Jeremy Corbyn

[visage]

Gordon Brown has infinitely more credibility when it comes to progressive causes than Corbyn.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Don't feed him.

Well I'd put him on ignore but...

 

[Tredman]

Why is Corbyn’s party so posh?

Many hard left leaders went to private school. Do they view socialism as a hobby?

www.thenewworld.co.uk

 

[Tredman]

Interesting read on their plans

Inside The Founding Of Jeremy Corbyn's New Party: 'End This Horrible Power Struggle'

The trials and tribulations of founding a new party on the left. Can they unite? What challenges lie ahead? Sienna Rodgers reports

www.politicshome.com

 

[The Saturday Boy]

Interesting read on their plans

Inside The Founding Of Jeremy Corbyn's New Party: 'End This Horrible Power Struggle'

The trials and tribulations of founding a new party on the left. Can they unite? What challenges lie ahead? Sienna Rodgers reports

www.politicshome.com

A national “left party” organised by Corbyn’s team will never work. I have been in and around the left of the Labour Party most of my adult life and they have never been able, or willing, to compromise. Too many factions, too many arguments, too many egos. All of that is playing out now in public and behind closed doors.

There does need to be a coherent, broad church left of centre political choice to sit where Labour have vacated but it needs to be anything but a national party and more a collection of federated local organisations/parties with their own local identities. It needs to be able to work with other groups (political and non political) who have shared concerns and shared ambitions. That will mean collaborating with others to maximise electoral successes but also not to be dragged into the factional mess that any national party will inevitably fall into.

Farage has a ceiling of support, so does Corbyn and so will Sultana. The latter two’s ceiling is lower than Farage, as joint leaders or a sole leader Corbyn and Sultana will be a drag. Behind them are camps jockeying for power and influence…it’s almost the opposite of one man party Reform where dissenters are ejected, in “Your Party” dissension is in its DNA.

If “Your Party” can become a federated organisation that can work constructively with others, with minimal top down leadership then there is potential. It won’t be that.

 

[Tredman]

A national “left party” organised by Corbyn’s team will never work. I have been in and around the left of the Labour Party most of my adult life and they have never been able, or willing, to compromise. Too many factions, too many arguments, too many egos. All of that is playing out now in public and behind closed doors.

There does need to be a coherent, broad church left of centre political choice to sit where Labour have vacated but it needs to be anything but a national party and more a collection of federated local organisations/parties with their own local identities. It needs to be able to work with other groups (political and non political) who have shared concerns and shared ambitions. That will mean collaborating with others to maximise electoral successes but also not to be dragged into the factional mess that any national party will inevitably fall into.

Farage has a ceiling of support, so does Corbyn and so will Sultana. The latter two’s ceiling is lower than Farage, as joint leaders or a sole leader Corbyn and Sultana will be a drag. Behind them are camps jockeying for power and influence…it’s almost the opposite of one man party Reform where dissenters are ejected, in “Your Party” dissension is in its DNA.

If “Your Party” can become a federated organisation that can work constructively with others, with minimal top down leadership then there is potential. It won’t be that.

That seems to describe the collective mentioned in the article? Bit odd that it has been quite secretive.

Interested to see where the Greens go standing on a populist agenda.

 

[visage]

The whole thing reads like a parody of crank left factionalism.

Eg:

'Undeterred by the fact no new party really exists yet, two factions have already been announced – the Democratic Socialists (understood by The House to be relative outsiders, they are urging the party to be “wholly democratic”, and “unitary”, not a loose alliance) and the Democratic Bloc (Sultana-aligned activists who have drafted a constitutional plan for the party).'