Owen Jones: “You Shouldn’t Vote Labour” 

He's right, there's no point keep complaining about this two party system and then voting for this two party system.

Never forget Peter Mandelson's odious smirking that progressive voters have "nowhere else to go"...

I was unhappy with labour but on the run up to the Labour conference was just about thinking, 'Ok Starmer will be a less ambishous blair but probably better on wars and human rights... I'll vote for them and hope they'll suprise me with their domestic plans'. Then one of the first things I got around to hearing from the conference was his take on the gaza situation and I was uterly gobsmacked. I was going out of my way to find reasons to vote labour but at every turn they were going out of their way to drive me away. Will be voting green for the first time.

100% with you Owen. Been saying this for over a year now. Tory 2 will NOT DO.

This right here, this has been a long time coming. I watch Owen Jones and Novara media independently. This video has been much needed. More collaborations with you two would be amazing :)

He's not quit the Labour party, because technically it isn't the Labour party anymore.

I left as soon as starmer started the purge. Even Blair didn't purge anyone

As Galloway rightly said: "the Labour Party and Conservatives are two cheeks from the same backside' 👏

He’s only quit now, given the latest news regarding the front bench’s comments on Thatcher who’s synonymous with treating the working class and the poorest like failures and vermin. Given that historically Labour always had the interests of the working class and the poor at its fundamental core, he’s well reasoned to be annoyed that Labour have abandoned that and are failing to oppose the conservatism that has made Britain ruinous. If his parents and grandparents were still around, they’d probably follow him out Labour’s door. It is not the Labour Party anymore, isn’t worthy of that name, it should be the New Conservatives. Good for him! I give him all my solidarity!

I’ve always voted Labour at every opportunity but now at 54 years I will be voting for the greens or a Local independent candidate depending on the options for the foreseeable future.

It's not that the people have left the Labour Party, the Labour Party has left the people.

Congratulations, Owen! This must have been a huge decision for you: depending on how you look at it, all things considered, simultaneously the most difficult and the easiest decision to make!

It's not a Labour party, it' Tory Light

The Lanour party have quit the working class, vulnerable and poor people of this Country

Yup, not voting Labour

How can anyone vote for Labour now they are a poor Tory tribute act 😔

Your cat already believes it is the supreme ruler of the universe. So does your other cat. So do all cats.

Hopefully no one votes Labour or Tory.

I have one of the few good Labour MPs in Nottingham East. Otherwise I'd leave the party in a heartbeat.

We now have no left wing party in the UK, how can democracy possibly work?

Well done Owen.

yes , I quit the party when Starmer refused to back ceasefire. Labour is now Tory-lite at best.

in the land of Keir Hardy people say 'the Labour Party left me'

exactly vote green, vote independent, vote even Galloway worker party if they have a good candidate. Vote labour only if the vote goes to a Socialist Campaign Group member. It's pivotal for the Uk (but also for the rest of europe and the world) to have a strong left-wing representation in parliament in order to hold to account Labour and the Tories.

We now know what concerns Starmer the most and no it's not Israel's genocide in Gaza and now the famine that's because Starmer has said Israel has this right to do this, it's a st georges cross on a football shirt.

Took him bloody long enough to realise that Labour isnt Labour. The rest of us knew this 25 years ago.

Brilliant action!! Owen, Aaron and Gary should form a political movement!!

I don't agree with all that Owen Jones says but on this point yes, I will not vote for Starmer's establishment party.

Thank god i have the option to vote SNP

Excellent move Owen … the CHANGE starts here.

I've always appreciated Owen for his moral stances and his clear thinking (not just complaining but actually trying to articulate a solution). I completely agree with his position and will be supporting we deserve better. The fact that people on the Internet have lost their minds that he left labour says a lot - you should vote on policy - not on a team. (Personally I have been a green party member for a decade and I'm happy with their policies).

Well we had Jones Labour leader in Corbin,it got us NOWHERE.

Starmer is more offended about the depiction of a flag on a football shirt than the slaughter of thousands of innocent people in Gaza.

What took him so long? He's absolutely correct and it's comforting for someone like him to openly say it, as it's how I've felt for a long time

I'll be voting Green for the first time in a GE. I will only vote Labour if it looks like it's gonna be close (Not going to happen) Or Labour puts PR in there manifesto (Not going to happen although democratically supported at conference )

Do not vote Labour until Kier Starmer resigns, vote independent instead.

Agree. Starmer's Labour cannot be trusted with a large majority. Ideally Starmer & Streeting lose their seats

Well he is right. It's about time people actually voted for what they believe in rather than caught up in the two party propaganda. We don't live in America we can vote for another party and we should and need to. Labour really is no better than the Tories, at all any more.

voting red or blue is like arranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

A vote for the ostrich with head in sand party. What we really need now is another Tory term. Go Owen

Jones is now one of many becoming increasingly disillusioned with Starmer and just how little he differs from the main opposition.

