As the results livestream was delayed, voters lamented: ‘Is it too much to ask for competence as well as democracy?’
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tart as you mean to go on. Your Party has had a fair few ups and downs in its short lifespan. Some might call it chaos. Its two most prominent members, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, seem barely able to stand being in the same room as each other. Allegations of financial misconduct over membership fees and donations. A party conference which Sultana refused to attend on the first day. Accusations of corruption and sexism. A boys’ club.
The briefings and counter-briefings from the two factions never let up. Its hatreds seemed to be what gave Corbyn and Sultana a sense of purpose. A reminder that the left often prefers to pick a fight with other groups on the left rather than the rightwing parties. A misplaced Marxist dialectic or some other thought crime of false consciousness seemingly far worse than threatening to deport hundreds of thousands of foreigners.
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.
