For those of you who don’t know, Jeremy Corbyn is the former UK Labour leader who was expelled from the party due to his rabid antisemitism.
He led the party from 2015-2020, helping keep the rather unpopular Conservatives in power by repelling ordinary people. Still, his ability to lead the party for nearly five years shows that his brand of socialist populism has wide support among Labour voters.
Corbyn had already been much reduced in power and influence as Labour moved away from explicit socialism to regain some credibility with the British voters, but his anti-Jewish diatribes eventually led to his expulsion from the party in 2024. He became an Independent and won reelection–he has been serving in Parliament since the Thatcher years, so no surprise there–and he has now joined up with MP Zara Sultana to form “Your Party.”
It’s time for a new kind of political party – one that belongs to you.
Sign up at https://t.co/g0Ua1vOsEI. pic.twitter.com/q9EIlMimso
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) July 24, 2025
It will be a disaster for Labour, which is already on the ropes. The current Labour PM, Keir Starmer, has a net approval rating of -38%, and with good reason.
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— GB News (@GBNEWS) July 24, 2025
Labour has always had strong socialist roots, but with the rise of Tony Blair, it lurched toward neoliberalism in the Bill Clinton mold. Starmer, too, fits the neoliberal mold, but has the charisma and political instincts of Hillary Clinton.
“It’s your party,” Corbyn said. “We’re going to decide (a name) when we’ve had all the responses, and so far the response rate has been massive.”
Corbyn said he hoped the new party would have its inaugural conference in the fall.
Corbyn, 76, led Labour to election defeats in 2017 and 2019, but the veteran socialist campaigner remains popular with many grassroots supporters. and the new party has the potential to further fragment British politics. The long-dominant Labour and Conservative parties now have challengers on both left and right, including the environmentalist Green Party and hard-right Reform UK .
I suppose the Liberal Democratic Party no longer holds much significance, despite being the third-largest party in the country, and has 72 MPs. How far they have fallen–at least according to the Washington Post.
The new party’s platform can be summed up pretty simply: radical redistribution of wealth and the destruction of Israel.
Former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced Thursday he was forming a new political party that will push for a “mass redistribution of wealth and power” and a “free and independent Palestine,” opposing all British arms sales to Israel.
He’d make a good candidate for the Democratic Party, but for his inconvenient birthplace. We will never be treated to a Corbyn/Mamdani ticket here, no matter how many Democrats would vote for it.
“We will only fix the crises in our society with a mass redistribution of wealth and power,” they said, in a brief statement that called for raising taxes on the wealthy, nationalizing utilities, challenging fossil fuel companies and boosting public housing.
“Meanwhile, millions of people are horrified by the government’s complicity in crimes against humanity. Now, more than ever, we must defend the right to protest against genocide,” it continued, in an apparent oblique reference to the UK’s recent proscription of an anti-Israel activist group as a terror organization, following its attacks on British military sites.
If this keeps up, the two largest parties–Labour and the Conservatives–will have to team up to defend their preeminence. Their poll numbers are sinking faster than the Titanic. While the Conservatives are moving right to stanch the bleeding caused by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, their policies until recently were little different than Starmer’s.
The elite consensus on migration and soft socialism is collapsing. What is emerging is a resurgence of the left and development of a populist right–precisely the nightmare scenario that the elite have been trying to avoid.
I can’t say that I am celebrating this development, but it was inevitable. The old order is collapsing, and populists on the left and the right are filling the vacuum.
Of the two populist parties, Reform UK has a much better chance of displacing the Conservatives than Corbyn’s “Your Party” has of displacing Labour. As unpopular as Labour is, the market for radical socialism in the UK is probably not as large as he thinks.
But then again, I wouldn’t have predicted in 2008 that the Democrats would turn out to be as radical as they have become.
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