Messy, combative and intoxicatingly fierce don't write off Your Party just yet | Andy Beckett

"Ever since its chaotic launch in July, Your Party has been seen by many voters and journalists when they have noticed it at all as a step-by-step demonstration of the futility of leftwing politics. Through ideological disagreements, disorganisation and delays, domineering personalities and disputes over leadership structure, management of funds and membership data, Your Party has seemingly squandered the opportunity offered by Labour's rightward shift and record unpopularity."

"It's not every day that Jeremy Corbyn and some of his closest comrades are described as the right in a political argument. But I first heard them given that potentially lethal label for socialists, at least shortly after arriving at Your Party's acrimonious founding conference in Liverpool last Sunday. The young man who used the words did not seem to be one of the hardbitten leftwing fanatics who had taken over the party, according to most of the press."

"Yet could it be premature and simplistic to see the Your Party saga this way? One lesson of British and wider western politics over the past decade, still insufficiently learned by mainstream parties and commentators, is that rebellions should not be written off, even when they seem to be failing or contained. In discontented times, with conventional politics widely disliked and increasingly discr"

At the founding conference in Liverpool a young attendee labelled Jeremy Corbyn and his allies as the right in a political argument. Your Party launched chaotically in July and has been seen by many as a demonstration of the futility of leftwing politics. Ideological disagreements, disorganisation, delays, domineering personalities and disputes over leadership structure, management of funds and membership data have undermined early prospects. Many leftwing voters and activists now prefer Zack Polanski's radicalised Green party. Your Party faces prospects of quick or lingering death amid visible onstage rows and open factional divisions. Rebellions should not be written off in discontented times.

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