When Karl Marx wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon that “history repeats itself – first as tragedy, then as farce,” he was diagnosing a recurring human delusion: the belief that outdated, defeated ideologies can be resurrected simply by repackaging them. Observers of the inaugural Your Party conference in Liverpool would have found that Marx’s maxim still resonates today. In this case, however, even “farce” feels too generous. What unfurled in Liverpool was something closer to a political pantomime – one that illustrated, with painful clarity, how out of touch Britain’s far-left ecosystem has become from both mainstream political reality and working-class priorities.

Your Party, the newest experiment on Britain’s fractured left, is the brainchild of two very different political figures who abandoned the Labour Party for opposite reasons. Jeremy Corbyn, the old-style socialist whose 2019 election defeat marked the end of Labour’s decades-long internal civil war over socialism, left after being denied a return to the party fold. Zarah Sultana, by contrast, walked out because Labour was not embracing the radical progressive agenda she champions – from unrestricted migration to aggressive transgender activism. Together they launched a new party attempting to merge two ideologies that have already been rejected by the British electorate: Corbynite socialism and woke progressivism.

The idea of fusing traditional state-driven socialism with ultra-progressive cultural politics was always destined to collapse under its own contradictions. One ideology seeks centralised economic planning and state ownership; the other revolves around identity politics, moral absolutism, and the policing of social norms. Nevertheless, Corbyn and Sultana pressed forward, gambling that disillusioned working-class voters – the same voters who abandoned Labour to elect Boris Johnson, and later flocked to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK – could be persuaded to embrace a platform even further to the left than Labour’s most radical era.

Their gamble failed before it even began.

The Liverpool conference drew 2,500 attendees, many from niche activist groups and fringe leftist sects, but few representing any recognizable part of the British working class. What followed was a public clash between........

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