Mick Hartley

Finally we see the contradictions inherent in the system. The hard left-Islamist alliance system, that is. The alliance that’s been making all the noises recently over Gaza and Zionism has hit the inevitable road block: the trans issue. Oh dear.

From the Telegraph:

Zarah Sultana was heckled at Your Party’s founding conference over the transgender row that has split the new hard-Left movement.

The MP for Coventry South was interrupted by Robert Carter, a journalist and Muslim convert, over her condemnation of “socially conservative” Muslims for their views on gender.

Leading up to the launch of Your Party last weekend, Ms Sultana had repeatedly clashed with Adnan Hussain, the independent MP, over trans issues.

Mr Hussain, who quit Your Party last month, had insisted trans women were “not biologically women”, prompting Ms Sultana to accuse him of “bigotry”.

Iqbal Mohamed, who left the party a week after Mr Hussain, had also expressed gender-critical views and said his exit was driven by a “toxic” culture towards Muslim men.

And where’s poor Jeremy Corbyn in all this? He’ll be the one quietly sneaking out of the side door. Finally, incredibly, Corbyn is looking like the only sane one in a room full of shouting idiots. He must be wishing he’d never met Zarah Sultana, never mind starting a party with her.

Added: David Rose at the JC:

The day after Your Party’s underwhelming inaugural conference in Liverpool, I spoke to a longstanding ally of Jeremy Corbyn. I asked him what he made of the strange birth of revolutionary England as envisioned by the MP Zarah Sultana in her speech, with its promise to nationalise not just the banks, public transport and energy firms but “the entire economy”.

He was unimpressed. “Not even Albania when it was led by Enver Hoxha, the USSR under Stalin or Mao Zedong’s China nationalised everything,” he pointed out. “She’s like a student who’s just discovered Marxism but hasn’t learnt the catechism, only a few key phrases.”

The more conspiratorially-inclined of Your Party’s members, he said, were so bewildered by Sultana’s antics since the new grouping was launched six months ago that they were tempted to think she was wrecking its prospects deliberately.

Of course, he added, there was no evidence to support this view. He was forced to conclude she simply possessed both terrible judgement and boundless personal ambition, a dangerous combination: “She desperately wants to be a leader. Unfortunately, the damage she’s done means there isn’t very much left to lead.”