Jeremy Corbyn re-elected MP for Islington North as independent

Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour leader, has been re-elected as MP for Islington North. After being blocked from running as a Labour candidate, he ran as an independent, and easily beat his Labour opponent. Corbyn got 24,120 votes and Labour’s Praful Nargund got 16,874 votes
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[@DrVictorVasconcelos]

Dude had his reputation assassinated because he wasn't an establishment shill.

[@JackTheAverage]

He's also a utopianist, I voted for him, but in hindsight, I'm extremely glad he lost. This is a man who talked about leaving NATO and making the UK defenceless

[@DoktorDoomJr]

@@JackTheAverage utopianist? So the right-wing warmongers got to you and now you'll trade socialism in for whatever demands for escalation and war that Washington makes of us. Its amazing how some people will admit and understand that there are socio-economic elites who aren't here to be nice to us but then turn right around and believe that the elites in the Pentagon, in Washington etc prolly just want democracy and world peace ... What a beautiful fairy tale that is.

[@hcn6708]

@@JackTheAverage His domestic policies are great but his foreign policy, save for Palestine, is dogshit

[@martinledermann1862]

​@@JackTheAverageIt wasn't his stance on NATO that made him the target of the journalistic hyenas, it was purely his stance on Palestine that triggered all the Zio lobbying groups in the country who pushed their pawns in the media to demonize him and gift the Tories a massive victory they didn't deserve.

[@wrestlinginfodude2644]

​@@hcn6708no it's not his policy for Palestine was great their is no reason to support state like Israel

[@Jechiey]

If this Labour government fails, Corbyn's party will have my vote

[@TheeMuseumofjunk]

Labour have already failed, they purged the real Labour Party to chase the votes of people who were merely protesting. If they fail to follow the Right's diktat to the letter now they're a one term Party. Some might say that was the whole purpose of The Starmer Project given his despicable treatment of the Left.

[@alexanderstefanov6474]

When it fails

[@Teeeheeeteeheee]

15 years to go!

[@nicholasc.5944]

hes independent

[@mehdiboutayeb]

If ?

[@onyejiikechukwu6185]

His voice broke for a moment 😢 brought a tear to my eyes. What a man. 🎉 Go on Jeremy!!

[@Harsh-mg2em]

Used to love him, but I'm Polish and he believes my and other countries should just give ourselves to Russia if they ask for us. If we resist and seek protection it's our fault for causing a war. I'd vote Green happily, but never for Corbyn's Labour.

[@marykilbane7738]

@@Harsh-mg2emI get why you think that, but you’re confusing the Soviet Union with Russia. Putin hasn’t indicated wanting to re-establish the Soviet Union. The people in East Ukraine are ethnically Russian and asked Russia for help after getting battered by the Western Ukrainians since 2014.

[@Harsh-mg2em]

@@marykilbane7738 Can I ask where you get this information from? I hope you are a sincere person, but this is word for word what Putin said. I'm holding back my judgmenent though. Also, Soviet Union and Russia are the same thing, that's why countries occupied under Soviet Union went through Russification efforts.

[@basedmongoloid2278]

@@Harsh-mg2em Respectfully, it doesn't matter what Putin said or whether what someone else said is in agreement with what he said. There is truth, and there is what isn't truth. What's true, and agreed upon by even mainstream media, is that there are ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine, and the conflict started in 2014 over their being upset over attempts to pass language laws mandating Ukrainian be taught in schools. There were also other issues leading up to that dealing with the allocation of funds and resources to different parts of the country, but that was the tipping point. Every excuse Putin makes about why a war is now going on there now is immaterial to this reality, and frankly I think his explanations of "de-nazification" are really just meant to appeal to conservative boomers in Western countries who would not be sympathetic to an explanation based in nationalism. To be fair to you and your country, Poland reserves the right to defend itself if they're actually attacked by Russia, andy Corbyn's opinion shouldn't mean anything considering he's not Polish. That being said, I think the idea that Poland will be attacked by Russia even if they did take over the whole of Ukraine is kind of ridiculous though. There are very rarely wars that are not started over deliberate reasons, and neither Putin or the Russian government has as much of a justification to invade Poland or any other country aside from Ukraine. Kazahkstan and Estonia, as examples, have regions which are predominately Russian, but they have a much more peaceful co-existence with the governments they live under. Ukraine is a target they can more easily justify since the tensions between Russians in the East with the ethnically Ukrainian-led government of Ukraine has been seen as a level of persecution against Russian identity within the country.

