I agree. But given the Gaza independents don't seem much interested in women's rights, I'm worried they're going to undermine a woman as outspoken as Zarah. Honestly, as I said before, how leftist is the party if it has conservatives in the mix?
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I don't believe that if we work with different religious and ethnic communities that we can't reach an understanding. I'm anti racist so don't see why that can't be the case, we just need to talk to Muslims to get them to understand our politics & social outlook.
aug 31, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Who said anything about religious or ethnic groups? They're conservatives. Conservatives are reactionary and awful. We've had 15 years pandering to those fuckers and look at where that has got us! We should start by rallying like-minded people and building up a gravity that sucks others in!
aug 31, 2025, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Ok who are you talking about then? I assumed it was Muslim MPs serving large Muslim communities?
aug 31, 2025, 7:24 pm • 0 0 • view
I said. I object to conservatives. To the right-wing. As anyone who is left-wing would. I don't care that Adnan Hussein is a Muslim. I care that he's a reactionary right-wing bigot transphobe who wants to force women to give birth, and he and his ilk can fuck off.
aug 31, 2025, 8:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Those MPs are just a start, we need more Labour MPs to defect and once a mass membership has voted on policies it's hard to see how it won't mirror Sultana's views.
aug 30, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
The simple reality is that there's no way any party can be that truly democratic, as the people in parliament passing legislation will always have an outsized voice. That's why a party needs robust anti-bigotry principles as a founding feature, a point Corbyn evidently failed to realise.
aug 31, 2025, 5:20 am • 3 0 • view
For all his many decades of experience Corbyn is very naive when it comes to politics. I expect this party will make all the right noises (on SM anyway), but if he’s anywhere near the helm it’s doomed to heroic failure. Again.
aug 31, 2025, 6:04 am • 3 0 • view
I supported his efforts while he was leading Labour but unfortunately, I don't think he should be leading a political party, he keeps trusting the wrong sorts of people. It looks very much like YP is going to be a single issue Gaza party.
aug 31, 2025, 6:07 am • 3 0 • view
Same. Broadly I like the guy & I think he does genuinely believe in what he says (rare in politics), but he is fecking useless at winning & ultimately you do need to win. I know people who love him don’t want to hear it, but Corbyn is pretty toxic nationwide
aug 31, 2025, 6:11 am • 3 0 • view
I think his problem is that he is if anything a bit too utopian, he does genuinely seem to believe in consensus building, but apparently still doesn't seem to recognise that it doesn't mean you need to listen to literally everyone.
aug 31, 2025, 6:16 am • 2 0 • view
He made that mistake while at Labour letting people like Starmer in his cabinet, and now it's happening again with the likes of Adnan Hussain. A successful leftist coalition will need people for whom universal human rights are a principle, a position hardline religious conservatives will never share
aug 31, 2025, 6:16 am • 1 0 • view
Word. He doesn’t seem to realise that some people just aren’t acting in good faith. I’m a wimp IRL, but I’m from a military family (right back until at least the end of the 19th century), it’s in my bones so I understand that sometimes you have to stomp the ever living sh*t out of the other guy 🤷🏻♀️
aug 31, 2025, 6:19 am • 1 0 • view
Really hoping Zack wins the Green leadership now, or I will be completely politically homeless.
aug 31, 2025, 6:17 am • 1 0 • view
Same. Mind you anyone who sees the hotel “protests” as a bunch of skinhead thugs trying to whip up a race war (that’s quite a significant % of the electorate) then we’re already being ignored. Labour’s strategy is insane 🔥🌹
aug 31, 2025, 6:21 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah, Starmer also lacks a massive degree of political intelligence. His issue being such a smug sense of his own cleverness that he believes his own hype, and therefore failing to realise that all he's doing is pissing almost everyone off.
aug 31, 2025, 6:35 am • 1 0 • view
That's what I'm hoping. Absolutely. But that isn't guaranteed or the reality, right now. Until that changes, I'm not interested in the party because, at best, they're ignoring our human rights being stripped away. Well, except for Zarah.
aug 30, 2025, 10:11 pm • 3 0 • view
They are going to loose most people if they don't support Trans Rights, it's supposed to be socialist, so that's non negotiable.
aug 30, 2025, 10:21 pm • 2 0 • view
You'd hope they'd realise that. But their actions so far suggest that he thinks we can simply wait and aren't that important.
aug 31, 2025, 12:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Could literally put out a 30 second clip on SM just to make the issue clear. They’ve spoken out on so many issues, I just don’t get it *I doubt Corbyn is personally transphobic
aug 31, 2025, 12:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Of course he isn't personally transphobic. But he was fine with Rosie Duffield being in his party, and he's fine with Adnan Hussein being in his party. He thinks it's fine to disagree on trans rights. Unlike, say, Gaza, or homelessness.
aug 31, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Urgh…I don’t know what to say Corbyn seems to think you can “have a conversation” & somehow resolve all this, but when a group of people *literally want to kill you* I don’t see how that works. This is why I’m not a pacifist (+ military family. Sometimes you have to kill the enemy 🤷🏻♀️)
aug 31, 2025, 12:28 pm • 1 0 • view