2016 Postmortem

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Tue Jul 5, 2016, 02:22 AM Jul 2016

If the "rebel" Labour MPs quit Labour and formed their own party...

...in the short run they'd be the official opposition(if recognized as such by the speaker), but how large a chunk of the actual Labour vote would they take with them?...

And are they bloodyminded enough to try it?

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If the "rebel" Labour MPs quit Labour and formed their own party... (Original Post) Ken Burch Jul 2016 OP

There should be party purge of these blairities kcjohn1 Jul 2016 #1

kcjohn1

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1. There should be party purge of these blairities

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Tue Jul 5, 2016, 02:43 AM

Jul 2016

I suspect not very many. The thing is most ridings are partisan and safe Tory/Labour/SNP. IMO most people vote for the party as opposed to individual, so if they get replaced with someone else who has Labour beside them, people will vote for the Labour person over the current MP.

It may actually help Labour if these guys form their own party. Tories under Cameron actually moved to the "center" and took over the "New" Labour voters that brought in Blair in power. Tories are expected to go further to the right, and clear opposition by the Labour without the baggage of blairities might bring back lost working class voters.

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