[@sueyourself5413]

@@Harsh-mg2em He really doesn't. Russians believe, truly believe, that the reasons that the Soviet Union failed are Stalin *and the fact that it was too big* . As if they're going to invade Poland, that was Germany.

[@nazmaster1]

this man has been fighting for the people for so long

[@adamkennedy7297]

Who? Hamas

[@durontooprotiroddho8316]

​​@@adamkennedy7297For The Oppressed People around the World

[@user-qb1pn8uj7u]

@@adamkennedy7297Hes against the killing of children. Hes against an apartheid state. Hes against genocide. Hes a human

[@AbiyazAlamChowdhuryRajjo]

atleast not shitrael lobby

[@DrMjenno]

@@adamkennedy7297😂

[@gwedielwch]

thank you, people of Islington North - and especially the members of the Labour Party in Islington North who stood with Jeremy Corbyn.

[@nnokki]

no sorry didnt and will not

[@jj-uy6qs]

@@nnokki cope

[@RileyFreeman_]

@@nnokkikeep crying

[@bortstanson2034]

That Green candidate lady seemed happy JC got in, me too.

[@annabelleabdulaty8383]

Of course, Green Party policies on social politics match up very well with Corbyn's. The Green Party would happily work with independents such as Jeremy who believe in supporting public infrastructure, notably the NHS via proper taxation on the wealthy elite.

[@cooltwittertag]

Green party candidates are generally more left wing than starmers labour

[@Plutonix_5]

Yeah, Green Party activists told his campaign that they would not campaign in his constituency so he had a better chance of winning

[@terrapyn99]

So much for Starver's parachuted-in millionaire private healthcare candidate 😂😅😂 Well done, people of Islington North ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@1966wilky]

Yeah, I did a little digging into Praful Nargund and he’s got his fingers in a lot of pies. He’s the head of several lucrative companies making a fortune from private healthcare. Exploiting and profiting from the ill health of others is the antithesis of everything any genuine Labour Party stands for.

[@Masaru_kun]

the labour candidate seemed AI-generated, was creepy

[@byunbaekhyun2283]

@@Masaru_kun as an asian, i agree lol, he looks weirdly robotic, no asian behaviour at all.

[@michaelthompson8178]

Well done Islington North. Jeremy Corbyn is very proud of the community.

[@jernaugurgeh451]

Seeing the Green candidate nod along and seem to be close to tears in the background tells you all you need to know about how Corbyn is respected and loved, by local people and many others far and wide.

[@summess5567]

People of principle are all fighting for the same thing. Not for themselves, but for opthers. Brilliant.

[@ian87294]

Wonderful! Well done Jeremy! A big thank you to all who voted for him! Best news of the whole night!

[@petuser1]

how embarrasing for islington,,

[@networkersjohn]

What a man! What a fight! What a victory!

[@gillianpooley9040]

You can hear the emotion in his voice. Such a lovely man. Bless him. How Starmer and his Blairite lot have treated him is disgraceful.

[@grahamricketts-bq1ft]

A man with principles

[@catalinacurio]

Congratulations Jeremy! I wish you were my MP. ❤

[@itsmrripley]

PM 😉

[@catalinacurio]

@@itsmrripley Yes.

[@tahirahparacha9392]

Me too!!!!!

[@copiousfool]

He is my MP and I voted for him, a genuinely nice man.

[@MatrixEvolution17]

He was ousted from Labour and still managed to win more votes than Starmer. We need more Corbyns in parliament.

[@WestCoastWilliam]

@MatrixEvolution17 and when he was the leader of the Labour party he got nowhere being elected. What’s your point?

[@UnequalSardine]

@@WestCoastWilliam Due to the media assassination of him which is hardly his fault, what's your point?

