Should British MLs be getting in on this?
As a member of the peanut gallery I am cautiously optimistic.
Please let this wretched age of neoliberal dominance be ending. I don't know how much more of bloodless economists passionatelessly explaining that the graph says you have to freeze to death in your home in a land of excess I can take.
Give em hell Jezza
British libs seem to be whining about him not being pro-Ukraine and pro-NATO enough for their tastes. I'm guessing that'll be the new antisemitism this time around
The British libs go really feral about anyone not supporting Ukraine sufficiently for their liking. It's like a crime in their eyes to even suggest that we shouldn't "help Ukraine defend itself" by sending them offensive weaponry capable of hitting Vladivostok. However the jingoism and opinion-policing around Ukraine has lessened dramatically amongst socialists since the heady days of 2022/23 and since the genocide in Palestine has made it very obvious that few who claim to care about "Russia killing civilians" actually give a fuck about that. I think it'll be hard to make any smears like that stick at this point.
How the fuck does a party with half a million signups run an inaugural conference?
Usually your inaugural conference will determine party basics, structure, name, etc. It happens with enough people to fit inside one venue.
How do you do it with 500k+ people lol. Online inaugural conference? Or perhaps nominating regional representatives? But that seems a non-starter when nobody will be able to campaign for such nominations.
"Sign up at www.yourparty.uk to be part of the founding process, leading to an inaugural conference"
Presumably they'll be involved in forming locals or something by signing up, and only some of them end up at the conference.
That's more than Labour and Tories membership combined.
(Why is party membership so low in the UK? The Democrats claim a whopping 45 million members)
US party membership works differently. They claim every registered voter
the mainstream US "political parties" aren't really political parties in any way that most of the rest of the world would recognise tbh. more like caucuses of one party.
Exactly, those US "party membership" numbers (that one can find on Wikipedia, for instance) are pure BS. They only come from the 31 or so US states that have voters "register to vote by party". The percentage of those "registered voters" that actually donate to (or engage in any kind of activism for) the Democrats or Republicans is extremely low. Most of the world's countries have much higher levels of what we might call "political engagement" (like activism, for instance) than the United States. The US political system is an ossified, plutocratic, two-party dictatorship.
Ah, I see
Please yanks take the fucking hint
the only Socdems in the States that is popular enough to start their own party is Sanders and AOC. They are not comparable to Corbyn. Corbyn has been consistent in his opposition to Western Imperialism and support for Palestine. Sanders and AOC are servants of US Empire and Israel. Corbyn supported the Pink Wave and Hugo Chavez, Sanders called Chavez "another dead Communist dictator". Sanders is garbage and AOC will probably be worse.
The difference people need to understand is that Corbyn holds ML positions on almost all international issues but plays the electoralism game with socdem policy.
AOC and Bernie on the other hand hold the liberal position on all international issues and hold socdem policy.
Corbyn is a real socialist doing socdem policy. These other two are liberals doing socdem policy.
Agree that Sanders and Aoc are just a waste and meant to take any progressive energy and dampen it and absorb it into the Democratic party. The fact they haven't started a new party is just more evidence of this.
Oh my God, please tell me this is a good omen the age of the CHUD is seeing its first falter.
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