JontyNoMangles
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JontyNoMangles
@JontyNoMangles
I’m Jonty. I dream of a more equal world.










The local election results in Norwich - despite the excellent track record of Labour at the City Council - and across the country, make this an existential moment for Labour. This will not be fixed by another speech, another comms reset, or another reshuffle. The problem is now far deeper than that. Labour is losing the very people and places it was created to represent. In provincial England, in towns and cities that should be part of Labour’s political heartland, the party’s base is collapsing. Norwich should be a warning. So should the results we are seeing across the country. We cannot pretend this is a 'bad night', a difficult cycle, or a messaging problem. It is a political crisis, and unless we face it honestly, it risks becoming terminal. The Prime Minister has reached the point where the question is no longer whether he can recover. It is whether, by staying on, he does lasting damage to Labour’s ability to govern, rebuild trust, and stop the advance of the right. That is why a timetable for his departure is now necessary. The longer this is delayed, the greater the damage to the party and the country.









































