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  • Because I’m talking about people voting for her specifically, instead of Labour as a party.

    She may well have been elected it she had still been the Labour candidate, but she wasn’t. Infact she got less votes than the person who was the Labour candidate.

    After she was deselected, she chose to run herself. She chose to prioritise trying to prove Labour wrong instead of getting rid of IDS.

    If she had won - like Corbyn - it would prove that she didn’t need to wear a Labour rosette to win. But she didn’t, so she does need it.

    So all she has achieved in that is maintaining one of the worst Tories there is. The result matters, and she enabled that.




  • A highly personal vote after representing the constituency for over 4 decades, it’s no real surprise that Corbyn retained. It’s also extremely unlikely he will vote against Labour on the vast majority of the programme.

    Compare that to Chingford, where Shaheen insisted on running as an independent after being deselected (fairly or not doesn’t really matter), and having never actually won an election (let alone 40 years worth), and split the vote so much that the architect of food poverty in the UK, Iain Duncan Smith, managed to cling on to his seat.

    Her ego got in the way of removing a proven sabateur from Parliament, that is unforgivable.