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Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party experienced their worst result since the 1935 general election, losing 60 seats. The majority of the losses coming in England from areas with over 50% of voters wishing to leave the European Union as well as a few seats in Scotland as the Scottish National Party delivered a message to the UK that they were seeking another independence referendum and wish to remain in the European Union. Despite this, the future looks extremely bright for the Labour Party and progressive politics in general. Election Maps UK, a group responsible for election forecasts and results have recently produced maps of the UK based on how each age group voted in the 2019 General Election and how the results would have look if only these age groups were the ones voting two weeks ago. The election maps produced show how dominant the Labour Party are among younger voters. The map in the top left shows us how the 2019 election would have turned out had only 18-24 year olds vo...

Whichever way you approach the recent UK election, it would be fair to say that the Labour Party experienced a drubbing, resulting in a loss of 60 seats and handing the Conservative Party a large parliamentary majority. There has however been a fierce debate surrounding the reasons for Labour’s defeat, reasons ranging from Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn himself or supposedly racist voters. This debate has deeply spilt the two main factions of the Labour Party, between moderates and progressives. Blairites vs Corbynistas if you will. Moderates place the blame solely at the feet of Jeremy Corbyn, his supposed anti-semitism and poor electability. Progressives see this defeat as a result of a Brexit backlash with many Leave voters leaving the Labour Party while the Conservative Party had one core message: “Get Brexit Done” which seemingly resonated. It is fair to suggest that Corbyn’s popularity isn’t exactly soaring, with the mere mention of his name bringing about a whole range of different...

This week the British public will head to the polls for the third general election in four years amid plenty of Brexit uncertainty. The Conservative Party are leading in the polls while Labour are hoping that changing who traditionally comes out to vote will lead them to victory.  There have been many scandalous moments that should have sunk the Conservative Party, such as rebranding their Twitter account into a fake fact checker during an election debate, editing an interview with Shadow Brexit Secretary, Keir Starmer, in a bid to mislead voters on his answers and their promise to recruit 50,000 NHS nurses, when it was revealed that nearly 19,000 of those won’t be new nurses, they will be retrained from other areas of the NHS instead. Tories have been the party in charge since 2010 and further evidence detailing the extreme levels of poverty in Tory Britain has come to light, and it is devastating. There are now more food banks than McDonald’s restaurants in the UK . Cu...

Sayeeda Warsi, former Chair of the Conservative Party Should you switch on any mainstream news program or read any mainstream news articles you would be mistaken for thinking that the Labour Party was a cesspool of anti-semitism and racism, with figures such as Alan Sugar ridiculously comparing Jeremy Corbyn to former German leader, Adolf Hitler.  While any leftist criticism  of Israel and its policy regarding Palestine is spun and twisted to suggest that anytime you speak up for Palestinian rights or a two-state solution is anti-semitic, those who throw around accusations of anti-semitism and racism clearly have issues regarding racism and in this instance, Islamophobia in the UK Conservative Party. There are genuine instances of anti-semitism surrounding the Left, with George Galloway's  "no Israel flags"  tweet during last year's Champions League Final coming to mind - this is was deemed a hateful statement by losing finalists Tottenham Hotspur FC, a cl...

The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union has literally dominated the mainstream news cycles for well over three years now. You’ll hear the word “ Brexit” likely within a few minutes of switching on virtually any news show.  The divisions within the country that led to Brexit (opposition to immigration, parliamentary sovereignty/opposition to globalisation) were the main reasons given to polling agencies and survey takers, which in turn led to the flourishing of another division surrounding Brexit: anyone who voted “Leave” is a far-right racist who hates immigrants and has no idea how an economy functions, and are poorer, less educated members of society.  But, with most insane hot takes, it has to go a step further. As you can see pictured above, our friend Laurence here is casually advocating for the genocide of any and all “Leave” voters. Quite how you can propose a genocide of any political dissidents and suggest that you’re morally correct is qu...

Ever since Jeremy Corbyn delivered a hung parliament in the 2017 UK General Election, his and Labour's popularity rating in the polls have been surging, but unfortunately so have the smears both from the center and right-wing. This sharp increase in, to borrow a phrase, fake news, has led many on the Left to label Corbyn as a man of mystery and many talents, one who is able to hide all of his so-called misdeeds from British Intelligence Services and become the leader of the UK's current opposition. We will now take great delight at going through the most prominent smears that the Labour leader has faced and debunk them as best we can, because Jeremy clearly has a lot to answer for. Jeremy Corbyn is a Communist This is perhaps the most prominent smear against Corbyn as it's the fact that it's simply down to what your own personal interpretation of what a Communist actually is. For example, according to those on the Right in America like to claim that the Democrat...