Corbyn project?
Am I safe to leave the house now, without fear of persecution?
Corbyn project?
Am I safe to leave the house now, without fear of persecution?
An economist has just sent something through about this... if it is only a couple of dozen then it will be seen as an irrelevance, if it got up to about 80 that would likely prevent a Labour (Corbyn Govt), but saying that you now have a number of Tory seets looking to deselect remainers....
They say this could realign UK politics but wont ve in the short term
Northern Monkey ... who can't upload a bleeding Avatar
Yes, but deselecting remainers from tory seats will make it more likely that the tories win those seats at an election (although in fact the tory party has no mechanism for deselection, merely for insisting candidates be presented for reselection). A 'centrist' party represents very little threat to the Tories in terms of votes. For Labour, on the other hand, the rise of any centrist party would mean an almost certainly unsurvivable loss of vital votes in marginals.
Let's see how many of these fannies actually turn up first, shall we? They've not been notable for their readiness to put their money where their mouth is so far. It's true that it doesn't take many to split to essentially end any remote chance of Corbyn ever becoming PM, but the full Momentum terror campaign will be unleashed, so we'll see if they're ready to withstand that.
The likes of Ian Harvey, you mean? It seems to me that all it took was the loss of the 2015 election for a lot of big-tent Blairite Islingtonians to transform into red-as a-baboon's-arse jew-baiters. Scratch the surface of any lefty and you'll find a stalinist not far beneath.