Keir Starmer’s Labour government has had a dismal first year in power. In an interview, socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn explains why it’s time to create a new left-wing party that empowers working-class people.
Keir Starmer’s Labour government has had a dismal first year in power. In an interview, socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn explains why it’s time to create a new left-wing party that empowers working-class people.
Realistically, he hasn’t got a chance. Next time it’s going to be more Labour or Farage. We are so fucked.
I think you’re massively underestimating the appetite the population has for an actual left-wing government. The conservatives lost power because of how awful they were, they have demonstrated that they haven’t changed and reform are even worse than they are. It was a mistake for reform to gain council seats they’ve now just demonstrated their incompetence quite publicly.
So what we’re left with is a bunch of proven uselessnesses, a sleepy lib dem party that’s unlikely to wake up anytime soon, vs whatever the flaming hell Corbin ends up calling his party.
I hope you are right. I just can’t see it myself.
It took 14 years and 5 prime ministers for them to realise how shit they were, and the best alternative they could think of was red Tory.
I mean, it worked for them last time they got in as well.
Tony Blair didn’t sweep to power under a banner of socialist reform. He got in by being slightly less shit than the people we were all sick of.
Our electoral system keeps us in a cycle of this by design. And Farage will just be Tories Extra.
I can’t really trust any of them. I suspect Corbyn would have an authoritarian streak a mile wide as well, but he’s not going to get in anyway.
You mean the MP who’s been consistently voted in to his seat since 1983, over 40 years? Who was leader of the opposition and a contender for prime minister? Who’s now forming a whole new party together with a bunch of other MPs at a time when the party that got voted into power in a landslide in response to the last shit show of a goverment has shown themselves to be no different in kind to said shit show? That guy?
You wish he didn’t have a chance.