The Labour party has won over 400 seats (out of 650) in the 2024 UK General Elections, and Keir Starmer is expected to replace Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister. The Conservatives, in power for the last fourteen years, have suffered a rout, losing over two-thirds of their seats. The SNP has collapsed in Scotland, mostly to Labour, and the Liberal Democrats have gained over sixty seats.

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Nobody voted for Corbyn, that’s why he isn’t the leader of the Labour Party anymore.

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Yeah it was just that simple. He wasn’t being smeared as an anti-semite constantly by both the right wing of his own party and the British media. None of that ever happened.

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All those people have probably been branded as anti-Semites now, too. Love and learn though.

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Iirc there were some purge in Labour, but nothing major since succdems are by nature opportunist bags and most quickly fell in line.

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To be fair, more people voted for Corbyn in 2017 and probably even in 2019 (still some votes to be counted at time of writing so that could change but it’ll be close either way) than voted Labour in this election (12.8 million 2017/10.2 million 2019 vs 9.7 million so far in 2024).

It’s just an artifact of FPTP and to some extent overall turnout (which was very low this election) that the results in terms of seats look so different.

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And Starmer hasn’t been the victim of a BS smear campaign from the media, the RW and the right of his own party

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He was just elected again.

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