You were right all along and I should’ve seen it back when Corbyn as the Labour leader banned socialists who supported Palestine for supposed “antisemitism” while keeping all the Blairites, neoliberals and imperialists like Starmer. I thought “he has to do that to stay electable and to survive in British parliamentary politics” but the truth of the matter is he was perfectly content to strangle the new party in it’s infancy the moment he felt attacked from the left, and suddenly being electable or survival of the party didn’t matter at all.

For context, he announced a new party with Zarah Sultana, she quit the Labour party for this, and the moment she went out of line (by launching the membership portal without checking with him first) he immediately threw a public tantrum, threatened legal action, sent a mass mail to all subscribers that the portal is “unautharised” and “if any direct debits have been set up, they should be immediately cancelled” and so on.

The portal was doing great by the way, it had 20,000 paying members within 3 hours of announcement which is completely unprecedented and he wrecked it and completely killed the momentum.

Now it seems Zarah has been completely sidelined, there is no mention of her in any communications, and today Corbyn officially registered the party with the Electoral Commission with himself as a sole leader and a transphobic, socially conservative landlord as Nominating Officer.

This is a complete betrayal and I feel sick thinking back to how I kept supporting him. He’s a wrecker, I was being a lib and I was wrong.

  • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    266·
    21 days ago

    For context, he announced a new party with Zarah Sultana, she quit the Labour party for this, and the moment she went out of line (by launching the membership portal without checking with him first) he immediately threw a public tantrum, threatened legal action, sent a mass mail to all subscribers that the portal is “unautharised” and “if any direct debits have been set up, they should be immediately cancelled” and so on.

    TBF unilaterally putting herself in direct control of membership and financing is a pretty hostile move and could be seen as hijacking the party. It’s not like stepping out of line ideologically. But how he reacted makes me wish she was hijacking.

    • Red_Scare [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlOP
      281·
      21 days ago

      She didn’t unilaterally put herself in direct control of membership and financing. The money went to the independent trust set up for this specific purpose and agreed on. She unilaterally decided to launch it but Corbyn’s response was just pure wrecker shit.

      • ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        81·
        21 days ago

        Not saying he actions werent, but don’t you think her not getting the authorisation widening the rift and forcing a response is also wrecker shit?

        • Red_Scare [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlOP
          20·
          21 days ago

          No, because what she did resulted in an unprecendented influx of supporters, she did not wreck anything.

          Corbyn still didn’t release membership numbers for the new portal so I doubt it’s looking good, and that’s because he fucking wrecked it.

          Should’ve dealt with Zarah behind the closed doors, instead he sent a mass mail to all supporters alleging a fraud, reported Zarah to the authorities, and then “launched” with a nearly identical email less than a week later.

          • ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
            31·
            21 days ago

            Perhaps, but wouldn’t have her waiting a week to avoid the split and to run a combined registration effort between the two would have registered even more members been far better?

            If Corbyn’s a wrecker and Sultana isn’t why do you think she jumped the gun instead of waiting just a week?