If I were living in England, I would join Corbyn’s new party, and I urge people in England to do so. In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland there are other factors, which I shall come on to.
I also say this with great respect for my friend George Galloway, whose Workers Party kindly hosted my candidacy for Blackburn in the General Election. I think Jeremy has been wrong in pointedly excluding George from the consultation meetings on setting up the new party.
But the truth is this. At nearly 700,000 signups, “Your Party” has already three times as many putative members as the Workers Party got voters at the General Election. Jeremy has the ability to create a juggernaut which the media and Establishment simply cannot ignore the way they shun George.
My advice to Workers Party members is to join Jeremy’s new party. There are many smaller left-wing parties which appear to be signing up en masse to the new venture – like the CPGB and the SWP – while having no intention of dissolving their own membership and structures.
It is very possible that the rules of Your Party will permit such dual membership.
I am thrilled by the potentially transformative effect of the public actually getting to hear left-wing arguments. This is how Corbyn, even handicapped by the conservative baggage of the Labour Party establishment, managed to get a far higher vote in two general elections than Keir Starmer achieved in his.
The Scottish Independence referendum showed the same effect. Despite massive media bias, the public did actually still get a chance to hear the arguments for Independence that had been kept from them. The result was a step change in support for Independence of 15% or more, which has never been lost since.
Your Party could shift the Overton window, permanently. For the first time in 40 years the public might get some exposure to the arguments of the Left.
We know that renationalisation of utilities, better public services and taxation of the wealthy are popular. When Corbyn led Labour, there was a brief opportunity to vote for those policies with a realistic chance of success, and millions of people took it.
Your Party will not be saddled with the need to compromise with the Blairites, and thus will be able to develop policy platforms of much greater internal coherence.
I think it is safe to assume it will be anti-NATO and favour a pacific foreign policy based on respect for international law. I think it is safe to assume that its policies will not only favour redistribution of wealth, but will challenge fundamental capitalist tenets of the ownership of the means of production.
I have no doubt it will be firmly anti-Genocide and will back BDS measures against Israel including arms sales.
I very much hope it will support a single state of Palestine. It is plain there is no viable two state solution. Palestine has been dismembered, chopped up, separated. The idea that a viable, non-contiguous state can be assembled from the ruins of Gaza, with the West Bank (or parts of it) and East Jerusalem is plainly nonsensical.
It is a Bantustan solution designed to provide cheap labour to service Israel daily. The fact that all the Western government proponents of a two state solution speak of a demilitarised Palestinian state, permanently at the mercy of the genocidal Israeli state, shows how dishonest the plan is.
It has been suggested to me that Your Party will adopt the policy that the Palestinians should decide. I agree with that, but with one caveat. That cannot mean the hated Mahmoud Abbas should decide, and the Palestinians cannot decide with a literal gun to their head.
Let Palestine be free from the river to the sea. Then let the Palestinians decide whether they want to agree to the creation of a separate Jewish state.
The membership must decide the policy. I am reasonably confident of the result.
What cannot happen is an abuse of the central mechanisms of the party to demonise and/or expel people for false anti-semitism accusations, as the Labour Party did under Jeremy’s leadership.
It goes without saying that the ludicrous IHRA definition – equating anti-semitism with criticism of a state that is committing Genocide – must be rejected.
If it is really to be a different, bottom-up type of party, then the party leader ought not to have that type of power. The key salaried positions should also be subject to election rather than just appointed at discretion. Decentralisation must be very real and effective every day.
Which leads me to the nations of the UK.
The Left in Scotland is overwhelmingly pro-Independence. Unionism is very heavily a right-wing thing. There is a rump of left-wing thinkers who oppose Scottish Independence on internationalist grounds with a vision of working class solidarity. But that is a dwindling and far from vigorous strain of thought.
Neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Zarah Sultana has, so far as I can see, said a word about Scotland in talking about the new party. Their vision appears very Anglocentric. I hope that this silence is an acknowledgement that the position of the party in Scotland is, as English people, not their concern.
The existence of the SNP and of Plaid Cymru means that Your Party is entering a significantly more crowded market in Scotland and Wales, where not only is nationalism an extra factor, but the nationalist parties already sit well to the left of Keir Starmer (admittedly not a difficult ask).
