30 Comments
User's avatar
Adeel Mirza's avatar

We need this party to defeat the Devil IsRael.

Expand full comment
Chill The Monk Out's avatar

Love your work and will be following you on this one closely.

I think it was inevitable, we’re living through the end of an empire and they fracture internally and externally- this is part of that fracture.

I think they will win (bar Europe taking us to WW3). A lot of reform voters who were holding their nose on some issues but hate the uni party will transition

And at some point the country will wake up to the horrors of the genocide. When that happens it will be over for the other parties and the media / establishment, there’s too many horrors people haven’t even noticed yet. That’s gonna change

(If I had one slight issue with what you’ve written, I’m not sure pro genocide is enough. They use our taxes to help deliver it. They are genocide funders and part of an axis of evil that perpetrates it ❤️)

Expand full comment
Adam Whybray's avatar

I wonder if in every town and city across the country we could have a propoganda explainer sat behind a desk in the street who ever morning has big annotated versions of all the newspapers that highlight all the lies and omissions...

Expand full comment
Red Star2000's avatar

I don't know if they're still doing it, but in Newcastle there used to be an 'Ask-a-Muslim' booth on a Saturday. You could ask them the Muslim take on various issues and they'd explain to the best of their ability.

So yeah, great idea.

Expand full comment
Hetty in Scotchland ;-)'s avatar

Indeed Keir Hardie was a true socialist and the most decent of Scottish politicians. For Starmer to have his name is an insult to Mr.Hardie. Keir Hardie knew great hardship having been a child coal miner in occupied Scotland. His lectures and letters are an excellent read, as are his speeches in the HOC's, and his political life was not an easy at all, he was obviously despised by the BritEng establishment.

I read years ago when the 'Guardian' was a left wing paper, that no NEW left wing party would ever be allowed to set foot in the house of commons the EngBrit establishment would block it. Hmm let's see shall we.

This new party, I hope succeeds in getting somewhere, I hope they look to the SNP for ideas on policies that they have put in place (within the confines of devolution where they have limited powers) that are socially responsible, but I hope this new party does not stand candidates in Scotland because that could split the vote and allow the LABOUR UK party to take full control of Holyrood again heaven forbid. Last time when Labour, HQ'd in London, had ten years at the helm at H'Rood, they started to sell off Scottish Water (saved by the SNP) they started to dismantle parts of the Scottish NHS and they plunged Scottish councils into £billions++ of 'debt' with their PFI scheme (scam), to this day those councils are still massively in debt, and many of the buildings etc built using that scheme were hardly fit for purpose, and just as an added insult for example, the main hospital built using PFI in Edinburgh, will never be owned by the people even though it was built using public money. The private company owns it.

Thankfully at least the SNP removed parking charges for Scottish NHS staff.

So I hope they do manage to get support, but it's England that needs this new left wing party, Scotland already has a social democratic party which with independence will do even more to support people and introduce even more life affirming policies etc.

Good luck England!

Sorry long comment.

Expand full comment
Dx's avatar

The SNP have shown their true colours by their attitude to Palestine - against genocide when it suits their purposes. Not one of them in Westminster voted against proscribing Palestine Action and Holyrood is still hob-nobbing with Israel. And they're all far too comfortable in their positions in both 'parliaments'. I had respect for Humza Yousaf but the rest of them seem like a bunch of chancers. I'd like to see an independent Scotland but the SNP aren't going to deliver that. If the Sultana - Corbyn party believes in self-determination for Palestinians maybe they'll apply that principle to Scots too....

Expand full comment
Liz Thompson's avatar

Nice to get good news, isn't it!

Expand full comment
JennyStokes's avatar

I hope the British people won't be so stupid this time!

Expand full comment
A J's avatar

May it Be!

Expand full comment
J-Pat : Jason Patrick Quinn's avatar

May I suggest they pull their fingers out and get a move on. How many attempts did it take Farage et al to get into parliament? Five? Six? With our undemocratic “FPTP’ (first past the post) system it’s an uphill battle and in the case of a Leftist party the establishment and it’s media’s attacks will be unrelenting.

