Zarah Sultana has claimed Volodymyr Zelensky “isn’t a friend of the working class“. In an interview with PoliticsJoe today, she said:
“We want this war to end because it is working class Ukrainians and working-class Russians who are being killed… Putin is a dictator, a gangster, and there are war crimes that have been committed but Zelensky isn’t a friend of the working class either and those were the voices that I was hearing in Paris… the only people that benefit from conflict in Ukraine and um in in Gaza or anywhere else are arms manufacturers and people who profit from the arms industry.”
Sultana went on to say that ‘Your Party’ needs to elect an executive committee “led by the movement” without any MPs on it, and that 14-year-olds should be able to join the party too. Plenty of things for comrade Corbyn to chew on…
Your Party is finally inviting those who signed up to the Zarah Sultana split-off group back into the main membership herd. In what emails supporters describe as an “unprecedented democratic founding process”…
The ‘transfer’ is as messy as you’d expect. The party says in one email:
“If you paid a membership fee on the previous site launched on the 18th September at yourparty-memberships.uk, please be assured that your membership will be transferred over. We are working at pace and will update you as soon as we have completed the complex legal and regulatory steps required for this process.”
On its website it says that “you will then need to show proof that you joined under that system, for example a screenshot of your email confirmation.“ This is not actually being asked for from transferrers, by the way…
Transferrers are then asked to pay some more anyway: “You indicated that you paid a membership on the other site. Once that runs out, select a new membership tier below.” Separately the party is asking people to “donate to the cost of assemblies” across the UK…
Interest has faded on Your Party’s membership website for its upcoming events. Past posts advertising events with Corbyn got over 400 ‘likes’ each – now adverts for upcoming ‘regional assemblies’ are getting between 20 and 30 likes each. Maybe things will improve once they decide on a name…
Lots of polling has been done on the Green Party on the opening of its conference in Bournemouth. Not all promising for ex-LibDem Zack Polanski…
Highlights:
As always the revolution is at risk of eating itself. That’s what Starmer’s hoping for at least…
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s as-of-yet-unnamed political party is solving its branding problem by asking the internet to come up with a few suggestions, and the far left have spent the afternoon bickering over it. Who could’ve seen that coming?
Owen Jones put forward his 8-point pitch for ‘the People’s Party’ this afternoon on X:
I think the ‘People’s Party’:
1) The ‘Workers’ Party’ is already taken.
2) It brings together the working class and many people who’d consider themselves middle class, who are now struggling.
3) It’s the ‘People vs. the Elite’.
4) The problem with the ‘Left Party’ is that… https://t.co/1I1VvdydYK
— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) August 26, 2025
Unfortunately this proposal did not sit well with Jones’ online comrades, who went back and forth over the definition of ‘people’, ‘working class’, and the ‘left’. At least Abi Wilkinson showed some solidarity. Eventually Jones was defending himself from accusations of ‘dishonesty’ for “pretending we aren’t what we are”…
How is dishonest? The party does need to be a coalition of not just self-identifying working class people. It needs to include e.g. self-employed people, people in professional jobs who don’t see themselves as working-class or who aren’t in a Marxist sense.
— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) August 26, 2025
If even the name causes this much squabbling, imagine what the next few years will look like. For what it’s worth, Owen’s suggestion is the most popular with Brits (23%), according to YouGov… unless you count ‘don’t know’, which scored 54%. The ‘Don’t Know’ Party does have a ring to it…
Jezza’s clearly not impressed with Comrade Sultana. Earlier this week she decided it would be a good idea to blast Corbyn for “capitulating” on the definition of antisemitism as Labour leader. Now Jeremy’s hit back…
Speaking to Middle East Eye, Corbyn said:
“Well I think it wasn’t really necessary for her to bring all that up in the interview, but that’s what she decided to do. The party did adopt the IHRA definition. Personally I was more in favour of the Jerusalem declaration, which is simply saying antisemitism is wrong…”
They’re yet to appear in a joint interview since launching their new unnamed party. Even so, a quarter of Labour members are still turning their heads…
A quarter of the Labour membership could back Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘Your Party’ at the next general election. According to new polling by Survation, 28% of the Labour membership – around 93,000 voters – are considering abandoning the party in favour of the Corbyn-Sultana show. 59% want Labour to be more left-wing…
Jeremy is loving it:
“For too long, people have been denied a real political choice. Not any more: 700,000 people have already signed up to build a real alternative to inequality, poverty and war. One based on public ownership, wealth redistribution, housing justice and peace. This is just the beginning. We are an unstoppable movement and we are never going away.”
Now the party just needs a name and an agreed leadership structure, which is apparently easier said than done. Their first conference is set for the autumn…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”