In Scotland, I think mistakenly, there seems a widespread presumption that the Corbyn project will fall flat. But disillusionment with Labour in Scotland is enormous, both nationally and locally. As is disillusionment with the SNP.
Those connected to the Corbyn project in Scotland at the moment appear largely to come from the Old Labour establishment, many of whom have been vehemently anti-Independence.
But I doubt the party will reflect that.
Young people in Scotland are overwhelmingly pro-Independence. Another factor which receives insufficient attention is that opinion polls regularly show between 30 and 40% of Labour voters in Scotland are pro-Independence. Those are important recruiting demographics for Your Party.
I have not seen any figures for signups in Scotland. Pro rata with the UK there would be 70,000, which would make Your Party immediately the biggest party in Scotland. I think it is fair to assume there are at least 30,000. Nobody can know where they stand on Independence.
If Your Party is to be a genuinely decentralised organisation, then its Scottish and Welsh parties should be separate legal entities. They alone should decide their policy on Independence.
I suspect that a fudge will be attempted, whereby Your Party supports “the right of the Scottish people to decide”. That is frankly no use to anyone, and proceeds from an assumption that permission has to be granted.
The right of the Scottish nation to self-determination is established in international law. It is not a policy just to state it.
The support for Genocide in Palestine is not a bug, it is a feature of the rogue British state. That imperialist entity needs to be broken up.
So, where do I stand personally on the new Corbyn party?
I have signed up for information. I will make honest and well-motivated efforts to shape it and influence its members, and I encourage other people to join at this stage. I shall work for it to be decentralised in its structures, anti-Zionist and anti-NATO in its views, and for Scottish and Welsh Independence.
Depending on results, I shall decide whether to stick with it. I do hope it will be a broad church and that people will not split over small matters; but on large matters I cannot myself be part of a Zionist or Unionist party.
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Hello. I too have signed up. I agree with its priorities of redistriburing wealth, but have some reservations about its foreign policies. I hope that media reports that corbyn is moving towards a policy of re entering the EU are true. However, I don’t want his new party to be anti NATO. Especially not with Russia the way it is at the moment. There was a reason the Soviet Empire disintegrated. The Soviet satellite states as well as the Soviet republics, once given the chance to break free, seized the opportunity with both hands. Once putin revealed his true colours by attacking Chechnya in the 2nd chèchnyan war, this gave rise to a desire among many states to join nato. Nato didn’t just “expand”. The East European countries came knocking on nato’s door because it was their only hope. Western politicians should respect that. Don’t get me wrong, if an opportunity came along for bilateral arms reductions, we should jump on it. But with putin and his merry men bombing raping looting and stealing children in Ukraine, now is definitely not the time. Compassion at home and firmness abroad, this is the way to go.
Chechnya’s terrorists were not just politically orientated. They were very scary and anti west as well, as I heard first hand from a charity worker who was held at gunpoint. Most of the former Soviet satellite countries came to independence within an eastern bloc alliance, and have respect for Putin’s achievements in raising standards of living for Russian people.
Russia has oil and gas and is not amenable to dollar hegemony and this is why Zelensky was chosen to act the part on behalf of Israel and US hedge funds. Regime change didn’t happen and so we will pretend that extreme measures must be taken to distract our attention from the terrible suffering of the people of Gaza,
They went as far as they could within media disinformation and outright threats to Corbyn when he would otherwise have led a decent Labour Party into government. But Greater Israel was planned decades ago and no democratic peace is going to change that, Dollar hegemony will win if it has to sacrifice every last one of us. The gas under Gaza is sufficient to power Europe and east for decades to come, but they still want to erase the competition, which is Russia, and Black Rock has financial control of much of Ukraine’s infrastructure and trade, in exchange for weapons.
The immorality of greed is the problem, not nations or religious affiliations. Most people are people who love their families, their friends, and want to contribute to their communities. We have to be cajoled into seeing each other as less than our nearest and dearest.
Madmen are at the helm. Heaven help us all.
