Thought to include the independent Gaza MPs.

Sultana and Corbyn plan to be party co-leaders.

Sultana's Labour-quitting manifesto:

Personally I'm in two minds on it. Anyway thought you all would probably have thoughts.

Zarah Sultana is probably one of the best MPs in Parliament right now, young, energetic and on the right side of pretty much everything, so I definitely want to see her have a long career in politics that isn't dependent on the flaws in the Labour Party.

I think it's probably a good thing to get this going, there is of course a danger that they can't take any of the territory in political space between the Greens and Labour, and so the initial reaction is 'oh no this will split the left' (and I see a lot of mocking online, encouraged by the Spectator's journalists chortling from their summer retreats). A party the left are energetic for and not just lethargic about like Starmer's Labour is needed.

Really the Green Party isn't a sufficient home for the left long-term and Labour's direction is not encouraging for popular transformative politics. If the political theory of 'let's keep trying new things' advocated by Reform is correct, after their failure, this, with a few more popular left figures attached to it, could have potential. Reform's criticism is that neoliberalism keeps failing when they are just a more extreme and stupid version of neoliberalism and trickle-down, this (and the Greens) are the only really new thing out there.

also electorally I think there are few seats where this party will at the moment gain enough votes to cause a seat that Labour would have held otherwise to lose to Reform or the Tories so I think that's overstated right now.

Ok so out of the intro post, I'm rolling my eyes, especially given one of the FIRST platform positions she gives is being pro more handouts for pensioners.

Plot twist: the pressure gets too much for Rachel Reeves, she quits as chancellor and joins them.

OOOOH MY JEREMY CORBYNNNN!!!!!!!

GREATEST POLITICIAN SINCE ATTLEE, YOU HAVE MY VOTE... IF IT LOOKS LIKE YOU CAN WIN A SEAT IN MY AREA!!!

Whether this new party is a success remains to be seen but I admire the fact they are trying.

We do need, as said above, a "progressive" party that people will actually be excited about. I'm not getting that from Labour (and, frankly, since election night last year, I haven't).