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Corbyn speaks out about Sultana’s announcement – but still vague about new party

Jeremy Corbyn has publicly commented about independent MP Zarah Sultana’s announcement that she has left Labour and will “co-lead the founding of a new [left] party” with Corbyn – but a careful reading does not confirm that a new party is imminent, or mention leading, instead using ‘help’.

In his statement, Corbyn said:

Real change is coming.

One year on from the election, this Labour government has refused to deliver the change people expected and deserved. Poverty, inequality and war are not inevitable. Our country needs to change direction, now.

Congratulations to Zarah Sultana on her principled decision to leave the Labour Party. I am delighted that she will help us build a real alternative.

The democratic foundations of a new kind of political party will soon take shape. Discussions are ongoing – and I am excited to work alongside all communities to fight for the future people
deserve.

Together, we can create something that is desperately missing from our broken political system: hope.

Jeremy Corbyn
MP for Islington North

The new party is not even to come ‘soon’, but just the ‘democratic foundations’ of a ‘new kind of political party’, which leaves huge scope for variance, from an actual concrete party to a coalition of other groups and parties – and what that is has not even taken shape yet, but is still under discussion.

‘Democratic’ is good in a country that has been shorn of it in any meaningful form, from rigged candidate selections to Keir Starmer’s war on anti-genocide speech, protest and journalism. But the continuing vagueness will deeply frustrate the many who want a focal point now and who recognise that any new party now has considerably less than a year – five years after Corbyn was functionally expelled from Labour for daring to tell the truth – to prepare for next year’s local elections, where it is essential for a new party to make an impact if it is to trouble the red-blue Tory/neo-fascist Establishment in a general election by 2029.

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51 comments

  1. Being decisive is not something that you can accuse Jeremy of. It is also a little concerning to read that Karie Murphy is apparently involved in Jeremy’s ‘new party’ (why would anyone want a re-run of 2019?)

    1. Karie can’t cause a re-run of 2019, steveh, until Sir Keir joins their ‘new party’ and gets backers from the likes of Palantir and BlackRock and LFIg’ (Labour Friends of Israel’s genocide).

      ______
      and don’t forget history repeating itself “first as tragedy, then as farce” (which was said by Hegel, not Marx). Big-Brother Starmer, with his surveillance government, is already the unelelcted Mayor of Farce-Town.

    2. Er Lumpen SH think you got the year wrong “Why would anyone want a re-run of 2017?”
      Er you know when JC got 12.8m votes with a left wing Democratic Socialist programme despite Right Wing Labour MPs years of sabotage & sabotage by some Right Wing members of staff (Ergon House Project, Forde Report, which was potentially illegal?) and that robbed JC of power & callously condemned millions of diverse w class people to more years of cruelty under the Tories/DUP proving the Right Wing Labour
      B’stards don’t give a damn about diverse w class people!
      Oh Lumpen & your man Starmer got a petty 9.6m votes in 2024 as Reform split the Tory vote which let Crap Labour in.
      Capital knew what it was doing – ditch the Neo-Liberal Capitalist (heavily damaged) Tory 1st X1 for Right Wing Lab (the Neo-Liberal Capitalist 2nd X1) as they now big up the third reserve Reform (the Neo-Liberal Capitalist 3rd X1).
      I skewered you again Lumpen & I am in control.
      I will not comment again in this post, this comment is only for my fellow socialist readers.
      JC/ZS bring a new party on in the next 3/4 months.
      And we will TRANSFORM society here as an example to the world!

      1. Bazza – No, I didn’t make a mistake about the year. I highlighted 2019 because that was the year that Corbyn put Karie Murphy in complete charge of the Labour’s campaign strategy and it’s implementation. This was so disastrous they had to abandon it 2 weeks into the campaign.

