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.
Ive literally never heard of this woman before this “split” and it makes me think this is the wrecker propaganda. Ive also never seen Corbyn criticized as “no better than Bernie” here in 5 years of extremely online shitposting.
Oh well if you’ve never heard of “this woman” then she must be a nobody.
“” yourself
Spectre posting something along those lines here a couple months back. I’ll see if I can fine it
Edit: here(https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8664906?sort=top)
Yeah that was the first time I’ve ever heard of zarah sultana, in the context of “oh no, wrecking”
seems like new anti corbyn propaganda to me, especially as OP goes all in on identitarian qualifiers + trying to make me out as sexist with scare quotes around “this woman” since that’s literally the exact sort of tack I’d expect anti corbyn propaganda to take after the endless antisemitism accusations. Here comes Corbyn the Misogynist because he’s “threatened by a young, brave, socialist, brown Muslim woman” 🙄 sigh
You’re right the identitarian qualifiers were not needed there, I removed that part cause it’s also not the point at all and my post stands without it. I’m not claiming Corbyn is a misogynist.
Can you explain why, when he was leading Momentum, by far the largest grassroots movement in the UK, and oversaw the largest surge of Labour membership in history, all completely loyal to him; and old Blairites in the party obstructed and sabotaged him, he didn’t pull a similar nuclear option? Why didn’t he threaten legal action, involve the membership, write to everyone alluding the pary is being stolen from him, etc? Why didn’t he purge the neolibs, Starmer at least proved Labour leader has the power to remove unwanted political elements from the party. Back then the explanation was either “oh Corbyn is just too nice, he’ll do everything to avoid confrontation” or “don’t hate the player, hate the game! he’s doing what has to be done to survive in parliamentary politics”. But neither answer works now does it? So what changed?
What he did was both confrontational and a complete self-sabotage, but what remains constant is he’s always punching to the left within his party.
(edit) and yeah “Ive never heard of this woman so this is wrecker propaganda” is I think misogynistic
To explain: I don’t know you and I’m not saying you are a mysogynist. But look at it this way, when a man challenges female authority most people will at least look him up before writing “who that even is” cause they don’t want to appear ignorant. When it’s a woman challenging a man, something to the effect of “I’ve never heard of this woman so I bet she’s been synthetically propped up by propagandists to wreck the party” will appear immediately. So regardless of your personal qualities and intentions, I think your comment came out misogynistic.