Hard-left radical Jeremy Corbyn wants to lead Britain… but has struggled to even come up with a name for his pop-up party.
Jeremy Corbyn gives a thumbs up at the chaotic launch of his insurgent political movement (Image: Getty)
It’s been a bad week for Britain and a bruising one for our innumerate Chancellor Rachel Reeves. The past few days have been marked by chaos and confusion, claims of deceit and duplicity – hallmarks of Labour administrations across the decades – but things surely couldn’t get any worse, could they?
If you thought this government was a cast of amateurs and chancers in positions of power, let’s have a look at what’s waiting in the (far left) wings. A little over a month ago Zarah Sultana said the new left-wing political party she set up with Jeremy Corbyn was aiming at “running” the government.
It’s the stuff of nightmares.
In Liverpool at the weekend the former Labour MP – suspended for voting to scrap the two-child benefit cap – kicked things off by bizarrely boycotting her own party’s founding conference.
Confused? You ought to be.
You see that’s the problem with the radical left. It’s everyone else’s fault.
Sultana, who now sits as an independent, threw a tantrum as chaos over how Your Party should be run reigned.
She refused to enter the conference hall in solidarity with delegates who were expelled over links to other left-wing parties describing it as a “witch-hunt” and saying she wanted to build a political movement that welcomes all socialists.
Your Party decided to ditch the idea of Corbyn, 79, as dear leader of the party he set up in favour of a committee.
That’s the problem with these self-styled revolutionaries – they’re nothing of the sort.
Mr Corbyn led Labour to an election trouncing in 2019 before being thrown out of the party in 2024 (Image: Getty)
There are a myriad of crises blighting Britain at the moment – frightening, genuine problems, affecting tens of millions of people.
These include, but are not limited to: the suffocating cost of living, our chaotic National Health Service, cancer diagnosis and treatment, dementia, a misfiring economy, crime, housing, education, industrial strategy and immigration.
And this lot have struggled to agree on what to call themselves.
Ahead of its bow the pop-up party revealed a shortlist of names including Your Party, Our Party, Popular Alliance and For The Many. Drink up in a brewery wasn’t an option.
Corbyn signed up as a member of the Labour Party in 1965 and led it to a spectacular general election defeat in 2019 before being humiliatingly thrown out of the party in 2024. He now sits as an independent.
His inglorious time in charge of Labour was marked by disturbing claims of antisemitism, a cancer in the party.
He counts Diane Abbott among his closest friends and political allies.
She has been a prominent figure on the Labour left and a vocal campaigner on race and inequality.
But she was suspended from the Labour Party in 2023 over comments about racism, apologised, was readmitted in 2024 before being suspended again after suggesting Jews do not suffer the same racism as black people.
Like Corbyn, she currently sits as an independent MP. Are you starting to see the theme?
Your Party wants to assume the mantle of being the leading voice of Labour’s hard-left, a “socialist party of mass appeal against a “triopoly of political thinking in Parliament”, according to the bearded messiah.
If it ever gets off the ground the result may not be quite what he wants.
Experts believe it is possible it could pick up 10% of the vote – hurting Labour and other left-leaning parties by splitting the vote in the process – but the beneficiaries would surely be a Nigel Farage-led Reform UK and the Tories under Kemi Badenoch.
Last week’s benefits-friendly Budget was proof of what left-leaning politics looks like – taxes slapped on those who work to pay for those who don’t.
Heaven help us all if Corbyn and company get anywhere near the levers of power. It would be ten times worse.
Under his leadership there would be a committee convened to change a light bulb. It simply doesn’t bear thinking about.
