HEEL TURN BURNS: ALT-RIGHT YOUTUBE NETWORK TAKEN DOWN

In yet another major blow for the Alt-Right, the Heel Turn Network (HTN) has been demonetised by YouTube and Streamlabs. 

HTN has been a kind of YouTube hub for a range of semi-popular and less popular Alt-Right channels that were being monetised through YouTube and Streamlabs, a stream processing platform, which can be used to collect tips and donations. 

The move came after an article appeared on anti-Alt-Right blog Angry White Men highlighting the importance of Streamlabs to the growth and success of HTN:

One of the largest white supremacist groups that collects donations through its Streamlabs account is the Heel Turn Network, a YouTube channel that acts as a hub for numerous online shows. Heel Turn is currently headed by white nationalist Seth Wallace, who goes by the pseudonym “Joachim Hoch.” Wallace often appears as a co-host alongside National Policy Institute leader Richard Spencer.

Last year Spencer was accused of domestic violence by his ex-wife Nina Koupriianova. Some of his alleged abuse included throwing her down a flight of stairs, punching her in the face while she was pregnant, and urging her to commit suicide. He was reportedly fond of telling her that the “only language women understand is violence.” At Heel Turn he hosts the eponymous Richard Spencer Show.

According to their Streamlabs page, their top ten donors for the past month have given a total of $874.16. In addition to a donation page for the Heel Turn Network itself, at least three shows appearing on the network have separate donation pages on Streamlabs.

The article is a lengthy catalogue of how "Nazi," "Neo-Nazi," "wignat," "K-word," "N-word," or simply tasteless the various channels hosted on Heel Turn were. For example:

The Gas Station is another recent, explicitly Neo-Nazi show, hosted by the pseudonymous Sarin and German James Woods. The show borrows its title from the gas chambers that were used to murder Jewish inmates en masse at extermination camps such as Treblinka and Auschwitz. Even the still image from the most recent episode depicts Woods and Sarin standing next to a Dodge Challenger — James Fields’ car — outside the gates of Auschwitz.

Pathetic Andrew Anglin wannabes.

Yes tastelessness is fast becoming a "hate crime" on the internet.  

In response to this, Seth Wallace has now left Heel Turn, which also appears to have switched most of its content to private or deleted it.

The various livestreams formerly hosted on it have moved or are moving to other YouTube channels. A video by Augustus Invictus explained that the Richard Spencer, Apollonian Transmission, and Ragnarok and Roll livestreams would now be on Radix's YouTube channel, effectively Richard Spencer's personal YouTube channel.

Gas Station and Goy Talk will be on some channel called Vanguard, and Minority Report, The Foundry (with Matt Parrott), and Dr Duke Live will be on the Revolutionary Conservative channel.

Spencer is apparently hoping to escape from this latest shitstorm in his long career of shitstorms by focusing on "more intellectual" content. 

The hope is that he will be able to distance himself from the cruder, racial-smear-using, Nazi-signalling livestreams, which will either be hunted down in the same way as HTN or left alone if they are regarded as insignificant enough. 

With this and the recent Amazon purge of Alt-Right books, the Alt-Right must feel that the sky has collapsed on it again. 

Maybe this will educate the brighter ones among them to follow the advice of Colin Liddell and avoid all the Nazi crap. The problem is that most of these people unironically think Hitler was the greatest man who ever lived and blame the Jews for everything that is wrong with the World.

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AMAZON CRACKS DOWN ON "WHITE NATIONALIST MANIFESTO" AND OTHER JEW-CRITICAL BOOKS

It is not yet clear exactly what is happening but it appears that online retail monopoly Amazon.com has started another major crackdown on right-wing literature. 

This time they appear to be focusing on books that are critical of Jewish power and the Jews, including Greg Johnson's "White Nationalist Manifesto" and E. Michael Jones "Jewish Nazis."

While Johnson is a well-known "Hitler fetishist" who blames the Jews for practically everything wrong with the modern West, E. Michael Jones is a non-racial Catholic traditionalist who critiques the influence of Jewish culture in more spiritual terms. The one thing they have in common, however, is that they criticize Jewishness. 

