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Galloway resigns: Announces “new worker’s party”

20th July 2016


Internal divisions at the heart of the Labour Party took an unprecedented turn last night when the embattled Leader of the Opposition, George Galloway, announced his resignation and departure from the party. The shock move comes alongside Mr Galloway’s announced intention to form a “new workers party”, announcing that that Britain’s second largest party is “irredeemably attached to the failed doctrines of Neoliberalism.”

This dramatic development comes after weeks of bitter infighting within the party, brought on largely by Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, a result firmly opposed by the majority of Labour MPs and blamed upon the “incompetent” and “lacklustre” campaigning methods of Mr Galloway, a former backbencher known for his Eurosceptic views.

Within just 24 hours of the referendum results, backbench Labour MPs, who have opposed Mr Galloway’s leadership of the party since his landslide victory in last year’s leadership election, called on the left-wing firebrand to resign. The decision of the Shadow Chancellor, Tony Lloyd to quit the shadow cabinet in protest only added to the political pressure on the increasingly embattled and politically isolated leader, sparking a wave of resignations over the weekend. Among other resignations included the Shadow Home Secretary Oona King and Shadow Secretary of State for the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”, Andrew Adonis.

Despite attempts by Mr Galloway to reshuffle the Shadow Cabinet with the appointment of numerous backbench MPs, most infamously with the promotion of Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn to the post of Shadow Chancellor, the situation came to ahead when Wendy Alexander, former Scottish Secretary, announced her intention to challenge Mr Galloway for the leadership of the party.

The BBC believes that upon realisation that he lacked the MP nominations to fight a second leadership election in less than a year, Mr Galloway made clear his intention to allies within the PLP to establish a new, left-wing party to challenge Labour from the radical left. It is believed that some 20 MPs, mostly backbenchers and recent appointees to the Shadow Cabinet have expressed a willingness to join Mr Galloway’s new party and a “Solidarity” Party has already been registered with the electoral commission, believed to be directed by the now former Labour Leader.

Speaking to reporters outside his Glasgow constituency home, until now one of the last safe Labour seats in Scotland, Mr Galloway announced that his “position as leader of a fundamentally pro-capitalist and pro-imperialist party” was now “untenable” and that “Labour had forfeited its place as Britain’s dominant progressive and emancipatory movement”. Mr Galloway went on to say: “the British people need a party unashamed of its commitment to a free and egalitarian society in which all have a fair stake and all are freed from the chains of oppression, war and exploitative capital.”

“Twelve months ago, I announced my bid for the leadership of the Labour Party, and it’s a great shame that I must admit that I was unable to make the change I promised so many members who believed in and voted for me. And to all of you I say this, I will never stop my fight for the politics of Respect, which I spoke so much about during last summer’s election campaign, and I fully believe that the politics of respect will be victorious, just not within the confines of this clapped-out shell of a once great movement. Only a new workers party can achieve the change this country deserves.”

In this political situation, unprecedented in modern British political history, it is believed that Labour’s Deputy Leader, Ted Miliband, shall be taking over the leadership of the party in an acting capacity, until a permanent successor can be elected by the party membership at this year’s annual party conference. Both Mr Miliband and the Labour Party offices have so-far declined to make any official comments on recent events.

A spokesperson for No. 10 has also declined to comment.​
 
INDEPENDENT MP JEREMY CORBYN

I like it when Ed is 'Ted'. I don't know why, but I just imagine Miliband making statements to the press with a duck's arse haircut and suede creepers.

Scary stuff.
 
Presumably John McDonnell was expelled in 2003 for opposing air strikes in Iran and is currently rumoured to be standing in the Birmingham Ladywood by-election as part of the recently re-formed REDBOOK Party.
 
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