It's Your Party and I'll laugh if I want to..!

You may recall that scene from Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” concerning the People’s Front of Judea!

In it, Brian stumbles on a clandestine group who proudly call themselves the People’s Front of Judea and ask if he is from the “Judean People’s Front.” They explode with anger, saying they hate that rival group even more than the Romans, even though both groups supposedly exist to resist Roman rule.​ They then list several nearly identical splinter groups (Judean People’s Front, Judean Popular People’s Front, Popular Front of Judea, etc.), treating each one as traitorous “splitters” despite sharing essentially the same purpose.

All of this brings me to the hilarious chaotic dysfunctional launch of the Jeremy Corbyn/Zarah Sultana agitprop group “Your Party” that took place in Liverpool over the weekend. When this new party was first mooted, it looked like it could have real momentum and seize a slice of the hard left Labour vote. But things have been unbelievably fractious and it seems to me that Corbyn and Sultana do not like each other very much.

Sultana herself is at the centre of a dispute over the handling of about £800,000 in donations intended for Your Party. The funds are currently held by MoU Operations Ltd, a company that initially collected the donations while the party was being officially registered. Sultana, who now is the sole director of MoU Ltd, has transferred £600,000 of the money but has delayed transferring the remaining amount due to ongoing legal and financial responsibilities, including settling company costs and liabilities. Not an auspicious start!

But things became truly comedic at the weekend. For starters, Zultana boycotted the first day of their conference.

This was over what she called a “witch hunt” and “toxic culture” surrounding mass member expulsions. Brilliant - mass expulsions before they even start. What else could go wrong? Well, try this raving lunatic! His name is Joseph BUT he identifies as as female. Just listen to the first 60 seconds to understand how barking they are.

Another speaker demanded that Your Party purges those within it who are not ideologically pure enough.

And on and on it went. The members voted not to have a leader. Instead, there will be a 26 person committee to direct the Party. This was a disappointment to Corbyn who wanted to be Leader. Zultana prefers the committee model!

Here is Sultana joining in the genocidal chant “From the River to the sea” outside conference

For me, the punchline here is that Marxism and Islamism does not mix very well. I don’t believe this Party can succeed. In truth, the equally demented Green Party under “Zack Polanski” has stolen much of its clothes. So the comrades in Your Party can chant about Palestine and Trans Rights but they are, at best, a noisy fringe.