This is why, if the left every gets power, you ruthlessly use it to purge right wing voices. I do mean ruthlessly. Corbyn needed a pitbull by his side to tear apart the right of the party. Fuck.
Six or seven MPs got shoved out and started their own Labour For Capitalists party, didn't they?
I suspect he did try to consolidate power to some degree. But a big chunk of Labour is still Tony Blair's Party. And the media in the UK is so comically pro-Tory that it hardly matters what Labour leadership does internally. You'll just get "The ex-Labour ministers who claim Jeromy Corbyn eats babies" headlines for three months and everyone will hate them by election day, regardless.
That was Change UK (abbreviated to CUK lol) who are basically the same as the LibDems. They first ran for European elections and fell flat on their face, winning no seats and 3% of the total vote. The MPs that left Labour all lost their seats in the following GE. Also IIRC thdy left the party between the European elections and the GE, notable one is Chuka Umunna who ended up joining the LibDems. Also change.org threatened to sue them so great idea overall.
I completely agree but I think we would have been doomed due to the media regardless. We probably could've formed a government in 2017 but the consent manufacturing in this country is so out of control that we're fucked for now
This is why, if the left every gets power, you ruthlessly use it to purge right wing voices. I do mean ruthlessly. Corbyn needed a pitbull by his side to tear apart the right of the party. Fuck.
Yeah this was a result of not consolidating power when he had the chance
Six or seven MPs got shoved out and started their own Labour For Capitalists party, didn't they?
I suspect he did try to consolidate power to some degree. But a big chunk of Labour is still Tony Blair's Party. And the media in the UK is so comically pro-Tory that it hardly matters what Labour leadership does internally. You'll just get "The ex-Labour ministers who claim Jeromy Corbyn eats babies" headlines for three months and everyone will hate them by election day, regardless.
That was Change UK (abbreviated to CUK lol) who are basically the same as the LibDems. They first ran for European elections and fell flat on their face, winning no seats and 3% of the total vote. The MPs that left Labour all lost their seats in the following GE. Also IIRC thdy left the party between the European elections and the GE, notable one is Chuka Umunna who ended up joining the LibDems. Also change.org threatened to sue them so great idea overall.
I completely agree but I think we would have been doomed due to the media regardless. We probably could've formed a government in 2017 but the consent manufacturing in this country is so out of control that we're fucked for now