The left movement is reacting with horror to the factional battle between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana – or more accurately between some of those in each Your Party camp – when there should be no camps in the first place and there is certainly no room for egos or control-building.
Your Party: open warfare
The move to open warfare, apparently over the desire of some apparatchiks for control of data, voting and decisions, has mortified a million or more people who saw Your Party as the best chance of defeating the fascism into which Keir Starmer, the Tories and Reform are dragging the UK. That sense of appalled disgust has seen some give up on the whole thing and join the Greens – who now have more than 73,000 members:
Many more, however, still want it to work – but their disgust at the factional in-fighting and the excess of ego and control-freakery is just as great. One working-class socialist wrote a comment that was typical of hundreds sent to or seen by Skwawkbox:
The sentiment was mirrored again and again, along the lines of the comments below:
The far-right in and outside the Labour party were, of course, making hay out of the chaos – and rather than learning and working to put it right, both sides seem to be escalating further – including Corbyn’s team reporting Sultana to the Information Commissioner – while blame is flung in all directions:
The damage this is causing is incalculable and unforgivable, while the fascists we are supposed to be fighting buy popcorn.
Sort. Yourselves. Out.
Featured image via the Canary
