More Zarah drama.
I'm getting the "if I can't lead the socialist party, no one can".
She pushed me to the Green's. One persons ego should not be more important than a socialist movement. She could leave, but she'd rather kill it first.
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2025
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One persons ego should not be more important than a socialist movement.
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.
Going to be hard for Your Party to recover from this. It's either a popular front which means an activist alliance of left parties and greens - or an actual small parliamentary-orientated party. At this point in the game Sultana is probably right in principle but woefully wrong in tactics.
Imagine taking such a hard line stance on including a bunch of rape apologists in your political project.
The whole thing is a gigantic clusterfuck all around (also fuck the SWP, they're really bad, rape apologia barely covers it tbh, there's also more general abuse, hyper-centralisation and authoritarianism, and cult tactics[^barely]). I have very little expectations of political parties anyway (given my bizarre flavour of anarchism) but it's fucking mental how much infighting, toleration of bigotry, power-struggles, and general clusterfuckery there is in "Your Party".
[^barely]: https://thenorwichradical.com/2024/05/31/socialist-workers-party-explainer-comrade-delta/ I also recommend following the links and stuff nya, I'm also sure there's more on the internet but it can be hard to find because the SWP have search-engine-optimised themselves to such a degree that searching is difficult.