Greens aren’t Left-wing enough for alliance, says Corbyn
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/31/greens-not-left-wing-enough-for-corbyn-alliance/
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Greens aren’t Left-wing enough for alliance, says Corbyn
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/31/greens-not-left-wing-enough-for-corbyn-alliance/
Posted by Half_A_
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Jezza, you’re going to have to compromise and work with others at some point
And this is the problem with the British left right here. Sectarianism, refusal to work with anyone who isn’t pure enough and then you wondered why it’s so fractured that Reform win the election on 30% of the electorate.
The problem with Corbyn wasn’t that people didn’t like left-wing policies – it’s just that he’s shown time and time again that he was never the one to implement them.
Greens aren’t left wing enough? Damn, guess we need Stalin levels of evil to appease Corbs, eh?
I know corbyn is a tankie, but dude is looking a bit more unhinged.
He didn’t join the Greens because he saw them as liberals. We all knew this. Now he’s confirmed it.
Lefties have once again been caught out. Corbyn is a classic Labour person, he’s machine politics through and through. He doesn’t do open debate and holding hands. It’s his way or the highway.
In 2017, Labour under Corbyn refused to do deals with the Greens, even after Greens stood down candidates in many places.
In 2019, the Lib Dems, Greens and Plaid came together for a remain alliance and urged Corbyn to join to stop the tories. What did Labour under Corbyn do? Turn them down.
It’s going to be exactly the same situation here.
It’s the Farage assistance group as Neil Kinnock said.
Same problem in America, the left will always try and eat itself
Classic Corbyn. Ideological purity over electoral viability.
Left of the Greens is certainly a position that I’m sure is going to get them a big majority in the next election…..
This is why I can’t stand the guy. Pious wanker that would rather watch the country burn than compromise even slightly on his politics.
Twat. Just fuck off.
>Jeremy Corbyn has ruled out an alliance between his new political party and the Greens.
>The independent MP claimed the Green party was locked in an “eternal, riven debate” over what they stood for and suggested the party was not Left-wing enough to formally join forces with.
>However, the former leader of the Labour Party said he would be willing to work with the Greens on specific issues.
>[Mr Corbyn’s decision to launch Your Party](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/07/26/jeremy-corbyn-my-party-might-be-called-your-party/) – a temporary, placeholder name – [with fellow former Labour MP Zarah Sultana](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/23/jeremy-corbyn-hard-left-party-vote/) has ignited calls from some campaigners to unite the Left of British politics.
>But Mr Corbyn told the commentator Owen Jones in an interview posted on YouTube that “we’re not forming an alliance” with the Greens.
>He said: “Would we work with them? Yes, on issues. Generally we would agree on environmental issues, we would agree on social justice issues.
>“They are not a socialist organisation and they seem to me into an eternal, riven debate between trying to appeal to a sort of semi-conservative voting suburban electorate as opposed to a committed, environmentally conscious electorate.
>“So yes, we work with them in Parliament and yes, we would co-operate, but we’re not forming an alliance with them.
>“They don’t want to form an alliance with us. But we do recognise each other’s positions and I think we will come to some good positions and good agreements in the future.”
There is a genuine rift in the Greens right now between the very left wing, generally young urban voting bloc and the more environmentally focused, generally older rural voters. Basically it’s the “Eat the Rich” vs the “Protect the Village Green” wings of the party. The current leadership election is basically between those two branches and yeah tbf the “Protect the Village Green” Greens probably aren’t compatible enough with *newparty-v2-final-v3.doc* for any formal Alliance at this stage.
Oh good I see this sub is back to posting every Telegraph headline of Corbyn’s quotes taken out of context and then having a bunch of Adjective_NounNumber accounts play dumb and pretend it’s worth talking about or is some huge indictment of his political position.
Here’s the actual quote:
> We’re not forming an alliance [with the Greens]. Would we work with them? Yes, on issues. Generally we would agree on environmental issues, we would agree on social justice issues.
> They are not a socialist organisation and they seem to me into an eternal, riven debate between trying to appeal to a sort of semi-conservative voting suburban electorate as opposed to a committed, environmentally conscious electorate.
> So yes, we work with them in Parliament and yes, we would co-operate, but we’re not forming an alliance with them. They don’t want to form an alliance with us. But we do recognise each other’s positions and I think we will come to some good positions and good agreements in the future.
Nothing he’s said here is anything but obvious common sense but we have to deal with people pretending it’s some crazy statement from a lunatic lefty.
A coalition of the smaller parties is the way, it’s all well and grand saying “400k signed up!” But when it comes to actual paying membership it won’t even be close to that.
