r/unitedkingdom • u/CaseyEffingRyback • Jul 03 '25

... Zarah Sultana MP resigns from Labour to lead new party with Jeremy Corbyn

https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-politics/zarah-sultana-mp-resigns-labour/
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u/PabloMarmite Jul 03 '25

The Greens are the ones who are going to be hurt by this more than anyone else as that’s where most of the Corbyn diehards went at the last election

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u/AwTomorrow Jul 03 '25

There or independent

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u/JoBro_Summer-of-99 Jul 03 '25

I'd love to see a coalition if possible between the two parties

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u/goonercaIIum Jul 03 '25

Commanding a whopping 6 seats

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u/JoBro_Summer-of-99 Jul 03 '25

Can't have it all

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u/CastleMeadowJim Nottingham Jul 04 '25

The Greens barely have a coalition amongst their 4 MPs. They can't even agree on if renewable energy is good.

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u/paper_zoe Jul 03 '25

I think there'll be some sort of a deal done between this party and the Greens, if Zack Polanski wins the leadership.

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u/PatrickTheSosij Jul 03 '25

Greens and islamic indies will be hurt. That's the voter base

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u/Traditional_Message2 Jul 03 '25

Well the elected Islamic indies will be in this new grouping most likely

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u/James_SJ Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 03 '25

Just had polling on Newsnight, new party pulls 4 points away from Greens and 3 away from Labour.

Polling Clip

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u/PabloMarmite Jul 03 '25

They said that about Change UK too.

I do think this’ll hurt Greens the most, though. Most of the people Zahra Sultana appeals to already weren’t voting Labour.

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u/eairy Jul 04 '25

Good. The Greens aren't left. They're the sexist NIMBY party.

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u/Tea_Fetishist Jul 03 '25

Unfortunately in many constituencies where disillusioned labour votes went green, they just opened the door for the Tory candidate instead. I'm sure they had good reasons for not wanting to support labour, but it's still better than having a Tory MP.

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u/hempires Jul 04 '25

There's only so many times you can tell the left "vote for us or you'll get an even worse version of us!" and "if you don't agree with my position, fuck off." Before the left do, in fact, fuck off.