One year on from the general election and Labour having won the mandate to govern with one of the biggest landslide majorities ever, we ask the question, is there room for one more major political party in the UK?
The far-left are finally realising that their subservience to the Labour Party will not yield any more results. By the far-left, I do mean the Marxist, the Islamists, some Unions, the wokes, Black Lives Matter, the Jihadists, Extension Rebellion, the pronoun nutters and others. This group over the past two decadeshave infiltrated the Labour Party with a wish to control it from within. We have witnessed the rise of local councillors who stem from this group. From this vantage point, there are many more MPs now who come from that band on the far left of the Labour Party. They even managed to get one of their own to lead the party in Jeremy Corbyn. I remember the Labour Party conference in 2019, the far left literally took over and silenced the sane voicesleft in the party. You may recall, this was when Labour passed an anti-India motion regarding Kashmir in support of Pakistan. It was the party conference when from the podium, and under the stewardship of Naomi Webbe (their champion for Islamists), Labour members were allowed to express lies and misinformation about India and Kashmir. Not ONE Labour MP (including those on their front bench today) intervened to stop this utter travesty.
Anyway, back to business with another party in British politics. It seems that whilst Keir Starmer and Labour won an election only a year ago, those on the far-left are finding that they are being side lined. In my view there are at least 150Labour MPs who I put in this far left category. However, many of them are spineless and whilst they hate everything about Keir, they will follow the Labour whip and do as they are told. However, heads are now emerging from the parapet, and voices of impatience getting louder. Last week we witnessed the biggest drubbing any prime minister has had for decades when Labour MPs promised to defeat the government’s own welfare bill. Starmer was brought to his knees and had to literally throw the very core of the bill into the bin.
Zara Sultana who was a Labour MP last week finally made her mind up and told Keir where he can go with his whip. She resigned from the Labour Party and in the same breath declared that she with her comrade Jeremy Corbyn, were going to establish a new political party that would be on the ‘true left’and on the far left of today’s Labour.
This raises some very interesting questions. The first one, is there room for another political party? The answer is of course yes. It’s not the number of parties that matter, it’s whether they can command the confidence of the electorate. Assuming they do form another political party, what happens next?
We know there are some independent MP’s who might be encouraged to come together under one roof. And then you have quite a few in Labourwho have hitherto not had the courage to make a change, but seeing such a party emerge, I should not be too surprised if as many as 50 Labour MPs cross the floor to join Zara and Corbyn.
I suspect Corbyn will orchestrate this drama to grab the headlines and gain momentum. Once the floodgate opens, Labour will lose MPs, Councillors and party members. They will also lose some of the Unions (UNITE I understand is already supporting Zara and Corbyn).
We could soon be with five mainstream parties. Labour will still have the most MPs, however, we’ll have a far-left group that could have as many as 75 MPs. And that brings an interesting dynamic in how business might be done in parliament. Labour has a working majority of 165. This could be reduced to less than a 100 if many of the far-left MPs joined the new group. In parliament, when a bandwagon gathers pace, I wonder if that might entice even more Labour MPs to join the new party? Can you imagine if this rag tag collection of MPs from the left numbered more than 121? You may wonder why 121? The answer, the Tories currently have 120 MPs, and given it’s the 2nd largest parliamentary party theybecome the King’s official opposition. Can you imagine if the party lead by Zara and Corbyn had enough MPs to form the King’s official opposition! It would be carnage in parliament.This is virgin territory. We’ll be faced with the left, and the far left taking chunks out of each other on the floor of the House of Commons, whilst the Tories sit on the side and watch.
Add to this mix that a far-left party is likely to secure around 10% of the vote share come the next general election. Most of this will come from Labour, but I suspect it will attract disgruntled electorate from other parties as well. Remember how Reform started small, but today they are taking support away from the Tories, as well as Labour and other parties.
Of course, much of the above is mere speculation now, and it all depends on many eventstaking place in a timely fashion. I for one can’t wait to see how this plays out now.
