Corbyn launches hard-Left ‘Your Party’ to challenge Starmer
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have confirmed the launch of a new hard-Left party to fight Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour.
The pair have invited voters to sign up to the Left-wing faction via the website yourparty.uk, although The Telegraph understands the new project will not be called Your Party and that its name is to be confirmed...
On Thursday, Ms Sultana was forced to clarify that the new political party is not called Your Party in response to a post on X by the news site Politics Joe, which claimed that it was.
Ms Sultana wrote in response, “it’s not called Your Party!”, prompting Mike Tapp, a loyalist Labour MP, to respond with a laughing emoji.
When it was put to Mr Corbyn that the party “looked a bit messy”, he told reporters: “It’s not messy at all. It’s a totally coherent approach. It’s democratic, it’s grassroots and it’s open.”
Asked what the party would be called instead of Your Party, he replied: “It’s your party. We’re going to decide when we’ve had all the responses, and so far the response rate has been massive.
No doubt Jeremy and Zarah will eventually come up with an appropriate name and maybe even a logo and some not at all messy policies.
Meanwhile, confidence in UK political sanity slips back another couple of notches.
If the new Special Labour party leaches votes from the ordinary Labour party then after the next General Election we might see a Reform Government with a Conservative Loyal Opposition.
ReplyDeleteThere’s an oddly familiar ring to this; when Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson came up with the idea for a new sitcom, the initial working title was ‘Your Bottom’ (because they thought it would be hilarious to have people saying ‘I saw ‘Your Bottom’ on TV last night’ or ‘I stayed in and watched ‘Your Bottom’).
ReplyDeleteJudging by past efforts at democratic grassroots naming, it’s going to be fun watching them faced with a choice between The Islington Popular Front and Party McVoteface.
I suggest 'Init' (with acknowledgements to Arthur C Clarke and 2001 A Space Odyssey)
ReplyDeleteFruit and Nut.
ReplyDeleteDJ - yes, it makes the whole show much more interesting.
ReplyDeleteMacheath - I can see The Islington Popular Front catching on, although it may soon split with the Popular Front of Islington. We can look forward to some fun though.
decnine - Init? I don't remember that connection.
dearieme - ha ha - which one is fruit?
Sultana is fruit, innit?
DeleteHAL was IBM shifted by one letter. Shift INIT by one letter...
ReplyDeleteSorry - complete brainfart - forget it.
ReplyDeletedecnine - ah a brainfart, I have those too.
ReplyDeletedearieme - of course, should have spotted it, too rushed this morning.
And what sort of nut? Corbyn's brain presumably looks like a walnut and is about the same size. Pass the crackers!
DeleteI'm looking forward to the letter headded paper. And that being the only thing they ever achieve
ReplyDeletedearieme - or a Red bopple nut - I looked that up.
ReplyDeleteBucko - and the website, that should be interesting.