Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.
Ms Sultana co-founded Your Party with Jeremy Corbyn in July, but the new movement has been marred with infighting from the outset.
There was a row on the eve of conference after it emerged members of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) had been expelled from Your Party, as its rules do not permit dual membership.
She’s literally doing this because members of the socialist movement have been excluded.
Anyone vaguely familiar with leftist politics in this country should know excluding people because they are already a member of a party is ridiculous.
That’s the thing, you’re always hearing her words and thinking it’s in good faith and assuming JC is in bad faith. Politician’s playing people since the start of time. She’s building a faction to counter JCs influence. There is 5 independent MPs and JC, vs her, she’s outnumbered but wants even influence. So she’s trying to remove MPs power and move it to members to give her numbers. As JC is massively popular, she’s aligning with folk and bringing more folk in including from different parties.
That is a rule in every party though. Green’s, Lib Dems, Conservative, SNP etc. Otherwise people can come in and subvert things for purposes negative to the party. Tories can flood the party to vote weak things through. Those that choose to be exclusive care about things, as they aren’t planning to run off when it all goes down in flames.
Zarah building a faction. She could have build her own party, but JC has followers and she wants that, so she’s playing power games. If it goes wrong, she can leave and join Greens or Liberals etc. Even Labour would take her back to kill off the project.
The manoeuvering is not to favour Your Party. If it isn’t for the parties interests, but hers, it is bad faith. Same as when she unilaterally announced, and uniliterally kicked off members system. She is not a team player. She cannot fathom that folk would disagree with her, so shell try to force it through by attrition and bringing in numbers.