On Facebook, E. Michael Jones shared a post from his publisher Fidelity Press, which read:

Amazon has removed E. Michael Jones's e-book "Jewish Nazis" from sale, telling us "we found that the subject matter of the following book is in violation of our content guidelines." (If you previously purchased this e-book on Amazon, please let us know whether Amazon has also removed it from your Kindle. Thank you.)

Greg Johnson, who recently outed himself as an explicitly gay man, complained about Amazon's decision to ban his book in an article published at Counter-Currents. He also drew attention to Amazon's monopoly power:

This is deeply upsetting to me. I have been buying from Amazon.com for 20 years. The only company I truly love is Counter-Currents. But Amazon comes in a close second. Amazon made a good business by selling all books, even those that only sell a few copies a year. That model laid the foundation for Amazon basically becoming a global marketplace for practically everything. Amazon’s algorithms and search functions, as well as its reviews, were enormously helpful in expanding my intellectual horizons. I visit the site virtually every day. And second only to the pride of opening the first carton of a new Counter-Currents book is the pride I felt seeing our titles pop up on Amazon. Even if Amazon completely deplatformed me, I don’t think I could bring myself to never look at it again.

Amazon is as indispensable in today’s world as banks, hospitals, and utilities. And just as the gas company should not be able to make you freeze because they disagree with your politics, Amazon and other natural monopolies like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook need to be regulated. In fact, to safeguard freedom of opinion, we need a complete ban on politically correct terms of service and employment throughout the US economy. The First Amendment needs to rein in corporate as well as government tyranny.

Johnson

In the past Johnson has been a fervent admirer of Naziism  and has frequently praised Hitler and Savitri Devi, a rabid Hitler fan who lived in India. 

Needless to say, linking White nationalism to the rotting corpse of Adolf Hitler makes it much easier for a company like Amazon, which at least claims to believe in free speech, to censor books. 

As Colin Liddell and others have long argued, this is why any movement seeking "White well-being" in the modern age should have a correct view of Hitler, namely as a self-destructive mass murderer who hated and killed mainly White people, and as someone who polluted the waters that healthy White nationalism must swim in, which means that those waters must be cleaned. 

While successful European nationalist movements have done just that, American nationalist movements haven't and have continued to fail.

Johnson's constant Nazi signalling, along with his willingness to associate himself with particularly off-putting forms of White nationalism created by highly suspicious characters -- (((Weev))), Andrew Anglin, (((Mike Enoch))), etc. -- has come back to kick him up the ass. 

The sad thing is that the reaction he has helped to stir up will not only hurt him, but will also spill over and hurt other, more sensible White identitarians with saner and more rational views. 

***********UPDATE***********

Counter-Currents reports that the following books have also been banned from Amazon:

Greg Johnson, New Right vs. Old Right
Greg Johnson, Truth, Justice, and a Nice White Country 
Greg Johnson, In Defence of Prejudice
Greg Johnson, ed., North American New Right, vol. 1 
Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies
Son of Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies 
F. Roger Devlin, Sexual Utopia in Power 
Jonathan Bowden, Western Civilization Bites Back
Jonathan Bowden, Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics
Michael Polignano, Taking Our Own Side
James J. O’Meara, The Homo and the Negro: Masculinist Meditations on Politics and Popular Culture
Spencer Quinn, White Like You
Savitri Devi, And Time Rolls On 
Savitri Devi, Defiance: The Prison Memoirs of Savitri Devi 
Irmin Vinson, Some Thoughts on Hitler & Other Essays 


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CORBYN DOES MAD BREXIT U-TURN IN DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO STOP LABOUR SPLITTING

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been forced to capitulate to the Bremainer wing of his party in order to stop yet more MPs defecting to the breakaway "Independent Group" of MPs and further splitting the party. 

As reported by the Sun:

Jeremy Corbyn tonight announced he will back a second Brexit referendum which could betray 17.4million Leave voters.

The leftie leader pledged to support moves for a "public vote to prevent a damaging Tory Brexit" - after months of dithering.

It is the first time Mr Corbyn has officially backed the idea of a referendum which could end up keeping us in the EU despite the result of the 2016 vote.

