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JEREMY CORBYN HAS said that he will not lead Labour in its next general election campaign after the party had its worst result since 1935.
Speaking after his re-election as MP for Islington North at 3.25am this morning, Corbyn said he will stay on until a new leader has been found.
“I want to make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign,” he told the gathered audience.
He said that he will work with the party during the transition period.
“I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take going forward. And I will lead the party during that period to ensure that discussion takes place and we move on into the future.”
Labour did far worse than expected in the election, with the Conservatives set to secure the party’s biggest victory since Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1987.
Corbyn said it had been a “very disappointing” night for the party, and that Brexit had “overridden so much of a normal political debate”.
“Brexit has so polarised and divided debate within this country… I recognise that it has contributed to the results that the Labour party has received this evening all across this country.”
He also used his speech to attack the media for attacks against the families of politicians, calling them “disgraceful and frankly disgusting”.
Corbyn has been leader of Labour since 2015. He transformed Labour’s identity from a party of pragmatism to one in favour of radical change as he rode a wave of anti-austerity resentment.
However his support among grassroots supporters was not matched in the wider electorate, or indeed in parts of the Labour party.
Labour’s Brexit stance, in particular, was widely seen as ambiguous, particularly in the face of strong messages from the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties.
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Congratulations Little Britain, you have dethroned America as the laughing stock of the world
@Colin McNally: lol another person who just cannot understand or accept democracy.
@Colin McNally: so you don’t believe in democracy, the people spoke, 10′s of millions but they have a different view than you so their all idiots
@Philip Siggins: Boris would not have a majority in a PR / STV voting system, so it’s not a black or white issue here to say this is democracy in action in it’s purest form.
@TW: don’t be silly.. Of course he would have. And this type of response is like that of a child. ‘Oh if the rules were different we woulda won’ – nonsense talk.
@wormtubes: Got much less than 50% of the vote…..
4 years too late.
The problem with Labour is they have no idea what they are and what they want to be. But one things for dang sure – the British general population are smart enough to have nothing to do with Venezuela type socialism.
@John Boylan: what’s ‘Venezuela-type Socialism’?
@John Boylan: They have chosen a right wing government the will out do Thatcher. The mess they now find themselves in at the moment was her legacy.
@Cormac Ó Braonáin: being dependent on imports while doing something you know will annoy the USA and leave you vulnerable to bullying.
@Donal Desmond: Thatcher was strongly pro European, there would never have been a Brexut referendum on her watch.
@Conoroconnor: she was pro market. The bigger the market the better.
@seanmccann: she was yes, and a huge market is guaranteed by EU membership, a fact which she recognised, but Brexiteers dont seem to.
@Conoroconnor: My point about Thatcher … Conservative policy destroyed the industrial backbone of England…all for privatisation and profit. Johnson and the conservatives have a view of England that is gone forever. Unfortunately working class people seem to share that view also, and it’s the working class that will pay the price.
Great News
Liked Armando Iannucci’s tweet saying Corbyn should go and take the anti-Semites with him.
Adios socialista.
@Jurgen Remak: yawn.
@Jurgen Remak: If a person condemed the Nazi Isreali regime does that make them an anti Semite? Remember when Thatcher was in power… Free markets.. .Look where that got the people of England, and her blueshirt/F.F.admirers in Ireland copied her disastrous policy.
@Donal Desmond: Comparing the Israeli government to the Nazis is indeed antisemitism. It’s a deliberately egregious comparison. You might acquaint yourself with the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which Labour apparently agreed to adopt (in writing anyway). For further evidence of institutional antisemitism within the Labour party you should also look up the report issued by the Jewish Labour Movement while you’re at it. Its damning stuff, but I doubt you’ll be bothered. Anyway Corbyn got handed his political P45 so that’s a positive.
Size of victory has as much to do with Farage as Boris.
https://combatarena.ie/farage-hands/
Talk about shooting them selves in the foot, stay tuned for four years of crippling austerity cuts and selling off of the nhs via the back door but hay as long as the already rich can make even more money at the expense of everyone else the media and right wing establishment will be happy.
Why Jeremy, why did you have to gamble with Brexit, and the whole of the UK’s integrity stretching well into Ireland, which you claimed to support, just to get your final shot.
@Mick Tobin: He was in a no win situation. If he came out stronger for Remain, he will lost even more seats in the north, if he had supported leave he would have lost seats in the south to the libdems and lost control of his parliamentary party.
@Orpuk Jones:
P45 for comrade Corbyn, it seems.
@Mick Tobin: Corbyn was too red for the British public, time to purge these muppets
#corbyn2024 the dream is not over
@Orpuk Jones: Sorry Orpuk but I think it is.
@Charles Alexander: no it isn’t. He will be PM. Trust me on that.
@Orpuk Jones: hahahahaha. Eh no he wont. He’s an idiot and people saw through him
@Orpuk Jones: He literally said he won’t be leading his party into the next general election. How more deluded can you get
@Daniel Rea: I can’t help but think this is a wind up
@Orpuk Jones: You right… along with Bigfoot, Fairies, Lockness and of course Elvis who’s still very much alive.
The reality he has to go now. Trying to lead the party through it’s reflection of what went wrong when he is a major part of what went wrong just isn’t the way to do it. Things won’t be said, changes won’t be made, ideas won’t be floated because he’s still at the top running it.
Labour are 10 years out from power at this stage (this 5 year term and there’s no way Tories will lose an 80+ majority in 5 years time so 2 elections in the minority) – and are already 9 years out of power. It’s a lost generation for Labour. Next time there will be a Labour PM will be 2029. Think about that.
As if he has a choice!
GOTCHA.
should have done it months ago – his dithering has cost labour its best chance of being in government in years !
The right wing elements of the Labour party was a major block in the defeat of Corbyn . Like the Irish Labour party that betrayed it’s principles when in colition with the blueshirts. Labour party should stick to the socialist principles on which it was founded. Not a segment of conservatism which it has now become.
@Donal Desmond: Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership was a test of the public’s appetite for 1970′s style socialism and the public made it clear they don’t want it. It was Labour’s worst showing in 70 years, hopefully the Labour party will now take stock
@Damon16: So do I …Reinforce their socialist ideology… The wheel always turns.
@Donal Desmond: You’re in for prolonged disappointment so.
Do it now will you Corbyn? Bye…
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