Zarah Sultana has resigned from the UK’s Labour Party after 14 years to lead a new party with former Labour leader and independent MP Jeremy Corbyn.
“Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party,” she said in a statement on Thursday evening local time.
“Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.”
Sultana cited the Starmer government’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza as a reason for leaving, saying that “this government is an active participant in genocide. And the British people oppose it.”
The US actually has other parties, it’s just no one ever hears about them. I’m afraid to say that this will go the same way, the days of the three-party system are long since over. Now your choice is right-wing politicians, really right-wing politicians, or actual Nazis.
Or you can have the delusional hippies (who don’t want to build solar farms on the basis that it would require cutting down a few trees), who always pick up a few votes, but never enough to make any difference.
The only good thing about reform is that Nigel Farage has utterly failed to establish the cult following that Donald Trump has. So they’re unlikely to be a long-term issue.