On the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 the Chechen Republic declared independence; however this was not reocognised by President Yeltsin on the grounds that unlike the former Soviet satellite states Chechnya had never been a sovereign entity, it had always been a part of Russia. The country was also an important hub for the export of Russian oil and gas. Russian troops were sent in and despite overwhelming numerical superiority were soundly defeated after which Yeltsin agreed a treaty recognising Chechen independence. In 1999 Putin chose to rip up that treaty, invaded, and replaced the legitimate government with his own puppet hard man. Naturally other former Soviet states took note of this and saw joining NATO as the best insurance policy they could have against a repetition. The Ukraine war seems to have borne that out. Without doubt the actions of Chechen terrorists have been unconscionable but Kadyrov’s brutal regime is as bad if not worse.
https://www.hrw.org/tag/chechnya
Gaza’s share of the East Mediterranean gas fields, Gaza Marine 1 & 2, holds proven reserves of 31 BCM (Billion Cubic Metres). The EU’s annual consumption is about 300 BCM. Whilst the Gaza find is not vast, it is large enough to provide some measure of prosperity for the inhabitants.
“In 1999 Putin chose to rip up that treaty, invaded, and replaced the legitimate government with his own puppet hard man. ”
You’ve skipped the bit where the Chechens, stirred up, no doubt ,by the usual suspects, tried to overthrow the “legitimate government” using terror. So unlike in Ukraine, the RF got their hard man in rather than the one the West wanted, but, of course that’s the wrong outcome: “until someone we like can get elected”. See also Moldova, Romania etc.
“…the RF got their hard man in rather than the one the West wanted”
At the time Putin was the one the West wanted. Have you forgotten Tony Blair’s visit to Moscow to help his election campaign and the subsequent state visit with jolly rides around London with the now deceased Betty Windsor? His brutality towards Chechens was ignored, of course – they are Muslims so no problem there.
What a rotter he turned out to be after all the West did for him, eh?
Surely an internal matter for Chechnya.
The EU is becoming increasingly authoritarian and currently supports the genocide in Gaza. Von der Leyen is currently talking about raiding citizens’ private savings to fund war with Russia. Is that really an entity you’d like to rejoin?
You’re overthinking it. Just remember, “Four legs good, two legs bad”.
Yes, I never understood the support for EU either, as you say EU’s leaders are getting increasingly authotariatian, anti-demoratic, top-down-ruled that gaslight and deny reality (of what is going on in Gaza and elsewhere). And von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas are no anomalies no,, they have the backing of the EU parliament.
Ursula von der Leyen: “Russia’s attacks against civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes. Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming – these are acts of pure terror. And we have to call it as such.
https://x.com/vonderleyen/status/1582630271287021570
Kaja Kallas: Looking at the Kremlin’s words and deeds, it’s becoming clear that Russia’s crimes committed in Ukraine can amount to genocide. All those guilty must face justice and be punished accordingly. Estonia will support investigations every way we can. 2/2″ / X
https://x.com/kajakallas/status/1514187870923333634
We are ruled by people that on the one hand engage in genocide in Gaza (through their weapons) and on the other hand they put up on some feigned legalistic narrative/concern when it comes to Ukraine. Disgusting people. No principles whatsoever.
I’m going to assume this is a parody of every absurd ” Putin is the most evil man who ever lived ” + ” Russia is actually twinned with Gomorrah ” nursery-level propaganda tripe that spills endlessly from every * West * MSM and Political Class buffoon .
If you want to be taken seriously here , or anywhere not completely brainwashed by a 24/7 365 diet of utter bullshit , look up ….
The Minsk Accord ; learn the bad faith displayed by , principally , the US., but , as ever also it’s poodles in Europe , around that cynical pantomime
The Maidan Coup . Those Yanks just love Demockracy ( sic ) so much the just have to make sure the ” right ” people are installed
ie ….The carefully curated installation of Agent Zelensky 1st as leader of the brand spanking new ” Servant of the People Party ” ( hahahahaha ) named after the lavishly-funded ( by guess who ) film of the same name . 2nd .” swept to power ” on a platform of constructive dialogue with Russia , a policy abandoned within hours of him being elected President . I ( don’t ) wonder why
The Peace Treaty drawn-up in the early stages of the Proxy War , ie 2022 , at the behest of the Ukrainian Gov , agreed to by the Russians , about to be signed by both sides until the intervention of ……..just one guess should suffice . The Clown Ponce – Johnson dispatched by his masters to ensure the proposed accord was scuppered . Thus ensuring the needless death of incalculable 1000s of humans and creating a very real risk of WW3 , with all the possible globally catastrophic consequences involved in that insanity
The * West * , ie the U.S and it’s vassals refuse to show Russia any respect or acknowledge that country’s legitimate security concerns – imagine Russia or China arming a hostile-to-the-U.S Mexico or Canada – what do you think the response of the Yanks would be ?