      2. Bazza – “I skewered you again
        Did you really, where?

        I am in control.
        Oh Whoopee for you

        I will not comment again in this post, this comment is only for my fellow socialist readers.”
        Should we all be impressed by you playing the ‘big man” or should we just be thankful for small mercies? 🙄

    3. That the same karie murphy that (your political and legal genius) keef wasted hundreds of thousands on when he tried to sue, and failed?

      And you have NO problem with his decision making…

      1. qwerty – What on earth are you prattling on about, or is that still a work in progress thing?

    4. Also, why are you concerned?

      A subject of your derision, potentially becoming a member of a party whose politics and potential leader are subject to your derision…

    5. Oh, and I said keef wasted hundred of thousands (of pounds)

      …Aroundtwenty-four hundreds of thousands of pounds…on petty vindictiveness.

      And you’re quite happy with him in charge of the nation’s finances.

  2. In a way, I can’t blame Corbyn for not moving fast. People who can afford it are usually enjoying retirement at his age, taking it easy. Remember he never wanted to lead Labour in the first place and was an accidental leader.

    On the other hand, we desperately need a new party and a new vision ASAP. So the slowness is very frustrating.

    1. Or maybe he’s more interested in facilitating a people-first/bottom-up political party, not one where he serves as the easy-target for vilification and ridicule?

      1. Yeah, we just don’t know. When they make a move, it needs to be solid and resilient. All the attacks in the book will be thrown at them. They will be in the firing line from the very start. They will need to be organised and ready for it. They will need to have a compelling narrative to sell, simple enough to be self evident and impossible to deny or ridicule. They will need iron clad discipline to remain on message at all time. You can’t do that overnight.

      2. Ben – “You can’t do that overnight.”

        Agreed, BUT to date they’ve had over 4yrs. (… and still counting) 🤔

      3. Premature ejaculation is not a political strategy, Billy.

        Whet we have had is four patient years of letting the rope out for the unworkable and collapsing TINA you shill for, Billy, to hang itself with.

        A non-value producing deindustrialised economy based on financialised parasitic rentierism which is rapidly hollowing out the entire Collective West. Whose only strategy for its fanatical adherents is to bomb and murder anyone and everyone on the planet back to the Stone-Age who refuse to accept these zealots, which you consistently excuse, imposing their bullshit TINA dogma as the only acceptable legitimate way for the entirety of humanity to live and breath.

        Best you stick to sitting in the corner playing with your abacus.

  3. Even Corbyn worse enemy would accept that Corbyn has integrity and has impeccable democratic credentials. But even his best friend, his most ardent admire would never call him decisive.
    Hence, true to form Corbyn cannot make up his mind and in the process scuppering the creation of a new left leaning political party.
    Perhaps, we don’t need a new political party. Zarah could do worse that crossing the floor to the Greens.
    Speaking from experience, I joined the Green Party after Labour Conference in 2020 and I have not regret it.
    Jo Bird joined the Greens and so did others, perhaps Zarah and the Labour rebels could do the same, instead of waiting in the wings for Corbyn to make up his mind.

    1. Instant answers are not available and are not a good plan. Think of Starmer and his instant answers on Gaza, Trump, Gaza, Iran, Gaza, The EU, Gaza, PIP, Gaza, and … Gaza.

      Getting a policy platform and gathering people and building an organisation takes time.

      And I always thought that had Corbyn EVER won an election, his life expectancy would have been measured in hours or days, NOT months or years, so he needs to move cautiously!

  4. Not posted here for a long time, but so pleased that Skwawkbox has utilised some analytical grey cells and actually posted something of interest about the Corbyn/Sultana announcements about the possibilities of a new LibTard Party, which this poster has zero interest in.

    Where does one even start given the crass hoopla and hopium ones Twitter timeline has been festooned with, I mean, its biblical, a second coming no less – oh, and the very same folks have been posting similar bollocks about Zach Polanski, you know, the chap who with a number of other so-called Greens accused former Labour Party members as being antisemitic and not welcome in the Zionist Green Party – ain’t it good I have a long memory.

