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These 3 radicals are biggest jokes in UK politics – they make Ed Miliband look centrist

Sam Lister and Ed Miliband

I’ve found even bigger jokes than Ed Miliband (Image: Daily Express/PA)

It’s only a few days before we suffer the horror of what will be the most vindictive budget in decades but fear not, help is on the way. Shortly after Rachel Reeves doles out her punishment beating, her former colleagues Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will launch their new party, Your Party, to save the country from itself. Their goal, wait for it… it’s even catchier than one of Keir Starmer’s “missions for national renewal”, is to provide an “alternative to the status quo and to decades of neoliberalism, austerity and the demonisation of refugees and marginalised communities”.

They are holding the movement’s founding conference next Saturday in Liverpool, promising they are not “just another political party”, they are planning on “doing politics differently”. Which is absolutely fantastic news as that’s definitely achievable. So what if there have been a few bumps in the road to get this far? Sultana may have jumped the gun a little when she promoted a membership portal for supporters that led them to handing over £800,000 in donations.

Corbyn later told supporters to cancel direct debits and said the emails that had been sent out about the party were unauthorised. Some of the cash has been handed over to Your Party now from the account Sultana is sole director of and “further instalments will be paid as soon as possible”. Not quite as quickly as Corbyn would like, but what’s a few hundred thousand between friends?

And yes, it may seem a little strange that the co-founder of the party is holding a rally the night before the conference without inviting the MP she formed it with to speak. But Corbyn is a very busy man so perhaps it is understandable. Surely it has nothing to do with Sultana accusing him of overseeing a “sexist boys’ club”.

I, for one, think it’s pretty impressive that a party made up of six MPs has managed to create such bitter infighting that everyone is already briefing against each other. Actually, they are down to four now after two of the group quit in the space of a week. Adnan Hussain, MP for Blackburn, left last Friday claiming there was a “toxic” culture and the party was “dominated by persistent infighting”. Iqbal Mohamed, who represents Dewsbury & Batley, followed him out last night saying he had been subject to “false allegations and smears”.

It took Starmer’s Labour a good six months into government before they were fighting like rats in a sack. The slow-coach Tories were about five years in before they went into full civil war mode. Your Party is showing true commitment to doing things differently by getting stuck into it before it has even formally launched. And in that spirit, the party conference is shaping up to be great fun.

While the boring old traditional parties do their best to stop anyone disrupting the big speeches, Your Party is taking the worry out of it by planning to disrupt its own. Well that’s what Corbynistas believe Sultana is up to with claims she is encouraging members of far left splinter groups to cause a scene.

Why bother waiting for someone to throw glitter over you like Starmer did or hope that some unknown comedian on the make gives you a P45 as happened to Theresa May? Cut out the middle man and sort it yourself.

And okay there may be a huge split in the party over whether a woman is a woman with Sultana, the only female MP, arguing trans women are women, forcing out the two men who say they are not. But you can’t let science get in the way of saving the world. There’s decades of neoliberalism to reverse, remember.

Many on the Left have suggested Your Party and the Greens should form a pact so they can see off the evil right wingers. Man of the moment Zack Polanski, who has pushed up the environmentalists’ poll ratings significantly, is certainly someone who might be able to bridge the divide on the trans debate.

He definitely must believe in biological sex as in his previous life as a hypnotherapist he tried to increase a woman’s breast size through the power of his mind. But he is also a committed trans warrior, so both sides should be happy! It’s all so bonkers that Labour’s radicals, such as Red Ed Miliband, seem positively centrist by comparison.

But it’s Your Party and you can laugh if you want to.

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