The TRUTH is the U.S has never ceased trying to provoke & undermine Russia since the end of WW2 , it’s lunatic aim currently is to regime change that country , install it’s puppet – you noting a recurring theme here at all , James ? in order to allow the rabid dogs of US Corporate predation in to plunder Russia’s vast resources . Something they will NEVER acheive . The question is …..are they – the U.S – insane enough to precipitate apocalypse in the attempt ?
Hitherto I would have said ” no ” , the grim logic of M.A.D will prevent that . Now I’m far from sure it will
Strange how people intent on showing up the evil of the USA always lean towards Russia. Both are bullies. This is the unpalatable truth.
Russia , a ” bully ” that lost in the region of 25 million of it’s people to Fascism . How many did the U.S lose ?
No one who has any knowledge of the history of Russia in 20th Century would attempt to defend the behaviour of Stalin towards his own people at particular times , or the horrific climate of fear he created , or the brutality of the Gulags – this last persisting even after his death .
The problem is people insisting – often for ulterior motives – that Putin is ” just as bad ” : he is no such thing , in fact has went out of his way to foster good relations with the * West * – entreaties that were thrown back in his face , as always , mainly by the U.S , because there always has to be bogeyman to justify the obscene amounts of money spent on ” Defence ” – the beneficiary of which is the Military Industrial Complex , which , in a perverse symbiotic feedback loop , funds the campaigns and beyond of the Senators who are perennially gung-ho for Permanent War – as long as they or their offspring are not directly affected by such . He has also shown remarkable restraint in the face of relentless bad faith & provocation by the West ; up until he was compelled to say ” Enough , thus far and no more ” with the intense ( literal ) weaponisation of Ukraine , the attrition that country waged against the Russian-speaking regions , the totally unnecessary provocation of making Ukraine part of NATO – why ? being neutral has never done countries like Switzerland any harm , on the contrary . Ukraine could have been the Switzerland on E.Europe . Alas , that wouldn’t have been acceptable to the U.S ; it had other things in mind for Ukraine .
The ” unpalatable truth ” is that the U.S & it’s servant/master Israel are the two biggest belligerent threats to global stability and seem willing to precipitate absolute global ruination rather than acknowledge that other counties have their own interests and concerns and that , whether they like it or not , a Multipolar World is emerging , in which , the U.S in particular will no longer have the power to dictate what happens in World , and threaten , bully and – if they deem it ” necessary ” – destroy any country that resists
Russia made great sacrifices during WW2. But thewy helped escalating that war in the first plaver by colliving with Hitler to carve up Poland.
As for “the totally unnecessary provocation of making Ukraine part of NATO”, I wasn’t aware Ukraine was part of NATO.
The “NATO expansion” myth has been widely debunked. To summarize all the arguments: the request on the part of several western European countries to join NATO was the result, not the cuase of, Russian agression. They saw how Putin treated Chechnya and saw NATO as theirt only hope.
” The Peace Treaty drawn-up in the early stages of the Proxy War , ie 2022 , at the behest of the Ukrainian Gov , agreed to by the Russians , about to be signed by both sides until the intervention of ……..just one guess should suffice . The Clown Ponce – Johnson dispatched by his masters to ensure the proposed accord was scuppered. ”
You talk of ‘nursey level propaganda’ and ‘bullshit’ yet fall for that old chestnut.
The Istanbul agreement failed at the first hurdle because it would’ve allowed Russia to keep those parts of Ukraine it had already occupied. That was unacceptable to Ukraine. News had also come though about the massacres in Irpin and Bucha which hardened Ukrainian attitudes.
The culprits in those massacres were the US-Ukronazis.
