A day out with Jeremy Corbyn's new party
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Can they really replace Labour?

My view on this, for whatever it’s worth, is that Corbyn’s too old-school to want a proper party that isn’t ‘a labour party’, i.e., one funded and run by trade unions (which is something he and I have in common). If it’s not some sort of trade union party, how will it be any different from a version of the Greens, except with no rural appeal at all?

  • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.ukMEnglish
    101·
    26 days ago

    No paywall

    The event was a success; there will be more like it in Ilford and around the country. Britain has become a multi-party system and there is an appetite for a party (or perhaps just candidates) that talks about peace, Palestine and poverty. The launch of Sultana’s new party has been messy and the left beyond Labour is fragmented, with some elements filtering into the Greens and some likely preferring the more decentralised independent model.

    This seems unfair to Sultana, her party announcement focused a lot on inequality (two child cap, winter fuel payment, PIP). I get the left spends a lot of time talking about Gaza (justifiably, because genocide), but I don’t think that necessarily means a left election campaign will focus this much on foreign policy.

    Zack Polanski’s Green party leadership bid is probably close to what a left campaign would (or at least should) look like.