Jamie Driscoll, the former Labour metro mayor for North of Tyne who later played a role setting up Your Party, has joined the Greens, the party has announced.
It comes two days after five Labour councillors in the north London borough of Brent defected to the Greens, saying they were disillusioned about the party’s direction under Keir Starmer.
Driscoll, a former Newcastle councillor who served as mayor from 2019 to 2024, left Labour in 2023 after the party blocked him from running again. He stood as an independent, coming second to Labour’s Kim McGuinness.
Driscoll was later involved in efforts to set up a new leftwing party in association with the former Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, which eventually became Your Party. He ended his involvement in the project after it became mired in disputes and infighting.
In a statement, Driscoll said he had joined the Greens “because I see an organisation that’s serious about running our country in the long-term interests of all our people”.
I don’t think I would want to be described as an organiser of one of the most disorganised groups in politics right now. Your Party have surely wasted any chance they had of being taken seriously, no matter how left wing they are?
Are we heading for a Labour, Lib-Dem and Green coalition government or will the fragmentation secure the right wing again? If I was Labour I would get cracking on reforming the voting system and get proportional representation sorted before the next election.
Most disorganised. If you totally ignore all of party history.
Honestly to look at the last 14 years of government and see YP as the most disorganised. Due to a few disagreements that were resolved in weeks.
Means you really are just listening to the ,edias views and not looking at the actual events.
Sure. I did say “one of the most disorganised parties right now”. Not in ever, not exclusively…
Also their party conference was just the other week and it was still a bit of a shambles so I dunno if resolved is the right word for their organisational issues.
Reform may yet prove to be more disorganised. Idk, time will tell.
Yeah. If you read right wing media. Conference looked like a mess.
If you actually re,e,ner it is a democratic member led party setting up its own rules.
Then it just looked like any other collection of disagreeing voters.
Media accusing founding ,e,bers of boycotting a conference. While interviewing her at the conference where she was not expected to speak the next day.
Because she expressed a negative opinion.
Unsurprisingly what is by any other parties standards a absolute success. Looks like a disaster to those not involved.
If you have been to any others parties conference. Lack of media give a shit. is the only difference is how much disagreement you see,
Weird. From what I read he was involved in the faction surrounding Zarah. Weird to get that involved in factional play then abandon. I do expect her to go in same direction at some point.
