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General election 2024
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I’m hearing Jeremy Corbyn is going to lose his seat

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noblegiraffe · 03/07/2024 12:14

If so, this is the election that just keeps on giving.

His refusal to stand down gave us Boris Johnson so it would be nothing less than he deserves.

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Champagnesocialismo · 03/07/2024 18:56

Pipsquiggle · 03/07/2024 18:42

@kittybiscuits

I agree with you. I don't think he was / is antisemitic, however, there were racist stuff happening within his party and he failed to act, just like he failed to criticise Russia after the Salisbury attacks. He was a really poor leader

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Exactly. A terrible leader. The clues were all there because he’d never been given any responsibility during his time as an MP. Sitting in Tribune meetings does not count.

caringcarer · 03/07/2024 19:13

noblegiraffe · 03/07/2024 17:10

If Corbyn were still the leader, Labour would not be winning tomorrow.

Wow I've not seen this before. Conservatives must hate Sunak as much as other people do then.

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noblegiraffe · 03/07/2024 19:14

Pipsquiggle · 03/07/2024 18:42

@kittybiscuits

I agree with you. I don't think he was / is antisemitic, however, there were racist stuff happening within his party and he failed to act, just like he failed to criticise Russia after the Salisbury attacks. He was a really poor leader

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Not only failed to criticise Russia, but said that we should send them samples of the novichok so that they could check it and let us know if it was theirs. Also, said he wasn't sure that Assad gassed his own people and we'd need to wait to see if they'd gassed themselves. And spoke at a rally called 'No war in Ukraine: Stop NATO expansion'.

I'm bloody glad he didn't get anywhere near setting foreign policy.

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LlynTegid · 03/07/2024 19:16

I would say let's wait for the result on this one.

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noblegiraffe · 03/07/2024 19:18

I just looked up when the result is due for Islington North and it's 3am. How am I supposed to get any sleep?

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Pipsquiggle · 03/07/2024 19:21

kittybiscuits · 03/07/2024 18:55

That is also untrue and not what was found by the Forde Report, which says that 'antisemitism was used as a factional weapon in the Labour Party'.

He is a committed, lifelong anti-racist and campaigner for peace. Over 200 complaints of antisemitism were made by one person - Margaret Hodge. She had previously thanked Corbyn for saving a synagogue in her own constituency.

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So he should have controlled the narrative better.

Also still doesn't excuse his inaction / apathy on Brexit and the Salisbury attacks.

He was demonstrably a poor leader that meant Labour was unelectable. I understand that 'some' people thought Jeremy was great but 'most' of us didn't.

Summerfreezemakesmedrinkwine · 03/07/2024 19:22

Please, I can barely make it past the Sunderland result before I head to bed. 😁

tobee · 03/07/2024 19:23

"How absurd, why should he give way to others when he still has a lot to offer?

He's one of the few politicians who have always shown integrity and been true to what he believes in. It's an absolute disgrace that he was sacked from the party in this left wing cleansing that left so many without a party they identify with. I wish he was in my constituency so I could vote for him. Blah blah blah

ActivePeony · 03/07/2024 19:27

kittybiscuits · 03/07/2024 18:55

That is also untrue and not what was found by the Forde Report, which says that 'antisemitism was used as a factional weapon in the Labour Party'.

He is a committed, lifelong anti-racist and campaigner for peace. Over 200 complaints of antisemitism were made by one person - Margaret Hodge. She had previously thanked Corbyn for saving a synagogue in her own constituency.

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What about Luciana Berger having to have a police escort at the LP conference?

ActivePeony · 03/07/2024 19:27

tobee · 03/07/2024 19:23

"How absurd, why should he give way to others when he still has a lot to offer?

He's one of the few politicians who have always shown integrity and been true to what he believes in. It's an absolute disgrace that he was sacked from the party in this left wing cleansing that left so many without a party they identify with. I wish he was in my constituency so I could vote for him. Blah blah blah

Let him start a far Left party then - what's stopping him?

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noblegiraffe · 03/07/2024 19:29

ActivePeony · 03/07/2024 19:27

Let him start a far Left party then - what's stopping him?