So how is that satellite images showed bodies lying in the streets a fortnight before the Russians withdrew?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8moZ7S4voe4
Did they really? Why were the bodies wearing white arm bands, the sign of Russian sympathisers? I suggest that you have been duped and that the Azov nazis were the killers. I commend Berletic’s views to your attention.
I do believe that ‘Your Party’ has said that they will be announcing something to do with Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales in the near future 😀
Jeremy Corbyn is literally a great person, and the only politician in modern politics I truly admire. But the upshot of Your Party doing well at the next general election will be what, except help Farage and the Right generally? It is the perennial tactic of the powerful in this country, and their allies beyond, to manipulate almost every election by funding or hyping up a third or fourth party – the SDP in the 1980s, the Liberal Democrats in 2010, UKIP in 2015, the Ulster Unionists in 2017, the Brexit Party in 2019 and Reform in 2024. I hope I am wrong but I feared Jeremy is in danger of being used to help the Right.
Latest from the Savile-Epstein Genocide/Austerity party …
Homelessness minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent.
https://inews.co.uk/news/homelessness-minister-threw-out-tenants-increased-rent-3846449
I was just reading about that : What’s – almost – unbelievable is not only the depth of hypocrisy but also the sheer arrogance to think that no one would notice it . These people really do think they exist on a plane far above the petty concerns/values of the hoi polloi
Fails to meet the threshold for resignation or sacking in Genocide Labour.
52% of Private Landlords in Parliament are Labour MPs.
Thatcher’s children in word and deed.
“I hope I am wrong but I feared Jeremy is in danger of being used to help the Right.”
Without Jeremy there is only the Right. The only party that YP is likely to be taking votes from is Labour, which, in its current incarnation, is to the right of many of the past Conservative administrations and thus can be justifiably viewed as simply the left hand end of the Tory Party. What this country really doesn’t need is another Tory Government. Which end of the Tory spectrum that government represents is pretty irrelevant, considering how little its policies differ from the other end, or, indeed the middle.
So close to a million people have signed up to a new political party with no stated polices, not even an official name, because of the personality cult surrounding its leader. Good luck with that.
In the past Corbyn has blown hot and cold over Indyref2 and support for Scottish Independence generally. I think kicking the can down the road is the expression.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-50397033
I’m sure his approach to NATO and defence matters overall will make him a proud successor to George Lansbury.
What has NATO ever done for us apart from getting us into wars we would have been better off staying out of?
You shouldn’t impute motives to all those people interested in this new party. Fundamentally, the three main UK-wide parties have blown it. The Blue Tories created the mess, the Yellow Dupes went back on all their promises and enabled it and now the Red Tories won’t even acknowledge the magnitude of the mess, let alone do anything effective to clean it up. So people are looking for an alternative. Until now it was only Mr Toad but something else will be very welcome. Quite likely we’ll go the same way as France where the real battle is between France Insoumise on the left and whatever name the Front National is using this week on the right with the old formerly big parties irrelevant. Germany too: Die Linke vs AfD.
Steve Hayes
I agree the UK is about 4 years behind the French current state of play.
there are a lot of ‘leftish ‘ Left Behinder’s ‘ around and possibly this new party could garner quite a few seats.
I hope they do as a genuine progressive grouping.
They don’t have to agree on everything just back each other on certain policies.
In my opinion Western Democracy is proving by its actions (lawfare and the law in general) that it does not consider its hold on the populous to be as tight as it used to be.
Due to neo-liberal economics ( which started with Thatcher in the Eighties – not in 2012 ) the electoral bribes to the electorate now are few and far between and the continuation of austerity means that the bribes to come will be very poor fare indeed.
In order to keep the rich in the lifestyle they have become accustomed to then, they have to be kept rich or richer.
Afterall they pay the Lawmaker’s stipends and salaries and you don’t get paid for nothing in a wicked capitalist world.
But, you do have to get elected and Starmer was elected on a low vote due to the First Past The Post system.
At the next election that will still hold.
Not sure that any party will have an overall majority then so, it looks like horse trading between certain parties.
It would not surprise me at all if Reform and the Tories did a seat deal ‘ To Save Britain’ from the invading hordes.
