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This is disheartening, from disability campaigner, DPAC member, and sharer of my birthday Paula Peters:

“I left the disability group for “Your Party”

“I do not support gate keeping, egos, exclusion or bullying

“They didn’t like being called out on it

“They were

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“I’m done with this BS

“I’m not being spoken down to, patronised and told to shut up or told I do not like the word no.

“I’m a working class disabled woman

“I will call it out

“Shove your group”

Your Party – now its official name, and a terrible choice – has been holding its inaugural conference and it hasn’t been very impressive.

From the outside, this looks less like the foundation of a serious political alternative and more like a case study in how not to build a new party…

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