And then of course
e) declare that everything's going wonderfully well

And the leadership's response to all of this has been to
a) let it happen
b) impose ludicrous deadlines
c) do absolutely nothing to help
d) panic and clamp down when it seems to be getting out of control

- and the people involved in them are calling for the leadership to be accountable to the base (which I agree with in principle, only at the moment we have no idea who the base *is*). (Actually it's not very clear who the *leadership* is.)

None of that seems to have happened (I've been involved in the establishment of a local "proto-branch", and nobody in it has any idea who's actually a member in the constituency). So wouldbe branches have sprung up - some of them promoted by SWP or Counterfire, many not...

It's not all their fault. Someone should have been going through the membership list as people signed up – not to weed anyone out but to identify people in different areas who they could trust (ideally one in every constituency), then arranging for them to have sight of the list for their area.

Also, doing all of this The Day Before The Long-Awaited Founding Conference, ffs.

I endorse your heuristic, though, insofar as organisations the size of the SWP wouldn't matter to YP if things were going even slightly well.

(b) that dual membership with any party that might stand candidates in an election also being contested by YP was forbidden, and then very specifically barring members of the SWP and ICBINTSWP (a.k.a. Counterfire) and trying to justify it as (b), not (a).

The problem was having a clause in the membership rules clearly meaning (a) that they could bar anyone who was a member of any other party up to and including the SWP and its various splinters (some of them minuscule), then explaining when challenged that it actually meant

Not at Corbyn's level or anywhere near - and that's the problem.

I just think he owes it to everyone involved to acknowledge what's been going on and his part in it, and talk about where they go from here.

He was partly responsible for the variously chaotic, inspirational and depressing events of the last few months, and he was addressing people who want to know that things are going to be different in future. Speaking "personally" is an indulgence.

The people he's talking to are the hard core - if they aren't already enthusiastic about YP, nobody is.

Apparently all the good names were taken. (Genuinely; the Electoral Commission told them they couldn't have The Left Party (which wouldn't have been bad as names go) or Corbyn's own preference The Peace and Justice Party (which is terrible, but still wouldn't be as bad as YP/OP/etc).)

Good luck to everyone in Liverpool this weekend.

Not sortitioned, or sitting it out b/c pissed off/disillusioned, or didn't join? (I'm at least one of the above, to be clear.)

True, it was fire-sale stuff.

As @dsquareddigest.bsky.social said in another context, there are people who take all manifestations of antisemitism in politics very seriously, because if left unchecked it may develop into anti-Zionism.

(And - as we see here - if not, not.)

BBNo and Magic Rock were far from unloved - as long as the beers were there to back the brands.

Scary though the name may still sound, the Communist Party of Great Britain ceased to exist nearly 40 years ago. (ISvaguelyTR that the Weekly Worker grouplet currently claims the name in full and unqualified, which is hilarious if true.)