    Anyhow, I think Skwawkbox hits the nail on the head, namely, Corbyn and his close followers have had five years to develop an actual political party and thus far we have nought – mind you, it took him 4 years to even break with the Party and that was only because he wanted to hang on to his seat and MPs salary.

    As for the potential for this “New, new, new Left-of-Centre entity,” lets be blunt, its mean’t for civil society, meaning Middle Class liberals, rather than us oiks in the working class who ain’t too fussed about Identity politics and the woke – in a nutshell, this new entity may perform well in a few University cities/towns but won’t attract the working class or the millions who did not vote in 2024.

    We shall see, alas, and as with the Greens, I’ll be canvassing against them given I’m now a proud Communist.

    1. Communists are never going to get power in the UK. I doubt they’ll ever gain a single parliamentary seat in the country. As an example of the working class, I was speaking to a neighbour two nights ago. He was one of those sacked by P&O. As it happens, he got the message when he was on holiday in Poland. Now you might think he learned something form that. But believe me, a more right-wing bloke you can’t imagine, and he’s working now for … P&O.

      1. Love to rain on your parade, so, ain’t it fun I’ve lived in the People’s Republic of China for 28 years, and, better still, the Peoples Liberation Army Navy has several vessels parked off the small Island I reside – its aircraft carrier is rather cool, a lovely sight.

        Now, remind, the last time I checked, the PRC was a Communist run government and the Chinese Communist Party now has in excess of 100 million members, that’s nearly 1-in-12.

        Now, you stick in your decaying, poverty ridden husk of a nation and keep going with the incrementalism, which has delivered bugger all for the working class these past 50 years.

        Oh how I laughed!!!

      2. For those wanting a glimpse of what christopher rogers is intimating, here are just a few videos from an ex-pat from my neck of the woods who has escaped the dictatorial authoritarian dystopia that is the Collective Worst:

        Here….

  5. Meanwhile, the replacement direct action initiative which now calls itself Yvette Cooper engages in its first direct action:

    https://www.thenational.scot/news/25291394.new-direct-action-group-yvette-cooper-emerges/

    The newly launched direct-action group, named Yvette Cooper, has allegedly targeted Time Logistics’s lorries near Birmingham with red paint.

    In a video posted on social media, the group can be seen covering lorries by the transport firm with red paint, from what appeared to be repurposed fire hoses.

    Along with the video, the group said: “If you want to ban Palestine Action, you’ll have to proscribe Yvette Cooper too.”

    1. Addendum – also from the so-called “National” in Scotland…..

      https://www.thenational.scot/news/25285145.26-mps-voted-proscribing-palestine-action—see-list/

      …..the names of the twenty-six Members of Parliament who voted against proscribing Palestine Action:

      “Greens:

      – Sian Berry
      – Ellie Chowns
      – Carla Denyer
      – Adrian Ramsay

      Independent:

      – Shockat Adam
      – Aspana Begum
      – Jeremy Corbyn
      – Adnan Hussain
      – John McDonnell
      – Zarah Sultana

      Labour:

      – Diane Abbott
      – Tahir Ali
      – Richard Burgon
      – Ian Byrne
      – Imran Hussain
      – Kim Johnson
      – Clive Lewis
      – Grahame Morris
      – Nadia Whittome

      SDLP:

      – Colum Eastwood

      LibDem (voted both Yes and No as a method of abstention): *

      – Andrew George
      – Tom Gordon
      – Tessa Munt
      – Manuela Perteghella
      – Al Pinkerton
      – Luke Taylor”

      *As far as I can recollect in regard to the arcane procedure of the Westminster Palace Pantomime venue, a vote involves physically walking through one OR other of two separate lobbies. Given such a procedure, it would be fascinating to know just how it is possible for an individual MP to vote both Aye and No at the same time? Was a proxy used in one lobby? A doppelgänger? A TARDIS?

      Has anybody got a rational theory?