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Hopefully him not being an MP... 🤞

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HRTQueen · 03/07/2024 19:31

Absolutely he showed his true beliefs and never changing his stance

being anti EU

constantly voting against your own party

Support of groups that were anti British government

not challenging the antisemitism within the party he was leading

not quite sure what how that shows integrity 🙄

ActivePeony · 03/07/2024 19:32

noblegiraffe · 03/07/2024 19:29

Hopefully him not being an MP... 🤞

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Yes let's hope.

Xiaoxiong · 03/07/2024 19:34

He is true to what he believes in re Brexit which was the greatest act of self harm to the economy possible.

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noblegiraffe · 03/07/2024 19:39

It did make me laugh when I saw this campaign leaflet of his listing his achievements. It's quite sparse, with big gaps and includes 'I voted on a couple of things'.

I’m hearing Jeremy Corbyn is going to lose his seat
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BloodyHellKenAgain · 03/07/2024 19:46

BocaChica · 03/07/2024 15:38

"i like corbyn"

and why shouldnt you ?

But ... he is old....its not exactly yesterday that he qualified for the pension.

Why does he insist on trying to block the next generation of M.P.s ?

I don't particularly like Corbyn and never voted for him but this is ageist nonsense.
From what can see Corbyn is a dedicated, hard working man with decades of political experience.
He's not blocking anyone FFS.

StMarieforme · 03/07/2024 20:33

GargoylesofBeelzebub · 03/07/2024 15:18

Oh that would be amazing. Please let him lose his seat!

Can you explain why?

happygolurkey · 03/07/2024 20:50

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 03/07/2024 17:46

We're all entitled to our own views. The polls for years now have made it clear that people who agree with you are in a tiny minority. The British people were even willing to elect the Tories under serial liar and champion slacker Boris Johnson rather than vote for Labour under Corbyn. My view is that Corbyn would have been an absolute disaster as a Prime Minister. His judgement has been woeful over the years. Look at his ties to Sinn Fein during the Troubles.

I also think he's a hypocrite. He joined the Labour Party and got elected as a Labour MP. Most people who get elected as MPs accept that they have to toe the party line. He never did. He always voted as he pleased. Fair enough, his choice. But once he was the party leader he insisted on pushing through unpopular policies and he and his henchpeople clamped down on dissent. You can't have it both ways.

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He was voted in as leader overwhelmingly by the labour party membership, who backed him all the way. It was his fellow backstabbing MPs who didn’t toe the part line - they refused to respect the members’ wishes and did everything in their power to make his leadership unworkable.

Stripesandchecks543 · 03/07/2024 20:50

I think he is a man of integrity with good organisational skills but I can never forgive him for his stance on Brexit.

happygolurkey · 03/07/2024 20:56

WoolyMammoth55 · 03/07/2024 18:52

He was my MP for 10 years when we lived in his constituency and he was the best MP I've ever had. Engaged, accessible, passionate, honest. He answered every email and fought for every just cause that his constituents raised.

I joined the Labour party to vote for him as leader and I still believe that if the PLP had backed him, he'd have won in 2017. But no one would serve on his shadow cabinet and his own party briefed against him more than the Tories did. He never had a chance to show what good he could have done.

I believe that he's been Labour for so long (and still would be if the LP would let him) that lots of his constituents aren't aware that a Labour vote isn't for him. It'll be interesting to see when it comes to reading his name on the ballot paper will skew the results tomorrow.

Compared to any of the ignorant, amoral Tory cretins in Parliament, he is a giant.

If he loses it will be a true loss to our democracy.

agree with your summary of the ‘stitch up’. The right wing of the Labour Party will never allow a left wing leader

HRTQueen · 03/07/2024 21:01

happygolurkey · 03/07/2024 20:50

He was voted in as leader overwhelmingly by the labour party membership, who backed him all the way. It was his fellow backstabbing MPs who didn’t toe the part line - they refused to respect the members’ wishes and did everything in their power to make his leadership unworkable.

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Oh you mean like Corbyn voting against the Labour PM 😆

I have to assume you have posted this comment to be amusing

drspouse · 03/07/2024 21:02

Yeah. No.

I’m hearing Jeremy Corbyn is going to lose his seat
greglet · 03/07/2024 21:11

@drspouse who is that?

localnotail · 03/07/2024 21:18

Corbyn represents all the worst aspects of the labour party and left in general. I would love to send him to live in Stalinist USSR as I'd love him to experience his idealistic bullshit in practice (spoiler: Gulag).