Your Party is ‘officially’ now open to members again
Your Party has once again opened up to members again. The announcement follows a membership drive last week which was abandoned when members of the fledgling party made various accusations against one another.
There is an alternative to austerity, poverty and war.
We are that alternative. Let’s build it, together.
Become a member of Your Party at https://t.co/x66FtK2dyZ today! pic.twitter.com/A8e6D0Pr78
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) September 24, 2025
At the time of writing, Jeremy Corbyn has announced the latest membership drive on X/Twitter, but Zarah Sultana, Jamie Driscoll, and Andrew Feinstein have not.
The ‘official’ launch of Your Party
Noting that it’s ‘official’ in the subject line, the email drive reads:
Last Monday, we published a democratic roadmap for the foundation of Your Party, culminating in a historic founding conference in November.
Today, we’re delighted to announce the next steps in this process, starting with the opening of our official membership portal.
It states that “data and membership payments will be secure”, which is no doubt a reference to allegations made last week. The email also states:
Be assured that this is the official… membership portal, as promised in our roadmap endorsed by the Independent Alliance of MPs
Their role is to steward the founding of a democratic party that will belong to its members, to you – you will decide the name, make the key decisions and elect the leadership through one member, one vote.
This process will culminate in the most democratic, representative and inclusive conference this country has ever seen. We will bring together thousands of members – with tens of thousands more participating online – to establish a new kind of political party: one that belongs not to the rich and powerful, but to its members – to you.
In an attached video, Jeremy Corbyn says:
Coming together to found a party that will fight prejudice, campaign for peace, act against climate breakdown and deliver social justice. We’ve had some fraught days in the last weeks, as you will no doubt be very aware, and to be honest we’ve haven’t covered ourselves in glory.
But what is most important is this. We all agree about the plans for the conference and the roadmap to get to it. Before all the commotion last week, the plans themselves were warmly welcomed right across our movement.
People desperately want the chance for a real alternative – an alternative to poverty, to war, and injustice. So let’s get on with it. Today you can turn your support into real membership. Our official membership portal is now open.
Conference
The email shares further details about the upcoming conference:
Today we can share another exciting announcement with you: the founding conference will be held at Liverpool ACC on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 November.
A total of 13,000 members will debate and amend the party’s founding documents in person across two days, with 6,500 attending each day. To make this conference as representative as possible, attendees will be chosen by lottery, ensuring a fair balance of gender, region and background.
But whether you’re selected as a delegate or not, you’ll have the final say, with final votes and internal elections decided by all members through a secure, online one-member-one-vote system. To be involved, you first have to be a member.
Response
Your Party announced the membership drive online:
We’re doing politics differently.
Your Party will be run not by corporate elites but by its members – by you.
The first step? Signing up today ⬇️https://t.co/AbAROwKzhh
— Your Party (@thisisyourparty) September 24, 2025
On our membership portal you will be able to:
➡️ offer your skills as a volunteer
➡️ see all the latest Your Party events
➡️ feed in to our draft principles, constitution & more
➡️ vote on all the big decisions when the time comes— Your Party (@thisisyourparty) September 24, 2025
Commentator Ash Sarkar highlighted several unanswered questions:
However, on YouTube the responses were somewhat more guarded – with many people highlighting there was no mention of Sultana again:
Yeah, I’m waiting to hear from Zarah before signing up. You’ve been oddly quiet on the subject, which makes me think that what she’s saying might have some merit.
And:
This really should have been launched joint with Zarah to address the concerns over fractures. I’ll hold off on joining until I know what’s happening on that front
So, as one person highlighted:
I love you guys but please when you next have a spat – do it privately – you’ve knocked our confidence. We need to learn and continue fighting the good fight for everyone.
Featured image via Your Party
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I read this posted by a journalist the other day: “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity… “Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.” Looking at this charade, it seems we are a long way from reaching “maturity” as a class. Baa, Baa.
I was one of the people who joined last time, only to be told that it was invalid. I haven’t received my £55 back, nor any communication detailing how I would get a refund, and I don’t now know whether my membership still stands or whether I have to apply to join again. You’d have thought they would address that, after such a momentous cock up.
Me too. I paid £25 upfront for the concessionary rate. Once I learnt of the spat, I wrote to Zarah Sultana’s Westminster email address to ask what early birds like me should do – do we require a refund or do we simply just wait patiently with our memberships intact? As of today (24th Sept) I’ve not received a reply. When I ‘joined’ last week, I only received a confirmation email and not the promised receipt. I’m surprised the Canary hasn’t managed to raise these questions as it’s now causing serious mistrust.
What happens to those of us who paid £55 a week ago to Sultana’s organisation?
Yes, and if you go on the website there’s no contact information to allow you to ask (unless you become a member – again). So they’re forcing you to throw good money after bad to just get an answer!
Well so far what Corbyn and his old labour cronies seem to be creating is another Labour Party. I don’t see how this “lottery” is supposed to work, who decides who’s in it? I need a lot more information not least where is Sultana in this?
“…another Labour Party.”
Oh really? And since when did ‘sortition’ have the least role in the Labour Party rulebook? Its the least controllable political device ever created. The problem with the Labour Party has long been that it is centrally over-controlled, as exploited by Blair and every leader since (bar Corbyn, whom it delighted to sabotage). Special measures for dissenting branches, mass expulsions for ‘antisemitism’, corrupt and self serving disciplinary procedures, parachuted MPs, nepotism and especially cronyism.
Who is in the pot for the sortition/lottery? The signed up membership. Obviously.
What is it with you people?