The magic grandpa is back in town! Jeremy Corbyn’s new leftwing outfit – ‘Your Party’ – is seeking a rebrand, ahead of its long-awaited launch. The outlet has so far got off to a rocky start, after co-leader Zarah Sultana shocked some involved by launching it late one Thursday night. But now, in a bid to shed their (already) chaotic image, ‘Your Party’ is now seeking a new name, with suggestions being submitted online. Cue the inevitable deluge of suggestions…
‘Votey McVoteface’ and ‘Party McPartyface’ were quickly pitched alongside the ‘Tooting Popular Front’. The ‘Judean Peoples’ Front’ has been touted, not to be confused with that awful bunch over at the Peoples’ Front of Judea. Unsurprisingly, amid reports of tensions between Sultana and Corbyn, one suggestion has been the ‘Sultana Splits’. Warning: may contain nutters. Some more serious suggestions include the ‘People’s Party’ and the ‘Workers’ Party’. Both could be complicated, as there already is a Workers Party, and the Electoral Commission approved an application for the GB People’s Party in March.
While Corbyn leaves the British public to brainstorm, the septugenarian socialist is spending his week launching another new political party. Tomorrow, he is set to be the keynote speaker at the launch of a different hyper-local outfit. ‘Arise’ is a new political party set up by Corbyn’s close friend and co-director of the Peace and Justice project, Pamela Fitzpatrick. It is based in Harrow, expanding on Fitzpatrick’s independent campaign last year, where she came third with 9 per cent of the vote in the People’s Republic of West Harrow.
As a local party, it differs from the current national party that Corbyn and Sultana are in the process of launching. But it does raise obvious questions. What will happen in Harrow at the next election? Will Jezza allow the political party he launched in July to compete against the political party he launched in August? Will Fitzpatrick’s Arise Party quickly be subsumed into the Corbyn-Sultana movement? And, if so, why is Corbyn facilitating its launch?
It’s Your Party – and he’ll cry if he wants to…
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