Compromise on ideologies to stand a better chance of majority
hahahaha, that’s hilarious, Corbyn just isn’t up to being a national leader
Starting to really hate Corbyn after all this new party talk. They’ve barely even properly started and the number of ways they’ve opened themselves to criticism and attack from all angles doesn’t bode well. He should’ve waited till Polanski became leader, joined the greens and MADE it the left wing party. Instead this makes it look like he’s just an old man desperate for control.
It’s a shame because he does seem like one of the few politicians who actually care, but it’s absolutely time for him to retire imo
I was listening to an interview with a former New Labour minister (I can’t remember which, but they came over as very sensible) who despairingly remembered their time as a local candidate or activist in a more left leaning local Labour Party. When they were planning the leaflets for an upcoming election there was a concern raised “I don’t think we can include [major local issue] on the leaflet, because then we won’t have enough space to discuss the situation in Guatemala…”
This story is the Old Left in a microcosm.
A man whose current parliamentary allies are essentially Johnsonite Tories with Palestinian flags, is in no position to lecture anyone about not being left-wing enough.
The direction of the country is going right, you’re gonna have to compromise and work with people.
He’s a provocateur, not someone who actually wants meaningful influence. He’s happiest complaining from the sides.
Can’t believe we got shown up by the French left again. GG lads, see you at the Reform migrant lynchings
Greens arent left wing enough but he has no problem working with the socially conservative sectarian mps.
‘The right look for converts while the left look for traitors’
What? Greens are as left as it gets. What is this man smoking?
Good. I want the Greens to be a party of power, not a party of protest.
What is the point of the man when he doesn’t really want the power to change lives, just to point the finger at others for not changing lives quickly enough. It’s alright having ideological concerns about the EU, but I’d quite like their worker protections, please. He could have spoken decisively before the referendum and therefore helped leave us here. He shares the blame, regardless of his equivocation.
Extreme views on either side will only ever appeal to a small minority of voters. He’ll scrape the lefties from Labour, LibDems and Greens and we’ll end up with Reform or a Reform / Tory coalition.
If the new party can actually field candidates in every constituency and have a sensible fully costed manifesto, I can honestly see them doing well. The Tories have no chance, Labour have proved they have no clue what they are doing, the Greens and Lib Dems have no chance. The racists among us will vote Reform no matter what but a lot of people just want a viable alternative and maybe this can be it.
The Greens could have been an alternative, and last time out I’d have voted Green if they’d put a candidate up, in my constituency the only choices were Tory, Labour, Reform, Lib Dem and some racist independent. I voted Labour to kick the Tories out but I hate Starmer and what the party is doing right now.
I know it’s the Telegraph, but it seems like 95% of people commenting here haven’t even opened the article.
No one read the full quote from a Telegraph article about Corbyn in these comments and it shows
Left and right wing is meaningless. People just want a government who actually does something that makes their lives better. They’re tired of paying more and more tax for shitter and shitter public services, they’re sick of the cost of everything going up. Why doesn’t someone start there?
They don’t need to combine the parties. All that needs to happen is the greens drop their candidates in some seats and vice versa. What’s the point running in Waveney Valley etc when Your Party can’t win.
If it came to the crunch in a general election, that he would need to join an alliance with the greens to defeat Reform or a Reform/Conservative alliance, but put the party first over the needs of the country and didnt, he’d be as low as Nick Clegg was when he joined the Tory government in 2010.
And that’s pretty fucking low.
I want to see how far Corbyn can go on his own without alliances. Clearly there is an appetite for a truly left wing party with very clear values. People totally laughed at Reform having any possibility of success and now they’re set to be the government.
A Reform vs Corybn as the two main party scenario would be very interesting
We’re not the Judean people’s front, we’re the people’s front of Judea
I watched the Owen Jones interview they’ve made this article from, he said largely something like:
“I respect the Green Party and thier Leader, and we would like to work with them, however thier focus is not entirely on [the issues your party represents] and they get tied in a lot of [nimby stuff]. I’m not even sure they would would want to work with us”
Anyone commenting on this thread just having read the headline as a “We will not work with them full stop” should watch the interview
Please read the actual article and don’t get headline baited by the torygraph.
Finally more factional splits on the left! Being right is better than having power any way
Whats it going to be, “The Your Party” or “Jezbollah”?
This is nonsense though. The Green manifesto was way more batshit than anything Corbyn could come up with? It was basically internationalist eco-communism.
Yes, but there are voices in the party trying to move it left. An alliance would help with that.
They’re the People’s Front of Corbyn, not the Corbyn People’s Front!
I wonder why he didn’t win an election with Labour. Must’ve been that pesky factionalism
The Telegraph are just being divisive. Ignore them.
Further proof he’s not out to want to be in government or suitable for it