    2. ‘Such a disgrace is red paint.
      And all to stop a Genocide!
      As the UK Lab Govt sells arms and uses spy planes for Israel.
      Helping to cause the real red blood of 400,000 of Palestine’s.’
      The UK Lab Govt and the previous Tory Govt many argue should be in front of the ICJ for War Crimes.
      When the history of Gaza is written it will conclude that the UK was locking up the wrong people.

  6. Police make arrests at Palestine Action protest in London earlier today (Saturday 5th July)

  7. Looks like Sky News has its own shills posting comments, and manipulates the Likes, just as the Daily Mail does.

    And the amount of cops that turned up to arrest people is just further evidence that we are well and truely living in a nazi-type police state. Given that there have been people calling for tens of thousands to support Palestine Action so as to make it impossible for the police to arrest them all, I can only assume that THAT is the reason why the PTB had so many cops ready to move in on the first demo – ie so as to deter others.

    The most effective thing we can do is put leaflets together exposing the lies and falsehoods of Israel who, after all, are responsible for this totally anti-democratic draconian legislation, and wake millions of people up to how they have been duped and deceived, and not only by Israel, but by the whole of the British MSM who have given their lies and falsehoods a platform and credibility. There are many people who regularly post on here who are more than capable of putting such a leaflet together (such a leaflet would probably amount to three pages of A4 – ie six sides – which would need to be numbered and held together with a paper clip so that anyone who receives one that wants to make copies can do so easily, and not only finish the leaflet with PLEASE COPY AND/OR SCAN & CIRCULATE TO FRIENDS & RELATIVES & NEIGHBOURS & WORK COLLEAGUES ETC, but also a brief explanation of why it is imperative to do so.

    That said, for any new left-wing party to stand a chance of being successful we also need to expose the A/S black op smear campaign against Jeremy and the left for what what it was which, of course, was ALSO instigated by the Israeli fascists and their supporters and their propaganda outfits like the CAA and JLM etc, who were ALSO given a platform and credibility by the MSM – ie the corporate media and the semi-corporate Tory run-and-controlled BBC. And that can also be achieved by putting a leaflet together and, of course, both could be delivered – ie put through people’s doors – together.

    1. Allan – If I was you I would contact Steve Walker asap (editor@skwawbox.com) and ask him to delete your above post. Like it or not, supporting and/or encouraging others to either support or object to the prescribing of PA is now a very serious criminal offence.

      1. Nope. No matter how many times I read the post you refer to, Billy, I can find no explicit or implicit words of support for the organisation Palestine Action which would hold up in a court of law.

        Perhaps you could point them out for us all, Billy?

        Or failing that, offer an unconditional apology to Mr Howard, for yet another in a long and sorry record of baseless allegations on your part.

      2. Careful now, wee genius. That’s tantamount to (blood) libel.

        …Oh, and it’s proscribing

        Keep taking your prescription

    2. Oh, right, Steve, thanks *SO* much for drawing my attention to something I didn’t say or suggest people do regards a leaflet, and contacting Steve Walker as such.

      SteveH is being his usual disingenuous self of course and pretending – and trying to deceive readers and posters as such – that I was encouraging people to put a leaflet together about Palestine Action having been proscibed and designated a terrorist organisation, when I wasn’t. And HE knows it.

      The funny thing is (not haha) that I went out to have a smoke about half-an-hour ago, and whilst I was out I thought to myself “I bet SteveH has posted a reply/response to my 7.55 post saying something or other”, and so as soon as I came back in I checked, and lo-and-behold, he HAD! And a bunch of total bollox at that.

