AIBU to be glad that Jeremy Corbyn won his seat?...

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...even though I'm not remotely left wing? I think he was treated appallingly by the Labour Party.

YANBU.

YANBU

He is a very good constituency MP and whenever a party wins a massive majority, even if it is a party I support, I value having MPs around who are willing to challenge them and unafraid to speak against them.

Yes YABU

Definitely not being unreasonable. He has always been a great local candidate and I'm glad the people of Islington saw that.

YANBU.

I'm torn. I understand him being voted in and that's absolutely fine but I think KS had to impose party discipline and JC has never been someone who complies.

I wish JC had won the whole fuckin election tbh

Labour got less votes (both total and %age) yesterday than they did in the 2017 election when Jeremey Corbyn was leader.

I mean... if Islington wants him as their representative they are welcome to him. I think he's a dim ideologically fuddled antisemitic piece of trash.

i'm not left wing either but do kind of agree! At least he is principled and you know what he stands for. And yes he was treated horribly and unfairly.

This.

Well I am neither jewish nor from Islington so I don't care either way.

Can someone explain briefly what happened between JC and the Labour party? I was out of the country at the time is all happened and wasn't following along with UK politics.

Chucked out for Anti Semitism I believe

Yanbu. He's a hard working politician who actually listens to his constiuents concerns. I think he "gets" the ordinary man and woman on the street, not like the totally out of touch Sunak and a lot of Tories. I also think he's a prinicipled man who has the integrity to stand by what he believes in.

JC said anti-Semitism was "absolutely abhorrent" and "one anti-Semite is one too many" in the party. But he then said: "The scale of the problem was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media."

He wouldn’t apologise or take that back so that led to conflict with him and Keir and to him not being selected as labour candidate.

Well that was the accusation anyway. Definitly suited Starmer to get rid of him though. Makes me worry about Starmer, could he just chuck anyone under the bus?

Yanbu. It will ve a good thing to have at least one genuinely socialist MP.

YANBU I'm glad too, they tried to bully him out but he's won anyway. I think he's a popular hard working MP and really cares about his constituents

Even when what he believes is anti Semitic?

Could you elaborate on that? As in the exact views he holds that are anti semitic, and your evidence for that?

I never liked him when he was leader of the labour party but I found myself hoping that he would win this morning when they were announcing the results. I agree that he was treated appallingly by the labour party but I think he's better off out of it.

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I was delighted that he won - the way he was treated by the Labour Party leadership was disgusting

He's very popular among his constituents and the surrounding areas. I'm pleased as I do like him. He was too left wing to get labour into power but he's a decent man with good intentions.