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    Jeremy Corbyn wins Islington seat as independent MP after being expelled from Labour
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    Jeremy Corbyn wins Islington seat as independent MP after being expelled from Labour

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    1. Kimbobbins on

      So unelectable that he got a higher share of the vote in 2017 than Labour did tonight, almost matched it in 2019, and won his constituency in a landslide after being stabbed in the back by Starmer.

      Labour didn’t win, the Tories lost.

    3. Silver-Inflation2497 on

      It is possible to like Jeremy Corbyn and be happy he won, and also like Starmer trouncing the nasty tories.

      You don’t have to live in an absolutist world.

    4. HauntedFurniture on

      But a certain Palahniuk-referencing username assured us all that Corbyn would lose; now I don’t know what to think

    5. GentlemanBeggar54 on

      I don’t think people understand how difficult it is to run as an independent candidate in our system, even for someone with Corbyn’s name brand recognition. The system is entirely set up for political parties.

      An independent candidate going up against the machinery and infrastructure of a massive political party is facing a huge disadvantage. For example, modern elections are all about using data to target key groups of voters, but independent candidates won’t have any data and it is illegal for them to get it from anyone else. For an independent to win an election over a candidate from one of the two main parties is a big achievement.

      It’s not just about Corbyn either, it looks like this election will have 6 independent candidates winning, which is the most since the 1950s. It speaks to a high level of revolt against the political establishment.

    6. Dreary_Libido on

      Bizarre the amount of flak he gets. Basically a good man who both simply didn’t have the chops to be leader and got shafted by the media.

      In a fairer system he would be as much of a success (or flop) as Starmer is now, given how similar their vote shares are. At any rate, I’m glad he didn’t get turfed out of parliament after getting turfed out of Labour.

    8. ghost-bagel on

      Say what you like about Corbyn, but I think parliament is better with him in it.

    9. SufficientWarthog846 on

      Good for him – no matter what you think of him as Labour leader he does brilliant work for Islington

    10. bow_down_whelp on

      Good. People don’t like him but I think hes OK. Everyone keeps saying how Labour is tory-lite, and then complain when they got him who is left as fuck and way too open with his opinions. Papers had to dig to try and smear him because he turns up for work and pays his taxes and apart from being a political activist, was not controversional enough – no mistresses, offshore accounts, dodgy stocks, and so on. I have never seen Sunak at a rally or political activism, but this man is likely to turn up and hold a banner which is something.

    11. LordLucian on

      Congratulations to Jeremy Corbyn, Would 100% support him if he was running for my constituency

    12. dbe14 on

      Note that the media didn’t go after Starmer like they did Corbyn this time around. That in itself made a huge difference,

    13. Vast-Scale-9596 on

      Just for today I’m going to enjoy the fact that the Tories got handed their arse, and it’ll be 4/5 years before that particular brand of invertebrate gets to stick their oar too far in again.

    14. evolveandprosper on

      Corbyn is back in his “happy place”. Politically isolated and free to indulge in posturing and gesture politics without responsibility and in the sure and certain knowledge that he will have zero effect on anything. He is a narcissist. He may have chosen to adopt left wing politics but fundamentally it is ALWAYS about him. He just loves virtue-signalling and playing the martyr. From his point of view, the worst thing that happened to him was becoming leader of the Labour party. Yes, he loved the adulation and the personality cult BUT he realised that he was actually responsible for making things happen, getting things done in the real world and he just wasn’t up to the job. It was a catastrophe for somebody with no real interest in practical stuff. He was incapable of planning, organising, directing or leading and the end result was the fiasco of his vacillation about Brexit and the disastrous 2019 election. Now he is answerable to nobody but himself and he can blissfully indulge in his “saintly rebel” schtick without actually having to show any results. Happy days (for him).