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Have they not issued a statement strongly condemning the imperialist aggression of the great Satan against the brave and proud people of Venezuela?
Honestly…. what’s the point of YP if they can’t even do that! 🤷♂️
Have they not issued a statement strongly condemning the imperialist aggression of the great Satan against the brave and proud people of Venezuela?
What do you think about it?
You can't win though, if you chuck out these people, you're just doing a 'militant tendency' style purge, just like New Labour did in the 80s.
It's the claim made by the SWP supporters but it is a false comparison imo. I am no supporter of the trotskyist tactic of entryism but the reality is that Militant were totally committed to the Labour Party's electoral success and fought extremely hard for Labour to win in elections. Disrupting the Labour Party served no benefits to them at all.
In contrast the SWP has no commitment at all to elections locally or nationally, they have never during their 50 odd years of existence ever registered with the Electoral Commission.
YP's single greatest priority right now is to offer disillusioned voters a radical alternative to Reform UK. The very last thing YP needs is to be hamstrung by ultra-leftist who want instant revolution and dismiss elections with the slogan "if elections could change anything they would be banned", and whose modus operandi is to be as disruptive as possible.
That's not supporting the Trots, simply downplaying their likely influence, rightly or wrongly.
Their influence isn't the primary issue imo, it's how disruptive they are, and glossing over that is supporting them.
Militant were totally committed to the Labour Party's electoral success and fought extremely hard for Labour to win in elections. Disrupting the Labour Party served no benefits to them at all.
How did that go?
Well, having extracted himself from all “this” mess above, Jamie_Driscoll has joined the Green Party. Doubt he’ll be the last.
Militant were totally committed to the Labour Party's electoral success and fought extremely hard for Labour to win in elections. Disrupting the Labour Party served no benefits to them at all
Hi! 
Looks like Ernie is on a break, not posted for 6 days.
"Your Party members applaud speaker’s refusal to condemn Hamas"
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/your-party-members-applaud-speakers-refusal-to-condemn-hamas-oebql9ew
Recounting the hustings, of which he said he was “really proud”, Lavalette told those present: “The first question came from our local Zionist, ‘will you denounce Hamas and do you denounce the horrors of the 7th of October?’...
Lavalette said he replied “absolutely not”, prompting applause from the Your Party audience. He continued: “There was this stunned silence in the room apart from those who were there with me who were clapping. And then they said ‘well why not?’ and so I took the opportunity to explain that this did not start on October 7 but this started actually during the First World War with the Balfour declaration but primarily in [19]47 with the Nakba and I gave a bit of a Palestinian history for them.”
Key elements here:
1) usual Corbynesque binary thinking and lack of critical analysis here. "If Palestinians were harmed in 1947, then anything that could be called a consequence cannot be condemned, and we shouldn't condemn Hamas".
2) boring history lecture that puts other Europeans like the supposedly anti-imperialist speaker at the centre of the story
3) everyone was blown away by the bravery and starkness of the speaker's insight
Bonus points for Sultana's statement here:
we are anti-Zionist and we are incredibly proud to stand for a single democratic state from the River to the Sea with equal rights for all.
Congratulations on landing on a policy which ~80% of Palestinians and Israelis alike do not want! Obviously the opinion of British politicians and retired social work professors is much more important than that of, you know, the pesky "natives".
https://newint.org/democracy/2025/beyond-apartheid-case-one-state-solution
Interesting developments:
1) there will not be any Your Party candidates for English elections in May. Scotland and Wales still to decide.
2) Corbyn was apparently criticised as a "Zionist" at the Liverpool conference for supporting a 2 state solution in Palestine and Israel. To be fair, it's not specified how many people said this.
3) There will be collective leadership. MPs will not be eligible to be the chair - so neither Corbyn nor Sultana will lead Your Party! I wonder - on zero new evidence whatsoever - if this is an SNP-led attempt to neuter the Party and effectively make it similar to the other "coalitions" etc that it has annexed in the past. But that's pure conspiratorial thinking by me.
You mean SWP?
Yes, sorry, SWP.
4D chess? With these numpties? 😂
Let’s see what ‘The Committee’ comes up with as everyone knows that things that are designed by committee always work out absolutely brilliantly!
