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Starmer challenger calls for new left mass movement outside Labour Party (skwawkbox.org)

submitted 8 months ago by RobotToaster@mander.xyz to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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[–] buried_treasure@feddit.uk 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

We've seen this happen before, and it always ends in failure. A small number of Labour Party members leave the party in disgust, an even fewer number are angry enough and motivated enough to form a new party. It either fizzles out due to burnout, or gets invaded by Trots and destroyed from the inside.

The one example I can think of that's survived for many years is Arthur Scargill's Socialist Labour Party, formed in very similar circumstances to now: a decaying, corrupt, widely-hated Tory government almost certain to lose the next election but the leader of the Labour Party (i.e. Blair) was in no way left wing or promising any socialist policies.

The SLP was set up in 1996 and is still going. After nearly 30 years, how much electoral success has it had? How many people other than ultra-committed political obsessives (such as us!) even know of its existence?

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

It's pretty much assured that Galloway will be part of this, and the trots absolutely loathe him.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

TIL Scargill is still alive.

[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 1 points 8 months ago

I did A level politics in 99-01. I didn't even hear about SLP once. I've heard of Scargill but didn't know he'd setup SLP.