[@martinledermann1862]

​@@WestCoastWilliamZionist pawns in the media steer the public opinion wherever they like, through their usual manipulation tactics which can also be observed in the US to an even greater extent. Anglosphere countries aren't truly independent but a very tiny minority of extremely wealthy people wants to control the entire political discourse here.

[@summess5567]

@@UnequalSardine In 2017, with the whole of the corrupt billionaire-owned media against him, he got a million more viotes than Starmer - with all that media behind him.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

@@UnequalSardine EXACTLY!

[@peacehope7365]

So happy for Jeremy Corbyn, and overjoyed by Green gains too. Just a pity about the rise of Reform!

[@allanspraggon7207]

Only due to Cons collapse. If UKIP had stayed in 2019 then whole situation might have been different, only a 1.2% vote share increase from Corbyn 2019!

[@nicholas70paul]

The green candidate was happy too, with Jeremy’s emotion and words, lovely.. shame it’s so few that are like that in this type of world we have now

[@peacehope7365]

@@nicholas70paul yes, I was just watching Jeremy's speech, and noticed the Green candidate nodding and smiling 😊 It'd be lovely if we could have a Green/Indy left coalition.

[@dominicaaaaa5547]

Yes I don't know who she is but I like that green lady. I like the big hairy guy too lol he can be in the new party. On the right wing as he is a lib dem lol. So glad Jeremy won!

[@Amanojaku8]

Lol when your opponents are nodding in agreement and happy to see you win.

[@KryCaNe]

Starmer is more Tory than the Tories. And an Islamophobe.

[@HouseOfAntioch]

No such thing as an islamaphobe

[@luisafrance1635]

@@HouseOfAntioch😂😂😂

[@SirSpamaIot]

​@@HouseOfAntiochno such thing as an antisemite too then, right?

[@Tricky2109]

@@SirSpamaIotIslamaphobia now is not wanting your people to be replaced in their own homeland

[@stevedavy2878]

No proof, no evidence of that, just the usual bitterness

[@MattCooperKay]

The man who single handedly gave hope to a generation for the first time. I'm so glad he won.

[@Rob1nson]

Well done! Unbelievable that you were kicked out of Labour Party, really worrying.

[@gerardcurtis3911]

Yeah, anyone who blames Nato for Russia's actions, gets involved in anti semitism could be kicked out! It's 1984

[@JaneKingori-xq2sz]

Congratulations and We welcome back our much loved MP, you are an awesome human being 👏🏾👏🏾

[@terrythekittieful]

Well done Jezza! Free Palestine!

[@adamkennedy7297]

No

[@moldymush]

🇬🇧 🇵🇸

[@byunbaekhyun2283]

@@adamkennedy7297 k zion

[@muhammad-bin-american]

Excellent News!!!

[@sonnyboy5566]

True man. Destroyed by his own party because he cared about people.

[@anasxeniadis5392]

Decent person

[@rsyrsy8543]

A decent man

[@lynne1412]

Amazing man. Well done JC 👏 👏

[@WaspBrain]

Thank you SOOOO much to the people of Islington north who kept this man in the house of commons for all of us

[@rosiered2357]

i wish JC was the PM

[@ahmd-mi9964]

An amazing person 💗

[@katarinala]

JEREMY ❤❤❤

[@ivanlondon]

Congratulations Jeremy!! 👏 And well done to the people of Islington North!!

[@tomalebine2778]

So glad to see Corbyn succeed. He would've been a great prime minister. There's still hope left

[@Dolute]

OHHHH JEREMY CORYBN! This is a special victory and one against this bully of a labour party

[@djsameb4263]

Best result of the night

[@Aminur48]

Green party candidate girl in the back clearly would rather be on his team

[@mcohw9525]

Goog human being ❤

[@Juno_UN_567]

Well done corbyn🎉🥳🎉

[@hack999casper6]

He's the real deal 😂. Congratulations Corbin.

[@Foople30]

The only politician with any integrity. Well done Islington north 🎉

[@iainmackenzieUK]

Glad to have you on board. We need an honest opposition.

