debate about how politics needs to change if it is to work properly for the north of England, because it doesn’t. It doesn’t and this is what we’ve got to focus on. People are losing faith in politics.”