I’m 54 and have voted Labour at every general election. I also used to be a Labour Party member. I decided a long while ago that I will not be voting Labour at the next general election.

I agree with most of what Jones says but i think he has a bit of an inflated sense of how important he is, the average voter won't even have heard of him and I doubt that Starmer is going to be losing sleep after learning that Jones no longer supports him.

Votes have to be earned, they are offering nothing

Starmer is a deceitful individual devoid of humanity and his version of the party is no better. I was done with this sham a couple of years ago.

Regardless of how Owen has arrived at this point, it should be welcomed. I personally feel the final straw was the orchestrated campaign against Corbyn that made me realise this crowd is mot redeemable. A true left, rooted in economic justice and class politics is the only way to unite people. The left tears itself apart by engaging too often in identity politics. This is not to say the right don’t either, but I don’t care what they do. Everything needs to start with workers. Support for workers, against the oligarch class. Even the Palestinian question comes down to this.

You can't tie your shoelaces but you can think on your feet argue and debate cogently and still own a moral compass

My only worry here is that "the wrong amount" vote Green etc, and we end up with either a Tory/Reform abominable government, or a parliament that agrees on even more terrible/even less good things than we have at the moment.

Has Owen ever condemned repeatedly Hamas for hostage taking, and the reports of rape, and the massacre of Jews in the settlements, and even the UN say their is enough evidence to say their is sexual assault of hostages. We all want a ceasefire, and the stopping of the killing of innocents, but the fate of the hostages from both sides seems of little importance.

The fact that the media has lost its collective shit over this just proves his point

Will Owen apologise for his part in bringing Corbyn down. Or should we forget that?

Signed up and donated, I hope this works

If the Tories DO get demolished, Jones is out of a job.

The question we all want to know is will you be backing Count Binface for mayor?

On 7th October last year I foresaw that the Labour Party could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. This is a hard question, and in a way there isn't a correct answer - in the forthcoming election, do we prioritise the NHS and social justice for the 60 million or so in this country, or do we prioritise, but not resolve, what is going on between the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights? If opposition to the Tories fractures enough for them to scrape together a Conservative victory then kiss goodbye to the NHS, your pensions, any form of social services, and get ready for the privatisation of everything, including HMRC. The Tories hate us, they have never forgiven the people for 1945 and the creation of a welfare state, and they want it gone. Those are the stakes, don't help them.

I have been a Labour supporter for over 65 years, and had my fair share of pickets and strikes. The days of the cloth cap and scarf have gone. If you have any sense you respond from within. All you do is to divide and weaken. Look what happened when David Owen and Co deserted. Jeremy Corben was not a bad person is personality did not fit with many voters, just like Neil Kinnock. Owen and Galloway are doing more harm than good, ok for radicals but not the every day crafter.

Fully support this. Great idea and really important that we break the two-party right wing MPs whether they are red or blue in colour.

From my foreign perspective he is obviously right.

Surely if all left leaning people followed Owen's lead, we'd end up with another Tory term in power.

So Owen didn't leave Labour. The party left him. There's no shame in staying away from a party you're didn't get invited to.

I understand what Owen Jones is stating. What ever one thinks the Tories are toast and Labour will form the next Government. The principle aim is at the next election is to ensure the Tories do not become the second party but to become at least the third if not totally wiped out. To do this tactical voting is the solution as what actually happened in Rochdale. I will be looking closely at the independent candidate in my ward or voting for the Greens any way.

It's the labour party that have quit on us! 😢

He is right. There is nothing of substance which would distinguish Labour from Conservatives

The Tories may be toast but they still know on which side their bread is buttered

100% agree way Owen regarding galloway and glad corbyn refused to work way galloway. Look if England don't stand up to both torys and Labour nothing ever going to change. Nobody should vote either vote anyone bar 😅

I totally agree, since Blair, the Labour party has ceased to represent the working class.

I just hope the whole country votes for anyone but the three main partys. They are not representative of what the people want and need. I mean, rich people and people of influence are well represented but what about the many many people that don't really understand politics and the way UK mainstream media leads them to actually vote against their own interests by making a huge deal about immigration. And pretending they want to stop it. The mainstream partys need immigration to help keep their donors make ever increasing profit through cheap labour. Yet they get a lot of mileage by PRETENDING to want to stop it. Rwanda...what a joke. Stick a pin in a map and pretend that will be the way to make England for the English. And people get sucked into that. They actually believe it. They don't see they're being played.

Owen is an excellent reporter and a man of principle...Slowly but surely more candidates will be found . The once great labour party contracted a vile cancer with Blair or as Bliar as many of us called him ...

