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They slandered his name so much during the labour leadership.
It's about time he left a vile party.
He was already expelled from Labour. But yes, the organized attacks on him from the media and his own party were disgusting. I hope his new party is a success.
Any Britons care to opine as to whether this is an important enough issue to UK voters as to be able election winning message? I don’t necessarily just mean general opinion as I expect many people are increasingly critical of Israel, but rather, is the ongoing war top of mind enough to win votes over inward-facing issues/campaigns? What is public sentiment like and how passionate is it?
It's not just this, other policies he had were not popular with the New Labour element (which was essentially a lurch to the right, economically), which also helped to sow the discontent and dis-unity in the party during his election campaigns. The Israel thing is just the largest front they all attacked him on so it's an easy turn to be able to say "well we're denouncing genocide for one thing". I suspect a more thorough policy stance will be more forthcoming.
Sadly, I think the UK is too stuck atm, with it's FPTP and (basically) two party system to be able to get a significant dent in the number of Labour MPs, however a show of support for (what I imagine will be) more social leaning policies might help to drag Labour back to the left a bit.