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Here is a link to a video showing the election results for anyone interested. I was alerted to it by a link in the Guardian, and I must say it's all a bit dull and could have done with a bit more graphics.
There were 25,000 votes cast, a turnout of 61 per cent which hardly suggests a mass membership movement. But then again, I've also thought that the hard left, as it is called, is much smaller than it is made out to be.
Here's a bit more background which reveals a far from happy ship as has been known for some time.
Fruit must be odds on to divorce nut and set up yet another new party within 3 months.
What the hard left need to learn very quickly is this next election is about stopping the far right. Put the delusional fantasies on hold for the greater good.
I will be doing the same. I will vote for any of Labour, Lib Dems, Greens or if by some miracle it came down to it, Your Party. Whichever one is most likely to stop Reform or worse taking the seat.
Thanks for the links, boss. Just read them, while listening to that meeting in Cambridge (what a sh1tshow). I think it's good news that Corbyn seems to have won this particular battle, but coming from a dirty centrist, this may not be a comment he'd appreciate!
Has anyone ever looked at their own postings for last day or so? Oh my... so sorry. Was Ullaa
Your Party results on 14:14 - Feb 26 by giant_stow
Thanks for the links, boss. Just read them, while listening to that meeting in Cambridge (what a sh1tshow). I think it's good news that Corbyn seems to have won this particular battle, but coming from a dirty centrist, this may not be a comment he'd appreciate!
Incredible. Corbyn entirely innocent though obviously and continues to be the unluckiest man in the world.
Oh he’s let his mask completely slip now he’s been thrown out of Labour. Was spreading blood libel conspiracies just this week. He’s completely liberated now.
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I didn't mention that the video was delayed, but I was one of the 1,400 mentioned below waiting for something to happen. I am not and will never be a member but was directed there by a link in the Guardian because I was intrigued. And this from John Crace is very funny.
"But one way or another, Your Party has survived to a point where it has held an election for its 24 leadership posts on its central executive committee. And the results were supposed to be livestreamed on its YouTube channel at 11am on Thursday. Except they weren’t. Because why break the habit of a lifetime? Once you’re addicted to chaos, it rather comes to define everything you do. It’s now part of Your Party’s corporate culture.
Come 11.10 the YouTube channel was still silent. Not a word of apology to those who had tuned in. No hint of when the announcement might be forthcoming. The 1,400 or so Your Party members who had been waiting online started to look for other ways to amuse themselves by posting on the comments sidebar. “This is like a Molière farce,” said one. “They are still trying to find ways to disqualify people they don’t like,” said another. No one seemed to have much faith in the voting system.
Ten minutes later someone chipped in with the news that the announcement might be around 11.30. This prompted one person to announce she was going to have a bath. There was only so much excitement she could take. The comments got progressively more dark. We weren’t a long way from despair. “They’ve forgotten the password for the YouTube channel,” said one. “Zarah has smashed the streaming equipment in her ongoing battle against ‘The Man’,” said another. This sounded as likely an explanation as any other.
The howls got louder and louder. “We’ll get the results of the Gorton and Denton byelection before we get our own.” “The voting system is so complex they’ve no idea who has actually won.” “There’s been a punch-up in the studio.”
And through all this came a single lament: “Is it too much to ask for competence as well as democracy?” I’m afraid that ship has long since sailed. Still, no one could complain they hadn’t been given ample warning.
Eventually, shortly after 11.40, the screen came alive to reveal two people apparently on a Zoom call. Andrew Jordan, the returning officer, went first, having chosen to broadcast the news from what appeared to be a cupboard. Or the smallest bedroom imaginable. He said it was a tremendously exciting moment in the history of a mass socialist party, before handing over to Steph Pike, one of the five members of the oversight committee, who had been observing the election process.
Steph started with a disclaimer. The voting system had been nothing to do with her. She didn’t seem particularly thrilled with life. She read out the names of the other members of the oversight committee. Bar one who wanted to remain anonymous. That seemed curiously opaque for a mass participation party. “I opened all 22 postal ballots myself,” she said, before getting bored and switching off her camera.
It almost felt as if we were watching a sketch show. A parody of how Your Party might make this announcement. Only it was happening in real time. We cut back to Andrew. There had been 25,347 votes out of a possible 40,000 verified members. This cut to Your Party’s tragedy. When the idea for a party had been first mooted there had been 800,000 expressions of interest. But people got bored of the inertia and the squabbling and started to look elsewhere, as the Greens under Zack Polanski became a viable force."
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