Sunday, 27 July 2025

Your Party

 
Because of recent disappointing events, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/07/wot-no-list.html, I've found it more and more difficult to commentate on politics. British politics in particular is extremely confusing. Our last election was utterly surreal, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/05/why-i-did-not-vote-reform.html! It feels like the political order that has propped up this nation for almost a century is crumbling; whether that's for the better or worse remains to be seen. The rightwing elements have broken off from the Conservatives following their obtrusive lurch to the centre. We have gained Reform UK and a number of smaller hard right parties; but now the same thing has happened to the left. A new party has been formed by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. They are both former Labour MP's and the latter is one of the youngest members of the House of Commons. Corbyn was expelled in 2023 and Sultana resigned. In a way, this is not a new development; in fact the Labour Party has been catastrophically split for over forty years. Ever since the rise of Margaret Thatcher the mainstream leadership of Labour has totally abandoned radicalism. This is why the radicals in both parties have regrouped on the fringes, in the form of the Militant tendency and the Monday Club for example. It was only a matter of time before those fringes detached completely. I just find it surprising that with Labour it took so long. It has been hobbling desperately along with its socialist conjoined twin for an unbelievable length of time. The new populist leftwing party has no official name yet, but many people are calling it "your party", the reason being that this is part of the slogan written on the website, see: https://www.yourparty.uk/#/. This has caused a bit of confusion because some people have got the wrong impression that this will be the final name for the party. It may end up being called that in the same way a working title for a film or book sticks. Whatever the party is called it will promote the leftist ideas that were popular in the fundamentalist wing of Labour since the early 1980's and were indeed completely accepted by the entire party for the rest of its previous history; nationalization of health, transport and commodity providers, more generous social security, free public education and, to fit in with the "new left", wokism. I predict millions of Labour voters will jump ship. The next general election will probably be a hung parliament. Although I don't endorse any of those above policies I might join Your Party on condition I can be appointed leader. If that happens I will revise that entire manifesto and change its name to "My Party". I think I'll make a good prime minister.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.

2 comments:

Missing_Trillions said...

Apparently in the spirit of democratic centralism they are going to hold a general meeting and debate/vote on their name. So that should keep them busy for the rest of the year.

The most popular coined name for this new party seems to be 'Jezbollah' (no need to print this Ben if it's likely to infringe guidelines on this platform). I actually don't agree with the association this nickname is meant to conjure but it is very funny and I've got to laugh!

I can't see how the new party can drain any more votes away from Labour than George Galloway's party did and it will be interesting to see if Galloway himself ends up supporting it. Threre can't be much ideological difference between them although Galloway is a much more galvanising and relatable personality then Corbyn.

Ben Emlyn-Jones said...

MT, I don't think the OSA is ready to kick my door down for simply publishing the word... yet! I suspect Corbyn's new venture will be different from Galloway's Workers' Party though for two reasons. It will be more than just a local protest group and it will not be specifically Islamist. Yes, Corbyn is in Palestine Solidarity (not to be confused with the now proscribed Palestine Action) and he will gain support that way, but he is still much more of a 70's trade union type than George. He will talk about more than just how awful his local Labour councilors are and how even worse Israel is.