I've teetered on the brink for a long time. Finally left today. I was waiting for a day when the Starmer project fails and there was the opportunity to vote for a new party leader. I guess that day will be a long time coming. I hope they can only form a governing majority with support from the greens and snp, and as part of the deal that we overhaul FPTP voting system.

Well done, I’m with you

Thank you to Owen Jones....may God bless you infinitely for standing on the right side of history and having compassion and humanity.......there are people that are Gods chosen......thank you Owen Jones

Glad I'm Scottish and don't have to vote for the awful labour and morally bankrupt tories 😂

I’m going to vote labour now

i am 61 this year and always voted Labour but am 100 % with Owen Jones.

Love this, I'm giving them some money straight away. Enough is enough

Just registered to donate £10 a month. I used to be a labour member when Corbyn was leader and I complain so much about how we have no decent alternative to the big two. Well this is it. Whether it’s successful in achieving anything this election, I’ll be honest I don’t have much faith but I think we have to try. Labour in its current guise are an absolute abomination of a party and any power we can take from them, even if it’s just a seat or two could build the beginning of a coalition of greens and like minded independents working together, then it’ll be worth it. I think the benefit of this may come in the election after labours first term. Once people see we were right about starmer, many people will become disillusioned and fall into the arms of the far right as Owen says but many will seek out something on the left. If they can see that ‘We Deserve Better’ made a dent into Labour this election, even if it was ever so slight, it might encourage others to join next time when more will be ready to look for an alternative.

I live in Croydon. I don't want the Tories to take back this constituency. I looked at past voting numbers, and Labour was only just leading in the last two elections. No other party is even close. I'm also unhappy with Labour overall. What do I do?

why do we have to look after other people? when our own British people are suffering.

All he's doing is giving the Tory party a bit of hope, thinking he's making a grand gesture and playing into their hands.

Sorry Owen.....I want the Tories out .

Joined in 1977........Starmer would have been considered to be a Tory then. ....neoliberal economics and all.....excuses for failure to condemn the slaughter in Gaza was the last straw for me.

Me too. Voted labour all my life. Starmer is not labour.

OWEN , I AGREE WITH YOU 100% I LOVE YOUR HONESTY . YOU ARE TRULY BLESSED . THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL , NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES . YOU HAVE A VERY SPECIAL GIFT , YOUNG MAN . THANK GOD AND THANKS FOR BRILLIANT GENES... BE BLESSED & ONE LOVE ❤

I honestly believe the Starmers Labour party is the biggest threat to our democracy we have ever faced. Even if it meant the Tories win I will not vote for Labour and enable Starmer to take power. He's a pound shop Stalin. I'm voting Green.

Iniquitous 2 child benefit cap!

I have been supporting George Galloway up until now, i never knew he made these statements! I trust Owen, he is an honest man. Looks like i am voting for Green or other independent MP.

Respect to Owen - keep up the good work man

Yep, made my donation and will donate more as the movement progresses. Keep up the good work.

I'm not totally convinced the Tories are as finished as they seem. If those Reform voters shift back to the Tories and other Tory voters decide not to sit on their hands then Starmer might not get a big majority. Or a majority at all. We'll see what happens over the summer.

Good for Owen. I'm surprised it's taken him this long.

While I don't agree with all that Owen says, I have 40+ years voting labour but this current bunch of "politicians" does not represent me or my values so I will not vote for them at the next election

The Labour Party, since Tony Blair have abandoned the Poor, average Working classes, home ownership is a pipe dream for most, starting a family is very difficult & expecting to have a financially comfortable retirement is only for the well off. ❤️🇬🇧

I have jumped the ship definitely

Why not get Jeremy to start a new party.

Jones is such a 🤡.

Dont vote Labour bevause i get a lot of money to say that

Miserable and risky though it may be, external electoral pressure is the right approach to effect change. Farage knew this - while we were laughing at his failures to get elected, he was using that spotlight to leverage issues to Cameron's right until we reach the current state of UK politics with hard-right policies entrenched as electoral necessities and the Tories over a barrel about how many seats Reform stand against them in. If Labour doesn't have a reason to fear progressive voters going elsewhere, they have no incentive to offer them anything.

Honestly, if we get 4 more years of the Tories, losing by 0.5% because a bunch of people vote independents, everyone will go apoplectic!

I'd already made this choice and its good to see other leftist are representing this, labours centre right position is not what we need.

It really worrys me how many people think this is going to work. I feel like I’m either missing something or the left is literally just gonna hand another 4 years to the tories. A lot of people out there don’t have the privilege to take that risk. Remember when everyone voted Lib Dem before the coalition government? Change does need to happen but imo we need to vote Labour in then hold them to account on everything and put so much pressure on them they can’t be Tory lite anymore