Ben Sixsmith has an entertaining Critic piece on the farce that is Your Party.
Your Party is a far left farce
Radical socialists are a compelling argument against their own ideas
Well, thank God Your Party is not our party.
I should eat some humble pie. “It is easy to write off Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s political party,” I wrote in August. I should have stopped there. For all my musings about how Corbyn “upended British politics once and … has the power to do it again”, it has become very, very easy to write off the party now officially called Your Party.
Comically so.
The whole piece is well worth reading as we need some entertainment to worm its way into UK politics, even if it is only provided by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. As Ben Sixsmith says, radical socialists are a compelling argument against their own ideas.
We could go further and strike a more sombre note though - radical socialists are a compelling argument that far too many voters are absurdly gullible.
“We need to nationalise the entire economy,” Sultana was saying in interviews. Well, of course! Who wouldn’t want to give the people who have built an organisation as functional as Your Party massive amounts of power? It makes all the sound good sense of investing in Enron in November 2001.
These people are the most compelling argument for libertarianism. I would not go that far myself, perhaps, but the hubris of people who think that they could organise an economy when they could not even organise a football match on a field next to a ball factory makes it tempting.
“We need to nationalise the entire economy,” Sultana was saying in interviews. Well, of course! Who wouldn’t want to give the people who have built an organisation as functional as Your Party massive amounts of power? It makes all the sound good sense of investing in Enron in November 2001.
These people are the most compelling argument for libertarianism. I would not go that far myself, perhaps, but the hubris of people who think that they could organise an economy when they could not even organise a football match on a field next to a ball factory makes it tempting.
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According to Grokipedia "The Overton window is a model in political theory that describes the range of policies deemed politically acceptable or viable by the mainstream public at a particular moment, positioning ideas along a spectrum from "unthinkable" and "radical" on the fringes to "sensible," "popular," and ultimately "policy" within the core window."
I guess the members of 'Your Party' have many unthinkable and radical ideas but they don't seem to converge... so any dreams of going through the Overton Window are just that, dreams.
It would be hilarious except that quite a lot of people are apparently supporting them, plus there's always the possibility that they might do a deal with almost equally absurd Greens and the sinister SNP, and then have a real chance of influence, if not power.
Interesting times...
DJ - at the moment they seem to be people indulging themselves in daydreams far away from wherever the Overton window is likely to be. As if they want to attract as many loons as possible before hiding the more demented aspects of their radicalism.
Peter - a deal is a possibility although the Greens have a charismatic leader and Your Party has nobody. The Greens seem more likely to attract loons who would otherwise align themselves with Your Party.
Yes, interesting times. Far too interesting.
Green leader charismatic, AKH? Really?
James - to the susceptible apparently. Just looks goofy to me.
Remember when Gorgon Broon cunningly flogged off 395 tonnes of gold at a price of $275 per ounce.
He could have got maybe $10 more an ounce if he had not told the World of his cunning plan well in advance.
Doonhamer - yes it was crafty of him, surprising too, he must surely have been advised to keep quiet about it. Maybe he was throwing phones around at the time.
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