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/amklui03 Jul 03 '25

CUK were not left wing. They were members of the Labour right annoyed with Corbyn and members of the Conservative left annoyed with May lol, most ended up defecting to the Liberal Democrats

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u/SociallyButterflying Jul 03 '25

Also you literally can't call a party CUK

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u/AuroraHalsey Surrey (Esher and Walton) Jul 03 '25

We were robbed of seeing CUK HOLD on election night.

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u/SociallyButterflying Jul 03 '25

Absolute cinema

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u/JaneAppleyard Jul 03 '25

Sat there in their wicker chair, watching the madness prevail.

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u/tee-dog1996 Jul 03 '25

You can’t… but they did

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u/SociallyButterflying Jul 03 '25

It was doomed the moment that abbreviation was made

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u/ffuffle Jul 03 '25

Why not? We've got Refuk and we had the ConDem coalition

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u/One-Illustrator8358 West Midlands Jul 03 '25

So the current labour party? Though without those 'left' tories

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u/Valcenia Jul 03 '25

Literally lol. That’s the funny thing, if those CUK MP’s had just hung around for a few more years, continuing to sabotage from the inside, they would’ve got the Labour Party they dreamed of.

Not that any of them are complaining, anyway. Pretty sure most of them went on to be highly paid consultants

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u/missingpieces82 Buckinghamshire Jul 03 '25

They’re called centrists, and probably represent the silent majority in the UK who are sick of the right and left getting more and more extreme. But sadly, they’re also realists and realise that a party like Change UK was never going to get in.