Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash… and I’m delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!
Going to be hard for Your Party to recover from this. It’s either a popular front which means an activist alliance of left parties and greens - or an actual small parliamentary-orientated party. At this point in the game Sultana is probably right in principle but woefully wrong in tactics.
This is the same MP who voted against the 10 Minute Rule Bill to ban marriages between first cousins and against decrimilisation of abortion. I fear he was never going to be at home in a socialist party.
Regardless, Your Party is DoA.
The idea that attendance at the founding conference is going to be done by “sortition” (lottery) - except, of course, for the select self-chosen important people - is another sign that Your Party is not the organisation the left are looking for.
It’s a choice between ear-defenders for neurodiverse children or having your bins collected, according to Tice. He’s a choice one, eh?
I’m interested to know if anyone is using a Cloudflare tunnel to stream audio? It breaks their terms but I’ve read that they tend to ignore it.
And yet much of the organising has been done in private by the Sultana and Feinstein factions who have held secretive competing rallies and meetings up and down the country which have definitely been done behind closed doors. But that’s not what I’m talking about. The fundamentals of what the party stands for (is it socialist? left-of-centre? federalist? whatever) and how it’s run must be sorted out before supporters get to participate. These sorts of lessons - as well as going too far in the centralist way - were learned the hard way with Occupy. The passion and energy of a movement is easily dissipated by politicking. Which, I fear, is what has happened. Plus my usual belief that the state is usually involved in dismantling left groups from within.
It was foolish to think that some allegedly anti-socialist MPs and councillors could be won over to a left-of-Labour party.
It’s not what many people want though. A sense of a unified left. These sorts of rows have to happen well out of sight behind closed doors - which, to be fair was probably happening until Sultana jumped the gun and went public. People I know who were so enthused about the party seem pretty disillusioned already.
That sounds fantastic. Journiv has kick-started me into journalling before bed again. Thank you for uour work.
I’ve been running Journiv since Monday and really liking it. I’d really like to see a straightfoward means of exporting/restoring journals, though. The export says coming soon.
One of the reasons I stopped using Memos - which I thought was good - was because the devs were telling users on Discord that there was no need for backups because you should have the skill to manually locate and open up the database and export entries yourself. I think that sort of stuff makes or breaks apps like this in which people put aspects of their lives into.
Bear in mind about 50% of Greens are moderate or middle-right and only backing Polanski as long as he looks like he can extend the party. Greens are the sort you can make temporary alliances with but not for lasting change. We do need a left-wing alliance, however, and Your Party isn’t it sadly.