[@roc7880]

I am so happy for Corbyn although I rarely agree with him.

[@tgirltouhou]

he's a great MP for his constituency, im not from there but i really like him, it's impressive he was able to get such a majority after only running as an independent candidate for a month when a lot of people there voted for labour not knowing they werent voting for him

[@chriswatson3464]

Thanks.

[@cowardly3348]

OOOOOHHH JEREMY CORBYN!

[@lisadefries6718]

❤ 😊 🎉 Congratulations Jeremy Corbyn with zero financial support from Labour Party. Thank you for all your Service to the ordinary people of this constituency, land and world. 👏

[@user-xh2bj5no2r]

Well, done, Jeremy Colby I was rooting for you.

[@janeking9540]

First thing I searched this morning. I think this has made me the happiest. Despite the Labour party and everyone else in the political sphere/media trying to destroy Jeremy, he will continue to have a voice in parliament. ❤❤

[@Lamilton82828]

Well done Islington I'm proud today to be born by Clissold park.

[@ish_caps2803]

Fonthill Road is with you!! Congratulations

[@oliverkirkland6541]

Cant believe the UK voted for the Starmer party.

[@TheeMuseumofjunk]

The Member for MI5 and St Pancras would never lie to you.

[@edix1673]

There was no alternative. Until Corbyn launches a new party New Labour Mk2 are the best weve got.

[@allanspraggon7207]

They didn't they voted for their own MPs and Starmer just happens to be the leader at the time (while keeping his lobby pals happy in media etc so wasn't bashed from every direction).

[@RabbidTheNabbit]

Best moment of the whole night

[@therealgodessisis]

Yes

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

The people nodding behind him... especially the woman (seem like Greens yes?) Like, why not stand down and divert your votes to him to make sure he won since you're so close to him politically?

[@isaacdavies494]

The Greens have done this before in past-elections but without other parties reciprocating. Well before Jeremy Corbyn got booted out of the lost labor party and switched to Indy there was a decision to run in every electorate again. Otherwise they might as well accept irreleveance. Surely this must have been one of the tough electorates to keep that promise. But if they reneged on running in every seat it would have opened up a ton of bureaucracy about which others to drop out from too. And actually campaigning with the voters is surely the priority. Despite the known pitfalls of FPTP voting Greens multipled their electorates gained and had massive swings in others to become legitimate contenders in the next elections to come.

[@bortstanson2034]

He won overwhelming majority

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

@@bortstanson2034 yes but still. I'm so tired of FPTP that all the non Tory/Ref parties need to get a grip and ally with eachother and step down where strategic. The Tories held on to so many seats and Reform won so many seats, because Lab, LD and Greens split the vote.

[@allanspraggon7207]

@@satyasyasatyasya5746 No, Reform split the Con vote mostly, and people had to be tactical in many areas. I know I did not vote for what I wanted but it kicked out Conservative holding of my area (130 years!), so compared to the rest of my life and politics this finally went a way I could be happy with. First time "my vote has counted" since the mid 90s! So yeah, I am not totally disagreeing but it is much more complex in our system.

[@doghat1619]

@@satyasyasatyasya5746 "Reform won so many seats" 4 is a lot of seats in your world? Reform actually hurt the tories more than anything, reform voters took back all the brexit voters they got in 2019

[@djtomoy]

Why doesn’t he be pm?? He’s a lovely old fella

[@SirPhytone]

A real politician!

[@SkinnyEMedia]

Shame they booted this man out. He would've made Britain...great again! Not Sunak and not Starmer.

[@allanspraggon7207]

Depends what you mean by Great. For some Sunak and Starmer style works VERY well.

[@EZEKIELAIA]

FANTASTIC! WELL DONE JEREMY!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@mchparity]

Yes yes. But we remember your betrayal, Guardian.

[@jj-uy6qs]

🤡

[@alexanderstefanov6474]

Thank goodness

[@acrookedbeat9013]

well done Jeremy so glad you kept your seat

[@SidhuSahibSidhuSahib]

Congratulations ❤❤

[@axelbruv]

The Greens shouldn't have stood against him.

