Former Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn and Coventry MP Zara Sultana, both former Labour MPs who lost the whip, are threatening to start a new party on the left.
I use the word threaten, as that is what this project will do. It will threaten the NHS, threaten employment rights and threaten to destroy what little faith the public has in politics.
Why?
Because, under the First Past the Post electoral system, splitting the progressive vote will help Nigel Farage become Prime Minister.
Corbyn, in his four-year tenure as Labour leader, failed to advocate for proportional representation. Instead, he was happy to maintain a system which essentially reduces politics down to a two-horse race.
Jeremy and Zara know full well that by forming another left party under the current electoral system, they will split the vote and help Reform come to power. Yet, this is what they are doing.
Things are not easy now, in the UK or global politics. But things will get so much worse if a split progressive vote puts the Reform Party into Government in the UK.
Nick Kelly 