Conspiracy theorist Piers Corbyn is up for Your Party CEC election
Piers Corbyn, brother of Jeremy Corbyn, is officially on the ballot for the Your Party Central Executive Committee (CEC) in elections ending 5 January. This is despite Piers’s links to various conspiracy theories.
A pale imitation of his younger brother
Corbyn passed the ballot with 103 votes as an independent yesterday. Since then, people have raised their concerns:
Piers Corbyn is a climate change denier who has been protesting outside refugee hotels alongside fascists of late. The fact that he’s allowed to be in YourParty, nevermind that he has been endorsed for its CEC by 102 London members, is shocking. https://t.co/jZBIpwk87p
— Adam Ramsay (@AdamRamsay) February 4, 2026
Piers has a long history of controversial beliefs, having been very active in the anti-vax movement, leading to his arrest on several occasions. He didn’t stop there, going on to harass NHS workers, accusing them of murder. He also turned up at a drag story time in Brighton screaming “Your parents were straight!”
To be fair, some of the above is kind of tame compared to the time Piers was arrested on suspicion of inciting arson.
Observers have also clocked Piers holding signs saying ‘Stop the Boats’ outside of migrant hotels:
🇬🇧🚨 PIERS CORBYN, brother of JEREMY CORBYN, has arrived at the Bell MIGRANT Hotel in Epping to offer his support.
"I'm here to support the campaign to close this hotel. The boats should be STOPPED. The government is using this CRISIS to bring in DIGITAL ID. We don't need… https://t.co/536Yj9lkek pic.twitter.com/O7rqq12SVK
— VoxPopuli (@vpopulimedia) August 8, 2025
Just yesterday, he tweeted this:
AND now:
Zach Polanski the conman.
Fact: Man-Made ClimateChange does Not Exist – Download https://t.co/qXisckHYmJ https://t.co/OsYEcRbTUO pic.twitter.com/xulHiKnylA— Piers Corbyn (@Piers_Corbyn) February 3, 2026
Do you see what we’re getting at here?
Is this really who Your Party wants?
The presence of Piers on the ballot poses a significant question for Your Party members.
Will the membership reject his toxic brand of conspiracy-led politics?
Or, will Piers find a powerful new platform for his controversial views?
It all feels a bit ‘nepo sibling’ to us.
Featured image via Daily Record
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Adam Ramsay: “The fact that he’s allowed to be in YourParty, never mind that he has been endorsed for its CEC by 102 London members, is shocking.”
https://www.yourparty.uk/rules/#:~:text=Members%20must%20be%20at%20least,to%20any%20of%20the%20above. The (Interim) Membership Rules.
“4.1 Members may not be a member of any other national political party in the UK or abroad.
4.2. Members may not affiliate with or participate in any organisation whose aims or activities contradict or undermine the Party’s values and objectives.”
He may well pass those tests. I doubt any other party would have him.
However one of the other elements is to “uphold the party’s founding values.”, specifically “democratic, member-led socialist party that stands for social justice, peace and international solidarity.”
Exactly how courting solidarity with the Epping Bell flag-wavers protesting migration policies fits with “social justice” or international solidarity” seems an impossibly long stretch. Adam is right to be shocked.
So what to do about it? The CEC is the deciding body it seems; so nothing until the election is over. Lets generously put this down to ‘teething problems’.
Perhaps The Canary – if their interest goes beyond the Greens being the newest shiney distraction – might like to consider The Green Light’s contrasting of the setting up of Your Party with Green party democracy.
“So how did Your Party activists go about drafting their Constitution and what did they come up with ?
The process took months of deliberations and mobilising at local level. Hundreds of long standing activists and new recruits drawn from 10 different organisations started the hard slog of drafting their document using a mixture of face-to-face meetings, zooms and digital tools.”
They contrast this with the Greens : “In practical terms, and as evidenced in our two blog posts covering the Autumn 2025 Conference in Bournemouth, this means that 1600 self-appointed members out of 50000 – half with less than 2 months membership – approved key reports, major policy reviews, and voted for new policies and organisational changes with no accountability to anyone but themselves.
“Conference is not a delegates event, nor do attendees have to be known to their elected Local Party officers. They are free wheeling individuals with enormous power.”
They conclude : “As a result, and with the added power of What’s app, Instagram and other social media platforms – private and public – the [Green] Party has become so dysfuntional that it has left itself vulnerable to the risk of mass entrism. Its governance has also been wholly captured by an estimated 400 Critical Social Justice (CSJ) activists who have little interest or commitment to ecological concerns. However they have become experts in the manipulation of the Party’s arcance policy decision making process and have become masters in the use of the disciplinary procedures to eliminate opposition to their post-modernist/ identity politics ideology.”
That’s the view of a leading Green blog – but I suspect its not a story The Canary will ever investigate.
https://thegreenlight.blog/2026/01/27/one-member-one-vote-is-an-illusion-of-democracy/