They wrecked for five years to wrest control back, and they're doing WORSE than JC did. UK politics is awful, but it's pure schadenfreude as the labour right are losing seats that labour won under Corbyn, losing councils 11 years into opposition.
:tory: already put out a statement a couple of days ago essentially saying that if it goes wrong it'll be Corbyn's fault lmao
"I am taking personal responsibility for this terrible defeat by blaming someone else who and all the people I personally expelled from the party. It's all their fault."
Points at flag
starmer confirmed too far left time to find an even more center/right candidate.
I've avoided UK Pol since they started drinking the kool aid on revoke, back in 2019.
That tweet you linked is perfect, because it shows how they don't know what's going on. We don't want corbyn back. We want revenge, fuckers.
Told people not to vote. I know hundreds that said they would not.
I'm very hopeful that it's a terrible result in the UK tomorrow. lmao
The very first step towards a UK revolution is rejection of the electoral system and the labour party.
Only when people reject the voting system as a useless waste of time can we see real change come down the line.
I agree. Same as it ever was. Glad you're out there agitating.
No idea what impact I have. Maybe disillusionment?
I think the main factor here is in Labour's base being completely and totally unwilling to campaign for Starmer, so with no popular support and no enthusiasm the people that don't usually make up Labour's base don't have anything impacting them to vote left.
That's what I think will lose him this anyway. Killing the morale of Labour's base over the last several months by consistently attacking Keith will probably do it.
What happens next will be interesting though. It's very clear that he will have to go if it's as bad as people expect... But who will he be replaced with and will the labour right accept they need to move left? I have no idea what is going to happen.
Nah he's a twee prick, in the OJ interview he was gushing over how Kieth Starmer 'looks like a PM' and how it's brilliant he was DPP, how he's so forensic. Middle class, twee 'oh aren't we a silly sort' crap.
Labour abandoned the working class in favor of immigrants and upper middle class. They should at least change their name if they're going to continue in UK politics. They've nothing but contempt for the working class. They then put on the shocked pikachu face when the working class stops voting for them. The message is being sent loud and clear, but Labour would rather cease to exist than pull itself around to represent the little people again. Sad what they've become.
Fuck off with this anti-immigrant shit. People on under £20K overwhelmingly voted labour in 2019. The 'traditional working classes' fleeing labour are almost to a person buy to let landlords who think a regional accent means they're still working class, and the 'upper middle class' supporters are kids moving to cities to get the degrees (and debt) that was made functionally mandatory under new labour.
I don't understand why nobody in the UK ever talks about just not doing Brexit? I mean I know it's a bit late now but I thought it was bizarre that even Corbyn wouldn't go there.
Genuine question, what do you mean? As in call it all off? That was the Lib Dem position in the 2019GE, labours pivot towards second ref was a key part in what caused their coallition to crack in 2019.
