Zarah Sultana recently compared herself and Jeremy Corbyn to Oasis’s Gallagher brothers, but the way things are going for Your Party a better poptastic comparison might be Mick Fleetwood and Sam Fox.
Ahead of the first of the party’s regional assemblies this weekend, members who joined under Sultana’s slightly previous original system – the one which sparked allegations of fraud before everyone kissed and made up – will have to jump through additional hoops, including showing proof of payment.
Back in September, Sultana and Corbyn appeared to have fallen out after the former launched a website without the other’s sign-off to gather membership fees from more than 20,000 of the party’s initial supporters. She claimed it could have raised £1.1 million.
Corbyn’s allies scrambled to get Sultana to take down her post, and hours later, the former Labour leader used X to urge his supporters to ignore her membership email and cancel any direct debits that had already been set up. As a result, Sultana claimed to have been “effectively frozen out” of Your Party’s social media accounts and that she had “been subjected to what can only be described as a sexist boys’ club”.
Now, with the band back together and the first of the new party’s assemblies set to take place in Norwich this weekend, members who signed up through Sultana’s system must prove they “joined under the previous portal”, according to an email sent to supporters.
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The email, sent on October 14, said: “If you paid a membership fee on the system launched on Thursday, September 18, be assured you are a member and can participate – for the first events you will just need to show proof that you joined under the previous portal.
“We apologise that we have not yet been able to migrate your data across to our system, and appreciate the lack of clarity has been confusing and frustrating for many.
“We want to communicate with you as transparently as possible. The reason is that, unfortunately, we have not received the data of those members from MoU Operations Ltd. We have been doing everything in our power to secure this transfer, and we are still hopeful of receiving it shortly.”
MoU Operations Ltd is a company set up by former Labour mayor of North of Tyne Jamie Driscoll, former member of South Africa’s national assembly Andrew Feinstein and former Labour MP Beth Winter.
At the weekend, Sultana told The World Transformed conference: “Obviously you’ve all seen what’s happened over the past few weeks, but I’m here to tell you the show is back on the road. I know that I’m in Manchester, so I have to reference Liam and Noel Gallagher. If they can do it, of course me and Jeremy can.” The Oasis reunion, of course, took 15 years…
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