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To think if you’re going to launch a new political party and want to make a splash, you’d think up a name before doing so

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Nannerlmoz · 24/07/2025 22:09

Just that really.

It just smacks of something half-arsed and ill-conceived.

Not expecting a full policy agenda but having a name should be bare minimum.

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Papyrophile · 27/07/2025 20:16

I am never ever going to vote for Jeremy Corbyn, or anyone who aligns with him politically. it's only ever going to appeal to idiots and teenagers in the lovely flush of fairness and equity. A few years work will prove to them that some people work hard and some don't. The ones that don't are called passengers. Societies can't afford to carry many

ColinOfficeTrolley · 27/07/2025 19:44

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 27/07/2025 11:08

And I’ve just read it now has more members than Reform.

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Reform doesn't have members, because it's been set up as a limited company. The people who have paid to 'join' Reform, have absolutely no power in decision making policies - not that Reform have any. But the 'employees' in alReform are not answerable to the fuckwits that are funding them.

ColinOfficeTrolley · 27/07/2025 19:41

Yet here you are OP, talking about them. Opening up conversation on a multi million user platform.

If say they're getting exactly what they want at the moment.

I can't WAIT to be a paying member of their party.

crystal1983 · 27/07/2025 19:27

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 27/07/2025 11:00

The best description I’ve heard of them is a Temu Bernie Saunders and AOC 😄

Gosh this is so spot on

NorthernBogbean · 27/07/2025 19:22

notquiteruralbliss · 27/07/2025 18:50

I signed up and donated. As have a few of my friends - mostly left leaning, politically active higher rate tax payers with professional jobs who don't feel the current Labour party represents them.

That makes sense because I don't think the Labour Party was set up to represent higher rate tax payers with professional jobs.

Although middle-class folk, of the left-leaning variety, accreted around Labour until it could no longer withstand the stresses of attempting to appeal to the working class and its inheritors while also appeasing the opposing values of its vocal, monied, yooni-educated metropolitan wing.

I wish Mr. Corbyn all the best with his new party, he'd probably have liked to call it Reform, but ...

SisterTeatime · 27/07/2025 19:08

Jezbollah is excellent.

Yellowbirdcage · 27/07/2025 19:04

Corbyn is 76. I’m going to sound ageist but I wish all these people pushing 80 would accept loss of influence gracefully and put any remaining energy behind the next generation. Why is politics so full of geriatrics these days?

MasterBeth · 27/07/2025 19:02

It doesn't really matter what it's called. Justice. Dignity. Solidarity. Unity. No-one's voting Reform because it's called Reform.

But to not even have a name is pathetic. Unserious. Amateur. Just what you'd expect from Corbyn.

MiloMinderbinder925 · 27/07/2025 18:51

SpottyAardvark · 27/07/2025 18:49

Which is obviously a very different thing to having 400k paying members. Typing in your email address is easy. Adding your bank details is harder. We’ll see how many of those people decide to put their hands in their pockets & actually sign up. If they get 10% they will be doing well.

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Yes of course. It will be interesting to see how many sign up as members.

LochKatrine · 27/07/2025 18:50

Nannerlmoz · 25/07/2025 22:16

I wish they’d just admit it doesn’t have a name because they can’t think of one.

People have suggested good ones, though.
I particularly liked "Jezbollah".

notquiteruralbliss · 27/07/2025 18:50

I signed up and donated. As have a few of my friends - mostly left leaning, politically active higher rate tax payers with professional jobs who don't feel the current Labour party represents them.

SpottyAardvark · 27/07/2025 18:49

MiloMinderbinder925 · 27/07/2025 18:09

According to Corbyn's website, 400,000 have shown an interest. I'm sure when he was leader it was the biggest left wing party in Europe.

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Which is obviously a very different thing to having 400k paying members. Typing in your email address is easy. Adding your bank details is harder. We’ll see how many of those people decide to put their hands in their pockets & actually sign up. If they get 10% they will be doing well.

MiloMinderbinder925 · 27/07/2025 18:09

NellitheNelephant · 27/07/2025 16:17

Is this true?

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According to Corbyn's website, 400,000 have shown an interest. I'm sure when he was leader it was the biggest left wing party in Europe.

noblegiraffe · 27/07/2025 17:08

NellitheNelephant · 27/07/2025 16:17

Is this true?