      But, that said, I found the HoC debate yesterday evening and read through most of it (it’s relatively short compared to most debates), and there were quite a few excellent speeches made by the likes of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana and Richard Burgon and Shockat Adam and others, and relatively short speeches because the time limit was restricted to four minutes, and it occured to me that one could put a leaflet together consisting of a number of the speeches. None of the speeches consisted of saying that they supported Palestine Action, as such, and solely consisted of the reasons why the government SHOULDN’T proscribe the group and were wrong to do so. Here’s a link to it, and I suggest you don’t bother reading what Dan Jarvis – the so-called Minister for Security who is introducing the legislation – says:

      https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025-07-02/debates/6C9338E8-E516-494A-81A2-B3FEF549DD48/PreventionAndSuppressionOfTerrorism

      1. Allan – Really? 🤔
        Whether you choose to ignore me or not is entirely up to you and will be of very little consequence to me either way. I was just trying to be helpful.

        ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯


        Proscription offences
        Proscription makes it a criminal offence to:

        belong, or profess to belong, to a proscribed organisation in the UK or overseas (section 11 of the act)
        invite support for a proscribed organisation (the support invited need not be material support, such as the provision of money or other property, and can also include moral support or approval) (section 12(1))
        express an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation, reckless as to whether a person to whom the expression is directed will be encouraged to support a proscribed organisation (section 12(1A))
        arrange, manage or assist in arranging or managing a meeting in the knowledge that the meeting is to support or further the activities of a proscribed organisation, or is to be addressed by a person who belongs or professes to belong to a proscribed organisation (section 12(2)); or to address a meeting if the purpose of the address is to encourage support for, or further the activities of, a proscribed organisation (section 12(3))
        wear clothing or carry or display articles in public in such a way or in such circumstances as to arouse reasonable suspicion that the individual is a member or supporter of a proscribed organisation (section 13)
        publish an image of an item of clothing or other article, such as a flag or logo, in the same circumstances (section 13(1A))

        https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proscribed-terror-groups-or-organisations–2/proscribed-terrorist-groups-or-organisations-accessible-version#proscription-offences

      2. I see SteveH is persisting with his falsehood. So perhaps you could show me exactly where I said anything about putting a leaflet together about defending and/or supporting Palestine Action. It is of course crystal clear that I spoke about a leaflet exposing Israel’s lies and falsehoods, and was of course referring to falsehoods like the 40 beheaded babies story, for example.

        Please stop trying to dupe people, because I’m sure just about everyone can see quite clearly that THAT is what you are trying to do.

      3. Allan – Oh dear you really are getting your knickers into a right old twist over nothing. 😟
        How long have you had an issue with thinking the world is out to get you?

      4. I just checked out Craig Murray’s website, and a poster on there asked a very pertinent question – ie Just who is it exactly that Palestine Action have terrorised?

        It was of course a rhetorical question, and they were making the point that PA have of course never terrorised anyone, or stated any intention to do so.

        And if that’s the case, which it *IS*, then it is of course fraudulent to designate it as a terrorist organisation.

      5. Allan – The law doesn’t care one way or t’other whether you think the proscription of an organisation is justified or not.
        I suggest that you read section 12 of the relevant act

      6. SteveH: So can you show where I said anything about people putting a leaflet together about Palestine Action? No, of course you can’t, because I didn’t, and you were lying of course. And so now – as you’ve done in the past – you resort to being abusive.

        So can you please fuck off and stop being a cunt. Thanks

      7. Allan – On for goodness sake park your paranoia and do get over yourself.
        I have given you my honest opinion and as I said above whether or not you accept it in the spirit it was intended (ie: to be helpful) is entirely up to you.

        The only abuse that I’ve seen in this conversation has come from you

      8. You were caught out lying, and only shills lie, and you are of course a paid fucking fascist shill for the Establishment as I’ve said on many occasions before and, as such, a cunt. As are all propagandists and shills of course. Traitors to the human species, as are your paymasters.

        So what’s the pay like just out of interest, and when are you due to retire?

      9. Here’s another pertinent question to mull over – from the section of the legislation quoted by Billy no mates:

        “…….support or further the activities of a proscribed organisation”

        What exactly does that mean in practical terms, and what legal implications follow from that?

        How, for example, does one separate out in legal terms support for the activities of the said proscribed organisation from the organisational aims and objectives of the activities designed to achieve those aims and objectives?

