No great loss. The kids can do model UN or something instead.
Maybe a lot of their members did ‘fuck off and join the tories’ after all.
If they spent as much time fighting the Tories as they do eachother, they might be able to win the next election. Anyway, here’s to another 5 years Tory rule after the 2025 election.
Would be interesting what “leftwing” means here and where they are exodus-ing to.
If its the Liberal Democrats, then the LDs hoovered up most of the Conservative MPs after the 2019 Brexit House of Commons debacle, proving, once and for all, that the LDs are Conservative-Lite. A big supporter of capitalism through a Low Wage economy. If its the SNP, then some of the most right wing people in Scotland support the SNP. If its the Greens then, yes, Labour have a lot in common with the Greens. The point being, that the “leftwing exodus” could easily be going somewhere less left wing. This became apparent during the 2019 election when Momentum proposed the progressive alliance – a tactical voting alliance with some of the least progressive parties in the UK.
And thats the problem with Momentum. Its a middle class collective that favours feeling good about itself over any consideration of the working class. You may not like the working class, you may find them noisy and frightening, but its a pillar of Labour policy to protect them. And that includes at least trying to understand the Lexit POV. Momentum dying out is a good thing for Labour. Labour still benefits from Left Wing though – maybe Momentum can reinvent itself with the equality of the working class at its heart.
No surprise this is in The Guardian, BTW.
Imagine voting for a “Labour” party that thinks billionaires should exist.
a dog would have done better than the recent 4 tory governments
If Labour had a leader who wasn’t just adopting Tory policies on every issue then maybe this wouldn’t happen.
Hmm. I cancelled my Labour membership but not my Momentum Direct Debit.
Thank god. Momentum is the worst. Maybe now we can get back to sensible policy and compromise, as opposed to “political purity”.
Momentum should just leave Labour and form their own left wing party with Corbyn and McDonnell as co-leaders.
Frankly Labour would do far better as a centrist force to snatch votes from the Tories.
The reason Corbyn lost last time is because his fellow party members were dumb and overestimated the amount of support to remain in Europe.
That and there’s about a dozen major parties that wanted a second referendum and only two for Brexit.
I’m done with Labour, I would rather not vote than vote Starmer. Atleast at with the Tories in charge I know they’re a bunch of dicks instead of a bunch of two faced dicks pretending to be my friend. Also with the Tories in charge for so long, they can’t carry on blaming Labour for everything that’s gone wrong and it’s only a matter of time before they lose support naturally through lack of giving a shit and half their voters are dead from old age. Spent my entire adult life under the Tories shitshow so I don’t mind waiting a little longer atleast then I can spend my old years in a labour government with everyone complaining about how the Tories fucked everything up.
Should the question be: where is Labour PLP financially supported from if the Unions are saying no and their membership numbers have hemorrhaged?
With what the centrist wing did to Corbin, the centrists deserve at least one election thrown by the left as a result. Tit for tat.
If your upset you should have prevented all this suffering by electing Corbin Prime Minister in the first place.
In other news – Labour not in financial peril after left wing exodus 🤷♂️
Who’s paying the bills now then?
Cos its not socialist strike supporters anymore
Living in Scotland, it is no surprise. Here, Labour have gone into formal coalition with the Tories. Tells you everything you need to know about Labour.
It’s not going to be just the left leaving if Starmer carries on like this, remainers will also be looking elsewhere if Starmer continues with his anti-immigration rhetoric. It’s pretty clear he’s saying this with migration from the EU in mind.
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No great loss. The kids can do model UN or something instead.
Maybe a lot of their members did ‘fuck off and join the tories’ after all.
If they spent as much time fighting the Tories as they do eachother, they might be able to win the next election. Anyway, here’s to another 5 years Tory rule after the 2025 election.
Would be interesting what “leftwing” means here and where they are exodus-ing to.
If its the Liberal Democrats, then the LDs hoovered up most of the Conservative MPs after the 2019 Brexit House of Commons debacle, proving, once and for all, that the LDs are Conservative-Lite. A big supporter of capitalism through a Low Wage economy. If its the SNP, then some of the most right wing people in Scotland support the SNP. If its the Greens then, yes, Labour have a lot in common with the Greens. The point being, that the “leftwing exodus” could easily be going somewhere less left wing. This became apparent during the 2019 election when Momentum proposed the progressive alliance – a tactical voting alliance with some of the least progressive parties in the UK.
And thats the problem with Momentum. Its a middle class collective that favours feeling good about itself over any consideration of the working class. You may not like the working class, you may find them noisy and frightening, but its a pillar of Labour policy to protect them. And that includes at least trying to understand the Lexit POV. Momentum dying out is a good thing for Labour. Labour still benefits from Left Wing though – maybe Momentum can reinvent itself with the equality of the working class at its heart.
No surprise this is in The Guardian, BTW.
Imagine voting for a “Labour” party that thinks billionaires should exist.
a dog would have done better than the recent 4 tory governments
If Labour had a leader who wasn’t just adopting Tory policies on every issue then maybe this wouldn’t happen.
Hmm. I cancelled my Labour membership but not my Momentum Direct Debit.
Thank god. Momentum is the worst. Maybe now we can get back to sensible policy and compromise, as opposed to “political purity”.
Momentum should just leave Labour and form their own left wing party with Corbyn and McDonnell as co-leaders.
Frankly Labour would do far better as a centrist force to snatch votes from the Tories.
The reason Corbyn lost last time is because his fellow party members were dumb and overestimated the amount of support to remain in Europe.
That and there’s about a dozen major parties that wanted a second referendum and only two for Brexit.
I’m done with Labour, I would rather not vote than vote Starmer. Atleast at with the Tories in charge I know they’re a bunch of dicks instead of a bunch of two faced dicks pretending to be my friend. Also with the Tories in charge for so long, they can’t carry on blaming Labour for everything that’s gone wrong and it’s only a matter of time before they lose support naturally through lack of giving a shit and half their voters are dead from old age. Spent my entire adult life under the Tories shitshow so I don’t mind waiting a little longer atleast then I can spend my old years in a labour government with everyone complaining about how the Tories fucked everything up.
Should the question be: where is Labour PLP financially supported from if the Unions are saying no and their membership numbers have hemorrhaged?
With what the centrist wing did to Corbin, the centrists deserve at least one election thrown by the left as a result. Tit for tat.
If your upset you should have prevented all this suffering by electing Corbin Prime Minister in the first place.
In other news – Labour not in financial peril after left wing exodus 🤷♂️
Who’s paying the bills now then?
Cos its not socialist strike supporters anymore
Living in Scotland, it is no surprise. Here, Labour have gone into formal coalition with the Tories. Tells you everything you need to know about Labour.
It’s not going to be just the left leaving if Starmer carries on like this, remainers will also be looking elsewhere if Starmer continues with his anti-immigration rhetoric. It’s pretty clear he’s saying this with migration from the EU in mind.