The Labour boss has been under increasing pressure from pro-Remain MPs and activists to support a so-called "people's vote", especially after nine MPs left last week - with eight of them joining the Independent Group.

But Brexiteers blasted him today for backing a vote which would disregard the result of the first referendum.

And the policy is still fudged - with no clarity on what form the referendum would actually take or when it would be.

While many Labour voters in London oppose Brexit, the party's traditional White working class voters in the North of the country are much more split on the issue. In fact, about 70% of all constituencies with a Labour MP voted for Brexit. 

By taking a more strongly Remainer position, Corbyn has thus greatly weakened the electoral prospects of many of his colleagues.

This is not a move by a strong leader. Rather it is desperate attempt to stop dozens of other centrist Labour MPs leaving an already weakened party. Since Tony Blair resigned as leader in 2007, the Labour Party has been moving to the Left -- and ever greater unelectability. 

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FORTRESS EUROPE GROWS: NATIONALISTS CAPTURE SARDINIA IN LATEST REGIONAL ELECTION

The Nationalist Right have captured the island of Sardinia in the latest regional election in Italy. 

As reported by Reuters: 

According to a projection after some 80 percent of the vote had been counted, Christian Solinas, the candidate from the rightwing bloc, had won around 48 percent in Sunday’s election for regional governor, well ahead of the incumbent center-left on 33 percent. The candidate for the populist 5-Star — which won 42.5 percent of the vote in Sardinia in the national election a year ago that catapulted it into government — won just 11 percent.

The winner Solinas is a senator from the League, the far-right party that rules at the national level in coalition with 5-Star. In regional elections, the League fields candidates as part of an alliance with rightist and center-right parties.

Sardinia is the sixth consecutive region or province to pass from the center-left to the right since the center-left Democratic Party (PD) was ousted from power at a national election in March, underscoring the PD’s ongoing crisis.

The victory is a little awkward, as the League (Lega) and its leader Matteo Salvini are part of a national coalition government with 5-Star. 

Since the two "outsider" parties won the Italian election last year, the Lega has been gaining in popularity relative to 5-Star due to Salvini's populist approach to the invasion of Italy by fake migrants assisted by fake NGOs. For this reason there have been some attempts to downplay the significance or these latest election results:

On Monday 5-Star leader Luigi Di Maio, League leader Matteo Salvini and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte were all quick to rule out any repercussions on the government in Rome.

“We must not over-emphasize a regional election,” Conte, who is non-partisan but closer to 5-Star, told reporters on the sidelines of a summit in Egypt. “I don’t believe the results could have any consequences for the national government.”

Di Maio said: “Nothing changes for the government.”

The fact is Italian voters are increasingly red-pilled, and the party that delivers the best policies for such voters is bound to keep growing. If 5-Star want to avoid being swallowed by the League, they will have match them by being just as anti-globalist.  

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"TRUCKS OF HOPE" BURNT ON THE BORDER BY LAUGHING MADURO STORMTROOPERS

Only a violent military invasion can make this in any way better.

Not since the dark day in 1263 when Genghis Khan captured the city of Samarkand and executed its five million inhabitants to build a giant pyramid of skulls to break up the monotony of the steppes has such an atrocity occurred on a single day as occurred on the Venezuelan border yesterday.

The World looked on in horror and disbelief as the evil "Brown Nazi" storm troopers of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro torched a convoy of innocent trucks carrying vital supplies of medicine and baby food to the starving children and old people of Venezuela. Even the incontinence pants were burned!

As failed Presidential candidate Marco Rubio pointed out:

Yes, indeed, the criminal regime in Caracas has truly earned the ire of Heaven and the spleen of the Gods!

But not only did this evil Nazi Fascist regime burn the sacred "Trucks of Hope" before the bleeding eyes of children and elderly citizens, it also threatened a "Ship of Deliverance" laden with yet more food and medicine, as once again noticed by unsuccessful Presidential candidate Marco Rubio:

Not since the American ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a Nazi U-boat in 1914 and the survivors machine-gunned in the crimson waters as they begged for mercy has such a naval atrocity occurred. 

How much longer can President Trump ignore the cries of the starving children of Venezuela?

How many more days can he ignore the screams of those subjected to the horrors of free socialist medical care? 

