Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pictured playing arcade game about killing a zombie MARGARET THATCHER that labels her ‘one of humanity’s greatest threats’ at hard Left party conference fringe event
Jeremy Corbyn has been pictured playing an arcade game whose goal is to kill Margaret Thatcher.
The former Labour leader posed for pictures while tackling Thatcher Techbase, an updated version of the classic 90s computer game Doom, at a hard Left fringe event at the Labour Party Conference.
Mr Corbyn, 73, has made several appearances at events in Liverpool despite sitting as an independent MP since 2020.
In pictures that have gone vital on Twitter he played the game at The World Transformed.
Thatcher Techbase sees the player descend into ‘the tenth circle of hell’ to battle the late prime minister and Conservative Party leader.
It bills the late peer, who died aged 87 in 2013 her as ‘one of humanity’s greatest threats’.
The former Labour leader posed for pictures while tackling Thatcher Techbase, an updated version of the classic 90s computer game Doom, at a hard Left fringe event at the Labour Party Conference.
Mr Corbyn, 73, has made several appearances at events in Liverpool despite sitting as an independent MP since 2020.
Thatcher Techbase sees the player descend into ‘the tenth circle of hell’ to battle the late prime minister and Conservative Party leader.
Earlier, Mr Corbyn’s career as a Labour MP appears to be over after party members blocked an attempt to let him represent it at the next election.
The former opposition leader has sat as an independent MP since 2020 after being stripped of the party whip over his attitude to a probe into anti-Semitism during his time in charge.
At the annual party conference in Liverpool today his supporters tried to change selection rules to allow local constituency parties (CLPs) to have the final say on candidates at election, removing the power of the central party to veto them.
It would have allowed the CLP in his Islington North constituency to select him, forcing the Parliamentary party to restore the whip if he won in the ultra-safe seat.
But the proposal was rejected by 41 per cent to 59 per cent. It means he is almost certain to stand as an independent against the party at the next election, expected in 2024.
Before the vote, Peter Talbot, of Islington North CLP, said: ‘We need a range of Labour candidates. We need to demonstrate that the Labour Party truly is a broad church. And that’s particularly important in relation to the thousands of young people that Jeremy brought into supporting Labour.’
He added: ‘If we don’t change the rules and Jeremy can’t stand for Labour at the next election, well that would just be a disaster for us frankly, it would not end well.
‘It would be a gift to the Greens, to the Lib Dems and the Tories.’
Mr Corbyn remains a party member and has appeared at a number of leftwing fringe events in the margins of the party conference.
Last night he was the guest of honour at a Labour party conference fringe event calling for appeasement of Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.
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