If you're a hard-Left cultist, this is indeed Your Party
I guess it depends on how you define 'Your'. If you mean a party for rancid hate-mongers, hard-Left ideologues, economic basket cases and other cultists then yes, it is indeed your party. Or, more accurately, one of your parties, because there has never been a shortage to choose from. Take your pick from, among myriad others, the Workers' Party, the Socialist Labour Party, the Socialist Party and the Socialist Workers' Party, which sometimes make me wonder if they were the ones satirising Monty Python's Judean People's Party and People's Party of Judea, rather than the other way round.
Your Party is barely an hour old and, deliciously, it's already the subject of a split. Or rather, it was before it had even been formally born. On the day Ms Sultana first revealed the new party three weeks ago, George Galloway leapt into denouncing mode: 'There has been no contact with us about this,' he spat out on his social media feed. 'We can't join it due to significant differences on the issues of'… oh, let's not lose the will to live quite yet. No one except Galloway, Sultana, Corbyn and the rest of the bunch of not so merry men and women gives a damn about their specifics of their internecine squabbles. Suffice to say that they're busy doing what they always do.
But whoopee, we now have a bright shiny new party for the not so bright Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana to lead. Presumably Ms Sultana – who likes to portray herself as some sort of principled warrior, rather than just another failed politician afraid that after being kicked out of her former party, her career will be over before she reaches her mid-30s – will now insist on a recall petition by her constituents in Coventry South, given that in 2020 she voted for MPs who voluntarily change their party affiliation being subject to such a petition. Meanwhile, I have just spotted a pig flying outside my window.
But let's not quibble. Who wouldn't want to join this exciting new venture and join the man who led Labour to its worst election performance since 1935 and whose Labour Party was found to have breached the Equality Act by committing unlawful harassment against Jews?
Who wouldn't want to go along for the ride with Ms Sultana, whose desperate need for attention led her to scream 'We are all Palestine Action' in the Commons chamber in support of the proscribed terror group?
Who wouldn't want to be a member of a party that seems purpose built to attract the more voluble and incendiary of the so-called Free Palestine hate marchers?
And who wouldn't want to be part of a group that is, as its website reveals, 'managed by Peace and Justice Project Ltd'? That's the same Peace and Justice Project set up when Corbyn had the Labour whip removed, whose patrons include Noam Chomsky, rapper Lowkey, Ken Loach and Jeremy's old mucker Len McCluskey who was, it was revealed yesterday, accused by an investigation commissioned by his old union of overruling staff and lawyers to sign a contract for a building project which cost the Unite union £125m, despite being valued at just £38m (an allegation he denies)?
What a starry, storied cast that is. And what a thrill the next few years promise.
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