Expand full comment
Red Star2000's avatar

Agreed. How many false dawns have we had in the past 5 years ? Remember Enough Is Enough ? Huge support, talk of setting up local groups everywhere ... then it just vanished.

Corbyn should harbour no sentiment for L abour. They treated him - all of us - abysmally. Lets forget them and start building the future.

Expand full comment
Red Star2000's avatar

What I'm not currently clear on is whether the proposed party is to be built on the foundations of the existing Collective (as its run by Corbyn allies Pamela Fitzpatrick and Karie Murphy I suspect it might be).

If it is, Collective is already allied to Assemble, For The Many, Harrow Independents, Just Stop Oil, Liverpool Community Independents, Reliance, Socialist Party, Southport Community Independents, The Muslim Vote, Transform and TUSC - that's quite a broad left base to work with.

Collective : https://we-are-collective.org/

Expand full comment
Fil666's avatar

I reckon they should get together with George Galloway's Workers Party and form a coalition against war and Zionism. I think people would go for that right now

Expand full comment
Red Star2000's avatar

I believe Galloway has already ruled out a direct coalition, but is open to mutual help.

For all his many faults, Galloway would be a great spokesman to unleash on the zionist lobby and their tame media.

Expand full comment
Dx's avatar

A coalition with the Greens under Zack Polanski might be more palatable, especially to young people?

Expand full comment
Morag's avatar

I hope they don’t. I don’t want anything to do with that climate change denier, who voted Tory, who campaigned alongside Farage, that homophobe who lied outrageously about sex education in schools. He’s always been right on the Middle East, but other than that he’s a chancer and nasty manipulator.

Expand full comment
Lynne's avatar

Perhaps the announcement was planned this way?

I wouldn’t be surprised if this wasn’t something agreed beforehand. Whereby Zara would deliver the news about her resignation and the formation of new party because as Corbyns protégé and having youth on her side, she will be the one to carry the new party forward!

Expand full comment
The Revolution Continues's avatar

I'm anxiously looking forward to hearing what Jeremy has to say about the new party and the direction they'll be taking to shut down the genocide in Gaza and the proxy war in Ukraine... And seeing them grow and pick up more seats in parliament. Best of luck to them.

Expand full comment
#FreePalestine's avatar

This announcement came from the Financial Times, enough said about the journalist who wrote the story! It's typical of Zionist media = LT, FT, NYT, Guardian etc.

Expand full comment
Paul Snyder's avatar

Rational analysis indicates that the comedy team of McSweeney / Starmer may have entered the Liz Truss vs Lettuce phase.

Rachel (Performative Sobbery) Reeves will likely be the first to view the underside of the bus as a distraction, though she’ll have company before long.

My conversations with people I knew from “Old” Labor (now both a philosophical and physical descriptor) find the term “unsustainable” employed more frequently.

It WILL end, though are y’all positioned for any sort of positive upgrade?

Best to envision and act now.

Lettuce has a very short shelf life.

Expand full comment
Davina's avatar

I wish them same was happening here in Oz, currently we are too closely aligned with the US and if I see another media release on Albanese MP, trying to get face to face with Drumpf I'll scream, especially orally if there's any more nonsense about the AUKUS deal, which will not do a damn thing for Australia but give our hard-earned taxes to the US that will not get subs built or us but give tax cuts to the already far too wealthy instead. Most of us have already decided that $800 million payment/deposit can be kissed goodbye. Be better to halt the whole thing and use the money on something we know we will receive - not a lot of hot air and false promises. Never in my long life have I trusted anything said bt the US, and nothing has disabused me of that ever.

Expand full comment
Alan Hodge's avatar

Don’t know a thing about Sultana previous to this news, but I have long envied Brits for having a Jeremy Corbyn in Parliament. We have two honest politicos here in the States, but both are spasmodically right libertarian, which leads them easily into antilabor establishment tropes. Congratulations, good luck, goodwill, godspeed, and solidarity from your Yank cousins.

Expand full comment