Zack Polanski has revived hope that the left can turn the tide of British politics. But to actually do that, we need a party that can walk the talk, building working-class power from the ground up, write Your Party leadership candidates Candi Williams and Anahita Zardoshti.
I mean, in a number of instances, they appear to be operating in coalition. They’re not total dummies.
But so much of “Your Party” is just Labour that got booted out by Starmer. And they’re bringing in a ton of that Labour Party social baggage, with all the same old self-serving impulses. Doesn’t help that Corbyn is leading with the lightest of light touches (the kind of weak party discipline that collapse Left-Labour in 2017). The biggest victim of Your Party vote splitting seems to be Your Party itself.
The only thing that Your Party will successfully do is split the green vote. Assuming they’re still around at the next General Election.
I mean, in a number of instances, they appear to be operating in coalition. They’re not total dummies.
But so much of “Your Party” is just Labour that got booted out by Starmer. And they’re bringing in a ton of that Labour Party social baggage, with all the same old self-serving impulses. Doesn’t help that Corbyn is leading with the lightest of light touches (the kind of weak party discipline that collapse Left-Labour in 2017). The biggest victim of Your Party vote splitting seems to be Your Party itself.
Corbyn is leading? But he isn’t leader, is he?