The Left Party

More like "Left Out" party.

 

600,000 sign-ups.

 

Is that confirmed? I thought they were waiting till signatories had put forward suggestions. I wouldn't have called it that myself.

 

I think it's what Zarah Sultana has said she'd like the party to be called. I don't think it's confirmed.

 

No, it’s not.

Zarah was asked - in an interview - what she would put forward to members. That was her response. Left Party.

I think it’d be an own goal. It’d be planting a flag, limiting appeal. Not that I’m an expert. Just seems too on the nose.

 

I'd call it summat like 'YoucanstuffyourFaragefascismupyerarse Party' but I don't think that will get traction

 

Sounds about right - naturally I wanna vote for a party that offers genuine left of centre policies but it always ends up as purist and student council esque. Everything having to be validated with members, slowing everything down, removing the flexibility you need as a leader of a country when it all has to go to conference and be formally adopted etc etc.

 

Perhaps something a little more aspirational?

 

Good point. They really do have to get the structure right or it'll be a house of cards job I think.

 

They could call it the "we let brexit in" party. Well thats my view of Corbyn.

 

the Not Right party?

 

My wife and I have signed up. My grand kids deserve hope for a decent world.

 

Me too.

 

The problem is they’d just get called ‘woke lefties’ & other nonsense.

It’s a tough one because they’ll have some brilliant policies & will focus on sorting the country out & trying to give the working class some hope yet all the majority of the media will focus on will be their foreign policy & trying to suggest they’re pro-Russia or pro-Hamas for wanting an end to wars & they’ll have a bit of compassion for trans people so they will get labelled as trying to get rid of women’s toilets & ruin women’s sports.

They need to take some lessons from the Mick Lynch school of dealing with the media this time around. No pussy footing around. Straight into the interviewer every time they try to smear them.

 

Lefty McLefty Party , get the Scottish vote as well

 

Should be the Looney Left party or The we've all been kicked out of the Labour Party Party.

 

Should be called The Workers Party, or The Socialist Party, or my favorite, The Old Labour Party.

 

Sadly, neither Corbyn nor Sultana have the intelligence of Mick Lynch.

I hugely admire Corbyn's principles, especially in an era where it's incredibly difficult to be a principled politician, but a potential leader of a country needs to also look at the big picture and understand why a nuclear deterent is needed, or why you need to take a stand on Brexit, or why a maximum wage cap in a globalised world is a poor economic policy, or that not singing the national anthem is going to be a talking point and will alienate voters.

He doesn't have the flexibility to carry votes from anywhere but his core base, having the ability to talk to folk from outside his echo chamber is key to make any real change. If he had more pragmatism he would have been PM, but sadly that ship has sailed.

 

What do they hope to achieve with this? Are they happy to split the vote and risk greater chance of Farage in number 10?

It's ridiculous in my eyes and will do the opposite of what they hope to achieve but I assume they already know that and couldn't care less as long as they get to wave some banners and shout some stuff at people.