Andy Burnham markets himself as a working-class lad. The man of the people. The bloke who gets it.
He is not their poster boy. He never has been.
He is the poster boy for the tax-funded world. The comfortable bubble where the income is guaranteed, the risks are minimal, and the consequences never land on your own doorstep.
In his world nothing has to be earned. It just has to be collected from someone else and spent on the priorities of the day.
The King In The North has arrived. And the hole in the ship is still the hole in the ship.