Ah yes, the Allegro: what an outstanding piece of engineering that was! 🤦🏼♂️🤣
So, do they have any policy yet, or are they still too busy ripping themselves to bits over who supplies the sarnies for the staff meetings?
Interesting developments
The word 'Interesting' is doing some very heavy lifting in that sentence. 🤣
4D chess? With these numpties? 😂
Let’s see what ‘The Committee’ comes up with as everyone knows that things that are designed by committee always work out absolutely brilliantly!
The Allegro was designed and built by a private company with a single (and dominant) Chairman and MD - Donald Stokes. The union representing most of the workers that made it also had a single, domineering convenor - Red Robbo.
If it's an example of anything, it's a product of institutions with a single chief executive.
Not really the point. It was legendarily designed by committee and is used as a poster case for how that genaerally ends up. If you put into Google: Was the Austin Allegro ‘designed by committee’?
Heres what it comes back with
If you put into Google:
I couldn't GAF what an AI says about it. They're less credible than one of Corbyn's 569 explanations about how he there was a misunderstanding and he accidentally retweeted the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Anyway…. I eagerly await Comrade Corbyn, renowned as he is for his support for collegiate decision-making and his unwavering love of party loyalty, to unquestioningly support whatever ‘The Committee’ decides (if it ever actually decides anything)
If there's one thing that Jeremy does well, it is loyalty to the party structure. So I expect him to redouble his efforts in support of Your Party despite him and Sultana getting punted into the distance. Leave the infighting for the centrists!
If there's one thing that Jeremy does well, it is loyalty to the party structure.
Except of course all those years he was a back bench MP voting against his party.
Except of course all those years he was a back bench MP voting against his party.
Remember the time he sort of half… quarter? …. arsedley pretended he wasn’t a rabid Brexiteer for the odd day when he wasn’t AWOL on his allotment?
ICO suggests Your! Party! reports Sultana's launch to Action Fraud so that police can review it as "serious criminal activity" may have taken place.
Much as I am skeptical of Sultana, this sounds like absolute nonsense. It smells of the ICO seeking to kick the can down the road and have someone else make a decision - NB how quickly they were to point out that a police investigation would have precedence over their work - which is unnecessary. Also, everyone knows that Action Fraud is totally swamped and there are no police resources available for fraud.
After launching the party without telling him, and launching a website to collect money and sign up members without telling him, Novara is now claiming that Sultana...put Corbyn at the top of her faction's candidate list without telling him! She then had to reverse ferret and take him off.
Apply usual scepticism about reports from Novara, to be fair...
While looking at a Commons vote, I noticed there is currently only one Your Party MP...
https://members.parliament.uk/members/Commons?SearchText=&PartyId=1115
Other names connected the party are still sitting as independents...
https://members.parliament.uk/members/Commons?SearchText=&PartyId=8
Does the phrase pi$$ up and brewery mean anything to your party. I thought it had already fallen apart
Does the phrase pi$$ up and brewery mean anything to your party. I thought it had already fallen apart
You have to have a party in order for it to fall apart.
It's still in the 'thought experiment' stage from where I'm sitting.
they have collected a lot of money in membership fees have they not?
they have collected a lot of money in membership fees have they not?
Collecting money is all well and good but they don't seem to have any policy outside of how the party's internal management/decision making process may or may not work.
To me, they should already have all that figured out before they announce they are a party... Otherwise it just seems incompetent.
But incompetence comes with the territory any time corbyn is involved, in my view.
Well, to be fair, Corbyn appears to be the more competent half of the equation. And that says something about Sultana!
How about they just **** off and leave the Greens to it.
The real joke is in Scotland we already have multiple leftist parties who stand in elections. since splintering tho they have had no representation in holyrood tho they did in the first parliament when they were fairly united behind the Scottish Socialist party and actually acheived a couple of things
Report on Your party Scotland
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26016125.party-scotland-over-leadership-team-resign-en-mass/
Oh no! Ernie's head has just exploded.
I think Ernie has bigger problems, hes either been banned or is at his majesties pleasure for something to do with Gaza.
he is banned
what was it that finally did it?
Least said, soonest mended.
Back with Your Party: it's remarkable that the E&W Greens have done such a terrible job in candidate selection that YP seems positively respectable in comparison.