Usually discussion of what to name “Your Party” ends up being joke time. So I thought maybe one thread where we make actual suggestions?
I had one idea that came to me in the shower this morning:
Better Way
Here’s my argument. Most folks really hate the status quo. They hate capitalism and they hate neoliberalism, even if they don’t fully understand what it is they hate and much less able to conceptualize what it is they hate and what the solutions are. All that Reform and the Tories can offer is racism, transphobia, and a hollow, farcical nationalism. Labour explicitly says there’s nothing better than this, so tighten those belts and eat your spoonful of austerity (along with racism and transphobia ofc).
“Better Way”, to me, communicates that you don’t have to accept what’s currently on offer: there is something better. And the party can and should articulate what those better things are. “Better Way” acknowledges peoples’ dissatisfaction with the state of things and the current political options. The public is told you have no other choices than shitty ones, but there is something better out there.
But more interested to hear your ideas.
“Nationalise Your Nan”
I will not elaborate
Alternatively, the party name should be like a Japanese light novel title. “The nationalise everything including your nan and free broadband party for a better future defeating the bourgeois ;re”
There are no good answers to this question but “Better Way” sounds like something between a supermarket and a retirement home lol. I thought Sultana’s suggestion to just call it ‘The Left’ was solid tbh
“Socialist Party”
“Party of Socialists”
“Party for Socialism”
“Labor Party (Corbynist)”tbh might as well just call it “Corbyn Party” because that’s all people are going to call it anyway
Probably all taken by some trots
“The Revolutionary People’s Front of Corbyngrad (Formerly London)”?
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Yeah I should’ve known better
I think that the people are never going to get past their anticommunism unless they face it head on. It’s not bad to simply name a party “Communist Party of <Country>”, people need to start hearing the C word without losing their shit again.
That’s assuming that the party is going or claiming to go in that direction of course, I have the feeling that this is more of a “left unity front” kind of party.
The is already a communist party in the UK
Kill the King Party
Way as a political term is too tainted by third wayism. Maybe instead, Better Alternative? It carries the same implication but also sets itself in direct contrast to the neoliberal “There is no alternative” mindset that has dictated British politics for the last 40 some odd years.
Have they said Your Party is a placeholder/temporary? TBH it could be worse.
Yes obviously
Republican Left
Symbol:
Anti-Monarchist Popular Democracy (AMPD) Party.
I could see some brits, in that thick accent, like "I’m fucking AMP’D, bro!”
That could work.
Most likely it will be called the left party, or some variation of that
- SNBAKC(I)P - Succdems Not Becoming A Kautskyite Challenge (Impossible) Party
UK Labor - ML
peace and prosperity
UKSDLP(B)