Jeremy Corbyn to stand as independent candidate in General Election
Jeremy Corbyn has announced he is standing as an independent candidate in the General Election.
The former Labour leader said he will stand in his constituency of Islington North, vowing to be “an independent voice for equality, democracy and peace”.
Mr Corbyn has been suspended by Labour since 2020 after he refused to fully accept the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s findings that the party broke equality law when he was in charge and said antisemitism had been “dramatically overstated for political reasons”.
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Mr Corbyn told the Islington Tribune that he would fight to retain a seat he has represented for 40 years, adding: “We have to stand up and defend our rights.”
Mr Corbyn appealed to lifelong Labour voters, saying that “I am here to represent the people of Islington North on exactly the same principles that I’ve stood by my whole life: social justice, human rights and peace”.
He went on to say that “these principles are needed now more than ever before”, vowing to defend “a genuine alternative to the corrupt years of this Tory government”, including rent controls, public ownership of energy and water, the abolition of the two-child benefits cap, a Green New Deal, and an ethical foreign policy based on peace and human rights.
Mr Corbyn added: “When I was first elected, I made a promise to stand by my constituents no matter what. In Islington North, we keep our promises.”
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Principled to the last, which I fear this will be.
He has a strong community following in his constituency and should get in front of any party clone that stands against him
An Ealing re-make coming up…
It has been an Ealing Studios/Hammer House of Horror production for some time…
The Commons will be a much livelier place if likes of Corbyn, GG and even Jonathan Edwards are elected. I suspect the latter will stand down next week.
A man of absolute integrity. The way that Starmer has treated Jeremy Corbyn is reason enough to deny the Labour Party your vote. We need to remind ourselves that we do not have to choose between a nasty, incompetent governing party and an unprincipled, neoliberal opposition
Another world, another Cymru, is possible.
Yes. That’s why Plaid is finally getting my vote in the last tory/libdem marginal in Wales; previously it was anything to keep the tory out.
Mr Corbyn truly is a man of principle
Not like the the clowns that are in labour now I hope he wins for Islington would be one in the eye for Sheer Shammer and Born Guessing.
I look for the person who has ideas and a policy that strikes a chord for me most often an independent who may not get in due to the sheep voters but at least my vote is not wasted.
Jezza is not only a principled democratic socialist but a thoroughly decent man. As such, he is everything that the grey legions of suits, spades and careerists who now run Starmer’s Labour Party hate and fear. If I were in Islington I’d vote for him like a shot. As it is, I suppose that I’ll have to make do with Plaid.
The nation decided last time and he lost to Johnson.
Up to his area now if they vote him back.
Actually it has been shown by analysts, had we had ‘Proportional Representation’ Corbyn would have won. Nationally. more votes were cast for Labour/Corbyn than the Tories.