38 minutes ago, Iz 🌟 said:

This morning, an email went out to people who signed up to the Your Party mailing list, asking them to sign up - set at £55 for a year. All apparently normal and expected with their timetable, I'd have expected they get up paid membership. Sultana posted a show of support for this, glad that over 20,000 people had already signed up as full paid members.

This afternoon, Corbyn put out a statement saying that that email was sent in error, that the membership process is still being set up and that anyone who had signed up should cancel their payments. Notably, this statement was signed by all of the independent MPs except Sultana.

Sultana's posted a follow-up statement claiming that she's being pushed out of the process, being sidelined by the other MPs, some claims of sexism and that her intention is to safeguard the grassroots movement. Definitely some maneuvering by her to try and retain control I think, though I'm definitely more sympathetic to her vision of what the party should be.

It's a disorganised, chaotic, embarassing mess essentially.

Sounds like she got played.

I might as well come out and say I was cynical about this from day 1. The strategy is all over the show. Are none of these people actually in this job because they are good strategically minded and organisers of people? Maybe I'm annoyed because that's my skillset.

1 hour ago, J00prstar said:

Sounds like she got played.

I might as well come out and say I was cynical about this from day 1. The strategy is all over the show. Are none of these people actually in this job because they are good strategically minded and organisers of people? Maybe I'm annoyed because that's my skillset.

An expensive vanity project with an alliance on one single issue (Palestine).

This is going to be the problem with the left and is what the Democrats are stuggling with too. In turmoil there's a power struggle. At least the Greens are a cohesive Party,

The frustrating thing is that the popular will for something like this from the public is clearly there, it's just being let down by the politicians that should be responsible for getting it going - letting their own egos get in the way of building a movement. Though something to be said for parties being organic and not launched like one is launching a company (see also. Reform Ltd).

Polanski is doing a lot better at building a movement and being a steady, good operating face of it, it's just a shame he's tied to the party structure of the Greens.

It's a shame really. This could have worked but I just had a feeling the infighting would be a problem.

Plus the single issue matter. Forgive my ignorance but as awful as the events in the Middle East are, what can a political party here do?

Yeh thought the same about this in terms of there’s no room on the left with the greens - it’s just splitting the vote!

i mean the greens can always work with your party and be strategic in elections but the moment this new party was plagued by transphobic mps i knew the party would struggle to take off, though the greens might have a similar issue with one of their deps 👀. didn't foresee the party in tatters from membership fees tho

there's definitely cohesion in building a movement to counter the horrifying rise of the far right, and frankly this is a big gap to fill yet with huge potential, so zack please don't f*** this up x

1 hour ago, uhsting said:

i mean the greens can always work with your party and be strategic in elections but the moment this new party was plagued by transphobic mps i knew the party would struggle to take off, though the greens might have a similar issue with one of their deps 👀. didn't foresee the party in tatters from membership fees tho

there's definitely cohesion in building a movement to counter the horrifying rise of the far right, and frankly this is a big gap to fill yet with huge potential, so zack please don't f*** this up x

This was not a serious party though. The Party would fund Corbyn to do rallies and give him some political clout to act as a protest, but as usual, he would achieve rhe square root of absolutely nothing and end up enabling the things he allegedly stands against!

The Left and Centrists are going to have to work together and find common ground/compromises on a number of issues/. Problem is, I don't think there's much appetite for this at the moment and as usualy, politics is often dominated by egos.