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Happy Hoosier

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5. Corbyn was a disaster for Labour.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun May 9, 2021, 10:53 AM

May 2021

They are lost for a generation.

I hope this is a harsh lesson that that old style of brash socialism isn‘t going to sell to a modern public. Especially when wrapped up with Antisemitism.

It‘s a lesson for us in the USA too.

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UK Labour searches for answers after day of reckoning [View all] brooklynite May 2021 OP

When you keep losing to Boris Johnson's party Miguelito Loveless May 2021 #1

Elections 2021: Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner sacked as party chair muriel_volestrangler May 2021 #2

When your party loses focus on what it was originally intended for, Crowman2009 May 2021 #3

Update: In the Hartlepoole By-election, the Brexit Party (now "UK Reform") got 25.8%... brooklynite May 2021 #4

No, Brexit got that in the 2019 general election. Reform UK got 1% this time muriel_volestrangler May 2021 #6

Corbyn was a disaster for Labour. Happy Hoosier May 2021 #5