A Patriotic Election to make Britain Great Again.
As usual Labour will try and out-patriot the right ( it always fails ) and will lose a lot of seats.
The Lib Dems will act leftish in everywhere away from the South West and agree with Tory/Reform economic
policies and play the Patriot Games.
There will be no avoidance from this fake Patriotism and for the Corbyn/Zultana party this is where the real pressure will be put on by the media in particular.
The thing about Corbyn last time was not necessarily the party’s economic positions it was in the realm of Foreign Policy.
The US literally has the rest of the west at its mercy at the moment and that will not change in the near future and of course the UK will be under similar pressure.
Being as the new party may do well – it will not form a government and the Ruling Class will not be too worries about it.
If it could gain a significant ( as in holding the balance of power) then The Ruling Class will worry about it and attempt to discredit it with the help of all the other parties who don’t mind being blackmailed by the US not just on Foreign Policy but the economic policies that flow from that servility.
The attacks have started already and that’s a good sign for myself – the media are getting itchy already and there will be more attacks to come.
As in buying stuff, if you supply and advertise what people want and are looking for ( an alternative) they will be given a hearing at least.
What happens later I don’t know but I wish them good luck.
No, Thatchlerism began in 1976 with the fake IMF loan. Thatchler institutionalised what Liarbour did by deceit.
Mr Corbyn respected the Brexit Referendum outcome and had a plan for a soft Lexit which would have been better for businesses and students, however his Brexit negotiator, Sir Starmer, insisted that a second referendum should be promised. This just wasn’t necessary. Labour’s policies all round, were good for jobs, trade, and human rights, under Corbyn’s leadership. That Labour Party is missing in action, since the decent MPs were all expelled for not agreeing to the Zionist agenda.
Antiracist policies are a given, with equal respect for all and all equal under the law. No bleating about special privileges and no presumption of complicity with war crimes.
The Zionist owned media won’t let it pass and will try and stir up hate just for mischief.
People want an honest, decent human being they can trust to say what he means and mean what he says. Truth and Justice is his platform. Simple enough for all decent human beings to long for and belong to
Alyson
You are right and I like Corbyn and his mentor Tony Benn.
They are British versions of socialism – Democratic Socialists.
The way the hysterical media are handling this now is as if it is Fidel Castro and Che Guevara standing for Office.
When Corbyn became leader (accidentally ) he had a Minder from the Blairites – Tom Watson who was literally a spy in the Corbyn Camp.
He was duly rewarded as a Peer for services rendered to the well off and up.
He was no use as an MP as he is now and is not sadly missed etc etc.
In 2019 after scaring the crap out of The Powers that be labour under Corbyn had to set up a Shadow Cabinet.
Going of memory, I think you were lucky to count 10 Bennite’s amongst them – all the rest were Soft Left and some were Blairites.
The mass off the MP’s were Blairites and no -one was more shocked than themselves that Corbyn led labour had garnered 40% of the vote despite most of them undermining Corbyn from within and without.
Due to this arise Sir Kier Starmer ( read anything about a Sir or a Lady Whatevertheyare) and you should know instinctively that they are dodgy) who became the new Spy in the Labour camp.
The alleged ‘ disaster ‘ the Blairites wanted happened in numbers of seats but, not in numbers of voters and Sir Kier(and many other media types and maybe Jess (close call ) Philips don’t like to talk and Wes Streeting maybe about
the fact that in 2017 Labour received 600k more votes than Sir Kier – hence Jesse’s close call with political death.
The media never questioned the Democratic Deficit in that election neither.
Sir Kier Starmer was mysteriously elected Deputy Leader and The Brexit GE took place.
Starmers’ job was to put Corbyn on the spot by pretending to be Pro EU but actually not being pro EU to undermine Corbyn’ s Labour party.
Corbyn is nothing but a sincere democrat and I agreed with his initial Brexit Policy of not burning bridges with EU in case the UK wished at some future time to go back into the EU.
The Blairites wanted rid of Corbyn in order to keep as far up the US backside as possible.
They have gone beyond the backside now and of course The British People are benefitting greatly from that Foreign Policy – only 10% Trump tariffs and a weapons bill longer than your arm – thank you Mr Trump.
