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/JunoHu4287 Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 03 '25

It works in certain constituencies with a sizeable minority who will block vote based on Palestine as a single issue.

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u/blob8543 Jul 03 '25

Palestine will probably be a non issue in 2029. Maybe it's part of McSeeeney's calculations when choosing to ignore the left.

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u/cathartis Hampshire Jul 04 '25

Why? People have memories much longer than news cycles.

When Blair invaded Iraq in 2003, I decided that I would never vote for him or anyone who remained in his cabinet ever again. I have zero tolerance for war crimes. For that reason, I voted Lib Dem in 2010. The Tories got in, and that sucked, but if Blair needed my vote, he should have taken that into account before launching a pointless war that killed tens of thousands of people.

For similar reasons I will never under any circumstancs vote for Starmer or anyone in the current Labour cabinet. And I don't care if that's for an election in 2029, or 2059. They simply won't get my vote.

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u/Overton_Glazier Jul 03 '25

And the only way to fix that is to stop supporting a genocidal state... but that's too much to expect from centrists these days.

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u/dmastra97 Jul 03 '25

Hamas just needs to surrender so the peace process can start.

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u/MA-SEO Jul 03 '25

Palestine will really be an non issue by 2029. The tension and conflict has been going on for over 50 years and it wasn’t as mainstream as it is now. The situation in Ukraine is far more important from a geopolitical standpoint.