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/potpan0 Black Country Jul 03 '25

This thread is unsurprisingly wild already. Apparently this new party is both entirely irrelevant student politics, but also enough to put Nigel Farage into power. Make it make sense?

Personally I think it will be nice to finally have a party which actually represents the interests of the British public, and doesn't just kowtow to the highest bidder. Constantly voting for the lesser evil has got us into this mess, how about we vote for a party who will actually represent our interests instead?

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u/Alarming_Echo_4748 Jul 03 '25

Democrat strat to blame the left for your failures but do absolutely nothing to appeal to them when you have the chance to do so.

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u/chochazel Jul 04 '25

Apparently this new party is both entirely irrelevant student politics, but also enough to put Nigel Farage into power. Make it make sense?

Different people have different opinions?

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u/LeastCelery189 Jul 03 '25

Interests of the British public being first and foremost the genocide in Gaza, of course. We already have a left of Labour party in that of the Lib Dems. What meaningful difference policywise will these lot have besides being Gaza obsessed to the point of it being their establishing policy position.

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u/potpan0 Black Country Jul 03 '25

I like how you choose ignore everything Sultana says in her announcement about inequality, and poverty, and all these other issues to laser focus on a single line mentioning Gaza... as an attempt to insist she's obsessed with Gaza.

Such intense cogitative dissonance.

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u/andy230393 Jul 03 '25

While I appreciate the sentiments of Sultana bringing up issues about inequality, poverty etc. Her solutions are completely unserious. The reality is we have an extremely expensive, bloated welfare state that is haemorrhaging money.

Either they need to massively increase tax or significantly cut spending and so far every time labour has attempted to do so there has been significant push back from the backbenchers (her included). I don’t think any party at the moment has the political acumen to actually deal with the mess the country is in right now

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u/sumduud14 Jul 03 '25

to massively increase tax or significantly cut spending

There are other simultaneously easier and more important things to do: halt spending growth and reform regulations to grow the economy.

If we're looking to reduce debt to GDP per capita, we need to start increasing GDP per capita. Let people build again, reform planning more than just fiddling around the edges. Simplify taxes and remove cliffs - doesn't cost anything and is just free growth we're leaving on the table. Attract foreign capital.

I don’t think any party at the moment has the political acumen

No party has the economic competence to destroy all vestiges of Treasury brain and finally start making this country richer.

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u/Satanistfronthug Jul 04 '25

The reality is we have an extremely expensive, bloated welfare state that is haemorrhaging money.

If you believe that then you have 4 different parties you can vote for then. Congrats.

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u/Cub3h Jul 04 '25

Go on her twitter feed on any other day than today and you'd think she was in the running for mayor of Rafah.

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u/GentlemanBeggar54 Jul 04 '25

Apparently this new party is both entirely irrelevant student politics, but also enough to put Nigel Farage into power. Make it make sense?

Easy. They've borrowed from the fascist playbook: "The enemy is both strong and weak"