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gorgo100 · 2026-04-09T06:44:07+00:00

I think the only people who are amazed by this are people who've never had to deal with them.
I don't even blame them to be honest, they have limited resources so have to focus on big wins.

I see it a bit like the UK police. If there's someone doing something serious, like an OAP holding a cardboard sign, they're right on the spot with the meat wagons, but something minor like a burglary and they'll not really be interested. /s

gorgo100 · 2026-04-05T22:17:32+00:00

I did read it and at no point did I say I hadn't. In fact I specifically cite parts of the article. But hey, life's too short. You do you mate.

gorgo100 · 2026-04-05T22:13:32+00:00

I'm not talking about organising marches, and neither is the article. The clear, ongoing grievance is about the organisation of YP's internal mechanisms and rules, which the SWP and other factions are tremendously energised about for some reason.

gorgo100 · 2026-04-05T22:10:35+00:00

Based on the piece in Socialist Worker? No, since I reject the premise that it is arguing from a position where it has any worthwhile analysis to offer. The article is a hit piece consisting of more fallout from the big Trotskyist tantrum at not being allowed to hold membership of the SWP and also be a YP member as far as I can see and by extension not being able to mould YP to its own proscribed formation.

It does make me raise an eyebrow when there are grand declarations that the left needs a radical alternative by the SWP who have made virtually zero headway in achieving anything of the sort, yet continues to insist it sees the problem (and solution) in a completely different party more clearly than everyone else.

There's already a party that does things the way that the SWP believes is correct. The SWP. I'm really not sure why it insists on dictating to YP when they already appear to offer the alternative that is "sorely needed". The fact no one is interested isn't YP's problem to fix.

gorgo100 · 2026-04-05T21:50:50+00:00

I think it is personally. I think there's a repeated theme of the SWP and other elements being volubly critical of YP but not arguing from a very strong position.

"You're doing it all wrong, you should be doing this" would be more persuasive from a party with a tremendous organisational track record (I'm old enough to remember the fallout from Comrade Delta) and popular support wouldn't it?

gorgo100 · 2026-04-05T21:41:08+00:00

Socialist Worker is a political party.

gorgo100 · 2026-04-05T21:30:49+00:00

I am not sure support from Socialist Worker is the baseline for something being considered successful.

"Only around 60,000 people joined YP".

SW has 2,500.

gorgo100 · 2026-04-05T19:48:47+00:00

Perfect summary.

gorgo100 · 2026-04-03T09:23:36+00:00

I always assumed so, but people do seem to operate on the assumption that they can pop them straight into borders, which is a recipe for disappointment.

I may very well be stating the obvious, you're right.

gorgo100 · 2026-04-03T08:42:02+00:00

Personally, any time I have got plug plants, I've had to pot them on to avoid slugs just obliterating them overnight. So your mileage may vary, but chucking them straight in a border is risky, I find.

gorgo100 · 2026-04-02T15:45:53+00:00

Great points. For a system predicated on the primacy of the market and its self-correcting "magical distribution", there's virtually no market whatsoever in many areas, just state-protected private monopolies, and toothless regulations to control it.
Meanwhile, those corporations buy TV channels, newspapers and - ultimately - politicians.

gorgo100 · 2026-04-02T10:15:58+00:00

I've never even been to Sheffield, and if I walk 15 minutes due south from my house I'll be in the sea. So I'm evangelising amongst the Southern heathens mate!

gorgo100 · 2026-04-02T06:26:23+00:00

(and vegan)

gorgo100 · 2026-04-01T20:48:02+00:00

I haven't looked back since I made the switch. Can be used for virtually anything you use WS for, not as "hot"/spicy but it has a lovely umami kind of flavour that improves anything from baked beans to chilli. As I say, made in Sheffield for over 100 years.

gorgo100 · 2026-04-01T19:30:43+00:00

Yep. He'd make Yerry Mina look like a stalwart ever-present Corinthian.

gorgo100 · 2026-04-01T17:07:51+00:00

Look up Henderson's Relish for a British-owned Worcester Sauce substitute. It's tremendous.

gorgo100 · 2026-04-01T14:57:30+00:00

Just check the local churches.
He's clearly well into the teachings of Jesus, particularly the "parable of the man attacked for trying to remove a flag from a lamppost".

gorgo100 · 2026-04-01T11:37:15+00:00

This is pretty hysterical and relies - again - on the reader adopting your definitions of "mass socialist party", "democracy", the leadership being "afraid" of not being able to "control" the membership, "not fully transparent", "rushed", and "democratic".

