FFS, doesn't he realise that these words have been dead since Obama killed them in 2008? Full statement fwiw:

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https://nitter.poast.org/jeremycorbyn/status/1941111160130187547#m

Real change is coming.

One year on from the election, this Labour government has refused to deliver the change people expected and deserved. Poverty, inequality and war are not inevitable. Our country needs to change direction, now.

Congratulations to Zarah Sultana on her principled decision to leave the Labour Party. I am delighted that she will help us build a real alternative.

The democratic foundations of a new kind of political party will soon take shape. Discussions are ongoing – and I am excited to work alongside all communities to fight for the future people deserve.

Together, we can create something that is desperately missing from our broken political system: hope.'

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'on her principled decision to leave the Labour party' - unlike you getting unceremoniously ejected despite begging them not to, lol.

'discussions are ongoing' - hate to say it, but this sounds to me like the Times hack is right and Corbyn got blindsided by the announcement. Good for Sultana if she has some guts and better political instincts than the ever-timid, procedural, apologetic Corbyn.

'I am excited to work alongside all communities' - including the right-wingers and zionists like last time? He hasn't learned a thing, and Hale has already drunk the kool aid.

I'll admit the outside chance that this could be a positive development for this country, maybe even for the palestinians. But I won't be holding my breath, and certainly not putting loads of energy into the project, given how it went the last time. Arguably, giving people 'hope' and getting them invested in reform through the ballot box yet again is exactly what the establishment needs at this point. That way all the potential revolutionary energy that's floating around can get safely mopped up by the faragists on one hand and the corbynists on the other, and the well-honed machinations of Westminster & the media, and/or the personal failings of politicians on both sides can be leveraged to ensure that neither gets access to any real decision-making power about policy. Meanwhile we in the general population can all continue to gnash our teeth on the sidelines, unrepresented, ignored or abused as usual.

Or... not.

cheers,
I