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'Everyone Needs a Slap': WhatsApps Expose Chaos Inside Corbyn’s 'Your Party' as Infighting Rages — Jeremy Corbyn’s nascent political vehicle, ‘Your Party,’ is reportedly on the brink of internal collapse, with leaked WhatsApp messages revealing a state of deep chaos, despair, and bitter in-fighting among its core activists. The confidential messages paint a devastating picture of a group tearing itself apart just months after its formation, with one exasperated activist declaring that “everyone involved needs a slap” to restore order.
The internal communications, obtained by this newspaper, detail a rapid descent into factionalism that mirrors the worst aspects of previous Left-wing splits. Rather than uniting around a common policy agenda, high-level volunteer groups are preoccupied with procedural disputes, personality clashes, and a struggle for influence.
Sources close to the party's organizing committees suggest the central issue stems from a lack of clear leadership structure and defined roles, allowing multiple self-appointed factions to stake claims over strategy and resources. The internal battleground appears to involve long-time loyalists from Mr. Corbyn's previous leadership bid and newer activists keen to establish the party as a modern, distinct political force.
“The level of sheer, unadulterated chaos is unbelievable,” wrote one key organizer in a message thread reviewed by this paper. “We spend 90% of our time arguing about who should chair the next meeting and 10% actually planning the campaign. The energy is gone; it’s just despair now.” Another message highlighted the emotional toll on the volunteers who believed 'Your Party' represented a fresh start for socialist politics. “I joined this party to fight the Tories, not to fight each other. We are doing the opposition’s job for them. We are broken.”
The revelation of internal strife is particularly disheartening for key demographic groups who provided strong backing for Mr. Corbyn’s past campaigns, including many within the British Bangladeshi and wider British South Asian communities. Often drawn to his anti-austerity platform and foreign policy stances, many activists from these communities saw 'Your Party' as a genuine progressive alternative. This current breakdown, however, has led to widespread disillusionment, with reports of key local organizers expressing profound disappointment that internal squabbles are overshadowing the party’s mandate for change.
Mr. Corbyn has publicly maintained a veneer of unity and focused on external campaigning, but the leaked messages indicate that the internal turmoil poses a far greater threat to the party’s long-term viability than any external political challenge. Political analysts suggest that if the in-fighting is not immediately quelled, 'Your Party' risks becoming a short-lived footnote in British political history, defined by internal conflict rather than policy vision.
As of press time, representatives for ‘Your Party’ had not issued a formal statement addressing the content of the leaked communications.
