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Zarah Sultana says she and Corbyn have reconciled and can co-lead new party (www.theguardian.com)

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Zarah sounds similar to Zack Polanski, the Greens leader, with her messaging:

“The truth is, Reform is just another wing of the political establishment,” she said. “Funded by billionaires and aristocrats, fronted by a millionaire stockbroker, an ex-public school boy, Nigel Farage. He is peddling racism to distract us from the real agenda: more privatisation, more deregulation, more handouts for the rich, more cuts for everyone else.”

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Having public arguments is one thing, trying to undermine each other by coup like movements is whole another (and does happen in right quite a lot too). The way they handled their internal conflict was completely incompetent and immature. And this comes from someone who was excited at the prospect of this party. Where they could have instead used their energy for reaching out to the public about dangers of current government and potential reform UK, they now have a lot of reputation and image repairing to do.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 points 21 hours ago

Another way to look at it. Trying to hide their disagreements from the membership was the fault.

Their were 2 sides to the argument. One side from day one seemed to think not informing the public of plans and disagreements was the correct approach. While the other multiple times announced things that side disagreed on.

Both sides seems a little childish. But ah ATM they are not the actual leaders just acting ones. Until the membership decides, and these arguments give the membership great data to make these choices.

Where as if one side had managed to keep both arguments under wraps as the intended. The membership would be totally uninformed about their management styles.