Jeremy Corbyn starts a new party

For real. And in a taste of how right-on and radical things are about to get, eternal student activist Zarah Sultana MP has quit the Labour back benches to join him as co-leader.

Anyone care to predict what they’ll name this new party and how many seats it might pick up in 2029?

https://order-order.com/2025/07/03/z...y-with-corbyn/

[Jaymoss]

The socialist party? Zero
Real Labour and zero
The Knobhead party and 4

Guido and various twitterers are now saying Corbyn didn’t agree to Sultana’s announcement and he hasn’t yet agreed to join the new party.

So that’s all off to a characteristically good start.

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BBC having a go at it now too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyel9kgdvdo

[thenry]

George Galloway might want to be deputy leader

We really need to change Election Law so that if someone resigns from their Party after they have have been elected as a representative of that Party, a by-election should take place…