What this country really needs is proportional representation.
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Proportional representation, constitution and a proper separation of powers.
The chips are going down. If this backfires it'll end Corbyn's political career, if it succeeds it'll replace labour like the SNP did in Scotland.
This is a big gamble and it's crunch time.
Corbyn's leadership days were over. Looked like he was going to finish out representing his constituents.
I don't think he wants to do this, but he may feel it needs to happen.
He cares less about his needs and more about the people. Politics was brutal for him.
Good luck to the new party. Labour is shit
Sultana was elected as a Labour MP at the 2024 general election but was suspended not long after, and has since sat in the Commons as an independent.
Not sure if this is incompetence or an editorial decision, but this reads like she was only a Labour MP for a few weeks when in fact she was elected in the 2019 election. Kinda lessens the impact of her leaving.
Why didn't he do this ten years ago?
Because he alienated all the independent MPs in Parliament in a disastrous anti-May Deal meeting, where he could have stopped an extreme Brexit and toppled the Government, but as soon as the independents entered the room he refused to talk to them and stormed out in a huff.
So 10 years ago, no-one would want to work with him. He isn’t a consensus politician.
I liked John MacDonnel a lot but Corbyn's views on international affairs were a real turn off
Which ones? Genuinely interested.
I liked his Palestine stance but his EU stance was underwhelming and showed he didn't really understand protections everyone enjoyed under EU law.
i have no doubts corbyn will be great but i hope that any party started will have an iron clad no transphobia or bigotry line built straight into the charter :(
I hope so and it is something that most socialists hold core to their values.