When will he finally unleash the bombs of Hope? When will he unbind the rockets of Change, and finally untether the Apache helicopters of Freedom? 

The world waits, but the world also demands to know!

Meanwhile Maduro continues to laugh at the sobs and whimpers of the children and the howls of the dying and the as-yet-unborn.

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WHO IS FUNDING THE (NOT SO) INDEPENDENT GROUP? IS IT TIME TO FOLLOW THE MONEY?

Chuka some money Umunna's way.

Since it emerged just a few days ago, the so-called "Independent Group" of MPs has been behaving in an extremely suspicious manner. 

Even though their chief demand is that the British people must vote again on the question of staying in or leaving the European Union, all of the MPs are refusing to give their own constituents a second vote on whether they want them to continue as MPs by resigning and fighting by-elections. 

There are also growing demands from the public to know exactly who is funding the new group of 11 breakaway MPs (8 from the Labour Party and 3 from the Conservatives). 

Because the group has not officially registered as a political party, it does not yet have to reveal who is backing it financially. How convenient!

One Labour MP, Ruth George, even had to apologise after speculating aloud that the group was being partly funded by Israel. As yet we do not know if this is the case or not.

As reported by the Guardian:

A Labour MP has apologised for suggesting Israel could be secretly funding Luciana Berger and other MPs who quit the party on Monday citing unhappiness with Labour’s approach to tackling complaints of antisemitism.

Ruth George, the MP for High Peak, withdrew the comment and said she had no intention of invoking a conspiracy theory, when she responded to someone asking whether it was appropriate to say the seven departing MPs were “Israelis”.

The MP had written on Facebook: “Support from the State of Israel, which supports both Conservative and Labour ‘Friends of Israel’, of which Luciana [Berger] was chair, is possible and I would not condemn those who suggest it, especially when the group’s financial backers are not being revealed.

“It’s important for democracy to know the financial backers for any political group or policy.”

There is still little hard evidence about who is backing the group financially. What we do know is that one of the MPs Gavin Shuker has set up a limited company called Gemini A Ltd., in order to manage the group's finances. 

One clue is to look at who was funding the MPs before they broke with their respective parties. The Guardian has some interesting info on this:

In 2017 [Chuka] Umunna [one of the MPs] reported three donations totalling £45,000 from the property developer David Garrard, the former chairman of Lloyds TSB Victor Blank, and Paul Myners, who served as financial services secretary to Gordon Brown and was subsequently appointed to the House of Lords.

Myners is also a former chairman of Guardian Media Group, which owns the Guardian...

Angela Smith, another Independent Group MP, has been criticised for taking hospitality from water industry interests while also campaigning against nationalisation of the sector.

Smith is chair of the all-party parliamentary group on water, which is funded by the private water industry. Last year she wrote a comment piece for the Guardian warning against “ideological siren calls for nationalisation” of the industry. She is a former shadow water minister.

David Gerrard and Victor Blank are both Jewish, so could reasonably be suspected of being overly sympathetic to Israel and a Neocon foreign policy, but Paul Myners is not. 

Berger on the run from the Labour Party and her own voters.

Luciana Berger, another prominent member in the group, has received large donations in the past from Lord Grantchester, a Labour Lord and billionaire with a fortune estimated at 1.2 billion pounds ($1.6 billion), an investment company called Red Capital, and Gurnek Bains, a Sikh businessman.

The one thing that is clear from all this is that the group is not being financed by the ordinary British voters, whose interests it is clearly working against.

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CHINESE USING AIDS RESEARCH TO COVER-UP "SUPER BABY" EUGENICS PROGRAM

While the West ties itself in moral knots about about how "evil" it is to harvest stem cells or how "extra special" babies with Down's Syndrome are, the Chinese are accelerating at full speed down the Eugenics Superhighway. 

As reported by Technology Review:

The brains of two genetically edited girls born in China last year may have been changed in ways that enhance cognition and memory, scientists say.

The twins, called Lulu and Nana, reportedly had their genes modified before birth by a Chinese scientific team using the new editing tool CRISPR. The goal was to make the girls immune to infection by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

The funny part here is that the Chinese are using the prevention of AIDs to Chinese girls as the "excuse" for this research. No gender/race group is less likely be afflicted with this disease than East Asian females, so this is clearly cover.

