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Labour wins majority in UK General Elections as Tories lose two-thirds of seats
(www.theguardian.com)
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Is jeremy corbyn considered to the left of the Labour party?
Yeah, starmer kicked him out for not being centrist enough, which is why he ran independent (and beat the labour candidate)
and now they can kick out Kier and reinstate Jeremy! right!? right?? in my dreams
Nobody voted for Corbyn, that’s why he isn’t the leader of the Labour Party anymore.
Yeah it was just that simple. He wasn't being smeared as an anti-semite constantly by both the right wing of his own party and the British media. None of that ever happened.
All those people have probably been branded as anti-Semites now, too. Love and learn though.
Iirc there were some purge in Labour, but nothing major since succdems are by nature opportunist bags and most quickly fell in line.
To be fair, more people voted for Corbyn in 2017 and probably even in 2019 (still some votes to be counted at time of writing so that could change but it'll be close either way) than voted Labour in this election (12.8 million 2017/10.2 million 2019 vs 9.7 million so far in 2024).
It's just an artifact of FPTP and to some extent overall turnout (which was very low this election) that the results in terms of seats look so different.
And Starmer hasn't been the victim of a BS smear campaign from the media, the RW and the right of his own party
He was just elected again.
To the left of the current Labour leadership, yes.
I think it is safe to say he is just left wing. Corbyn also self identifies as a socialist.
Labour hasn't been left wing atleast since I started living.
Murikan here. I really like Corbyn. He feels like your version of our Bernie Sanders.
https://i.imgur.com/44aVA5T.png
He's better than Sanders, especially on foreign policy.
Wasn't trying to rate their respective values, just that one reminded me of other. Bernie's the best we can muster here. I imagine if things were a little bit more reasonable in our country, we might see more like him and Corbyn.
He's a national treasure
I'm a New Zealander and I feel the same way. Starmer is like a non geriatric version of Biden: he would fit right in the Tories
Not to be nit-picky, but I'm pretty sure they kicked him because they thought he was antisemitic, not because he was too left wing.
That was the knife they used to stab him in the back with.
That was the excuse they made up, yes