Respect Party leader Salma Yaqoob quits blaming 'breakdown in trust'

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Interesting to see who will take her place (please god not George, bad enough the tosser's in Parliament)

Respect Party leader Salma Yaqoob has resigned and quit the party, blaming a "breakdown in trust" at senior levels.
She was highly critical of recent comments by Respect MP George Galloway about rape and the case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
She did not refer to that, but said the last few weeks had been "extremely difficult" for the party and for her.
Ms Yaqoob said her decision had been taken with "deep regret" but "collaborative working" had ceased.

The article then goes on about Galloway and Assange and comes back Yaqoob for a bit.

(More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19565100)

[ed miliband]

i for one hope it is galloway, final nail in respect's coffin.


anyone want to place a bet on how quickly yaqoob will be in the labour party?

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

i for one hope it is galloway, final nail in respect's coffin.


anyone want to place a bet on how quickly yaqoob will be in the labour party?

What odds you giving? I'll put 20 on Labour and 25 on starting another party altogether (the New Left Alternative Alliance or whatever)

[Will Scarlet]

Maybe she'll join the Greens, make them a little less white.

Labour people last night arguing on twitter over whether she should join them or not is one of the worst things I've ever seen. The 'left' people want her to make them feel better about what a pile of shit the party is and the right hate her because, well, they're shits.

[ed miliband]

fuck, i occasionally have a gander at twitter and the labour types (and the lefties/liberals in general) that use it are probably the world. twitter bio will always be something like "raging socialist, radical feminist, gin drinker, labour party member. solidarity". oh god, oh god.