‘Your Party’ falling out already!

And on that note, I bid you all goodnight. x

There's solid joke along the lines of...
“What do you get if you put three Socialists in a room together?”
“Two new parties and a break away faction...”

Allira! 😂

Musing here who Jeremy Corbyn reminds me of. Then it came to me ….. Wilfred Brambell!

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Apparently Corbyn says it will be named properly in October.

Please call it "The Banana Party"
I want to see the headline : Banana splits.

I know. I need to get out more. 😂

😂😂😂
Oh flippin' heck, FGT2
I should have chosen white wine not red this evening!

Iam64

Honestly, such high drama. I remember Corbyn being so grumpy with journalists , “let me finish “ he’d snarl. He doesn’t like it up him MrMannering

😁

He tries to come over as affable and kind but he's not.

Yes, in the meantime Farage gains support!

I expect no more from Corbyn, he always was a maverick, but really any others should think again for the future of the Labour party.

Maremia

Hadn't heard of Maintsream, thanks.
Any views on how the new Green Party leader is getting on?
Such a pity that the Reform Party is turning into a Retirement Home for clapped out Tories.

Mainstream - one of the hottest topics in LP meetings atm.

Galaxy

Actually, whilst I think it is very funny, the issues with members money is quite serious, reading the comments on her twitter, it seems people are having difficulty getting refunds, having to cancel their cards, etc. It isn't really treating people with fairness and dignity is it.

This is the point, it’s not funny at all. While I’m quite prepared to believe women in politics are frequently sidelined (nothing to do with left or right - just life as we know it), I don’t know what on earth Zarah Sultana thought she was doing setting up a payment portal for donations online without consulting any of the other founding members. What a mess.

Honestly, such high drama. I remember Corbyn being so grumpy with journalists , “let me finish “ he’d snarl. He doesn’t like it up him MrMannering

Hadn't heard of Maintsream, thanks.
Any views on how the new Green Party leader is getting on?
Such a pity that the Reform Party is turning into a Retirement Home for clapped out Tories.

Instructing lawyers with regard to defamation is high level drama.

The thick plotens …. Jeremy Corbyn has warned Zarah Sultana that she should not be trying to “run” his new hard-Left party as their row deepened.

The former Labour leader appeared to take a veiled swipe at his co-founder after she announced she had called in lawyers to defend her from “baseless attacks”.

Mr Corbyn was speaking at the annual conference of the Peace and Justice Project, the organisation behind his new Left-wing party.

Apparently Corbyn says it will be named properly in October.

Please call it "The Banana Party"
I want to see the headline : Banana splits.

I know. I need to get out more. 😂

I can't see this party doing much. Maybe some students, left wing activists and union reps will support it, but I reckon it will fail like Socialist Labour did in the nineties and Respect in the noughties. Also without Corbyn, it will do even less.

I’m sure the only section of society who think these people are credible are university students and the BBC. 😁

Mind you Starmer can breathe a sigh of relief I imagine, not taking too many votes from Labour going forward.

On the other hand, Andy Burnham & Mainstream will have him reaching for the paracetamol. Especially with Lucy Powell causing waves. (Revenge being a dish best served cold).

Galaxy

The point is to discuss an issue that is on every major news channel.

I haven't seen any coverage of it at all...

The point is to discuss an issue that is on every major news channel.

keepingquiet

What's the point of this thread?

Earwiggo again.

Wyllow3

Iam64

Left wing men sidelining and excluding women 🌞, well, who’d a thought it !

It always happens in extreme parties, I've observed.

Good news for Mainstream

(If you've not heard of it, it's the middle ground grouping thats been formed in the LP, Andy Burnham being a major force.)

I would hope that people have heard of Mainstream. I started a thread on it just over a week ago.

www.gransnet.com/forums/news_and_politics/1351568-Mainstream-Labour?msgid=31313325

Whatever the political persuasion they all fall out sooner or later, just a bit sooner than expected with this new party barely off the ground. People might loosely agree politically, often the devil is in the detail, and I imagine there's an overall louder voice, me thinks possibly it's not Sultana's. She has a point about the 'sexist boys club' it's often there lurking under a veneer of egalitarianism, thinly disguised, even on the left, suppressed, but simmering below the surface until it can be constrained no longer round of teas luv, and make mine strong with three sugars

Actually, whilst I think it is very funny, the issues with members money is quite serious, reading the comments on her twitter, it seems people are having difficulty getting refunds, having to cancel their cards, etc. It isn't really treating people with fairness and dignity is it.

I will always now think of them as the Fruit & Nut Party. That's made my day.

Iam64

Left wing men sidelining and excluding women 🌞, well, who’d a thought it !

Yup. Years of experience. in politics. It's better, but it's very far left. (I just don't know re the Far right, although they have some Leading Ladies).

Iam64

Left wing men sidelining and excluding women 🌞, well, who’d a thought it !

It always happens in extreme parties, I've observed.

Good news for Mainstream

(If you've not heard of it, it's the middle ground grouping thats been formed in the LP, Andy Burnham being a major force.)

I know I am amazed.