Her hormones, and other convincing explanations why she dumped you but it's not your fault

BEING dumped can be devastating, but thankfully there’s no way you could be to blame. Here are the real reasons she did it. 

It was her hormones

Women’s hormones are responsible for every major life decision, from crying at dog videos to ending a six-year relationship. She definitely wasn’t reacting to years of being ignored while you shouted at the football. It was all oestrogen.

Mercury was in retrograde

Scientists are strangely reluctant to acknowledge the role of planets in your ex blocking your number. If Venus can control the tides – or however it works – it can certainly make her realise she wants someone who owns more than two sheets.

Her friends got in her head

Women exist as a hive mind, incapable of switching on the telly without consulting each other. Left alone she’d still be more than happy to listen to Joe Rogan with you for three hours. But one brunch with the girls and suddenly she’s developed ‘standards’. Very suspicious. And don’t rule out the malign influence of her hairdresser. Women can’t say no to them.

She’s working on herself

This almost certainly has nothing to do with the bloke called Ben who keeps appearing on her Instagram stories holding two cocktails. She’s merely finding herself. Ben just happens to be standing exactly where she keeps looking.

She was intimidated by you

A classic. Your relentless confidence, encyclopaedic knowledge of Premier League net spend and refusal to pay for her coffee proved too much. Some women simply aren’t ready for that level of alpha male energy.

She’s mental 

Well, she’d have to be to leave you. And think of her psycho reaction when you romantically phoned her pissed at 5am and seeking nudes. It’s important she spends time discovering who she really is. A nutter. Unfortunately she’ll be doing that with the guy at work you were told ‘not to worry about’.

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Banning Kneecap: The real issues Burnham should be spending his time on

ANDY Burnham is stupidly frittering his time on issues like buses and social care. This is not the job of the prime minister, who should be laser-focused on things like this:

Making Union Jacks acceptable

Burnham should be more like Starmer and tell us we shouldn’t be ashamed of loving the Union Jack, even though no one is. We need to know it’s fine to wrap your flag around a couple of pillows and put your penis in it. Burnham should announce this on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, with a full demonstration.

Banning Kneecap 

Does Burnham not realise Kneecap are still out there with their anti-genocide views, albeit dumbly expressed by shouting support for Hamas? He needs to pretend he might ban them or put them in prison, which obviously he can’t because it would be fascist, impossible and mental. And don’t forget Bob Vylan, although everyone else has.

Smoking and vaping

If there one thing that will make Britain great again, it’s hassling a shrinking minority of diehard smokers and also vapers, whose habit isn’t risk-free but apparently isn’t that deadly either. F**k’s sake, Andy, get your priorities right.

Making a twat of yourself

Burnham could learn from Rishi Sunak, who did a memorable photo-op to prove he was normal. He managed to mess it up and look even more out-of-touch by not knowing how to use a contact payment card, but it’s what a PM should be doing. Get yourself down to Asda and make your PA do a big shop for you, Andy, then try to pay with gold bullion.

Copying Reform 

Cancel intelligence briefings and trips to the G7 so you can spend literally all your time monitoring Nigel Farage. If he thinks of a policy racists approve of you need to be ready to copy him, because voters want a diluted, unconvincing version of what someone else is offering. Andy, why not have Cisgender Pride Month ready to go?

Free gifts 

Boris Johnson received endless free holidays, wallpaper and God knows what. Starmer had his Taylor Swift tickets and – admirably frugally – got Lord Alli to pay for his glasses. Voters like to know a PM is working hard either going to gigs or dealing with the resultant controversies when the only freebies they get in the course of their job are a Christmas party and some nasty tuna sandwiches in a meeting.

Being working-class

Any PM must establish their working-class credentials, as Starmer did so brilliantly with his gripping tales of his father the toolmaker that were only partly bullshit. Burnham is already from a Northern working-class background, but he should try to increase his working-classness, perhaps by claiming he is the result of a coal miner impregnating a pie.