Author: Miles Donavan

‘He’s too busy showing off and making money.’ Nigel Farage is cashing in on £140,000 from personalised Cameo videos, sparking anger among constituents who say they’ve barely seen him in Clacton. The Reform leader has made £141,778 from recording as many as 2,000 Cameo videos since last December. Farage’s personalised clips average 39 seconds in length, with prices starting at £71.17 for individual messages and rising to £3,752.84 for business videos. Farage has earned over £1.3 million since he became an MP in July 2024. He still doesn’t run constituency surgeries, citing fears Clacton residents will “flow through doors with…

Farage’s headaches continue… Nigel Farage’s headaches are continuing as support for Reform falls in the polls, bursting the party’s bubble, and it’s more than just a one-off blip. Several major pollsters have found support for Reform to be falling towards the end of the year, with the recent scandals that the party has been hit by, whether that’s its former leader in Wales being jailed for taking Russian bribes, or councillors suspended for posting racist messages, having had an effect on their poll ratings. According to the latest YouGov poll, Farage’s party have fallen to their lowest polling level in…

It wasn’t a chilled affair… It’s unlikely that many people were expecting the founding conference of Your Party to be a chilled affair. But if they were, they’d have been bitterly disappointed, as Left Foot Forward learnt reporting on the ground and from the conference hall. It was at times a somewhat chaotic with public spats, open divisions and controversies rife throughout. It did end on a firmly uninteresting note though, as Jeremy Corbyn announced that members had voted for the party’s name to remain ‘Your Party’. But that was a rare moment of stability at a conference that appeared for much…

‘This was a project with huge potential which to a large degree has been trashed’ Leading left wing journalist Owen Jones has branded Your Party’s beginnings as a ‘clusterf*ck’, and compared it to the infamous and disastrous Fyre Festival. He made the comments in an interview with Left Foot Forward at the party’s founding conference in Liverpool. Your Party’s (that is now its official name) founding conference was beset with infighting, divisions and public spats. One of its own MPs Zarah Sultana decided to boycott the first day of the conference, claiming that a ‘witch-hunt’ had been carried out within…

Members voted to keep the name Members of Your Party have voted to retain the name ‘Your Party’. This comes after over 2,000 party members attended the party’s founding conference in Liverpool. ‘Your Party’ was initially intended as a holding name for the party until members had voted on a new one. Four options were put to members – Your Party, Our Party, For the Many and Popular Alliance. Along with deciding the party’s name, party members also this weekend voted on it’s democratic processes and its core political vision. Key votes saw the party adopt a ‘collective leadership’ model,…

She didn’t pull any punches Anyone who hoped Zarah Sultana might strike a conciliatory tone in her speech to Your Party’s founding conference will be bitterly disappointed. After a weekend of intense divisions and disagreements among the leading figures of the fledgling party, Sultana used her speech to hit out against those she described as ‘nameless, faceless bureaucrats’ in the organisation. She told attendees at the conference that the events over the weekend which saw some members of the Socialist Workers Party expelled from Your Party were “undemocratic”, and an “attack on members and this movement”. She went on to…

The President has insisted he could end the war in a single day, an assertion that has fuelled scepticism. Another deadly Russian barrage of missiles and drones struck Kyiv this week, killing at least seven people and injuring 20 more. The attack came as the Trump administration sought to maintain diplomatic momentum behind its efforts to end the nearly four-year-old war. American and Russian officials met on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi, to discuss a proposed peace deal. The plan, which initially heavily favoured Russia, was revised and streamlined during talks between Ukraine and the Trump administration over the weekend. President…

Like clockwork, headlines warn that festive traditions are under siege and, each year, the claims grow more ludicrous. It’s that time of the year again, when ‘Christmas cancelled’ outrage makes its way onto the pages of the right-wing press. Like clockwork, headlines warn that festive traditions are under siege and each year, the claims grow more ludicrous, as commentators try to spin any gesture toward inclusivity or administrative practicality into an assault on “traditional values.” Here are some of the week’s best (or worst) examples. “BBC Bargain Hunt star rages at ‘woke Christmas cancel culture’” – the Express This week,…

He also said voters were no longer ‘chained like mental slavery’ Your Party members are gathering in Liverpool this weekend for the party’s founding conference. Alongside debating and agreeing various constitutional and democratic processes, attendees heard from the four MPs who are also members of the party. Shockat Adam is one of those MPs, and he addressed the main hall on Sunday morning. In his speech, he accused ‘mainstream parties’ of ‘colonising’ people’s minds and that and voters were no longer ‘chained to mainstream parties’ like ‘mental slavery’. In referring to the small number of independent MPs elected to parliament…

The decision was a massive win for Zarah Sultana Your Party members have voted to adopt a ‘collective leadership’ model rather than a single leader. In an eye-wateringly narrow vote, 51.6 per cent of Your Party members backed the collective leadership model. This will see members elect a Central Executive Committee(CEC), with the party’s “Chair, Vice Chair, and Spokesperson in particular serving as the public political leadership”. The decision is a major victory for Zarah Sultana and her allies who have been advocating fiercely for this model. By contrast, Jeremy Corbyn had made clear his support for a single leader.…