#jeremy corbyn for pm

[mariemariemaria]

don't think I'll ever be over how the media completely lambasted jeremy corbyn and misrepresented him in every possible way. the man was saying that the nhs needed to be properly funded and the media was acting like he was sacrificing children. he appealed to young people and this support got treated like a cult or like a hysterical ignorant movement. bc how dare young people not want to be in insane student debt and unable to afford a home. remember when they photoshopped him to look more russian and soviet? absolutely crazy shit but with all that he still won a higher percentage of the vote than starmer

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

Labour government and England in the Euros quarter finals. These should be beautiful days…they’re not

[junefiress]

jeremy corbyn if you can hear this please save us🙏

[ispeaktheyburn]

I don't know who needs to hear this but it's not antisemitic to hate an apartheid government

[constantine-2005]

do you ever cry about the current political state of your country

[toaarcan]

I need the anti-voting crowd to understand that not voting isn't going to cause the Democrats to take a long, hard, look in the mirror and suddenly decide that they need to swing left to appeal to more leftists.

When these centre-left parties lose, they get more centrist. They try to broaden their appeal and make themselves as appealing to as many people as possible.

The example I'll point to is my local centre-left party, Labour, who are currently poised on the brink of one of the largest victories they've ever had. By the time you read this, it may have already happened, election day is today.

Labour have been drifting rightwards on several fronts for a while now. One of the biggest examples of this was the 1997 elections. After repeatedly failing to defeat Margaret Thatcher and then subsequently losing once to John Major, Tony Blair became the new leader of the party, and reinvented it as New Labour, adopting a much more neoliberal economic approach and promptly got a historic victory.

Now there are a lot of reasons why Blair won as hard as he did, and I don't have time to break them all down, but at the end of the day, their adoption of neoliberal economic policies worked out enormously for them. Not only did Blair romp to victory, he maintained most of his popularity afterwards, reigning for an entire decade before finally stepping down in 2007.

Labour is also a handy demonstrator of why they don't lean leftwards after a defeat, because they actually did try that and it failed spectacularly.

After Ed "Wrong Milliband, wrong Ed" Milliband's dismal performance in the 2015 election, Labour actually decided to try and lean leftwards again, and selected Jeremy Corbyn as their leader.

Unfortunately, Corbyn was useless. Many a Brit will accuse him of not even actually wanting to be Prime Minister, instead just wanting to sit opposite an actual PM and oppose them. They're probably right.

The 2017 snap election, called by Theresa May, should've been an open goal. May was embattled largely by her own party, many of whom were strongly opposed to her attempt at a moderate Brexit deal. She was an unelected PM, chosen by internal party mechanisms after David "Bae of Pigs" Cameron fucked off post-Brexit disaster. The massive, and ever-growing pro-EU voting block were entirely unrepresented. The Liberal Democrats, normally a bit of a thorn in Labour's side in terms of hoovering up more left-wing votes, were still trying to recover from the massive hit in popularity they took after the disasterous Tory-Lib Dem coalition. Blood in the water for any left-wing party worth its salt.

Yeah so Corbyn fucked it up and lost. While May only ended up weakening her position, losing 13 seats and dropping below a majority, the Tories still got their largest vote share since the 80s and held onto power for grim death.

Corbyn stuck around, still didn't get any better, and promptly lost the 2019 election in a landslide. To this guy.

People didn't vote for Corbyn. In the media, he was pilloried as a communist and an antisemite (and he did such a terrible job of fighting that second one that to this day I still have no idea whether it was true or just a smear campaign), and his determination to take the high road only made him look weak and avoidant to the public. His policies got little attention and his campaigning was likely deliberately weak, shooting for the role of opposition rather than government.

It also didn't help that the people for whom Labour wasn't Left Wing Enough still didn't turn out. They still voted Green or didn't vote at all.

To the party itself, though, the message was clear. They'd gone leftward, and it had backfired spectacularly.

Corbyn promptly fucked off at long last and was replaced by Starmer, who is, as expected, another milquetoast neoliberal in most regards. And now, with the polls open for the 2024 election, and Starmer projected to win by such a massive margin that the term "Supermajority" has been thrown around like it's an inevitability, Labour has been engaging in what's been called a "purge" of its leftmost members, with most of Corbyn's base, including Corbyn himself, being barred from running as Labour candidates and instead having to run as independents.

Now, that might horrify you as a leftist, but to them, it's a course-correction. Corbyn and co. represent an era of failure for the party, where a leftward lean cost them two elections.

To swing back around to American politics, if the Democrats lose because of voter apathy, they aren't going to take it as a sign that they need to appeal to the left. They're going to take it as a sign that their appeal wasn't broad enough and they need more outreach to right-wingers.

They already lost in part due to voter apathy in 2016, they didn't move left to compensate. They found the Most Neoliberal Average Establishment Guy they could, rallied behind him, and it partially paid off for them. They at least won.

You want a more leftist Democrat party? Not voting isn't going to get you that. In fact, it will most likely have the exact opposite effect.

[whatevergreen]

The positives of the UK election result include:

The Conservatives (Tories) gone from government and 100s out of parliament including such scum as Rees-Mogg, '15 minute' former PM Liz Truss, Coffey, Gullis, and Shapps.

There are no Tories left in Wales.

Former Tory MP Jonathan Gullis is not taking it well.

There's 3 new Green MPs, Diane Abbot retained her seat, Jeremy Corbyn retained his seat and is joined by four other pro-Gaza independent MPs.

Jonathan Ashworth (Labour) lost his seat to one of the pro-Gaza independents, Shockat Adam.

Right-wing Labour MPs Jess Phillips and Wes Streeting came within a few hundred votes of almost losing their seats to pro-Gaza independents.

