Bix Harborne & the Greens:
Beyond the disorganised formation of Your Party, its should-have-been breakthrough messaging campaign felt like air out of a balloon. Beyond a couple of classic Corbyn TikToks, their attempts to move the political dial were hardly present. When asking many of my peers about it, often the response followed the lines of: “My party, what do you mean ‘my party?’ Who is my party? Oh, you mean YOUR PARTY!” Much of the political crowd they exist for barely know they exist, let alone what they stand for.
This is where the Greens have surpassed them. Following his leadership victory, Polanski embarked on an effective communications campaign across social and traditional media, from snappy TikToks at Clacton-on-Sea to longform interviews with Sky News and Politics Joe.
Standing up for Palestine, condemning the appeasement of Trump, calling out immigration as a lie, fighting Farage, not mimicking him – this was music to the ears of the left and the traditional student base. The Greens represent vocality and action, aware that holding these ideas is not enough. You must shout them atop a shoe box in the town centre.
It finally feels like we have a party that intends to meaningfully direct the blend of moral and political concerns of students, and in general the left, into directional politics and actionable policies, something absent from Your Party.
Ross Doran & Your Party:
These past few weeks have been yet another dreary tale of leftist infighting. The right’s typical tubthumpers have hollered gleefully from the sidelines, while those on the left have slunk back into yet another bout of mourning at our own strategic impotence. Those who ought to lead us, have collapsed into a meaningless spat over membership sign-ups.
Many who eagerly anticipated the rise of Your Party have since jumped ship, running into the cosy embrace of Zack Polanski’s Greens.
Although Polanski is fresh, exciting, and dynamic, those among us who are Guardian-reading, tote bag-wielding members of the woke mob, must remember that, to achieve electoral success, any leftist party needs to make significant inroads into Labour’s old base. The left without Doncaster, Hartlepool or Runcorn, is a paper tiger of vapid conscience cleansing, and empty overtures that will ultimately be sacrificed on the altar of middle England. Sadly, the Greens still smack of middle-class condescension.
While Unite ponders disaffiliating with Labour, it is worth pondering who might win over organised labour. Your Party is not exactly proletarian; however, Corbyn has some credibility with the Labour and trade union left, which may prove decisive for winning back the disaffected working-class vote. Of course, this is just speculation, but it is crucial: whoever wins the support of organised labour is the left’s only hope.
Illustration by Anna O’Gara @ansoctopus
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Bix Harborne & the Greens:
Beyond the disorganised formation of Your Party, its should-have-been breakthrough messaging campaign felt like air out of a balloon. Beyond a couple of classic Corbyn TikToks, their attempts to move the political dial were hardly present. When asking many of my peers about it, often the response followed the lines of: “My party, what do you mean ‘my party?’ Who is my party? Oh, you mean YOUR PARTY!” Much of the political crowd they exist for barely know they exist, let alone what they stand for.
This is where the Greens have surpassed them. Following his leadership victory, Polanski embarked on an effective communications campaign across social and traditional media, from snappy TikToks at Clacton-on-Sea to longform interviews with Sky News and Politics Joe.
Standing up for Palestine, condemning the appeasement of Trump, calling out immigration as a lie, fighting Farage, not mimicking him – this was music to the ears of the left and the traditional student base. The Greens represent vocality and action, aware that holding these ideas is not enough. You must shout them atop a shoe box in the town centre.
It finally feels like we have a party that intends to meaningfully direct the blend of moral and political concerns of students, and in general the left, into directional politics and actionable policies, something absent from Your Party.
Ross Doran & Your Party:
These past few weeks have been yet another dreary tale of leftist infighting. The right’s typical tubthumpers have hollered gleefully from the sidelines, while those on the left have slunk back into yet another bout of mourning at our own strategic impotence. Those who ought to lead us, have collapsed into a meaningless spat over membership sign-ups.
Many who eagerly anticipated the rise of Your Party have since jumped ship, running into the cosy embrace of Zack Polanski’s Greens.
Although Polanski is fresh, exciting, and dynamic, those among us who are Guardian-reading, tote bag-wielding members of the woke mob, must remember that, to achieve electoral success, any leftist party needs to make significant inroads into Labour’s old base. The left without Doncaster, Hartlepool or Runcorn, is a paper tiger of vapid conscience cleansing, and empty overtures that will ultimately be sacrificed on the altar of middle England. Sadly, the Greens still smack of middle-class condescension.
While Unite ponders disaffiliating with Labour, it is worth pondering who might win over organised labour. Your Party is not exactly proletarian; however, Corbyn has some credibility with the Labour and trade union left, which may prove decisive for winning back the disaffected working-class vote. Of course, this is just speculation, but it is crucial: whoever wins the support of organised labour is the left’s only hope.
Illustration by Anna O’Gara @ansoctopus
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