‘They lost a historic opportunity’: Ken Loach laments Your Party infighting
Film-maker and longtime Corbyn ally says ‘poor behaviour’ squandered chance to unite the left in fight against far right
Your Party could definitely be getting votes now going to the Greens, but "unite the left"? This is fantasy stuff. Lots of the old socialists bailed out because it was obviously going to sea in a sieve. Once you lost them, many of them having plenty of baggage as Kippers and Russia-apppeasers, what were you left with? Jez, Sultana (who should have been kicked out), and a bunch of people with nothing in common beyond Gaza who in lots of cases would have been as happy voting for George Galloway. Why wouldn't you join the Greens instead?
“There is no relation to the labour movement or the interests of working-class people. They’ll do all they can to keep Andy Burnham out of the running because he’s just slightly to the left.”
Never mind working rights or big increases in spending, anything that happens without Ken and all must be bad for the working class. Andy Burnham wasn't an MP. While I support his return, it wasn't Labour Together that forced Burnham to run again for Mayor of Greater Manchester. The working class of course are all Corbynite and very socially liberal in this analysis. I wouldn't be surprised if lots of the Gaza voters were less than happy with "boats".
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/m ... ah-sultana