        Given that the aims and objectives of the activities of the proscribed organisation are specifically focused on preventing the British State, which has legislated the proscription, along with other entities from materially and actively aiding and abetting War Crimes in breach of the provisions of the Rome Statute – which I have previously quoted at length on this site – the following practical question occurs:

        Those aims and objectives are not exclusive to that single proscribed organisation. Palestine Action does not have a monopoly on those aims and objectives.

        Under the provisions of this proscription would any subject of the Crown on these islands (for it is clear, we are not, in any practical defining sense, citizens) who expresses out loud either verbally or in writing support for the aim and objective of actively preventing the British State and other entities on these islands from engaging in activities which materially and actively aid and abet War crimes in breach of International Law – i.e support for any activity designed to stop the War Crimes and Genocide – be defined as supporting the activities of the proscribed organisation?

        Is it really only the organisation that is being proscribed? Or is the intention to criminalise anyone and everyone who opposes the British States and other entities active and material support for these War Crimes?

  8. Need millions of UK citizens to sign a statement demanding the UK Lab Govt & previous Tory Govt are referred to the ICJ for complicity in Genocide in Gaza.
    They did & still sell arms to Israel which has international arrest warrants against its leaders for “Plausible Genocide.”
    They have also provided spy planes for the Israelis & allow Israeli arms companies to manufacture arms in the UK to be used against Palestinians.
    And Harvard researchers now argue Israel has killed 400,000 Palestinians.
    Enough evidence perhaps for the UK Lab Govt & previous Tory Govt to guilty on 3 counts?

  9. About five years ago a shill going by the user-name of signpost who was constantly posting lies and falsehoods about Jeremy Corbyn and the left-wing membership concocted and contrived to discredit and smear Jeremy and left-wing members, started a post by saying the following:

    i’m no fan of the potter woman as she did not support jeremy. she had the means and great ability but declined. anyway, she is providing lots of money to help the excellent marvellous glorious Mr Lees to pursue legal case against cummings. this is the sort of ACTION we needed and need. ROBUST ACTION. Clear robust thought. ZERO APPEASEMENT. It has never worked. It has not worked. It will never work.

    I’m not sure who the ‘potter woman’ was supposed to be, but whoever she was, she didn’t provide any money to Robin Lees (the guy who spotted Dominic Cummings near Barnard Castle during lockdown) to help him pursue a legal case against Cummings, and signpost was lying, and fabricated it all so that he could then go on to discredit Jeremy, as he does, albeit not by name. I didn’t see his post until a couple of days after he posted it, and when I did I questioned him about it (in another thread), and he denied that he’d said it, and accused me of lying and inventing it. Here’s what I said to him:

    … in a post a couple of days ago you said the following signpost:

    ‘i’m no fan of the potter woman as she did not support jeremy. she had the means and great ability but declined. anyway, she is providing lots of money to help the excellent marvellous glorious Mr Lees to pursue legal case against cummings. this is the sort of ACTION we needed and need. ROBUST ACTION. Clear robust thought. ZERO APPEASEMENT. It has never worked. It has not worked. It will never work.’

    Could you elaborate. I assume that “the excellent marvellous glorious Mr Lees” you speak of is Robin Lees, the guy who spotted Cummings in Barnard Castle. So what’s this about him pursuing a legal case against Cummings? I just did a search a bit earlier and couldn’t find a dickybird about it. Why is he suing Cummings? What for?

    Cheers

    And this is what he said in his reply:

    Dear AH, Mr Lees is not suing Cummings. No one ever said that. The admirable Lees reported Cummings to the police. The police have since interviewed him in GREAT detail….

    The potter woman is not funding Lees to my knowledge. She has generously offered to pay the Legend – The Civil Service brilliant tweeter, a years salary.

    AH, you have on several occasion deliberately invented quotes [yet ANOTHER falsehood] … like boris johnson, and placed your inventions between the words of others. He, johnson needs help. You do too.