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noblegiraffe · 27/07/2025 17:08

NellitheNelephant · 27/07/2025 16:17

Is this true?

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No, it isn’t even a political party yet. It is counting people who signed up for a mailing list, not people who have paid a membership fee.

NellitheNelephant · 27/07/2025 16:24

SpottyAardvark · 27/07/2025 11:17

The new party is already a complete shambles and it hasn’t properly launched yet. First, Sultana jumped the gun by announcing it and claiming she would co-lead it before Corbyn had agreed to anything. Then Corbyn launched it without a name or a logo or an organisation or any policies or anything else and very conspicuously without the input of the supposed co-leader. Where was she?

I very much doubt Starmer & Reeves will be concerned. The rest of us can just watch & laugh.

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Well, that's business as usual then isn't it? In this country we are used to a complete shambles. We might as well give this version of a complete shambles a hearing at least. We've tried everything else. Wtf, a lot of people are considering voting Farage into power. I have only ever seen him go down to the coast with binoculars looking for rubber dinghies, encouraging riots, or disappearing on a jolly or up Trump's fundament.

NellitheNelephant · 27/07/2025 16:20

PurpleChrayn · 27/07/2025 11:59

Jezbollah, surely.

And so the right wing press begins to brainwash everyone. Very clever propaganda. I think they must be anxious and will do everything to quash this. Anyone who joins this party has to be prepared to be slaughtered in the press.

NellitheNelephant · 27/07/2025 16:17

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 27/07/2025 11:01

And yet it now has more members than the Tory party

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Is this true?

MiloMinderbinder925 · 27/07/2025 12:39

PurpleChrayn · 27/07/2025 11:59

Jezbollah, surely.

You know, I've found this amusing every time I've heard it.

EasternStandard · 27/07/2025 12:32

R0ckandHardPlace · 27/07/2025 11:56

I’d imagine most people who would vote for the new party wouldn’t be voting Labour anyway. Starmer had already purged the party of any members who were slightly to the left of John Major. Most of those turned to the Greens, or were just left politically unrepresented by any mainstream party.

I’m hoping they’ll take votes from Reform once people see that there is a voice for the working class, but without the racist bile.

I don’t think anyone is indicating it’ll be from Reform. Labour have more to lose as if votes go it’ll be their seats taken.

Greens we’ll see if they combine with Corbyn in any way but for them it’s not a will we be in power question.

PurpleChrayn · 27/07/2025 11:59

Jezbollah, surely.

R0ckandHardPlace · 27/07/2025 11:56

I’d imagine most people who would vote for the new party wouldn’t be voting Labour anyway. Starmer had already purged the party of any members who were slightly to the left of John Major. Most of those turned to the Greens, or were just left politically unrepresented by any mainstream party.

I’m hoping they’ll take votes from Reform once people see that there is a voice for the working class, but without the racist bile.

noblegiraffe · 27/07/2025 11:43

Polling intentions suggest they will take a larger percentage of votes from the Greens than Labour

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 27/07/2025 11:38

SpottyAardvark · 27/07/2025 11:17

The new party is already a complete shambles and it hasn’t properly launched yet. First, Sultana jumped the gun by announcing it and claiming she would co-lead it before Corbyn had agreed to anything. Then Corbyn launched it without a name or a logo or an organisation or any policies or anything else and very conspicuously without the input of the supposed co-leader. Where was she?

I very much doubt Starmer & Reeves will be concerned. The rest of us can just watch & laugh.

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ld vote for them.

Voted Labour all my life.

EasternStandard · 27/07/2025 11:31

SpottyAardvark · 27/07/2025 11:17

The new party is already a complete shambles and it hasn’t properly launched yet. First, Sultana jumped the gun by announcing it and claiming she would co-lead it before Corbyn had agreed to anything. Then Corbyn launched it without a name or a logo or an organisation or any policies or anything else and very conspicuously without the input of the supposed co-leader. Where was she?

I very much doubt Starmer & Reeves will be concerned. The rest of us can just watch & laugh.

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Not sure about that. It’s Labour they’ll take votes from and particularly the younger voters who have just been given a vote.

The most important part is do the public want to hear about it and given traction with sign up many seem to. They are unlikely to be in power but a few MPs or votes going to them can be change things, more so on the left.

Not sure it’s membership though, more expression of interest.

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