Even though I understand that they have had to fix the economic mess the Conservative Party left them, to say i am disappointed in the Labour Party under Keir Starmer is an understatement which is why i have been glad to hear of the new Left Wing Party that Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana are cobbling together.
They have not yet announced any policies but the Mission Statement on the new Parties website gives us a glimpse of what we can expect with it's denouncement of 4.5 million children living in poverty in the sixth richest country in the world and where the government says there is no money for the poor, but billions for war.
It goes on to call for a mass redistribution of wealth and power, taxing the very richest in our society and bringing energy, water, rail and mail into public ownership and standing up to fossil fuel giants and ends with attacking the government’s shameful complicity in the Israeli genocide.
While reading it my first thought was, wow, reads like something I had written because that pretty much hits every subject i have been raging against for decades so the Party ticks every box for me but then i was Team Jeremy back in the day anyway, i just thought he was a little to the left for most people, and by that i mean the people who vote because while his ideals were widely popular with the the younger voters, they do not vote in the numbers the older voters do and the grey vote is right wing so he just wouldn't get the numbers required.
In the first week of it being announced, the party has received over 600,000 sign-ups at it's website and is in the process of forming a steering committee for the new party ready for the founding conference later this year and been asking members, disillusioned Labour politicians and left wing journalists for ideas on how to proceed and my own suggestion to them?
Join forces with the Greens and the left wing independents but most importantly, for crying out loud come up with a better name than 'Your Party'.
Saturday, 2 August 2025
Your Party
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