With the civil war breaking out once again in the Labour Party it's worth looking at the performances of those organisations to the left who have re-entered the electoral fray following the end of Corbyn's stint as leader. It's a major job collating figures for these small outfits so I've taken a cross section including London to see how they fared.
The two biggest slates were put forward by the Communist Party of Britain (Morning Star) and the Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition formed by the Socialist Party (Militant) with the RMT union and Chris Williamson's tiny Resist organisation.
In London The Communist Party ran a full slate for the London Assembly list but not in the constituencies. They manged to attract 8,787 votes or 0.3% of the total. Their Trotskyist rivals manged to pip past them with 9,004 or 0.3% of the vote.
The Morning Star claims the Communist Party polled it's highest level of support in years with 13,300 votes around the country. The British Road to Socialism is moving forward once more. Sir Keir must be so concerned....not.
The TUSC were humiliatingly beaten in Chessington South (Kingston)by the Official Monster Raving Looney Party who got 16 votes to their 7. The shame....
In Stevenage the TUSC stood 9 candidates across 13 available seats polling a total of 329 votes coming last in every ward.
The TUSC candidate in Scotland (where the Socialist Party have a desperate organisation of less than 50 members) polled 0.7% of the vote in one of the Aberdeen constituencies, coming last since you ask.
George Galloway's Workers Party stood a handful of candidates and got erm...nowhere to be seen.
Oh and Jeremy's even madder brother ex-Trotskyist turned far-right activist polled a grand 0.8% of the London Mayoral vote. We await his return to making weather reports, denying climate change and telling us the pandemic is fake.
All this shows why the hard left clings to the Labour Party for dear life as they know outside where they will have to be open about their Marxist politics the electorate will treat them with the contempt they deserve
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