Owen Jones and Comrades Descend Into Infighting Over Corbyn Party Name – Guido Fawkes

Owen Jones and Comrades Descend Into Infighting Over Corbyn Party Name

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Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s as-of-yet-unnamed political party is solving its branding problem by asking the internet to come up with a few suggestions, and the far left have spent the afternoon bickering over it. Who could’ve seen that coming?

Owen Jones put forward his 8-point pitch for ‘the People’s Party’ this afternoon on X:

I think the ‘People’s Party’:

1) The ‘Workers’ Party’ is already taken.

2) It brings together the working class and many people who’d consider themselves middle class, who are now struggling.

3) It’s the ‘People vs. the Elite’.

4) The problem with the ‘Left Party’ is that… https://t.co/1I1VvdydYK

— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) August 26, 2025

Unfortunately this proposal did not sit well with Jones’ online comrades, who went back and forth over the definition of ‘people’, ‘working class’, and the ‘left’. At least Abi Wilkinson showed some solidarity. Eventually Jones was defending himself from accusations of ‘dishonesty’ for “pretending we aren’t what we are”…

How is dishonest? The party does need to be a coalition of not just self-identifying working class people. It needs to include e.g. self-employed people, people in professional jobs who don’t see themselves as working-class or who aren’t in a Marxist sense.

— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) August 26, 2025

If even the name causes this much squabbling, imagine what the next few years will look like. For what it’s worth, Owen’s suggestion is the most popular with Brits (23%), according to YouGov… unless you count ‘don’t know’, which scored 54%. The ‘Don’t Know’ Party does have a ring to it…