Your Party: it’s not social conservatism; it’s left-wing bigotry
Your Party has faced widespread criticism from its members for its dither and delay in the run up to the local elections on May 7. Meanwhile, Reform UK and the Green Party are set to make huge gains. This intense battle between the left and right comes as British voters increasingly abandon traditional establishment parties.
However, voters may find themselves confused about what they’re actually voting for if a Your Party candidate appears on the ballot. Your Party was originally billed to be a socialist party which champions socialist values. In light of that promise, members are rightfully concerned about the trend of endorsements for deselected Tories. They also worry that Corbyn is focusing on socially conservative groups while ignoring socialist grassroots organisations.
As a result, many are finding themselves feeling mis-sold and abandoned with little transparency on offer from the Your Party executive.
Your Party takes worrying direction
Furthermore, anger is growing as those given the seal of approval increasingly display bigoted views. Unsurprisingly, these endorsements have delivered a painful blow to the party’s progressive membership.
Over Easter weekend, Corbyn’s team clarified that he had not endorsed three deselected Tory candidates:
a leaflet emerged featuring three ex-Tory councillors who claimed to be “endorsed” by Jeremy Corbyn. Since then, Your Party and Corbyn have denied endorsing these men. Instead, the situation seems to be that they recently joined the Walsall Community Independents group which Corbyn has voiced support for.
However, a Corbyn appeared on a leaflet with the three candidates in question. And, as the Canary’s Willem Moore reported:
When Your Party got going, it included Jeremy Corbyn and his Independent Alliance. Corbyn and the other independent MPs did good work opposing the government’s support of Israel’s genocide. At the same time, there were some pretty big gaps between the politics of some of these men and the YP membership.
The two big issues that came up were:
Transphobia and landlordism were big reasons why left-leaning voters abandoned Labour. As such, the presence of these issues in Your Party served to turn away potential members.
Following the backlash, people who criticised the independent MPs were accused of being intolerant or racist.
This lack of clarity over the party’s values emboldens bigoted views. Most concerningly, that bigotry is particularly apparent in some of those who claim full allegiance to Jeremy Corbyn. A growing number of so-called ‘socially conservative’ groups have garnered Corbyn’s attention. But let’s be clear. These views – transphobia, racism, sexism – are not merely ‘socially conservative’; they are bigoted.
Socialism further out of reach
As a result, socialism seems to be being pushed further out of reach for its grassroots activists.
With patriarchal tones, condescending put downs, and offensive trolling on social media, it is hard to see much ‘change’ in what this party actually has to offer under Jeremy Corbyn. This is only reinforced by his ongoing silence in defending these targeted groups.
Secondly, it’s not difficult to imagine where these socially conservative influences and values originate. In an apparent effort to consolidate power in Parliament, Corbyn brought together an alliance of independent MPs. While they initially united over their stance on the war in Gaza, they have since turned into a dominant clique within the party.
As this post highlights, they are not socialist:
This fascinating article reveals that the foundation process for "Your Party" is now fully controlled by the Independent Alliance group of MPs, which is overwhelmingly socially conservative and includes 3 MPs who voted to keep abortion illegal.https://t.co/gaTAtDL654 pic.twitter.com/6JcsVDJjto
— Eleanora Ní Chualáın 🏳️⚧️🇮🇪 (@EleanoraStats) September 9, 2025
One account on X powerfully pointed out why this direction of travel is so confronting to socialist members:
It's 2026 and Jeremy Corbyn is asking socialists to canvas for Tories.
— Matthew Walker (@matthewjswalker) April 7, 2026
Socialist Muslim members in the party were so enraged by this dominance of conservative values, forming their own group entirely.
Important to note, though, is the fact that Corbyn appears to have shown no interest in this group:
We are all part of the Ummah pic.twitter.com/VzcyOt2If6
— Muslim Socialists of Your Party (@MusSocialistsYP) March 31, 2026
Co-founder of Connections Anwarul Khan has been a formidable voice in challenging the decisions taken by leadership.
Questioning due diligence processes, Khan posted on X:
2/2. These former Tories were clear. They were deseleted not a change of heart. YP members voted unanimously to be a socialist party. This stinks! pic.twitter.com/SSl05Vto97
— Anwarul Khan (@TPleicester) April 7, 2026
This lack of principled intervention from leadership has undoubtedly opened the door to bigoted, transphobic attacks.
The Many: Superiority, not solidarity
The bigotry doesn’t stop at transphobia. Racism appears to be taking root, also.
“A vocal minority of supporters of The Many” deployed racist tropes towards opposing Grassroots Left candidates, which led to a call for a unifying condemnation of hateful behaviour which can only intimidate and silence underrepresented members.
