‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn’ 🎵 🎶 and Zarah Sultana have confirmed the launch of their new political party today!

I wonder why it has taken them so long to launch their party, it was hardly a secret? 🤷‍♀️

Quote GrannyGravy13 Thu 24-Jul-25 15:04:21
I wonder why it has taken them so long to launch their party, it was hardly a secret? 🤷‍♀️

Timing, 1. Announce thoughts of new party.

2. Announce new party

3. Announce name of new party.

4. Vow to campaign to have Palestine a State and Israel
charged for alleged war crimes

4.announce how his party is true Labour Party

Ah well that will syphon off all the rabid left wingers and this break away party, like innumerable ones in the past will prance up and down and shout for a few years, no one will take any notice of them, then they will fizzle out.

There is a very funny Mumsnet thread about it, called Corbyn announces Your Party (which isn't what it is called).

The Fruit And Nut Party it’s being called.😄

"Not Another One!"

#Brenda

I think there may well be a spectrum of parties encompassing the far right to the far left and those sharp elbowing their way into the centre ground in future. The young voters of tomorrow will be drawn to some of the newer ones, the Greens, shouldn't be underestimated either they could well mop up a good few votes snd become more of a force to be reckoned with. The old two party system is/has broken down it's not a given between the old them and us anymore, they'll all have to fight for their slice of the electorate on several fronts, any sign of complacency could be a nail in the coffin. Another thing that has emerged there's a distinct split in where the male versus the female vote will line up and then there are those who want representation on niche issues and therefore limited in their appeal.

Have fears about this, it will become an Islamist party, solely on the ticket of palestine. Nothing at all about the state this country is in, same as the other Islamists in Parliament in hoc to one vote only. The Muslim vote. Very dangerous waters indeed.

Quote Freya5 Thu 24-Jul-25 16:23:29
Have fears about this, it will become an Islamist party, solely on the ticket of palestine. Nothing at all about the state this country is in, same as the other Islamists in Parliament in hoc to one vote only. The Muslim vote. Very dangerous waters indeed.

Quite possible

They hope to mop up with Muslim voters? George Galloway tried that and ended up slurping from a dish on the floor like a cat.

Galloway was MP for Rochdale 2024, but only for 90 days !

I don’t know how, but I just knew this thread was you FriedGreenTomatoes2. - it must have been the musical accompaniment!
I think it’s only been launched now because Ms Sultana jumped the gun, as is her wont. I’m not expecting the party to go anywhere much, it’ll be the nippy Yorkshire terrier of British politics.

Quote Casdon Thu 24-Jul-25 16:46:40
I don’t know how, but I just knew this thread was you FriedGreenTomatoes2. - it must have been the musical accompaniment!
I think it’s only been launched now because Ms Sultana jumped the gun, as is her wont. I’m not expecting the party to go anywhere much, it’ll be the nippy Yorkshire terrier of British politics.

Please do not compare Corbyn with Yorkshire Terriers
My 17 year old Welsh Yorkshire Terrier Lottie has done much for the Labour Party to assist not destroy

I didn’t intend to offend Anniebach, happy to substitute any very small nippy dog. 🐶

Sultana may be from Bradford but Corbyn has Islington running through him like a stick of rock.
So hardly Yorkshire Terriers.

Casdon

I don’t know how, but I just knew this thread was you FriedGreenTomatoes2. - it must have been the musical accompaniment!
I think it’s only been launched now because Ms Sultana jumped the gun, as is her wont. I’m not expecting the party to go anywhere much, it’ll be the nippy Yorkshire terrier of British politics.

How very dare you Casdon 😯
Our rescue Yorkshire terrier was the best dog ever - even DH said so although he never wanted a little dog in the first place!

Yorkshire terriers are loyal, loving, fearless and energetic.
Not how I'd describe Corbyn!

Oreo

Sultana may be from Bradford but Corbyn has Islington running through him like a stick of rock.
So hardly Yorkshire Terriers.

Corbyn was brought up not far from me in a very big house in the country.
Somehow that's rarely mentioned.
(We lived in a very small house.)

Jeremy with the canine version of Boris.

Actually, Jeremy seems quite fond of dogs in all the photos online.

I promise it was purely an analogy Allira - I’d have said chihuahua, but they aren’t British dogs - I’ve got nothing against Yorkshire terriers at all - happy to substitute any very small British dog if anybody has any other suggestions.

Allira

Oreo

Sultana may be from Bradford but Corbyn has Islington running through him like a stick of rock.
So hardly Yorkshire Terriers.

Corbyn was brought up not far from me in a very big house in the country.
Somehow that's rarely mentioned.
(We lived in a very small house.)

He likes to play down his roots.

Casdon

I promise it was purely an analogy Allira - I’d have said chihuahua, but they aren’t British dogs - I’ve got nothing against Yorkshire terriers at all - happy to substitute any very small British dog if anybody has any other suggestions.

I'll let you off 😁

Right, thinking cap on!

I'd say a Shropshire Spaniel but they're extinct, sadly.

Media storm as usual.
Whoever said the two party system in this country was dead is massively mistaken.

Look what happened to the SDP, the Greens, the LibDems, the Monster Raving loonies and the Ratepayers (remember them?). Reform is just the Tory party re-named.

As a life long Labour supporter I have no time for Corbyn. I find him a vain and insufferably remote man who campaigns on his favourite issues and has no political imagination.

I think Sultana, who I admire more, has shot herself in the political foot here.

I was once persuaded to attend a Corbyn rally against my better judgement and was told listening to him would make me change my mind.

It was pouring with rain, he was more than an hour late and didn't even apologise. His speech was the same as any other I'd heard him give, and he came across as clueless and lacking any understanding of his audience. What his 'fans' saw in him I do not know.
I blame Corbyn's opposition to the EU as much as anyone for Brexit- he wasn't interested, and as a campaigner for Remain I felt it like a cold flannel on the face.
Let him form his party if he wants, but I will never vote for a man who allowed Theresa May and then Boris Johnson, to get voted into power.

We won't get fooled again, as the song goes...

Corbyn was anti-EU