To be happy that Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana are founding a new party.

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We need someone with backbone to put forward an alternative political viewpoint.

Sultana should show Corbyn this stuff. If he was dithering before. She’ll get support on SM, might get him to you know or get off the pot.

How are we meant to know who you're referring to if you won't call people by their full names? You might as well be talking about characters from EastEnders. I really hate this new trend, it just shows the insidious creep of populism where politicians like Farage pretend they're everyone's best mate. We can do better.

Who is going to fund this new party?

Diane Abbott & John McDonnell have said they won’t be joining.

I think this could get embarrassing.

@Twiglets1

Diane Abbott & John McDonnell have said they won’t be joining.

Could be a success then without those two dragging it down.

Well yes but what if no one wants to join their party?

Awkward!

They can get joiners, new young people will be keen. They might need funding though.

No, not happy. Bloody annoying irritation born of political naivety. Who remembers the SDP? Quite.

A back bench MP nobody outside her constituency has heard of joins up with a failed party leader who lost both elections he fought (both of which he should have won by a country mile).

Excuse my total lack of enthusiasm or even interest.

Still, it's the old, old story of the British left. When in doubt, split the vote.

Some Labour MPs on the left of the party have praised Sultana but so far none has said they will be joining the new setup.

Ian Lavery, Labour MP for Blyth, told the BBC's World at One: "Perhaps she thinks she hasn't left the Labour party, but the Labour party has left her".

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0wvkg492ro

This is a big concern

How many followers does Zarah Sultana have? Nigel Farage has over a million 16-17 year old followers on Tiktok.

Meh some old curmudgeons. Everyone will tear you down at the start. Sounds like she has some energy. Good luck to her, even not agreeing with policies all these old white men declaring her a dud I have no time for.

He'll split the vote and allow Reform in. Slow hand clap.

A centrist government is by far better than a Reform one.

If people want to register support

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-team-zarah

Let the mentalists make themselves even more irrelevant

And as someone who wants to see the resurgence of a sensible right wing party, this is very helpful

Rumour has it the new party will be called Jezbollah

So you keep saying.

Of course they prey on the young and innocent people.

Corbyn should be nowhere near politics and anyone who votes for him doesn’t understand politics at all.

Anyway the left must accept they will be out for at least three terms in the elections.

Who’s sarah

Do you work for him?

Well presumably she’s talking about neither of the people this thread refers to as neither are called Sarah 😂