Nobody is going to say outright that they are trying to create a super-intelligent master race, because we all know how that sounds right? But this is exactly what it looks like they are trying to create:

The Chinese team, led by He Jiankui of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, claimed it used CRISPR to delete CCR5 from human embryos, some of which were later used to create pregnancies. HIV requires the CCR5 gene to enter human blood cells.

The experiment has been widely condemned as irresponsible, and He is under investigation in China. News of the first gene-edited babies also inflamed speculation about whether CRISPR technology could one day be used to create super-intelligent humans, perhaps as part of a biotechnology race between the US and China.

There is no evidence that He actually set out to modify the twins’ intelligence. MIT Technology Review contacted scientists studying the effects of CCR5 on cognition, and they say the Chinese scientist never reached out to them, as he did to others from whom he hoped to get scientific advice or support.

Of course they didn't reach out! Why would they? The only reason Chinese scientists reach out to American scientists is when they have some knowledge or technology that the Chinese don't yet have. In this case however, it is the Chinese who are way ahead. Why would they want to share that with their rival superpower?

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MAINSTREAM MEDIA SENDS OUT WARG RIDERS TO SCOUR LAND IN SEARCH OF WHITE-ON-BLACK RACIAL INJUSTICE

It's a well known fact that the empire that is America cannot survive without a steady stream of lynching reports and news stories of racial attacks on minorities. 

Without that, White people might wake up from their zombie trance of perpetual guilt and start noticing stuff. So that simply can't be allowed to happen.

But, unfortunately, in the wake of the misreporting of the Covington High School boys case and the Jusse Smollett "fake noose" incident, there has been a dearth of such stories. So, now, as a last resort, the big news corporations, whose responsibility it is to keep the nation supplied with heart-rending tales of cruel, White-on-Black injustice, have been forced to turn to an army of flesh-eating Orcs mounted on giant wolves for help.

The mounted Orcs, known as Warg Riders, have been asked to range out over the land in search of genuine White-on-Black instances of violence and oppression, anything in fact that looks even 1% like the Emmet Till case from the 1960s,

The large, brutish creatures from Middle Earth will be asked to scour "the land between the oceans" (Maga country) and the "Rimworld" (Bernie Bro land) in a desperate attempt to find at least a single incident of Whites being nasty to Blacks. It is then hoped that this can be built up into "the one story to rule them all" and keep the guilt-imposed conditioning of Whites firmly in place. 

If they are unable to achieve this, the Orcs are under orders to buy Maga caps and spray cans to paint swastikas everywhere before returning to the fiery depths of Mount Doom.

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FREE AT LAST: GREG JOHNSON FINALLY EMBRACES HIS GAY NATURE

The Currents no longer have to be Counter any more.

Colin Liddell · The Notorious Pilleater Tapes (Please download and share)

The Alt-Right is full of heart-warming moments, of shy, sensitive people getting in touch with others and finally their deep inner selves. 

"Become who you are," as Richard Spencer famously said before becoming a coke head philanderer who beat up his pregnant wife. 

One of the most touching tales of self-discovery, however, is surely that of Greg Johnson, the effete, intellectual editor of Counter-Currents, the publisher of quality books like this one:

For many years Johnson has been a deeply conflicted individual, presenting himself as a future heroic leader of his people, while struggling with his gay sexuality and love of unicorns. 

This conflict runs deep and hard in Johnson, piercing him to the very centre of his being, causing him deep joy, pain, and psychic confusion. 

It has even surfaced in his work from time to time, as we see with his cover design for his latest book, "Poor Little White Boy 3," which, in some dark, Freudian way, is oddly based on an obscure porn video called "The White Nationalist Manifesto."

Touched by his obvious plight, many kind people in the Alt-Right have attempted to help Greg resolve this inner conflict by getting him to embrace and celebrate his beautiful gay sexuality. 

Unfortunately for Greg, as we see in the above Livestream (at the 50:57 mark), he was not ready to face his true sexuality and took a powder, instead preferring to implicitly "signal" his gayness by little quirks and mannerisms, and a voice that sounds like a scout master on helium. 

