Corbyn announces Your Party

[noblegiraffe]

His new political party with Zarah Sultana.

Except it doesn't appear to even have a name and now Zarah Sultana is having to go around twitter correcting journalists saying it's not called Your Party, while not actually clarifying what it is called.

I'm sure it will be extremely well organised.

I am confident that wherever my donation went was somewhere I would approve of. IMO, Corbyn is an ethical politician. Usually an oxymoron I know! Not in this case.

How predictably right-wing MSM.

Such a tease!

Evening Alex, my old fruit.

How are ya?

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Up to 50,000 junior doctors will join in a five-day walkout which starts at 7am on Friday, in pursuit of a 29 per cent pay rise.

I suppose we should cherish the 14-year periods when Labour are not in government (you note, I did not say power)…

Unless, of course, it's rooting out antisemitism from his party.

Trying to be humorous, her names Sultana, he’s probably nuts, so nuts and raisins

This is what the I thinks ie start to split Labour vote

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-new-party-zarah-sultana-labour-b2795189.html

A tinge of racism, not humourous

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In 10 hours 140,000 people have signed up. Clearly there people are looking for something that isn't being provided by the other parties currently.
Only time will tell how successful they will be, and I'm not making any decisions until they have made decisions on policy, budgets etc, but I'm absolutely interested in a party that wants to change things. The fact that Labour have gone against everything a lot of people thought they were voting for won't go well for them. Will it just split the left vote?.. I don't actually think it will, I think Labour have already done that by chasing reform voters - who won't ever vote for them anyway. I think they will work with the greens and hopefully people will feel like collaboration between left wing parties means their vote won't be wasted if it doesn't go to one of the main parties.
Only time will tell.

Hopefully the loony left will abandon Labour for this new party and Labour can concentrate on being what they are supposed to be - a party for working people. Hence the name, "Labour".

They'll decimate the green 💚 vote is the current view. They were supposed to have waited till after the leadership race for that was sorted BC if Zack Polanski won he's an Eco Populist (prfrrrt) who was going to lead the green 🍏 revolution

@noblegiraffe Oh god Corbyn's one of the big reasons Boris was elected in 2019. He was absolutely toxic to the Labour vote.

What was toxic, was the campaign of vilification against him, which, unfortunately, far too many fell for. Despite this, the number of votes the party collected was impressive, .

As for his new party's policies ?
The 2019 manifesto would be a good start.

It will have the same effect as Reform did with the Conservatives. It will split the Labour vote and make it impossible for them to win the next GE.

Corbyn will hand it to Reform. Farage will be thanking him in his acceptance speech as he takes up PM role.

The Placeholder Text Party

Sounds like yet another argument in favour of Proportional representation of some kind. Let the diversity of opinion be reflected in parliament.

Lorem ipsum. New party name there.

Or Votey McVoteface

Would Corbyn be prepared to form a coalition with Labour if necessary?

And more to the point, would Labour be prepared to form a coalition with a Corbyn led party?

The Labour Party might - but Starmer never would!

Exactly @mouthpipette

Corbyn is exactly who he was before, during and after the election. Volunteering in food banks, attending the Durham miners gala. No spin then or now.

Very much a 'does what it says on the tin' politician.

Oh I am sure that there was a campaign of vilification against him from a press who didn't want him elected.

But he, personally, was also actually toxic. He came across (e.g. the Andrew Neil interview) as a cantankerously stubborn old man who was overly full of self-regard, and wouldn't recognise antisemitism if it denied the holocaust in front of him. And before anyone starts wittering about false claims of antisemitism within Labour, I saw it play out myself across social media and I have no doubt that the claims were true, which makes Corbyn's refusal to accept it or properly deal with it even more revealing. And his anti-west stance would be a danger to our country: when Russia invaded Ukraine, he and his lot blamed NATO. Quite happy for him and his toxic pals to fuck off into their own party making it much easier to avoid.

I fucking hate Boris, but if it were an election with just their two names on the ballot, I'd abstain.

Because the USA and UK are working so well right now...As PP said, there is nuance. I like to look to democratic socialist countries. And actually one could argue that China is working better than the USA.

Sorry, that was to @twistyizzy