Nothing wrong with DNF-ing. If a book doesn’t suit you, move on. If I watch a tv show that everyone raves about I give it a maximum of 3 episodes and then move on if I don’t like it (eg. Andor Season 2). Not for me at this point and maybe come back some point in the future. Same with books. If a book hasn’t held my interest in 30ish pages I put it aside for something that will. Sometimes I go back. Too many books and too little life to spend time fretting.

To counter that: we need to stay in NATO and fulfil our commitment to increasing spending on the military and nuclear weapons to 5% of GDP. That’s something like £140-150 billion a year. A massive increase that everyone important says we need because war is coming. What’s more we need to further cut services, spending on education and NHS, social security and increase taxes. Why? War is coming. We can’t have the threat of China and Russia driving tanks, sailing boats and submarines all the way to our little country, can we? Do we want to live in Little Beijing-on-the-Thames or St Petersberg-on-Tyne or what?

Until Your Party nails down some policies it’s only a coalition of well-intentioned individuals. Nothing wrong with that but they could probably win the same sort of support by forming a broad popular front with the Greens, current Labour local branches and even some Lib Dems. With the rise of Reform and the fascist far-right it may even need that. Why, after all these wranglings, fallings out and rallies, they haven’t issues a short statement of fundamental beliefs, I don’t know.

I wanted to do the same so I used an AI to help me write a python script that does that and publishes a static site. It was really useful and introduced me to Jinja2 in the process.

I watched Jones’ report and Michael Gove of all people there was the person who seemed to speak to Jones without running away!

That politicians on the left are quick to announce that they will use the bourgeois courts on each other is pretty dispiriting.

My (irrational) feeling about this is that there’s more going on than just what we’re seeing. And I’m pretty sure some of it involves state intelligence operatives.

One of the big issues is that some of those involved in the discussions wouldn’t call themselves socialists in any way and are aligned through support for Gaza. I guess Corbyn is trying to win them over and there are those looking at the rise of the far right and starting to realise they need to get a move on.

Yes, even the concessionary membership was £2.50 a month. If Your Party wants support from the poorest then they need to make it voluntary as you say. Even the old Labour Party charged on £1 for unemployed members.

Thanks. I have already looked at this and tried out some of the links. I couldn’t see a solution - but I’ll take another look. Thank you.

I’m not so sure. It was a pretty reactionary period in Britain with harsh laws that prevented assemblies of more than 50 people, anti-union activities and a serious curtailment of freedoms that were put into law (The Treasonable Practices Act (1795), The Combinations Acts (1795-1800) and the suspension of Habeas Corpus (1798-1801). Anyone considered radical was rounded up and threatened - sometimes physically. Even poor old William Blake was arrested.

Wasn’t it an imprisonable offence for anyone to voice favourable opinions about the French Revolution or be in possession of republican literature at the end of the 19th Century in UK?

Really not surprised. Let’s be honest, any left group that genuinely posed a threat to the current status quo in UK would be infiltrated and destroyed from the inside. Call me paranoid but I wouldn’t join a party these days because there’s a strong chance I’d be the only non-undercover police in the room.

Sorry just adding these. Worth reading (critically, of course, taking account of who is writing) - but they all say similar things:

https://prometheusjournal.org/2025/09/09/whose-party-is-it-anyway/

https://prometheusjournal.org/2025/07/10/leaders-who-dont-lead/

https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/authors/carla-roberts/

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/power-struggles-inside-founding-jeremy-corbyns-new-party

Craig Murray has written recently about it:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/09/its-your-party-and-ill-cry-if-i-want-to/

The sums being invested in the drive to war are grotesque. There’s a difference between making sure the UK is properly defended and the £150 billion+ a year the UK is moving to commit to spending on weapons of mass destruction with little enlargement of the actual armed forces. The drumbeat of war causes only hysteria and it’s very hard to discern the difference between fact and fiction.

I’m skeptical about the reality of the “democratic” nature of the organisation. According to reports, the meetings held by Your Party have been pretty much word-of-mouth invite-only rather than open to all supporters. The people running the various organising committees have been selected by the controlling factions of Your Party. The attendees of the founding conference will be chosen by “lottery” rather than elected by local groups and organisations. I understand the need to protect Your Party from infiltration but this isn’t the way.

Agree with Navidrome. Works great in browser and the Substreamer ios app.

Definitely. Most of the time communities are friendly and supportive - but I’ve noticed too that there are users who seem deliberately scratchy and saying things that are looking to provoke and who become fizzy if they’re challenged in any way about something they’ve said. I wondered if it’s much younger users who are coming from other places having picked up the “fight me” attititude there.

Is this the sort of thing you’re looking for?

https://www.files.gallery/

It’s a php file you drop into a folder that creates a gallery of the files (including pdfs). There are security settings and visual customisations you can change. If you know what you’re doing you can access the file remotely, too. I’ve used it for a while and found it helpful.

It’s great. I’ve been using it for nearly a year and it just works brilliantly.