But now, thanks to the help of other kind friends, Johnson has finally managed to build up the courage to publicly embrace his homosexuality in public. 

Most of the credit must go to Pilleater, who secretly recorded a conversation with Johnson, in which the Counter-Currents chief unambiguously admitted his homosexuality and predilection for gay sex. But thanks should also go to those other kind people who then spread the good news far and wide by posting the recording online, both at Archive.org and YouTube, where both Luke Ford and Matt Forney discussed Johnson's brave coming out on their Livestreams. 

The key passage in the recording is at the 47:20 mark, where Johnson clearly says:

There's actually a group of guys who are mostly gay and some of them bi-sexual on Facebook who are in the Alt-Right scene, and I belong to the group."

This may seem like a small step to take for a man, who everybody already knew was gay, but it was a giant step for Johnson-kind, an open and defiant public admission of his total gayness before the World. 

Other priceless quotes include:

"Your brother is a handsome, blossoming guy." — Greg Johnson"

"Brandon is a flirt! If he thinks you're cute, he's going to flirt with you!" — Greg Johnson (Regarding the fact that three different homosexual guys had approached "Pilleater" for homosexual "relations" at a CC conference.)

Pilleater: Should I go on the Matt Forney show tomorrow?

Greg: Please don't!

Pilleater: I just want to talk about how I feel about certain people, and how the homosexual community is latching on to the alt-right movement.

Greg: Which people?! My anxiety level is rising!

What a beautiful moment! I feel that an angel or a butterfly has finally got her wings.

Johnson's "spirit animal" frolics in joy at his liberation.

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SEVEN MPs QUIT LABOUR TO FORM NEW "LOSER'S REFERENDUM" PARTY

Seven MPs from the UK Labour Party have quit to form a new parliamentary group due to differences with Labour's leadership over Brexit and essentially false accusations of anti-Semitism in the Party. 

The seven members, include Luciana Berger, a victim of an Andrew Anglin troll army campaign in 2014, and Chuka Umunna, a Black MP who was once groomed to become the "British Obama," before everybody just realised how crap the first one had been and lost interest. 

The other five MPs are total nobodies. 

Anti-Semitic meme made by
Anglin's troll army in 2014

The seven MPs will now be known by the exciting and imaginative name "The Independent Group." Their main political objective is to overturn the result of the 2016 Referendum to leave the European Union. In order to do this they are calling for another referendum -- a so-called "Loser's Vote" -- which they hope to rig.

They have also called for MPs from the Labour and Conservative parties to join them, but have not extended this invitation to the LibDems, probably because, when their project fails, they will be asking to join the LibDems instead of the other way round. 

Another point of difference between the group and the Labour Party leadership is over the so-called "anti-Semitism issue." According to MPs like Berger, Labour is "institutionally anti-Semitic." In several stories that we ran at Trad News in recent months, however, these accusations were found to have little or no substance, although it's pretty clear that Labour hates all White people. 

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Essentially the seven MPs are part of an isolated Blairite faction in the party -- i.e. followers of discredited former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Blairites believe in centrist economic policies, globalism, and neocon wars for Israel, which is why they are so sensitive about any criticism of Israel.

The bulk of the Labour party's grass roots membership, by contrast, believes in radical wealth distribution through massive public debt, dislike Israel because it is a White colony in the Middle East, and believe that Britain should leave the EU but stay under the EU's control by remaining in the Custom's Union.

Many of the MPs remaining in the Labour Party are sympathetic to the views of the Independent Group, but are unwilling to join it at the moment because small parties do extremely badly under the UK electoral system and they would probably lose their cosy jobs as MPs.

Also, many of them are haunted by the history of the Social Democratic Party, a splinter party of MPs who broke away from the Labour Party in 1981 when it became too Leftist. 

At first that Party, which was led by four senior Labour Party moderates, did very well in opinion polls but suffered badly in elections due to the UK's unfair electoral system. After the 1983 election, the party merged with another small party and disappeared.

It is not yet clear how this split will effect the position of Prime Minister Theresa May, as her party is also deeply split. But in the event of a general election, it would probably split the Labour vote, allowing her party to win more seats.

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