Sultana and the Fruitcakes

“Your Party” have provided us with a wealth of political distraction over the last weekend.

To honour their first conference, we have taken some time out from Newham to savour some of their antics. 

Clearly, they have usurped the position from the Greens as the barmiest contenders for Westminster. Not even a leader who hypnotically increases women’s breast sizes can claim to be barmier than Your Party. 

Their conference speeches seemed to be an extended session of navel contemplation. It wasn’t so much about what policies they would like to put before the electorate as which people they would let into the party. Or into the conference hall.

It seems that most of the members (and the “bureaucrats”, as termed by Sultana) were not keen on letting in the SWP. This was not because of their politics so much as the fact that members were not keen to be associated with a party which appeared to have condoned the rape of female members by the leadership. And this has to be to their credit.

Readers who are old enough will remember Gerry Healy and the WRP and similar issues, (26 women sexually assaulted by this hero of the Trotskyist left).

One of the people they did want be inside chose to stay outside. Supporting the SWP, Co-Chief Fruitcake, Zarah Sultana chose to boycott the first day of the conference.

In between arguing about who is in and who is out they seemed to spend a lot of time ensuring that they all used the correct pronouns and denouncing anyone to the left of Ghengis Khan as a fascist. Mind you, with the changes to political language, Ghengis Khan might now have been rehabilitated as an anti-imperialist liberation fighter. (We’ll check on this.)

We have also discovered what may well be the draft of a new flag for the new political party. 

Assuming that they can hold together without sending one or more of their MP colleagues to prison, Your Party have leaked the early designs of the emblem (see above) that they might take to the populace in May. (No, they haven’t, we made that bit up.)

Mind you, we are still unsure as to whether this is one party or two. We are not clear whether Sultana will leave the misogynistic “boy’s’ club”; whether the Islamist faction will be able to remain in a party that seems to have a membership dominated by people who assert that their “gender” is not defined by their sex; or how a party without a leader will respond to political questions in the face of challenges.  

It seems that Corbyn has the parliamentarians (most of them) and Sultana has the membership list, and (some of?) the money.

Now that Blackburn MP, Adnan Hussain has just quit the party because of a “toxic culture” towards Muslim men, how long before Your Party is accused of being Islamophobic as well as barmy?

Gosh. It sounds just like being in the Labour Party. Starmer must be delighted to be shot of them.

The BBC quotes Hussain as follows. "The culture surrounding the party has become dominated by persistent infighting, factional competition and a struggle for power, position and influence rather than a shared commitment to the common good.

"Instead of openness, cooperation and outward focus, the environment has too often felt toxic, exclusionary and deeply disheartening."

We can only recommend that comrades sever any link to Your Party and join the correct path under the banner of the People’s Front of Judea, though, come to think of it, anything that suggests a link to Jews might not be such a good idea.