• Zombie@feddit.uk
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    22 hours ago

    I can’t comment on your first paragraph but I saw a video of Owen Jones interviewing Corbyn in a park a few months ago where Corbyn said he’d already discussed electoral agreements with Polanski not to stand candidates in seats that the other party is more likely to win.

    Obviously Corbyn isn’t Your Party manifest, but he (and Sultana) are the closest things to individual voices of authority so if he said that I think it likely they’re willing to work together in some manner.

    I’m too busy with work to look up the video just now (cheeky quick Lemmy check and back to it) but it was on Owen Jones’ YouTube page.

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      18 hours ago

      Ahh I see fair enough! Yeah you’re right that Corbyn’s opinion isn’t the law of YP but that’s still encouraging. As much as I see issues with YP I don’t see them as an overall bad entity at all. And in my opinion the priority needs to be an antifascist coalition, in both the electoral and community levels. I’m sure there are many (hopefully most) in both parties that feel the same