Corbyn on Labour’s victory

“We got more votes in 2019 than Labour achieved on Thursday."

Channel 4 News asks former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, about the party’s 2019 defeat under his leadership and what he thinks of Labour’s landslide victory this week.

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[LiLiBNGLi]

Lol Labour didnt Win... Tories Lost.
Power was just dropped to Labour.

[geegab]

A big congratulations to honourable. Jeremy Corbyn - MP.

[Google_Does_Evil_Now]

Britain could have had an honest leader.

[glumonion]

It is criminal the way that this guy is demonised by the media, popular press and social media. Same was for Michael Foot! Both share same attributes extremely rare in politics, honesty, integrity and just being nice blokes. I don’t agree with each of their politics entirely, but this level of bullying isn’t acceptable under any circumstances.

[jonsmith]

Just remember guys, most of you only hate him cause Murdoch kept telling you lies about him and called him unelectable.
Good work being sheep.

[jimk]

The best prime minister Britain never had.

[MoonThuli]

This is slightly hypocritical, because he has never openly advocated for changing the first past the post system. He's said he'd like to get rid of the house of lords but he's never directly advocated for proportional representation

[nickwaite]

It's like saying you had more possessions and more shots on target even though you lost 5-0.

[thomashobbs]

You got more votes, well done. That made a huge difference to my life. All it tells me is that you had no strategy with policies which only favoured areas which were already Labour strongholds. And because of that I had to put up with years more of the tories

[michaelstapelberg]

look at all the liars getting upset over the truth this good man talks..

[andrewcross]

Getting more votes in seats you have already won is pointless in a FPTP system because the name of the game is getting enough votes to win in 326 individual constituencies and the Corbyn voter coalition was not wide enough to win that many seats.

Sacrificing votes in the safe seats to win votes in the marginals is how Starmer won a big majority on a small vote share. If we had a system that required more vote share the strategy and offer to the electorate would be completely different.

[salimbegum]

Thank you.
Jeremy Coleman I followed you from the beginning. And George, all will be well and the truth will be revealed and act prompt.🎉🎉🎉❤Thank you with the

[edwarddraper]

He's not wrong, but that's unfortunately how the system is built and has been for a long time. This is not a new phenomenon. Labour got more votes than the tories in 1951, and yet Winston Churchill formed a majority government. FPTP is incredibly flawed, but acting like you were somehow hard done by a system that hasn't changed since it's formation isn't the best response. Labour (and to a lesser extent the Lib Dems) succeeded by targeting voters in key seats they knew they needed to win. That is (currently) how you win elections in the UK. It's stupid and unfair but that's how it is.

[revolutionuk]

He's forgetting a few important things

1. First GE with voter ID
2. People wanted the Tories out > tactical voting > more concentrated votes for other parties
3. Reform took votes from the Tories but from labour and libdem too

[Porg]

Denial is like a bad smell that never seems to go away

[bacontf]

2017 under Corbyn's leadership: Labour lost.
2019 under Corbyn's leadership: Labour lost.

2024 under Starmer's leadership: Labour won. And won big.

[VeeSeven]

"we had more shots on target even though we lost!"

[Samuel-hdcp]

Reform standing against the Tories gave Starmer his victory.

[TheBiggs]

He is spot on there… however this election was all about tactical voting to boot the Tories out… had Corbyn been careful and apologised he will still be an MP for Labour now… I hope he will still be an active in parliament

[davidhodgson]

You have to play the system in front of you. Labour’s vote efficiency was superb, plus, tactical voting reduced Labour’s vote share. It was a masterstroke.