The Labour party has won a majority of seats in the 2024 UK General Elections, and Keir Starmer is expected to replace Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister. The Conservatives, in power for the last fourteen years, have suffered a rout, losing over two-thirds of their seats.

  • Darorad@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, starmer kicked him out for not being centrist enough, which is why he ran independent (and beat the labour candidate)

      • twinnie@feddit.uk
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        4 months ago

        Nobody voted for Corbyn, that’s why he isn’t the leader of the Labour Party anymore.

        • regul@lemm.ee
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          4 months ago

          Yeah it was just that simple. He wasn’t being smeared as an anti-semite constantly by both the right wing of his own party and the British media. None of that ever happened.

        • gnutrino@programming.dev
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          4 months ago

          To be fair, more people voted for Corbyn in 2017 and probably even in 2019 (still some votes to be counted at time of writing so that could change but it’ll be close either way) than voted Labour in this election (12.8 million 2017/10.2 million 2019 vs 9.7 million so far in 2024).

          It’s just an artifact of FPTP and to some extent overall turnout (which was very low this election) that the results in terms of seats look so different.

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            4 months ago

            And Starmer hasn’t been the victim of a BS smear campaign from the media, the RW and the right of his own party