A call that Corbyn and The Many are yet to respond to:
The Grassroots Left condemns racist bullying pic.twitter.com/349n8ljHDh
— Grassroots Left (@Grassroots_Left) February 17, 2026
The statement calls on The Many candidates to condemn perpetrators of racism and harassment in an effort to counter the “toxic atmosphere” they are creating.
This reality then begs the question: why is Jeremy Corbyn repeatedly allying himself with left-wing bigots under the guise of ‘social conservatism’?
A leader of a socialist party must act with conviction, not capitulation
Socialists have had enough of capitulating to harmful views. British society has long operated within a racist, sexist, and transphobic structure.
Time and again, this structure has created the conditions for bigotry to thrive. It isolates and marginalises vulnerable groups while fostering a toxic culture that diminishes those seen as “different.” To challenge this, we must dismantle that system and build one rooted in genuine solidarity. That can only begin by rejecting values which attack already marginalised communities.
Members joined Your Party on the promise of a socialist, grassroots movement. Yet top-down, opaque practices have repeatedly undermined that promise, ignoring the many socialist groups eager to contribute.
This raises a question we can no longer ignore: can Corbyn truly deliver socialism, or does he doubt it’s even possible?
After all, a meaningful transition to a socialist society can only begin with a leader who truly believes it can be achieved.
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I assume you will next turn your sights on Workers Party GB, which is certainly more ‘socially conservative’ than YP.
What is your objective in constantly criticising YP and in particular Jeremy Corbyn.
Your constant deriding of him is no different than the accusations of antisemitism he was constantly abused by, except yours are more damaging amongst the left.
You need to stop.
YP is not an independent, working class and socialist party, which is what we need. Corbyn’s heinous abandonment of the pro-Palestinian Left while he was Labour leader demonstrated why he has nothing to offer the working class.
Agree need to stop the constant attacks. I can’t see anything of substance in your article. You are attacking for sexism and racism without clear evidence of either. Transphobia argument has long been evaluated as an alternative viewpoint held by feminist activists and is a valid critique and should be allowed to exist even if it’s not for everyone.
Jeanette, gotta say, “transphobia has long been evaluated as an alternative feminist viewpoint” is certainly an ambitious piece of rebranding. Is the “we don’t hate trans people, we’re just gender critical” polite fiction phase of the campaign over now?
Also – stellar job in your argument there’s ‘no evidence’ of prejudice while presenting prejudice towards trans people as a reasonable ideological position. You a troll Reform bot by any chance?
YP also has hundreds of ex-Labour councillors. Some currently remain as Labour councillors and are named on council websites as “your councillors,” but were not reselected just in the last few weeks. These are not the ones Keir kicked out two years ago; this lot remained Keir’s poodles until a few weeks ago.
And thus the voter bumps into the issue of the concept of the party system.
Alas, the party system is painted, implied, perhaps, by endless insinuations of manifestios and campaign assurances written up on professionally made websites to woo-and-wow.
In truth, every person has their own idea of reasonable and unreasonable. Across all party lines, I think the majority (of non-zionists, at least), agree genocide is unreasonable. That is a great starting point, common ground, if you will.
However, other ideas, such as, uh, “landlordism”… seem to be more trivial. Perhaps to you, you equate paying rent to being burned alive by phosphorous, but myself, personally, I don’t.
No, these tactics are divisive. Perhaps foisted by a zionist in our midst to divide-and-conquer. How dare the so-called “transphobes” and the “landlordists” (whatever the fuck that means) unify on some topic of human decency and be opposed to genocide. They see the value of life – Palestinian life, not even within the boundaries of this country, and that to me is a huge step.
As for the other ideas? Tough.
You’ll have to choose between forming an uneasy alliance to take down a much greater evil, in this case the mass genocide of children (which, I suspect, you don’t actually want to happen as per chance I suspect you yourself are a zionist with such divisive and shallow rhetoric)…. or you can argue over more minor topics and remain divided, allow the children to die and still fail in the other tasks as well.
Personally, I prefer to bridge the divide. I’m not from the Liberal camp (nor, for that matter, the Conservative ones…. I hate party politics)…. but I am willing to put aside my differences in my opinions on politics so we can unify, just for a brief moment, as humans, to come together, and oppose what is a systematic genocide. History and the future demands that, at least as much.
Once we have squashed the much more serious issue of genocide by israel…. afterwards, we can go back to the petty squabbles over things like ‘landlordism’, and who knows, maybe I might change your view, or you might change mine?
FFS. Stop stoking the idiotic infighting which portrays all the left as comprised of self-aggrandising bigots. There is idiotic behaviour in all parties, but there is plenty of really heinous behaviour in the centre and the right to keep a left wing media outlet fully occupied. Your Party has many problems but there’s no need for the Canary to be a contributor to them. Written as a long toime contributor to The Canary btw.,