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

Allira

Corbyn was anti-EU

That's why I won't join his party. I have heard that he is anti NATO too.

I think he may be anti everything that smacks of establishment and authority.He’s like the character in Rebel Without A Cause who when asked at the end of the film what he’s against, says
‘Whaddya got?’

Susieq62

Please get your facts right Zarah is not from Bradford but Birmingham!
I live in Bradford and know my local MPs and she is not one of them!
Whilst I admire her determination I feel that she and Jeremy are fighting a lost cause but if they can keep Farage and co away then good on them !!

I fear it more likely the Fruit and Nut Party will take left wing votes away from Labour and let Reform in. Perhaps Reform Assistance Party would be the right name.

The Islamic party!!?
Dangerous, watch this space.
More of our rights eradicated.

Only 6.7% of the England and Wales population identified themselves as Muslim in the 2021 census. I really can't see them dominating politics in the foreseeable future. Plenty of them vote for other parties.

Do stop this ridiculous scaremongering.

Freya5

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.

Oh ffs!!
Why are supporters of stopping the genocide and starvation in GAZA called anti-Semitic? OR labelled Islamists or supporters of Palestine?
For ANYONE who has any morals, Christian or any other religion or not… it is WRONG. Innocent babies and children being killed, over 58,000 HUMAN BEINGS killed in the name of revenge, for what was indeed an atrocity to nearly 2,000, but now ALL Gaza’s are being starved out, or to death, by the so called Jewish/ Christian Israelis! So much for Religion! BS! The Spanish Inquisition, The Salem Witch Trials … go to any point in history and you will find Murders and torture being done in the name of some religion or other. Now in the name of Politics too! I despair!

I like Jeremy Corbin but I wish he’d just find a way to work with the Labour Party. This will just make it easier for the dreadful tories to get back in.

But the Labour Party have made it clear they don’t wish to work with Jeremy Corbyn Nellygran, KS has chucked him out for heaven’s sake. There’s no room for socialists in this version of the LP.

Ah well, I don’t know why people are getting their knickers in a twist, they’ve been suggesting JC should leave and start his own party for years, so they should be happy he has.

Oreo

I think he may be anti everything that smacks of establishment and authority.He’s like the character in Rebel Without A Cause who when asked at the end of the film what he’s against, says
‘Whaddya got?’

Oreo - one of those occasions when I 👏👏👏👏your comment

And - if FibbyMcFibFace too silky as a name for the nameless new party?
I acknowledge Mr C claims sainthood on the honesty front but I’m not convinced

FibbyMcFibFace
😂😂😂

Aw, bless him, we can't take him seriously though, can we!

Nellygran

I like Jeremy Corbin but I wish he’d just find a way to work with the Labour Party. This will just make it easier for the dreadful tories to get back in.

Well, he is one of the most personally incompetent people I have ever seen in politics. Even when nominally a member of the Labour party he seemed to vote against it more often than he voted with it

If his launching of his new party this week is an example of his new party will be run, he is clearly aiming at still higher levels of incompetence.

It shows how incompetent politicians today are, that anyone should think that jeremy Corbyn has the makings of a leader.

Jeremy Corbyn’s new party will campaign to nationalise all banks, one of its organisers has said.

Pamela Fitzpatrick, a socialist campaigner and confidante of Mr Corbyn, said the party would campaign on a “ruthless” and “unapologetic” socialist platform, going further than Labour’s “pretty mild” 2019 manifesto.

"Nationalise all banks"? So he is totally ignoring the major concerns of the day.

Well, what could possibly go wrong with Jeremy Corbyn and a ruthlessly unapologetic socialist platform? I imagine Mr Farage will have to amend his platform in an attempt to beat the FibbyMcFibface socialists in an election
The Conservatives and Labour might combine as they quake in fear, knowing they’re doomed by the brave new world of Corbyn

I think both major parties have something to fear, not from Corbyn but from their lack of support amongst the electorate and especially from young people who they need to appeal to in the future. Unless both start listening to people’s fears and anger, instead of trying to placate the very rich and those with vested interests, I think almost anything could happen at the next election
(and no I’m not a ‘Corbynite’ which is a silly term of abuse thrown out randomly at people who are not ‘Blairites’. I’m sure he knows he has absolutely no chance of winning an election - but politics is about more than that).

Ah well, I don’t know why people are getting their knickers in a twist, they’ve been suggesting JC should leave and start his own party for years, so they should be happy he has

No knicker twisting here nightowl.

From what I can see, most Labour supporters are happy that Corbyn has started his own party.

I would imagine KS is particularly happy

nightowl

I think both major parties have something to fear, not from Corbyn but from their lack of support amongst the electorate and especially from young people who they need to appeal to in the future. Unless both start listening to people’s fears and anger, instead of trying to placate the very rich and those with vested interests, I think almost anything could happen at the next election
(and no I’m not a ‘Corbynite’ which is a silly term of abuse thrown out randomly at people who are not ‘Blairites’. I’m sure he knows he has absolutely no chance of winning an election - but politics is about more than that).

Precisely, nightowl.

Sparklefizz

"Nationalise all banks"? So he is totally ignoring the major concerns of the day.

I think you’re overreacting here. This is just one thing that might be proposed…A one issue party would be a bit of a nonsense, wouldn’t it?

MaizieD

Sparklefizz

"Nationalise all banks"? So he is totally ignoring the major concerns of the day.

I think you’re overreacting here. This is just one thing that might be proposed…A one issue party would be a bit of a nonsense, wouldn’t it?

Oh I don’t know, it’s all the Greens have got.

Nellygran

I like Jeremy Corbin but I wish he’d just find a way to work with the Labour Party. This will just make it easier for the dreadful tories to get back in.

Even diehard tories had started fleeing from the tory party last election.
I dont think with a year's distance from the election, that things are much if any better, with them.

I have always been a fan of Corbyn and think he was treated disgracefully by just about every media outlet - and by the Labour Party.

I have come to the conclusion, though, that in reality it is only people who pose no threat whatsoever to the rich and powerful who will be allowed to garner public support. The same character assassination tactics will be used to ensure that the status quo remains.

I have to agree with you, Eloethan.

Corbyn is earnestly principled (read Diane Abbot's account of their affair ) and not at all pragmatic. Which makes him inspiring but unfortunately he's a very poor politician. A leader needs to be god at politics.

Not god, FGS! good

What I find annoying is that people voted for the Labour Party, not because they felt many things needed to be radically changed, but because they were sick of 14 years of chaos, corruption and neglect. They didn't really want anything much different - and that is what they got - basically, more austerity measures and a pandering to people's fears about "foreigners" - eg the warning about a potential "island of strangers".

Given that is what I think most people voted for - nothing radical, a continuance of austerity-type measures (provided they are aimed at others, of course) - Labour's actions are broadly in keeping with maintaining the status quo. I think Labour has a difficult job and I have some sympathy because people voted for them to improve things like proper control over public resources and services. But, unless some controversial measures are taken (like a wealth tax), people on ordinary incomes will find it is they, and not the super-rich (who have doubled their wealth since Covid) that will, as ever, have to pay the price.