Now- the Blairite and centrist MPs are not known for their principles so, they did prove that they would rather have a Tory Austerity Government rather than a Corbyn led Labour Government.
Plus politics being about the personal and as usual putting the people first -namely themselves – as Corbyn may have stopped their fund/salary/stipend raising activities ( for themselves) plus the embarrassment of the UK in the eyes of the USA in the questioning of Foreign Policy.
I don’t know whether Starmer knows what he’s there for as I don’t rate him as the Brightest lamp In The Street.
I’m not sure that the other EU Technocrats know what they are doing and even worse why they are doing it (Von Der Leyen in particular) but, they do know what their rich bosses want and oblige willingly – some say fearfully but, these people are keen to become richer themselves and this is the way to do it and to hell with the people.
Starmer is one of those people and he is not alone.
I would swear on my life that no-one could buy Corbyn off but, the above and many more have been bought and paid for by the rich to act for the rich and nobody else and if supporting and supplying The Genocide in Gaza and the US no matter what it does, pays well in the future then it will have all been worthwhile.
All Western Politicians with a few exceptions are always concerned with the future.
Their future and no-one else’s.
I do note that Lord Kinnock has been doing the rounds – enough said.
right on craig… thanks for the update..
As well as utility company state-protected gangsters such as TalkTalk and Utility Warehouse, and all the lying in the NHS (amounting to “stay ill for decades getting lied to, while the state hands your money to big business for keeping you waiting”), how about YP tells the truth about gangsters such as Amazon, and what things like Royal Mail have become, and the huge amount of lowpaid almost semi-slave labour in logistics, what the big supermarket companies get up to, if you want to talk about asylum seekers look at the mega-landlord contracts, etc. etc. And the student loan scammers. And waste disposal scams. And what’s happened with the rail service, and with the loan machines called “universities”. And the kidnapping of babies by Nazi social workers and judges who have classified many many women as “unfit to breed” (a reality that practically no part of the political spectrum dares to touch, cf. Magdalene Laundries once upon a time in Ireland) and so on.
Basically just tell some of the truth about what capitalism really means for people, how real people get shat on and lied to and scammed and threatened and worked.
Do some of the above and you could knock genocide Starmer’s filthy “smart rings” party out of the water.
On reflection it looks like a bait and switch operation with Corbyn as the bait. Sultana is supposed to be a socialist but then what was she doing in Keir Starmer’s cabinet? Corbyn will have to retire soon and then Sultana will rule alone. The result will be to split the Labour vote and let in a Tory/ReformUK coalition.
Having stated the obvious I look forward to saying ‘I told you so’ after the next election.
The answer to your question is she wasn’t in Starmer’s cabinet. He did however withdraw the Labour whip from her for voting against removing benefits from disabled people. He also pointedly never expressed any concern about the torrents of racist abuse she received.
As to the suggestion the British establishment/ ruling class are scrambling to stop him being re-elected, are you sure you’ve thought that one through?
In future elections the new party may indeed split the left vote, and let the Tories back in – unless there is a pact after the election. Smaller parties may be right to be wary of full coalitions, looking at what happened to the LibDems in the past. But if the new party is needed by Labour to get a working majority, it could find itself able to exert a lot of influence, even without being part of the Cabinet.
Even before future elections, the mere presence of the new party may have an improving effect on the others, as there will be a new and real political rival or threat in town, especially once it has decided on its major policies.
Getting Chris Williamson on board, who was in the process of making the Labour Party more democratic would likely be a good thing. It would be evidence of Corbyn learning from his mistakes.
I think the new party should be called ‘The People’s Party’ with the intention of forming as broad a coalition as possible.
I think it should focus on a small number of core, primary policies and not let itself be fractured or ‘agent-provocateured’ into going down second-order rabbit holes.
Gary Stevensons’s “Tax Wealth not Work” for example is a great slogan, a great sound-bite, and a great core domestic policy. It can easily be explained to a majority audience. I hope Gary is involved in the new party in some capacity.
The foreign policy challenges are huge. Any new party also needs to be prepared to defend itself against everything the establishment will throw at it, up to and including military shenanigans, never mind the media and the spooks.
