Zarah Sultana has resigned from the UK’s Labour Party after 14 years to lead a new party with former Labour leader and independent MP Jeremy Corbyn.
“Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party,” she said in a statement on Thursday evening local time.
“Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.”
Sultana cited the Starmer government’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza as a reason for leaving, saying that “this government is an active participant in genocide. And the British people oppose it.”
Corbyn’s already said he’s not joining, amazing stuff.
Source?
Jessica Elgot, on BlueSky:
-There have long been significant divisions between senior figures close to Corbyn over how such a movement on the left should operate - some keen to begin as a new party and others less so. Sources adamant tonight Corbyn not agreed to any joint leadership of a new party.
A MSM journalist opposing progressives by citing “anonymous sources” is not really evidence yet.
If Corbyn does launch a new party, a huge MSM smear campaign like the last time is to be expected.
I always call out this conspiracist stuff when the right do it, so I’ll do exactly the same when it come from the left.
As @[email protected] put it, ‘either those reports are true or Corbyn went radio silent on the announcement of his new party and let there be room for this speculation.’ In fact, both sides are true: the party has been ‘launched’ without a coherent structure, leadership or even a name, and Corbyn has chosen to say nothing about it. These are facts. There’s no smear involved.
Corbyn is not silent though
I’m not blaming you but the “journalists” in this one. We must not forget the tremendous “antisemite” smear campaign they launched against Corbyn because he opposed Israel.
Right wing tabloid TheDailyMail is already going in full force to generate “speculations of leftist infighting”
We see the BBC staff literally saying that their news favours Israel. TheGuardian is slightly better but has proven for an entire year after October 7 that they will join a media blitz for Israel. And they too smeared Corbyn. Guardian writers like Owen Jones who smeared Corbyn in the past now admit that they were wrong to do so and that Corbyn was right.
Surely you’re not going to say that the organized media smear campaign against Corbyn was a “conspiracy”.
This is not inconsistent with anything I said yesterday or, indeed, this morning.
There was not an organised media smear campaign against Corbyn. ‘The media’ is not in any sense a group of people who said ‘Let’s all agree to tell lies about Corbyn’, which is what an organised smear campaign would have to look like. The media has always been persistently unfair, to the level of insanity, about everyone to the left of the Conservatives, but there’s nothing organised about it, it’s just powerful people representing their own interests.
So is this a lie?
Not about Corbyn!
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/jeremy-corbyn-new-party-zarah-sultana-video-b2782497.html
Sunday Times journalist, so take with a handful of salt:
https://xcancel.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1940865333570801752
We really went from the Independent Group (anti-Corbyn) to the Independent Group (pro-Corbyn) and Corbyn somehow hates both. Corbyn truly is one of a kind, and I don’t mean that in a good way.
Accidentally launching a party co-lead by someone who doesn’t want to lead it is something only the British left could’ve accomplished.
Then there’s people, like the Canary, who are trying to spin the reports of Corbyn hostility as a media smear.
Like, either those reports are true or Corbyn went radio silent on the announcement of his new party and let there be room for this speculation. You’d think someone who’s been dealing with a hostile media for a decade would know better.
Media will smear Corbyn for anything. I’d recommend watching the short clip where Corbyn talked about the party https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gQFc9OxR-_0
It’s amazing that to gage if Corbyn supports Sultana’s party we have to read between the lines of an interview with ITV from a few days ago instead of Corbyn just stating he’s with the initiative.
Either the reports are true, or this is a major comms failure on the yet-to-be-named party’s part. Having the initial talk of your new party being if the supposed co-founder is involved isn’t a good look. Corbyn has a lot to be rightfully mad at the media for, but this is one is on him.
To be clear is this “the evidence that Corbyn is furious”? A writer for the right wing “The Sunday Times”? or am I missing something?