9 UK MPs quit the Labour Party citing Brexit & ‘anti-semitism’; 3 Tory MPs have defected too
theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
Interesting, is chuka black?
His pops is from Nigeria, his mom English
This is from 1.5 years ago after the 2017 snap elections
Labour breakaway boost as donors chuck cash at Chuka Umunna
Written by David Singleton on 3 August 2017 in Diary
Is the Streatham MP the leader-in-waiting of the new centrist party?
Rumours that senior Labour MPs are working behind the scenes to build a new ‘centrist’ political party have been fuelled by a series of recent donations to Chuka Umunna.
Tony Blair is said to be actively looking for donors to fund a new centrist party and a handful of senior Labour MPs are also rumoured to be working behind the scenes to build a new movement.
Moderate MPs are reportedly speaking to donors in a bid to build up a war chest to fund the breakaway from supporters of the current leader.
Many frustrated Labour MPs believe that Umunna is best-placed to be leader of the new party – and the latest Register of Member's Interests suggests that a few big Labour donors might agree.
It reveals that Umunna was recently given £25,000 by Victor Blank, the former chairman of Lloyds TSB. He previously gave £150,000 to Labour in the run-up to the 2015 election, when Ed Miliband was leader.
Umunna was also handed £15,000 by property tyc00n Sir David Garrard, who donated around £700,000 to Labour before Corbyn was leader.
And he took £5,000 from Paul Myners, the former chairman of Marks & Spencer and Guardian Media Group who was made City minister by Gordon Brown.
All three donations were registered last month by Umunna. Blank's donation is to fund 'staff employment' but there are no clues about what the other £20,000 should be spent on.
Umunna has not publicly backed a new party and earlier this year he signalled that he was against the idea. He told the New Statesman: “I’m quite tribal about this. The only way you’re going to have progress in this country is through the Labour Party.”
But that was before Corbyn’s strong performance in the general election killed off the prospect of Umunna becoming Labour leader.
More recently, Umunna’s amendment on Brexit has been seen by many Labour insiders as a sign that he is ready to lead a breakway. The amendment demanding the government guarantee Britain’s place in the single market prompted almost 50 Labour MPs to rebel - and intensified the hard left’s antipathy towards Umunna.
The Streatham MP is also at the forefront of a new cross-party group to oppose hard Brexit, along with Tory MP Anna Soubry.
Meanwhile, Tony Blair is said to be actively looking for donors to fund the new centrist party, with sources in the lobbying world suggesting he has spoken to at least one major Labour donor in recent weeks.
Earlier this year, Blair met Dr Assem Allam, who has offered to fund moderate Labour MPs who want to set up a new ‘centrist’ party. But Blair told the Mail on Sunday that he had met Allam to discuss his new think-tank, The Tony Blair Institute For Global Change, and he insisted there had been no discussions about a new party.
@Fenian would Labour win these seats in the next general election or are the voters gonna go along with this new centrist party?
Why leave the party? They got elected with bigger #s on Labour's popular manifesto of policies done under Corbyn's leadership in 2017. And overthrowing Corbyn hasn't worked because the Labour membership has re-elected him with 60%.
Brexit is a disaster but they ran on that manifesto that talked how Labour would approach Brexit.
afterlife2009
Superstar
these seven were pretty useless. all about they care about is career and ambition. they want Blairism in the Labour party and now can have their new party run on a Zionist agenda or something else
Too bad they no longer will be able to vote for massive cuts to services, military invasions and help get their business buddies the cheapest labor from wherever!
Too bad they no longer will be able to vote for massive cuts to services, military invasions and help get their business buddies the cheapest labor from wherever!
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afterlife2009
Superstar
complain about anti-semitism in the party then be racist the next day brehs
This whole brexit thing aint finished already???Didn't they all vote on it thinking it wouldn't pass and it DID... So why the fukking hold up...
Right now I am happy if it holds up forever. No one has a plan to address how Brexit works and politicians and lying to people.
Loads of companies have already started to move their workloads elsewhere in the very town that backed Brexit. It won't get any better for them.
In some ways this is worse that the electing of Donald Trump and has the same shady Cambridge Analyica roots
Some minor technicalities mateThis whole brexit thing aint finished already???
ORDER_66
The Fire Rises 2023
Right now I am happy if it holds up forever. No one has a plan to address how Brexit works and politicians and lying to people.
Loads of companies have already started to move their workloads elsewhere in the very town that backed Brexit. It won't get any better for them.
In some ways this is worse that the electing of Donald Trump and has the same shady Cambridge Analyica roots
the majority should have never voted for it...
now u gotta pay the price...
I doubt any of them can keep their seats. Most people barely know the name of their MP and just vote for the party.
The biggest impact they could have is to take enough votes away to hand any marginal seats they have to the tories.
fukkin terrible idea to do this.
I doubt any of them can keep their seats. Most people barely know the name of their MP and just vote for the party.
The biggest impact they could have is to take enough votes away to hand any marginal seats they have to the tories.
fukkin terrible idea to do this.