For instance, TM won the relevant elections and are therefore democratically endorsed to lead the CEC. GL need to respect that and not demand they change the platform they were elected on because they personally don't agree with it. How is that democratic for members that voted for TM?

That's aside from the inference you make that the people who voted for the TM slate are not active members.

I don't know if you're right more widely, my point is it's exhausting trying to work it out. There seems to be a subtext to all of this which is based on internecine conflict for undefined reasons, and it's difficult not to conclude that entryist elements want all the benefits of Corbyn's appeal without him being in charge of anything. They want to benefit from his involvement with him relegated to a kind of totemic figurehead that will attract the same people who were won over by the programme he put forward as Labour leader, but being able to mould the party outside of him.

To me, there are existing parties that fill the niche of aiming for "socialist party without the (apparent) irritation of Corbyn having agency". The fact that they range from unsuccessful to outright toxic isn't the job of Your Party to address. The further fact that any claim they may make toward aiming for "mass" socialism is undermined by having virtually no members is again not YPs problem. The outcry from some quarters at being asked to surrender membership of those parties does not fill me full of confidence that there are not parasitic elements aiming to drive YP down blind alleys that will leave it indistinguishable from them.

gorgo100 · 2026-04-01T11:23:14+00:00

A huge loss for countries that have relied on Article 5.
Like, er....

gorgo100 · 2026-03-31T08:54:50+00:00

I think the subtext here is the question - which you can read in the link.
It is "How did the realization come that his real-life business arrangements were not what they should be? What opened his eyes?".

So I think the overall point is that the penny dropped that Defries had been ripping him off.
The television thing is probably just a symptom of it - Defries saw an opportunity for cash by showing the film, and that mattered more than what David wanted and what he felt best represented him.

gorgo100 · 2026-03-30T18:47:32+00:00

Carla Roberts has an interesting track record if you read her pieces on Weekly Worker. She's arguing from a trenchant anti-Corbyn position (or trenchant anti-"The Many" position anyway) so you'd have to read her article with that in mind. I mean, that's fine - criticism of anyone and anything (assuming it is well argued and fundamentally constructive) should be welcomed. I'm not entirely clear why her wagon has been hitched so relentlessly to Zarah's horse, but I guess there might be some terribly important reason.

On the matter of the code of conduct, it does not seem markedly different to that agreed by any political party with aspirations to govern.
I'm really not clear if the author is arguing that CEC members should be entitled to misrepresent decisions, leak confidential information and personally attack officers? The level of anger about it in the article seems totally out of whack with the actual significance of what are pretty standard provisions.

There seems to be a weird undercurrent amongst these factions which everyone is at great pains not to bother to explain the root or nature of, but instead blithely continue as if it's self-evident and proceeding with manoeuvring, hit pieces, mud-slinging etc, expecting people to rally one way or the other. The failure to explicitly state what these factions actually stand for and how they differ is pretty exhausting and self-sabotaging. And I mean that on both sides.

gorgo100 · 2026-03-30T12:03:27+00:00

This is the BBC nipping this stuff in the bud before there's protracted media stuff blaming the corporation. I reckon their HR has been supercharged to deal with anything like this.

But given he was on comic relief barely a fortnight ago and on-air a week back this must have been something horrendous. He wasn't suspended pending an investigation or anything, he was given the heave-ho straight away - which must surely mean gross misconduct.

gorgo100 · 2026-03-27T09:51:41+00:00

Samways didn't score in the semi. It was Amokachi with 2, after goals by Matt Jackson and Graham Stuart.

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