Meh. Was hoping that he’d throw support behind a broader left-wing challenge to Starmer, but I guess it’d be good for him to remain in parliament.
Ever since he got kicked out of Labour I was hoping the rumors of him launching a new party were true, so I’m a bit disappointed that isn’t the case.
Though I like the idea in theory, the honest reality is any party would get so crushed by the media even harder than Corbyn’s time as leader, to the point it wouldn’t have a hope in hell. This may be the best small thing he can do.
Plus he frankly doesn’t seem to be politically astute enough to run a party
I was under the impression that the labor party was purged. Do left-wing challengers even exist?
there is no broad left-wing party is the issue. the greens are lukewarm socialists/socdems, the NIP is socialist but small and regionalist, the worker’s party is just galloway being a careerist, all the communist parties have issues with racism/homophobia/transphobia/revisionism and no MP could survive the media while running as a communist anyway etc.
I may be biased as an anarchist but socialist independents seem to be the way to go for britain, given that every attempt at a socialist party invariably is usurped from within or sabotaged in the media - it’s harder for the MSM to sabotage hundreds of independent candidates rather than a single bloc, and voters tend to like independents for whatever reason - perhaps as an alternative to the westminster duopoly regardless of politics
