BREAKING: Zarah Sultana issues ‘reconciliation statement’ over Your Party
Within the last few minutes, independent MP and Your Party co-founder Zarah Sultana has issued a statement about the row that erupted last week in the nascent party about the issuance of a link for people to join as members. It has been described as a ‘reconciliation statement’ and in it she says that she is in discussions directly with co-founder Jeremy Corbyn and will not be taking legal action that she had threatened; and that with “fascism… growling at the door… the stakes are too high for failure to be an option”.
Zarah Sultana: truth and…
Zarah Sultana’s statement reads:
Over the past few days, I have spoken with comrades across our movement. For the sake of the party, and as an act of good faith, I will not be pursuing legal proceedings despite the baseless and unsubstantiated allegations
against me. The directors of MOU Operations Ltd have issued a welcome statement clarifying the legal and financial situation.I know many people are feeling demoralised – I share that feeling. We find ourselves in a regrettable situation, but my motivation has always been to ensure the collective strength of our movement, put members first and
build the genuinely democratic conference and socialist party we so urgently need.I am determined to reconcile and move forward. I am engaged in ongoing discussions with Jeremy, for whom, like all socialists of my generation, I have nothing but respect. We will find a way to continue in a unified way centring the grassroots of our movement. I am certain this is possible – indeed, it must be.
Fascism is growling at the door. The stakes are too high for failure to be an option. Both Jeremy and I remain committed to making this project a success – and we can all confirm that the conference will go ahead as
planned in November.This party does not belong to any one of us – it belongs to you.
ZARAH SULTANA MP
MP for Coventry South
It sounds like there is still a lot of work to be done and one wag compared the situation to a TV episode in which a character comes back to work pretending never to have quit.
Let’s hope it sticks.
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Might be a bit late to put a stop to the ‘Peoples Front for the Liberation of Judea’ jibes. The damage that this episode has done is between fatal and near fatal. Whats worse the ‘sexist’ line of attack used echoes the Reform and Trumpian attack line that conflates Muslims with sexism. The damage done by that alone was intended to be enduring. And, I suspect, so it will prove to be.
Yes I agree Mike, I’m sorry Zarah you made the problem to bring attention to how you felt the party was going in a direction you didn’t like or agree with at a time we need unity to make the party work instead it’s put huge doubt in people’s minds that were ok where it was already going, the problem is yours to own and holding out the olive branch now seems rather like something that could have been completely avoided if you should of been dealt with by talking to Corbyn and others before sending out that email. I still stand by JC.
As a woman, I empathise with Zarah Sultana if Corbyn and the 5 independent MPs made her feel isolated. She is entitled to her feelings and to regard their behaviour as misogynistic.
However, Sultana should have pursue the matter in private. To be fair Corbyn tried to keep it private by not blaming the initial communication on Sultana but on an unknown third party.
The reaction of Sultana to them expose the rift in Social Media and going to the point of threatening legal action, it was over the top.
I expected strong debate and disagreements among the leadership of Your Party, in the run up to the founding Conference. However, what I didn’t expect was for the disagreements to spilt into social media and worse the MSM.
As a result, I believe that a lot of damage has already been done. Thus, I will wait and see before I jump to join the new Political Party.
Somehow, I am wary that this is an example of things to come:
– Corbyn, will carry trying to placate everybody.
– Sultana will run commentary on social media as soon as she is unhappy.
I lived through the disarray of Corbyn’s leadership post General Election 2017, and witness how it ended.
Agree. The phrase here is ‘dont wash ones dirty linen in public’. All Parties squabble, indeed all ppl squabble as friends and in families, but for goodness sake DONT give the enemy any ammunition. This is our last chance, maybe for ever, and certainly in my own lifetime, to have a decent caring gvt.
No place for egotists in a socialist party but unfortunately it is full of them battling over the socialist equivalent of the number of angels on the head of a needle Your Party was an attempt to break that but as soon as disagreements arose instead of discussion,waiting for conference and appealing to the membership the two factions went to war and used both underhand methods and , for god’s sake, the law NOT the membership to settle their dispute. Both forgeting it is not their party but our party and finally picking delegates by random selection takes control of delegates from the membership who should elect delegates and giving it to those who will organise the agenda resolutions etc. Demcracy has no short cuts and this movement is too important to fail
“egotism noun, derog 1 the habit of speaking too much about oneself. 2 the fact of having a very high opinion of oneself. egotist noun a self-centred person. ”
I really don’t share the view that Sultana or Corbyn are egotists by any reasonable definition, save as being derogatory to both. This dispute is fundamentally an argument as to influence and power, framed by Sultana as women vs the ‘boys’ (goodness me that was crass and provocative) and by Corbyn as ‘unlawful’ under UK law.
I am afraid that the UK left may collectively decide that there differences are so great, so profound, so fundamental, that they would rather compete with each other to be the big fish in the small pond. Steve Bannon, who ruthlessly exploited intersectionality to create division and thus neutralise the Left and centre used trans politics (and feminism generally) for exactly this purpose, all the while campaigning for women to be forced back to the kitchen sink barefoot and pregnant.