Corbyn announces separate ‘eve of conference rally’ after Sultana announced hers

Jeremy Corbyn has announced an ‘eve of conference’ rally to take place in Liverpool from 7-8.30pm on Friday evening next week, the night before the new ‘Your Party’s (YP) conference kicks off in the city.

The announcement comes two days after notional interim ‘co-leader’ Zarah Sultana announced her ‘eve of conference rally’, starting at 8pm, three quarters of a mile away:

YP supporters will be forced to choose between the two supposed co-leaders, after a week of yet more hostile briefings by each camp against the other’s figurehead, instead of a joint event depicting unity, if not personal then at least of purpose before the party’s founding conference.

Skwawkbox wrote two months ago that both Corbyn and Sultana risk destroying their own legacies by allowing those around them to continue the inept, amateurish and utterly avoidable factional farce and open warfare that have blighted YP’s launch, to the disgust of its support base — from the second word of it was breathed. Those fears were partly — only partly — allayed by the pair’s joint appearance in Liverpool last month, but the renewed swipes and smears leaked to hostile media, along with the arguments and threats over finance, quickly took any shine off that.

Now this. With a nation desperate for real change and for leadership that is not up its own backside or the arses of billionaires and racists, there really can be no excuse.

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