[@saadiarashid497]

Excellent news

[@grailholy]

👍❤❤

[@Mspotatobrocolli]

❤

[@shorelineboy]

Well done Jeremy Corbyn, I’m not in your constituency but I’ve am so elated that you won you deserve it 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🌈👏

[@charanjitsidhu4733]

I will always STAND, SHOULDER TO SHOULDER with you JERMEY.👏👏👏👏👏

[@dylangoddard7449]

The GOAT, truly an emotional win

[@helios7170]

If only he was still the leader of the Labour Party..

[@doody244]

they’d keep losing elections over and over. I remember when the far left made such a big deal about him netting the party a mere thirty seats in 2017. I shifted between 🙄 and 😆. I also predicted that whatever gains made would be wiped out in the next election. He lost twice as many seats a mere 2.5 years later. The “ red wall” completely crumbled and 48 of those 60 seats went to that buffoon Boris Johnson.

[@ukporkpie7829]

Well done Islington North.

[@moldymush]

Well done 👏

[@shazbaz5695]

He needs his own new party so we can all vote for him

[@tinypardus]

In our voting system this will only help the Tories. We need proportional representation (even if it would help the disgusting hateful Reform Party)

[@patriciagallardo4830]

Thank you ❤❤❤ Jeremy. ❤❤❤❤

[@mavy1990]

I just love him. A principled and decent human being who is never willing to compromise. I wish I lived in Islington North 😂

[@anu2135]

So happy Jeremy won his seat, congratulations, you deserve it and thank you for your long service 💖

[@user-rk9it9hz6g]

I dont share all of Jeremy's politics but I cant help but admire his commitment

[@samlee86421]

Thank you Islington

[@cesyneighistaut3451]

He’s like British Bernie Sanders

[@special.k904]

James Obrian is shadow boxing somewhere in a mirror watching this

[@-Th7-]

Many congratulations on your re-election Jeremy. You have always stood by what's right, and the people have stood beside you.

[@TC8787-yq7og]

The North remembers

[@tinypardus]

Islington North is in London

[@geordieceltic2]

Well done the people and Jeremy. A truly honest man.

[@aestas218]

What a man

[@abubakryasin5082]

Sincere man

[@yellowmonkee0]

Well done Jeremy! He should be the PM.

[@user-bk9fk2tq2z]

The Green Party member behind him agreed with him, that was nice to see :-). I like Jeremy Corbyn.

[@racqueljp]

✨❤️✨

[@andrewkerswell8657]

Well done JC. 👍

[@highlandgnome]

Best news of the election so far.

[@Bu11d0ggg]

I’m Farage over Corbyn all day long but what a man he still is, congratulations Jeremy Corbyn 🎉

[@tinypardus]

Weird connection there 💀

[@georgeatkinson759]

Oh Jeremy Corbyn...

[@marykilbane7738]

Well done Jeremy!

[@hotelmario510]

You can't disorb the Corb

[@elleJay-mb4yn]

Well done Jeremy 😊

[@nickvinehill7491]

One of the most significant results of the general election was former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s victory as an independent candidate. After the effort Starmer went to to rid Labour of the ‘left’ in Labour to supposedly clean up and change the Labour Party, Corbyn’s victory defines everything that’s wrong about ‘changed’ Labour’s new government even on its outset. I sincerely hope Corbyn’s continued presence on the opposition benches, albeit as an ‘independent’ MP will cause as much havoc as possible for Starmer’s right wing Labour agenda for growth which will never work anyway.

[@lula383]

Bravo 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ we. Love you. , and your dedication as MP your professionally, dedication, we are honoured to have you as MP, THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@billyfulton4217]

I am delighted that such a splendid candidate, slandered by Starmer’s Labour Party, won this seat. He has always been a person of integrity not like those who falsely accused him of anti semitism.

[@DavidDiaz-uo5pv]

A very great human being and politician, Jeremy Corbyn, his fame transcends the UK borders. Congratulations, Jeremy Corbyn, congratulations Islington North!

[@liamfarrell3281]

A great result.

[@PristianoPenaldoSUIIII]

Get in!!