The Paisley's (DUP) are gone from Northern Ireland (though his TUV replacement isn't any better)

Anti-trans campaigner Posie Parker lost her deposit (only 196 votes). The trans candidate Sophie Molly running for the same seat won more votes than Parker.

Also, some key anti-trans MPs have lost their seats:

The Reform Party (pretty much Nazis) did not win the 13 seats they were initially projected to win based on the exit polls (and some of the worst estimates before the election had them gaining up to 60+ seats)

The dubious Workers Party GB got nowhere, and lost their only seat (goodbye Galloway).

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The negative results:

The SNP lost most of their seats.

The Reform Party (basically just Nazis) won 4 seats. This includes millionaire and Trump lover Nigel Farage, now MP for Clacton-on-Reich. So the frog faced fascist is going to parliament (apologies to actual frogs) after decades of failing to get in.

And it's no good anyone pretending that it's only 4 seats, it doesn't matter: the really disturbing part is that Reform - a party led by xenophobes, racists, and homophobes - received just over 4 million votes nationwide.

Taking down Reform and Farage needs to be an antifascist priority.

[hussyknee]

Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, co-founder of Jewish Voice for Labour, has been speaking out against Israel since she was 19 years old. Here she speaks eloquently about the deplatforming, persecution and erasure of anti-Zionist Jews by the media, the Western gentile political establishment and their own community. It's an extremely worthwhile 9 minutes of your time.

Naomi was expelled from the Labour Party last year for supporting Palestine, supporting groups that supported socialists deplatformed for their support of Palestine, and supporting Jeremy Corbyn who supported Palestine. Always remember that the reason the entire UK political establishment embarked on a long campaign of character assassination against the most popular Labour leader in years, that ended in a landslide conservative victory with Boris Johnson as installed as PM, was all because of Israel.

[asexplainedbyttoi]

What a night!

Tories wiped out in Wales

Jacob Rees-Mogg lost his seat

Nigel Farage got a seat (and Donald Trump congratulated him on it as though he’d won the election)

Jeremy Corbyn kept his seat

Liz Truss lost her seat

13 ministers lost their seats

The Lib Dems got 71 seats

Sinn Fein got more seats than ever

And we have a new PM with, as of now, 412 seats in less votes than Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour got in 2019 (people just liked Boris, and now they really hate the Tories)

[saintemarvel]

Jeremy Corbyn should have became our PM back in 2019. I'll always be devastated that it didn't happen. Because that man truly cares about the people.

One thing that has made me happy in all of this, is seeing that he still got voted in for his constituency as an independent candidate.

[good--merits-accumulated]

tapping out and going to bed - this is pit-in-stomach-inducing to watch lol. wake me up early only if jeremy corbyn somehow gets voted pm

[jackoshadows]

The fact that Israel was another colonial project for the British is evidenced in Winston Churchill's words about the Palestinians in 1937.

I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

Remember guys this is Britain's famous war hero, who is still praised today with several statues dedicated to him around the country, justifying and even admiring ethnic cleansing of a native population by a 'superior' race.

Which is why the UK government and current opposition party are supporting what is going on right now in Palestine. According to the Labour party, unconditional support for Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians is what qualifies Keir Starmer to be the future prime minister unlike Jeremy Corbyn. Basically supporting the Palestinian genocide is 'how a (British) PM is expected to behave'.

[ministerforpeas]

Night 2

Miliband decides to huddle with the banana-loving jungle dweller.

Moggy happily lets his idol Maggie in.

Thorpe and Smith chill.

We've got a lot of ghost stories going on here, from undead Tories to John Major telling a horror story about a cone-hating demon, not knowing he's sitting next to him. Also, three ex-Labour PMs hang about with a Big Mac.

Ed Miliband sings "Take On Me" to go to sleep.

Jeremy Corbyn has nightmares about a Thatcherite taking over the Labour Party.

David Owen tends to John Prescott after the latter's unsuccessful battles.

And the Prince of Darkness ironically can't navigate through darkness.

[betweendoctorsanddetectives]

PM in my heart jeremy babe

[news-buzz]

Who's Morgan McSweeney? The person changing Sue Grey on the coronary heart of Keir Starmer authorities Information Buzz

Marketing campaign Director Morgan McSweeney was instantly introduced as her alternative. Typically described as Labour’s election guru, he’s seen because the mastermind behind Sir Keir’s succession from Jeremy Corbyn and the get together’s landslide victory on July 4. As one of many PM’s closest aides, Mr McSweeney has huge affect and is now one of the crucial energy authorities figures within…

[head-post]

Starmer, von der Leyen to hold talks on resetting UK-EU relations

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels next week as part of efforts to “reset” Britain’s relationship with the European Union, Euractiv reports.

The Prime Minister announced the upcoming trip on website X late on Wednesday night, but did not specify which day he planned to meet von der Leyen.

Starmer has repeatedly promised to “reset” relations with the EU since becoming prime minister on July 5, after his centre-left Labour Party won the election the day before. He has already visited Berlin, Paris and Dublin as part of this diplomatic offensive. His next stop will be Brussels. The PM said on X:

“I want to reset our relationship with the EU and make Brexit work for the British people.” 

Starmer added that he was “looking forward to visiting Brussels next week to start talks” with von der Leyen. The post was accompanied by a photo of the pair pictured together on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Britain left the EU in early 2020, almost four years after a majority of British voters decided to leave the bloc. Starmer, who became a member of the British parliament a year before the referendum, backed the losing side of “Remain” and later called for a second referendum. But after becoming leader of the Labour Party, which suffered a major election defeat in December 2019 under left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn, he pledged to respect the referendum result.

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