No serious attempt to unite the left can be done through purges of socialists or by disregarding entire nations and their representatives. It is clear that these are fatal blows to the Your Party project from which it cannot recover. Despite this generational fumble of the left in Britain, the need for a new party on the left in Scotland couldn’t be more urgent, and it is our clear intention to continue working towards this. We call on others who share our vision to join us in doing so over the coming weeks and months, as the reality of a rising far-right and its representatives joining our national parliament set in. Simply put, the best time for change has passed, but the next best time is now. In Scotland, we intend to continue building that change, but to do so outwith the constraints of the deeply flawed and dying Your Party. In solidarity, Interim Scottish Executive Committee Your Party

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ISEC update Your Party Scotland Interim Scottish Executive Committee in mass resignation

Interim SEC Resignation Monday, 13 April, 2026 Last December, after the Liverpool founding conference, a group of representatives from Your Party Scotland proto-branches were chosen by members to form the Scottish Conference Organising Group (SCOG). After our Dundee conference, SCOG became the Interim Scottish Executive Committee (ISEC) as per the documents passed by the conference and became the interim leadership of YPS. We were all volunteers from different parts of the country and immediately started to work closely together. Some of us didn’t know each other, some had never been actively involved in politics but we all shared a common goal: to deliver a strong, structured and member-led founding conference, and we succeeded. We drafted the Your Party Scotland founding documents, which were then amended by members through assemblies and ratified at our Dundee conference in February.

At the conference, members voted to stand candidates at the Holyrood election in May, we voted in favour of organisational independence and dual membership, and we voted for an elected SEC to be in place by the beginning of April. Since then, we have faced constant undermining and delays by the UK party. Our clear asks to progress our conference mandates have been consistently ignored, resulting in our inability to run candidates in the Holyrood election and to elect a permanent SEC. Scotland’s sole CEC rep on the CEC has been consistently excluded and overruled on Scottish matters without basis. Requests to discuss these issues with Your Party’s leadership across Britain have been resoundingly ignored. The most egregious example of their disdain towards our members came when the UK party overruled the decision made at conference to stand in the Holyrood elections by rerunning the vote mere days before the deadline after ignoring our simple requests to progress this work for weeks beforehand. The email sent to Scottish members last Friday afternoon from Your Party UK is the final insult.

Having ignored Scotland’s elected representatives, blocked the Scottish party from standing in our national elections, and prevented Scottish members from electing an executive, the UK party informed members of their plan to install an unelected leadership over members’ heads which it appears will re-examine decisions already voted on and settled by Scottish members. It is absurd to expect a political party in Scotland can be dictated to by England, and it is antidemocratic to try and overrule any outcomes the ruling English faction simply does not like. As a result of this consistent denial of autonomy for Scotland, and a willingness by the UK leadership to sideline an entire nation by withholding funding and mailing lists and refusing to engage, we have, after careful thought and consideration, taken the collective decision to resign our positions on ISEC, having found ourselves completely blocked when we attempted to carry out the clear mandate set for us by members from across Scotland.

All 12 members of the Interim Scottish Executive Committee (ISEC) have unanimously left their roles and pledged to help form a new party.

Niall Christie, the sole Scotland rep on Your Party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC), has also resigned with immediate effect.

Full statement below (1/2)

ISEC this morning received a threat of regulatory and disciplinary action from a member of the party's staff who was also a member of ISEC. As a result, we have been given no choice but to remove email sign ups and this direct line of communication with members. We will continue to work to find ways to reach members and to attempt to work with HQ.

Plain text graphic: Headline "Transparency & Communication" Going forward, ISEC meetings will be minuted See yourparty.scot/documents for minutes ISEC is also setting up a mailing list To sign up, visit yourparty.scot/signup

Member feedback has been clear: you want published minutes and a direct line of communication. You said, we did 👇

We voted to become an independent party, and we’re going to work towards this even in the absence of data and money - we’re calling on the CEC to provide us those resources to reach Scottish members and get on with the job of delivering what conference voted for. (13/13)

But even if the party is being held back by London, the movement it brought together is alive and kicking. (12/13)

It’s absurd that we have effectively been prevented from running in our own national elections - which members voted for us to do - by a distant and unaccountable leadership, which also disregards our only elected representative on the CEC. (11/13)

It’s not feasible or credible to have a political party in Scotland being run by faceless bureaucrats in London. (10/13)

