‘It’s thermonuclear’: Inside meltdown of Corbyn’s Your Party, now on brink of collapse

‘It’s thermonuclear’: Inside meltdown of Corbyn’s Your Party, now on brink of collapse



by JayR_97

31 comments

  1. When Zarah Sultana left the labour party, she declined to hold a by-election. She won on a Labour ticket. She’ll likely lose her seat at the next election – all this is doing is prolonging the inevitable and revealing fatal flaws her ability to govern effectively.

  2. And people think he could have run the country. It’s looking doubtful that he can run a tea party, let alone a political party.

  3. To the surprise of nobody lol..

    I still don’t understand why either Corbyn or Sultana joined them. It was basically Hamas UK.. oh yeah.. that’s why lol

  4. Glad it’s shattered the facade that this isn’t a Corbyn vanity project.

    He does seem a principled bloke but dogmatic to the point he seems more interested in debating the contours of left wing policy rather than actually governing.

  5. Meanwhile Green Party has garnered some 3,000 members since Thursday morning. It is the only left-wing party in the UK with a [working membership portal](https://join.greenparty.org.uk/) and doesn’t actually scam you.

    This is both too funny and sad to witness from the sidelines

  6. Considering Corybn has demonstrated several times that he’s not a good leader it doesn’t suprise me that this new attempt is looking like it’s going to end in failure. The suprise is that it ended up happening so quickly. I thought they’d have at least made it to an election and then collapse after they make no headway.

  7. OK we have MORE than enough material for another series of The Thick Of It

  9. There come’s a time when you have to accept that you don’t have the ability to lead a movement and accept that despite how strongly you hold your beliefs your career has shown you have done more harm than good for the cause and retire. Or you know just keep providing ammunition to your enemies till we have fag packet Trump in downing street.

  10. The people the far-left hates the most are other left wingers who they don’t deem left wing enough. Put a bunch of people who are totally unable to compromise in a room together and it was only going to end with in-fighting and bickering. 

  12. This is such a predictable thing to happen to a Jeremy Corbyn party. He loves being an activist and would hate to actually govern I feel

  14. I’ve gone from loving him to fucking loathing him I  10 years. He is a caricature of old guard leftists. Completely unable to change his mind, moves at the pace of a snail, detached from the people who he supposedly advocates for, tribal , completely inflexible despite failing continuously at their mission. The left desperately needs new blood and this man would happily see this country burn before his ideas are replaced. And I’ve met many, specifically white old leftist leftist like him. They’re all the same. They will leverage peoples desperation for change or progressive representation against  their purism.  Oh you want someone supporting council house building in your area and want to get involved ? Well join us and hold thiese banners which implicitly support allowing russia to invade Ukraine. 

  15. The real question is why did Zarah join a “left wing” party made up of conservative, sexist and transphobic landlords? Her party’s MPs are more in favour of cousin marriage than same-sex marriage. How can you have a coherent political party when the only thing they agree on is the foreign policy towards a single country? The situation in Gaza is horrific, but it’s far from the only problem facing this country.

  16. It’s silly to report this as a party civil war when there isn’t even a party yet.

  17. It is pretty impressive to crash and burn a political party without even contesting an election of any sort, not even a council by-election. It just shows how bad in-fighting can get with some people on the left wing, as if they want to enter a pointless purity contest.

  18. Probably for the best. Imagine the drama of the party had grown to three members.

  19. The two of them need to exclude themselves from any talk of leadership if this thing is going anywhere. This was the only positive news in UK politics for many people and it’s been blown up by Corbyn’s dithering and what feels like immature student politics moves by Sultana. The whole thing is embarrassing.

  20. I will never understand how a Collapse and Infighting of a Not Yet In Existence Party can be major news or seen as anything important.

    A joke party, with Joke politicians doing a Joke of a job.

  21. That’s quick even by textbook left wing infighting standards.

  23. “Twitter obviously isn’t representative, but is a significant site for particularly leftwing activists, and there’s a lot of support for her there,” the source said.”

    This is literally why they lost twice and will continue to lose forevermore.

  25. Though “thermonuclear” relates to fusion (coming together) reactions. So the analogy does not really hold?

    I will see myself out.

  26. It was always inevitable but it’s hilarious how quickly it happened. 

  27. Totally shocked that these useless politicians couldn’t manage to organize their own party

  28. Leftists shooting themselves in the foot but again man

  29. Corbyn: ‘In a sense, it’s Your Party. But in a much more real sense, it’s MY Party’

  31. This is just the time honoured tradition of fringe split-away left wing political parties, we should not be surprised. Monty Python were making jokes about it in the 70’s.

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