'I want Momentum gone': Alan Johnson slams Labour left after exit poll result

The former Labour home secretary Alan Johnson laid the blame for the predicted Conservative landslide on Jeremy Corbyn's political project. He added that Corbyn was a 'disaster' and 'couldn't lead the working class out of a paper bag'

The Guardian YouTube network:

[npe]

Interviewer: "But that isn't realistically gonna happen". Starmer: "Hold my beer".

[SuperSeriouSam]

Lansman "student politics, " along with momentum behind the scene conniving tactics, have made a mockery of the labour movement. Long overdue, from Alan Johnson on top form

[robbryant]

Alan Johnson spoke from the heart and head well done it needed to be said

[JackoJ]

Hahaha love how much George Osbourne was enjoying that.

[marksammie]

I think what labour needs is the best person to be leader of the opposition, not it has to be a black person or it has to be a woman, look at the lib dems.. Just need the best person pure and simple.

[Teamcrapsheep]

Momentum seem like a cult for posh middle class peeps. Loved the quote about Labour increasing its vote in Putney with its 700k average house price 😏🤣🤣
Yep Jon your keeping it real with the working class alright 🙈
Landsman the puppet master just doesn't get it .

[jonlawford]

i think you speak for the whole country by wanting Momentum gone.

[Illustraful]

To everyone in Momentum:
Please do not give up. Please do not go away. Don't listen to Alan Johnson. We need you to keep going.

So you can help keep Labour out of power for another decade. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Tom_murray]

Momentum made labour feel like a protest movement

[billwarby]

Alan is a huge miss to Labour and politics, he is open to all comments.He is clearly horrified with the way Labour has conducted itself

[DarthQueefious]

spot on.
Return to a more sensible New Labour type stance except this time don't invade countries on lies and don't fling open the borders. Simple stuff really.

[timcomley]

as a conservative voter respect to alan man of principle

[woodentie]

"Oh, Jeremy Corbyn"! Here's a life-time Labour supporter who winced every time it was chanted. "five more years(in the wilderness)", would have always been more appropriate.

[JfK--OBJECTivE]

Labour's downfall began with choosing Ed instead of David in 2010 - they are accelerating towards the abyss, if they go for Wrong-Bailey.

[lenabo]

Labours key support is no longer the working class man it is now the urban middle class student. Who have just been exposed to socialist ideology. Labour need to go closer to the centre ground and have a electable leader. momentum is to blame.

[benhawkes]

I absolutely agree with him. Labour has lost the working class

[adamp]

If you read social media it would seem that everybody in the (exaggerated) or at least the large majority are in favour of socialist/Marxist policy’s. However as the saying goes just because there are 6 crickets under a hedge making a loud noise, it does not mean there aren’t other creatures in the hedge. This is true of the voting public. A few people make the all noise but because they shout loudest does not mean they represent the views of everybody.

The general voting public were not fooled by Socialist/Marxist policy’s, they didn’t work for Lenin, they didn’t work for labour in the 70’s and they knew there was nothing to suggest they would work now!

[Stop-this]

What’s Scary is Labour MPs like Liam Byrne ( Hogdehill ) Birmingham are still down to attend these Momentum meetings after the election So Labour is NOT going to change and will never learn from its mistakes !

[lliambunter]

10 years of failed austerity, and the poor vote for more, unbelievable

[vhtsufc]

When I think labour I think working and middle classes wanting a fairer system and society

When I think “momentum” I think a bunch of middle class Londoners / uni kids sipping coconut milk cappuccino