Here it is, folks! Jezzara is up and running. Should appeal to quite a few on here. I would imagine there must be one or two Labour MP's ready and willing to sign up - hopefully, Burgon at the top of the list! If that's the case it should get equal coverage to Reform, as it will likely have more MP's. More seriously, it is a very interesting development, and I wonder if left-leaning Labourites who defected to the Greens will now switch to Your Party. Given the growing fragmentation, I can see Reform and the Tories forming an unholy alliance after the next election, if not before. That raises the counter-prospect of some sort of alliance between Starmerite Labour/Your Party/Greens - maybe even the Lib Dems? Hopefully they can all play nice and keep out the fascists. May you live in interesting times!
Complete waste of time, any disaffected Labour supporters should switch to the Green Party, we don't need further splintering of the vote. What we really need is Proportional Representation.
Absolutely good luck to them. It’s great that there’ll be another left wing party as a political option in the UK, to help challenge the different shades of right wing. I’m happy as a Green. But the more voices we have fighting the rising fascism in this country, the better.
whether its a worthy endeavor or not factionalism is election suicide in our first past the post system, if they do well get ready for 20 more years of Tory Government - and before anyone says we have a tory government now anyway - bore off.
Bet Farage is rubbing his hands at this news. Splitting the Labour vote gives Reform a great opportunity. Likewise the Tories if they sort themselves out. Great. I’ve said it before, but I can’t believe people don’t see how this government is a big improvement over the last 10 years of utter s***show. The dream would be that the left gets a real leader who can bring the country with them, and they brings home an election win. But that person doesn’t seem to exist in front line politics at the minute. It certainly isn’t 76 year old JC. So we needed Starmer to play to the centre. Labour already needs to walk a tightrope to win, now the left are going to put the final nail in the coffin. Not content with having previously handed the keys to Boris Johnson, Corbyn is now letting Farage in too. More polarisation doesn’t benefit anyone.
He didn’t need to play the centre at all. They got less votes than they did in the previous election & got in because Reform took millions of votes from the Tories. Starmer has deliberately targeted the left of the party. If Labour loses votes to this new party or any other left leaning parties then he has no one to blame but himself.
Regardless of the groupings now, it will take a progressive alliance to defeat the combination of the Farage and Badinoch troops which will occur either before or just after the next election (in my opinion).
Said it before Farage will be the next Conservative Prime Minister. He'll defect back to the Tories when they oust Badenoch.
I was once part of the unsuccessful YesToAV campaign that argued preferential voting or ranking your preferred order of candidates would allow more different parties and points of opinion to exist without unintentionally and unwelcomely allowing a party to win a seat/an election on just a small share of the vote against the wishes of most others who had voted. With more splintering into ever more parties, and all political perspectives now divided across similar parties in electoral conflict, it would be a good time to revisit as it's ever more important. I doubt Labour will do that, but the consequence of not doing so will be catastrophic defeat and a majority Reform government.