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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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Among smaller parties, the Liberal Democrats have gained over 60 seats, and Reform, the Greens and Plaid Cymru have also gained seats. Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, now contesting as an independent, retained Islington North. Labour lost another three seats to independents who ran against its inaction on Palestine. The SNP and DUP suffered big losses, while Sinn Fein's fortunes seem to have remained unchanged.
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.