https://www.youtube.com/shorts/weFSTi7DPQIThere is no obvious solution here. When Jeremy Corbyn was removed from the Labour Party’s centre, the wider Corbyn-aligned movement was also marginalized and dismantled through suspensions, re selections, and internal restructuring. Labour’s 2024 landslide — 412 seats to the Conservatives’ 121 — looked decisive, and in theory should have opened a generation of Labour rule.
Yet even in victory, the limits of New Labour’s competence and values were quickly apparent. From the outset, each major decision appeared to expose a widening gap between stated principles and practical outcomes, leaving large parts of the public unconvinced or openly opposed. From Gaza to broader questions of foreign policy and security alignment, its values were repeatedly framed by critics as inconsistent, unconvincing, or simply wrong. Far from recognizing clear mistakes, it doubled down, with its trajectory increasingly framed as the consequence of accumulated hubris. TLDR: they deserve to lose.
Meanwhile, the Conservative Party is a shell of its former self: led ineffectively, still divided by Brexit, and unable to define a coherent post-Brexit identity. As both historic parties weaken, Reform UK has moved from protest movement to genuine electoral force. Much of the political and media class still hopes Keir Starmer can stabilize the system, though critics see only continuity management rather than genuine reform or effective governance. Taken together, the system looks increasingly unstable, with a non-trivial chance that neither of the two major parties will form the next government. I would like to say good riddance like hoping for Trump its a bit of "be careful of what you wish for, for it may come to pass".
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The correction here would have been to follow the wave to Corbyn rather then stab him in the back, not promote Keir Starmer to leader, but find a credible alternative, remove Keir Starmer as soon as it was evident that he was not up to the job, and replace with a credible alternative, and now its too late. the ship will sink. 5 compartments are breached and nothing can save the titanic known as the Labour party now.
This post was edited by ferdia on May 10 2026 10:19am