    Skwawkbox readers can find my accurate words. No decent nor “well balanced” person would slander as you do. You do EXACTLY as the slanderers of Jeremy did. They are not unwell in the mind. They know what they do. While they were forever crying theatrically and saying with more amateur dramatics, how frightened they were etc, you appear in need of professional help. Seek it.

    The waiting lists are very long, but phone your GP. They will call back and put you in the right direction. Be honest with them. There is no shame in finding these four years crushing. Plus I get the impression you may have been in the political battle for many decades.

    But please seek help – WHILE STILL FREE. Other phone services Mind and Sane can be helpful. Accept you need help AH, and many will try to help, even during Covid-19 Tory horrors

    Now what a coincidence that SteveH just happens to be doing something, saying something, in the same vein in this thread, and falsely trying to have readers believe that I have some mental health problem(s). And how evil is that! Just to remind you of what SH said:

    Allan – Oh dear you really are getting your knickers into a right old twist over nothing. 😟
    How long have you had an issue with thinking the world is out to get you?

    And then in another post a bit later:

    Allan – On for goodness sake park your paranoia and do get over yourself….

    Needless to say he is a total piece of nazi shit – as with signpost (and I would of course say the same had they attacked another poster in such a manner) – and as far as I’m aware, I am the only person on this site that they have done this to, and their objective and purpose in doing it is to try and fuck you up and unsettle you. And no doubt SHs response to THAT will be just MORE of the same abuse. But the only thing I DO find somewhat unsettling and disturbing, is that Steve Walker allows people to abuse someone in this manner and does nothing about it (as I would on any site). I doubt there are any other left-wing or independent blogs that would stand for it, and any posters posting such abuse would be permanently banned immediately or, at the very least, given a serious warning to refrain from ever doing so again.

    Anyway, here’s a link to my post in which I question signpost about his claim re Robin Lees, and his response – his fraudulent and abusive response, that is – is directly underneath – and just a tad further down the page in another of my related posts, there’s a link to his original comment about Robin Lees:

    https://skwawkbox.org/2020/05/26/exclusive-the-dossier-of-concerns-starmer-ignored-to-push-through-his-new-general-secretary/#comment-147428

    NB I have probably read hundreds of thousands of comments on numerous websites and blogs over the past twenty-two years (since I first got a PC), and I have never-ever once seen abuse of this nature by anyone towards anyone else, or encountered it….. except on this site.

  10. Re New Left Party.
    Seems one group, top down, on the Organising Group moved JC & ZS as joint leaders of a new party without consulting JC.
    Oh Dear with millions suffering here & the ongoing Genocide in Gaza it’s no time to be playing bourgeois political games.
    Perhaps some hearts were ruling heads as we desperately need this new party to offer an alternative but heads & hearts need to be in harmony.
    1.Launch New Party.
    2.Set up branches in every constituency.
    3. Members suggest a name (I like TRANSFORM as this is what we hope to do with society).
    4.Organise a Members Conference (would be nice if not in London) which decides a Leader & Deputy or 2 Co-Leaders?
    5.Use the Lab 2017 manifesto as a stimulous-response document for members to update, amend & add to and this to is put to a members conference.
    6.This draft working document is then put out on diverse council estates etc for discussion by the masses who can make suggestions for changes, as well as this new party leaders going direct to the public, so we as members go direct to the masses too.
    7.Then the Leaders & members decide the version which we put out & we all campaign on.
    So we transform society WITH and not FOR!
    8.And just food for thought, would be good to all to wear t shirts with:
    NAME OF NEW PARTY.
    JOIN US.
    TALK TO ME.
    Solidarity.

  11. Oh and livestream conferences as some members might be carers etc so have some sort of Zoom option for attending on-line so we are inclusive.

  12. Point 7 should be: then the leaders and members decide the final version to be put out.

    This seems to happen a bit, Is It just me or AI editing what I write?

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