You don't think Corbyn split the party? We were so united under his decisive and charismatic leadership.
I'm going through my list of Labour voters who wouldn't vote for Corbyn. They're coming back to the fold.
Every leader since I can remember split the party, the party never truly unifies under any one, however you find when one faction is in control the others carry on helping to win, when another faction gets control the other faction undermines and has tantrums, even I would say be willing to mess up election plans
Foot saw a split and someright mard arseary
Kinnock was hated by the left but they backed his GE campaigns, bar some of the dicks more interested in fame.
Smith is probably the exceptipn to the rule, was well regarded by many on all sides of the party and if he hadn't died we would have a very different country now if his dream of complete constitutional reform and full federal devolution had happened. Though tossers like roy hattersly opposed him
Blair, loved to piss off his detractors, decide to ditch smiths more euro aproach with a continuation of americanised neo-liberalist economics mixed with a more caring social policy, still not popular with many lefties, found god, went a bit war crazy
Brown, again a split, this was more factions of NL rather than left v right or the party, the left just carried on supporting labour in power, while grumbling at times
Milliband, more about saddos who like his blander, policy light brother crying tgat the unions backed Ed
Corbyn, wel we have talked about him enough tbf.
starmer, his eagerness to please those in the party who had hissy fits over jezza while relying on the lefts normally loyalty to the cause, unfortunatley we have the new social media generation of hysterical comment and bollocks
Every one of them leaders has had parts of the party fighting against them for various reasons
Really is nothing new.