Editor of Spiked Online Brendan O'Neill says “there is very little enthusiasm for the Labour Party” ahead of the UK general election on Thursday and says the party must 'reckon with itself' if it wants a future.
Editor of Spiked Online Brendan O'Neill says “there is very little enthusiasm for the Labour Party” ahead of the UK general election on Thursday and says the party must 'reckon with itself' if it wants a future. “Corbynistas would argue that is because the media is owned by evil billionaires who want to stop Corbyn from getting into Downing Street, but in fact, it’s because many recognise that the Labour Party is a very problematic party right now,” he told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
" Mr O'Neill said the party needed to be “roundly defeated” on Thursday “so that it might have a reckoning with itself and recover from this pretty awful period that it’s going through”. The editor of Spiked Online said Brexit was “no longer just about leaving the European Union” it was now “a test of whether democracy in this country works”. “If Brexit doesn’t happen then it will look like democracy in this country doesn’t work,” he said.
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