‘Your Party’ assembly at The Cornish Bank. (Photo credits: Jasmine Rossiter)
Jeremy Corbyn was welcomed to The Cornish Bank on Saturday the 1st of November, to promote the beginnings of his new left wing party, Your Party.
Your Party, steered by Corbyn and Zarah Sultana is an extreme left wing party that aims to create a fairer and more democratic society.
Corbyn recently hosted an assembly at The Cornish Bank In Falmouth, where he was joined by trade unionists and community campaigners, as well as former Labour candidate for Falmouth & Truro, Jennifer Forbes who now aligns herself with Your Party.
He told the audience, “You begin to change the whole agenda, you take the scales from peoples eyes, you open up their minds to what we can do in the future.”
They then led a public rally at King Charles the Martyr Church after the assembly.
Reporter, Scarlett Jeffries, attended the rally where she listened in on discussions about the plans to fix the housing crisis, Palestinian action and other plans and drafts they are deciding on. There was also a Q&A where members of the public where able to question Corbyn.
Attendees at the ‘Your Party’ assembly (Photo credits: Scarlett Jeffries)
Corbyn passionately spoke to the room filled with curious Cornish Locals, “Your housing problem is not caused by the people that Nigel Farage is blaming coming in on boats from Calle, but by people making money outside of the public sector. Those that are not building the council homes that we need, those that are not controlling the private rented sector.”
Corbyn then proceeded to speak on the huge crisis in Cornwall, “There are twenty two thousand people in Cornwall on the housing waiting list, the number of children living in poverty has gone up by fifty thousand in the past fifty year, 20% of children in working Cornish households are living in poverty. That’s working households, still living in poverty. It is the demands we put forwards as a party to end inequality and injustice in our society.”
Corbyn proceeded to speak strongly on the topic of Palestine, demanding that there be a change in the attitude to aiding Palestinians and their plans for it.
Jon Stowell, a Falmouth Green Party Councillor, kindly allowed me to speak to him on his thoughts on the New left wing party.
Jon thoughtfully spoke about his positive but wary opinion on Your Party’s plans, “I’m cautiously optimistic, it is necessary to have a true socialist movement. I think your party is necessary, some of the figures tin that party have very strong connections to trade unions who have been massively underrepresented in recent labour governments. its going to be a big part of your party platforming, how they utilise their relationship with the trade unions.”
Jon then spoke about his thoughts on whether Your Party has focused on any environmental issues which is a large policy in the Green Party, “I haven’t seen anything demonstrated from your Party that they’re environmentally committed, but do I have faith in the membership to make that the case, I suppose I do.”
“I think your party and Green Party may end up working together, it will be a lot determined on how we work together on policy, to carry people with us into that greener more just future.”
Finally, I spoke to a Cornish Local Willian John, who is an avid supporter of Green Party.
He spoke to me about his thoughts on the recent campaign of Your Party and their start to creating a Party that caters to the general public.
“The greens are trying to make it more affordable to live in the country, they’re aiming to abolish private landlords, freeze rent increases. They’re trying to give average people more rights when it comes to living day to day. Your Party is wanting to do the same thing, but they cant stop bickering between themselves to actually get it done.”
“Reform and the Tories on the other hand are trying to strip us of our rights they’re putting on a front saying they’re all about immigration, but people don’t realise they want to leave the European court of human rights so that they can rinse us of what little money we have. People are worried about the million and billionaires, but it’s hard to care about them when they’re screwing us over everyday.” says Cornish Local, William John.