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To think the Labour Party has lost its mind..

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Certainfailure · 08/11/2023 18:32

Absolutely fuming with some of the clowns in the Labour Party.
25 points ahead of the Conservatives in the opinion polls.
Starmer slowly making the party electable and moving away from the reputation of the party being a left wing student activist group and terrorist supporters. The next GE theirs to lose.
And now word on the grapevine is that 40 odd MPs are ready to resign from the front bench because of they disagree with Starmer’s stance on a ceasefire. Quite a few labour councillors have already resigned from the party and now stand as independents. Big names like Rayner and Burnham have already stuck their oars in too.
Really cannot believe that a conflict thousands of miles away, albeit tragic, has now assumed more importance than the frightful state of the country. That these people are quite happy to throw away the progress that’s been made electorally for the sake of a frankly almost unsolvable conflict that’s lasted 70 plus years and is incredibly complex whilst the country is rapidly falling apart and in desperate need of change.
If Starmer resigns over this, no way will I ever vote Labour again and I say this as a life long labour voter for the last 35 years. Thought we’d seen the last of Corbyn and his vote losing influence but nope, there he is, with his little pet project, destined to scupper yet another GE for Labour. Anyone feel the same way ?

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marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 14/04/2024 10:13

@EatMyHead I couldn't agree more.

sunstreaming · 16/04/2024 12:48

One of the problems is that some people don't understand the size ofa consituency/number ofvoters. So when they say that 'they know lots of peoplewho won'tvote foreither Labour or the Conservatives and imagine that this'lot ofpeople'willswing the result, I think they are often, sadlymistaken. For context, at the last General Election, aprroximatley 63 thousand peole voted.Now, youmight be very involved with the Greens or other minority party and even personally know, say 5 thousand people in that party...BUT...these sort of numbers won't make any difference, because of the electoral system we have. Individuals usually knowan insigniicant number of people, compared with the actual population in an area and also, you often know peolewhose views you agree with. In the EU referendum, I heard people say they 'didn't know anyone who was going to vote Leave.' Maybe true, but as that result was split 48% to 52%, there would be thousands of people voting each way and individuals just don't know that many people or their voting intentions.

Panama2 · 16/04/2024 12:55

I am not going vote for anyone who cannot say what a women is

Fieldofbrokenpromises · 16/04/2024 14:00

I am not going to vote for anyone who cannot say what the difference between women and a woman is.

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