Breaking the Chains: Sultana and Corbyn Smash the Two-Party Stitch-Up

One year ago today, millions of voters believed in change. Now they know better…

Today marks exactly one year since Labour’s landslide victory on July 4th, 2024. One year since millions of working people voted for hope over despair, for change over more of the same, for a government that might actually give a damn about ordinary lives.

Has there ever been a political party elevated to office with such soaring expectations that has fallen so spectacularly short? The verdict is in after twelve months of Starmer’s “change”; they are absolutely, catastrophically terrible.

Attacking disabled people. Slashing winter fuel payments. Keeping the two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty. Criminalising protesters while arming genocide. Spending billions on bombs while hitting the welfare bill.

This isn’t the “change” they promised. This isn’t the “hope” they offered. This is why, one year on, millions of people who voted Labour are asking themselves: what the hell have we done?

Enter Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn, who’ve just announced they’re building something different. Something that might actually represent working people instead of corporate donors and Neoliberal Hegemony.

Westminster’s cosy two-party cartel just got a kick in the teeth, and not a moment too soon.

When the system is rigged against working people, sometimes you have to build your own.

The announcement has sent shockwaves through the establishment, and rightly so. This isn’t just another political realignment; it’s a direct challenge to the managed decline that both Labour and the Tories have been serving up for years.

The Conscience Labour Threw Away

Sultana’s journey from Labour rising star to independent rebel tells you everything about what Starmer’s party has become. A year ago, she was suspended for the unforgivable crime of voting to lift 400,000 children out of poverty by abolishing the two-child benefit cap.

“I’d do it again,” she declared, and that’s exactly why Labour can’t stand her. In a Party that’s learned to apologise for caring about poor people, Sultana’s refusal to compromise on basic human dignity makes her dangerous.

She voted against scrapping winter fuel payments for pensioners. She’d do it again. While Starmer’s crew plots new ways to attack disabled people, Sultana asks the obvious question: “They just can’t decide how much” suffering is enough.

This is what principles look like in practice: messy, inconvenient, and utterly incompatible with modern Labour’s corporate-friendly makeover.

The Barrister’s Betrayal

Perhaps most damning was Sultana’s evisceration of Starmer’s spectacular hypocrisy in the Commons this week. She reminded MPs of his past as a barrister defending an activist who broke into RAF Fairford to prevent war crimes in Iraq, a case Starmer himself called “not terrorism, but conscience.”

“That barrister is now our prime minister,” Sultana observed, letting the implications hang in the air like a toxic cloud.

The timing was perfect, MPs were voting to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation for protesting against Israeli arms companies. The man who once defended similar activists now criminalises them. The transformation from advocate for conscience to enforcer of state terror is complete.

This isn’t just political evolution, it’s moral collapse. From defending those who risk everything to stop war crimes to prosecuting those who expose them. From “conscience” to “terrorism” in the space of two decades.

Seven Against the Machine

Sultana wasn’t alone in her principled stand. Seven Labour MPs had their whips suspended for supporting that amendment on the two-child benefit cap. Four have since crawled back, presumably after suitable grovelling and promises to behave.

Sultana and two others refused to bend the knee. They understood what the others didn’t, that once you compromise on children’s poverty, you’ve already lost your soul.

The fact that Starmer’s Labour could even contemplate suspending MPs for opposing child poverty tells you everything about their priorities. This isn’t a party of the working class, it’s a Party that’s embarrassed by the working class.

The Coalition of the Willing

The New Party’s emergence has drawn interesting responses from other left-wing factions. George Galloway’s Workers Party has extended a tentative hand, acknowledging “significant differences” on various issues but suggesting an electoral pact to avoid “fighting each other for the benefit of Keir Starmer.”

Galloway’s typically direct follow-up, “We should have a coalition. He can lead it”, hints at the potential for a broader left alliance that could seriously challenge the Westminster duopoly.

This is how political change actually happens, not through focus groups and triangulation, but through principled people refusing to accept that things can’t get better.

The Uniparty Under Pressure

What we’re witnessing is the potential fracturing of what many have called the “Uniparty”, that unholy arrangement where Labour and Tories take turns implementing essentially identical policies while pretending to oppose each other.

Both parties serve the same corporate interests. Both support austerity when it suits them. Both prioritise military spending over social spending. Both treat working people as expendable.

The only real difference is the branding, red ties or blue ties, but the same policies underneath.

But the stranglehold is weakening from both directions. Reform UK is hitting hard from the right, sucking up Tory votes from disillusioned Thatcherites to one-nation conservatives. A major YouGov poll shows Reform would now be Britain’s largest party if an election were held today, winning 271 seats compared to Labour’s 178. The Conservatives would collapse to just 46 seats, fourth place behind the Liberal Democrats.

That’s the nightmare scenario for the left wing: Nigel Farage as Prime Minister, leading a far-right nationalist government that would make the Tories look like social democrats. Reform’s rise isn’t just about immigration, it’s about channelling working-class anger toward scapegoats rather than solutions.

This is what happens when the establishment parties abandon their base. When Labour attacks disabled people and the Tories serve only the wealthy, voters look for alternatives. Some turn to Reform’s poison. Others might turn to something better.

Sultana and Corbyn’s new venture isn’t just another party; it’s a powerful addition to the growing ranks of the principled left. This is about putting conscience before careers, and genuine conviction before the whims of focus groups – a much-needed antidote to the political status quo.

There’s time for the Left and a left coalition to rise. And that’s where Sultana, Corbyn, Galloway’s Workers Party and a Coalition of the Willing kicks in. The next election isn’t expected until 2029, four years to build a genuine alternative that offers hope instead of hate, solidarity instead of scapegoating.

The Call to Action

“Join us”, Sultana declared, and those two words carry the weight of possibility. For millions of people who’ve watched both major parties abandon them, who’ve seen Labour become a pale imitation of the Tories, who’ve wondered if voting even matters anymore—this is a lifeline.

The established order will fight back, of course. They’ll use every trick in the book to maintain their stranglehold on power. The media will attack, the donors will threaten, the establishment will close ranks.

But here’s the thing about genuine movements: they don’t need permission from the powerful. They draw their strength from the people who’ve been ignored, dismissed, and betrayed by the system.

The Moment of Truth

This is the moment when we find out whether British politics can still produce genuine alternatives, or whether we’re doomed to endless cycles of managed decline administered by different colored ties.

The two-party system isn’t failing by accident; it’s failing because it was designed to serve interests that have nothing to do with ordinary people’s lives. When both parties agree that disabled people should suffer, that children should live in poverty, that working people should pay for the crimes of the wealthy, the system isn’t broken, it’s working exactly as intended.

What Sultana and Corbyn are offering isn’t just another political party. It’s a chance to break the chains that bind us to this rigged game. A chance to build something that actually serves the people who need it most.

The establishment’s worst nightmare isn’t terrorism or foreign invasion, it’s the possibility that working people might realise they don’t need to choose between two versions of the same betrayal.

Things are getting very interesting. Let’s hope the Uniparty breaks under the pressure of its own corruption.

Because when the system is rigged against you, sometimes the only winning move is to stop playing by their rules.

For those ready to join the fight for a fairer Britain, you can find more information and get involved on their new party page. Solidarity! ✊ Link.

Paul Knaggs