Jeremy Corbyn's New Group Sounds Very Much Like Another Party Which Is Rising On The Left

Jeremy Corbyn has today unveiled plans to officially launch a new party.Jeremy Corbyn has just announced he is launching a brand new left-wing party – but it already sounds very similar to the Green Party’s proposals.Together with fellow former Labour MP Zarah Sultana, the ex-Labour leader promised a “new kind of political party” which “belongs to you”.They said they would call for a wealth tax, champion an NHS which is free from privatisation, stand up for Palestine and challenge the fossil fuel giants “putting their profits before our planet”.These policies are not dissimilar to those backed by the Green Party, which many former Labour supporters, now disillusioned, have flocked to over the last year.That could therefore put the two parties at odds with one another.Zack Polanski, the frontrunner in the ongoing Greens’ leadership race and the party’s current deputy, told HuffPost UK shortly after Corbyn’s announcement it is clear the parties have plenty in common.He noted: “I’ve read the statement and I can’t see a single thing in there that’s not Green Party policy or doesn’t align already with the Green Party.”He said: “I really like Jeremy and Zarah both as people and also as politicians. I’m supportive of anything they’re setting up.”But the London Assembly member also made it clear they would be “welcome” in the Greens, which he called a “movement for change”.He said: “I think it’s a positive thing that they’ve recognised that the Labour Party as a vehicle of progressive change that utterly collapsed, and it’s time to abandon it. They’ve not left the Labour Party, but Labour Party has left them.”However, he noted that – unlike Corbyn’s new group – the Greens do not need to have a conference in the autumn to decide their name.“Maybe that conference should decide actually, the Green party exists and is doing really well,” Polanski said, pointing to the nearly two million votes they secured in the general election. “It kind of makes sense to join the Green Party.”Corbyn’s team has been contacted for comment.Zack Polanski, deputy leader of the Green Party, at the Green Party autumn conference in Manchester, UK, on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024Corbyn and Sultana’s new group appears to still be nameless. They have only offered up a link for supportive members of the public to sign up to a mysterious site called yourparty.uk, leading many to assume that is its moniker – although Sultana has since denied that.Amid all that confusion, as Polanski pointed out, his plans to bring eco-populism to the Green Party are clear. He added: “I have a very clear left-wing socialist green ticket.”However, Polanski also reiterated that he would be willing to work with anyone who wants to take on Westminster and stop Reform UK.He said it came down to challenging the government, pointing out how suspended Labour backbencher John McDonnell said it was about intellectual coalitions rather than electoral coalitions.He said Sultana and Corbyn “are embedded in green values environmental justice, social justice, racial justice, and economic justice.”“Rather than creating purity tests about having narrow focuses for parties, I think Green Party can be that bold movement and that broad church,” Polanski said.Asked if he was concerned Corbyn would overshadow him in the Greens, he said, “I think there is something to that.”However, he said he imagines the former Labour leader, like the US’s Bernie Sanders, wants to look for “future leaders and movements”.But he continued: “We just don’t have time to waste, I really mean it with deep respect for anyone who wants to get together and have a conference and decide a party name and governance structures, all of that takes too long and time is not a luxury we have.”That approach is pretty different from Green MPs Ellie Chowns and current co-leader Adrian Ramsay, who are running on a joint ticket to oppose Polanski.Chowns admitted that much of their statement “could have been taken straight from the Green Party manifesto,” but, she claimed: “There is only a passing glance to the climate crisis.“Any party that does not have climate and environment front and centre is part of the old politics, not the new.”Chowns pointed to the number of people who moved from Labour to the Greens and said “our door is very much open for anyone who aligns with core Green values”.Adrian Ramsay, who is standing on a co-leadership ticket with Chowns, said: “It remains to be seen what this new party will amount to, but this development underlines how crucial it is for the Green Party to keep its distinctive identity, with our clear focus on both social and environmental justice. “Turning the party into a Jeremy Corbyn support act would be a huge mistake.”Related...Jeremy Corbyn Has Launched His New Left-Wing Party – But No One Is Sure What It's CalledFormer Labour Leader Comes Up With Brutal Farage Nickname For New Corbyn-Led PartyJeremy Corbyn Responds To Zarah Sultana's Claims Of Setting Up New Party

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