I’m no longer optimistic, but it is great to see a surge of some kind of hope and leadership on the left. However, I believe we’re now in a race against time. The fabled WW3 appears to have already started, it just hasn’t reached us in the UK yet.
The new party needs to get organised and moving fast.
It will be interesting to hear Corbyn’s views on, and plans with regards to immigration. Being a socialist I suspect he thinks it’s a good thing, whereas the masses recognise it’s destroying the country. Like brexit, immigration will be corbyn’s achilles heel. He’ll need a strong, realistic policy on this if he is serious and wishes to get the public onboard.
Come off it, immigration is the best thing that’s happened to Britain since the ending of the second world war. The state encourages mass legal immigration in the same proportion as the working class limits its fertility.
I didn’t like the look of the crew Corbyn assembled last time around, and am pretty convinced he would do the same next time.
Whilst Jeremy Corbyn might be well-meaning, he is an inveterate protestor. By that I mean he only wants to be in opposition to things, not actually roll his sleeves up and deliver solutions.
There are a lot of people in politics completely unable to do anything positive that they planned to. The current SNP government and the current Labour Westminster government are perfect examples, but so were the recent Tory administrations.
Because it is very difficult to clear out the dead wood from politics, I would suggest that we want less government, not more.
A strident left-wing tilt of independence parties will further reduce the possibility of a broad-church independence momentum for Scotland.
My wife and myself have joined the your party in the hope that this will lead to new strong and vibrant policy platforms incorporating social justice, fiscal fairness and sustainability targets, as well as control over corrupt practises in local and national Government.
We need a new Constitution and voting system as already mentioned, one that is fair and trustworthy.
Ideally I would like to disband political parties and professional career politicians who are easily corrupted, and replace them with randomly chosen people of any profession for the period of one year and /or until they are recalled by a constituency petition.
I am willing to let such policy frameworks be worked out by younger generations in tune with the existing needs of society, rather than by existing power brokers/mongers who have ulterior motives induced by interest/corrupt practises.
I am looking forward to the birth of this party after a few month of consultation and gestation.
Thank you Craig, I expect you to advise the two new leaders, and hope that the other parties mentioned approach this new party with positive ideas and support, rather than demands and dogmatic flummery.
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Craig
I am an English socialist about to join the new party. I hope the Scots and Welsh do have entirely separate organisations and they are seriously pro-independent. The weaker the British state is, the stronger the socialist movement. I also hope that the three new parties will work closely when necessary and also share the same anti-Zionist and anti-NATO policies. To me they’re non-negotiable as viewpoints of a serious socialist organisation. Likewise, a class based party is also fundamental. Along with this we shouldn’t be doing electoral deals with non socialist parties or standing down for any non party candidates. To me that’s also non-negotiable.
Best wishes
Doug
I, too, have signed up. I was in Labour from 2015 – 19 and left the day Starmer took control: it was obvious where he was going.
Now that we’re in the midst of the 6th mass extinction, with the AMOC close to collapse and our capacity to feed ourselves declining rapidly (I am a smallholder: we haven’t had proper rain since February. We have half the hay we expect and most of my neighbours are already feeding hay in the midst of summer. I work regeneratively so our grass is OK, but it’s still going to run out at some point – food prices will soar this winter and if we don’t improve next spring, we’ll have serious shortages)
anyway – my point is, there is no class struggle when there is no complex life. I fear that the dinosaurs of the left will end up locking a new, potentially dynamic movement in narrow boundary thinking when what we need is the widest possible of boundaries, focused on what a flourishing future could look and feel like and how to get there, that is not shackled by relitigating minor political battles within the extractive system. Socalism is no less extractive than capitalism, it just spreads the spoils differently. We need Total Systemic Change – and the window for success is terrifyingly narrow.
how do we find the emotional intelligence/literacy/maturity to create good-faith conversations that bring us all to a future where people and planet (aka current complex ecosystems) thrive?
Nice to see an actual left-wing political party but it is authoritarian left, just like Galloway’s party.
The Greens under Zack Polanski will offer a libertarian left party, which recognises that authoritarian policies will only lead to more repression.
Power should flow from the bottom upwards, not imposed from above. The European anarchists warned what would happen in Russia after the revolution and they were proved correct.