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.