We’ve had enough of members being treated with contempt by the leadership down south. It is only through members’ hard work, engagement and dedication that this party still exists in Scotland at all. (9/13)

Members want to be out organising and campaigning in their communities and working to build the party, not stuck endlessly talking about bureaucracy and process while being ignored by the leadership down south. (8/13)

Over the last few weeks, we’ve heard from members all across the country how fed up they are with this situation. (7/13)

This is not what any of us signed up to. We all joined because we wanted to build a party that would organise in working-class communities, stand in elections, and put forward a bold socialist programme to take on the far right. (6/13)

But at every turn, we have been blocked, ignored, and we’re now in a situation where HQ seem to be actively working against us, re-running votes we already had at conference, and threatening to install an unelected working party to run Your Party Scotland. (5/13)

In the weeks since the conference in February, we’ve tried to work with the party’s HQ in London to deliver on those promises, to elect a proper Scottish Exec, and to follow through on conference’s decision to stand in the Scottish Parliament elections. (4/13)

We worked hard to deliver a democratic conference in Dundee, which saw members overwhelmingly choose to form an independent sister party which would fight for Scottish independence. (3/13)

Hundreds of people across the country, including many who had never joined any political party before, threw themselves into building branches. (2/13)

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Last summer, we all joined Your Party off the back of the promise it showed - 800,000 sign-ups in the space of a few weeks made even some of the most sceptical folk on the Scottish left get involved. (1/13)

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We’d encourage as many members as possible who share our anger about this situation to send this email and demonstrate the strength of feeling from Scottish members.

More will follow in the coming days as we continue our response.

Thanks to all members in Scotland for your continued support.

Following member input, we have drafted a template email that you can send to the chair of the CEC to express your views. Please cc in Your Party Scotland at conference@yourparty.scot.

Feel free to edit it before sending, or you can send it as-is.

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We were subsequently informed by “HQ” that the CEC would not be able to make these decisions until officers were elected and responsibilities formally allocated, in spite of the fact that only a rubberstamp was needed to approve an extant and increasingly urgent plan, requiring minimal action from staff to set it in motion. Niall, as Scotland’s sole CEC rep, flagged for this matter’s addition to the agenda in both the initial CEC meeting of 03/03 and the follow-up meeting on 08/03 Niall followed up on 04/03 with an email to “herewego@yourparty.uk”, one of the primary addresses through which we have attempted to contact the party and you personally, which included the full open letter and proposal, requesting that these be forwarded to the CEC for review prior to making an urgent decision.

When the agenda and associated papers for the 08/03 meeting were circulated and the above was absent, Niall again followed up. He received no response to either. At the meeting of 08/03, you requested that the documents described above be shared with you and, again, they were shared during the meeting. A full timeline can be found at: tinyurl.com/CECtimeline

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Interim SEC Update We ensured that a comprehensive plan was made available to “HQ” long before the elections to enable basic administrative support to begin (primarily the establishment of online regional assemblies, for which all available infrastructure had been created by the interim SEC (iSEC) such that only an email through the party system was required) and communicated to the incoming CEC as widely as possible. A full timeline of our attempts is provided below, and timestamps/copies can be made available if this would be useful for identifying the source of your communication issues.

As we’re sure you can understand, it’s with some exasperation that we note your reiterated request for details, reports and resharing of our plans given that we have shared them with the party on 4 occasions over the last 4 weeks, two of which were directed to you personally. It is clear to us that the “herewego” address, regardless of subject lines, is entirely inadequate for effective communication. However, we welcome your commitment to supporting our work now, and recognise that this support must operate within the appropriate regulatory frameworks. Please specify the exact nature of the legal and regulatory issues to be worked through so that we can provide any assistance possible on our end that we can. We note that our primary request, for an email to be sent to our members, is one that has been fulfilled on multiple previous occasions as it related to the Dundee conference, albeit with significant delays.

Finally, we wish to reiterate to you the destructive impact of YP UK’s continued failure to act on the morale of Scottish members. Dedicated organisers and activists, who have worked with us since the very beginning to build a truly grassroots party from Shetland to Gretna, are leaving on a daily basis. Indeed, a member of iSEC has left the party in despair directly following your email. This impasse is intolerable, and our members will not tolerate this for much longer. In solidarity, Your Party Interim Scottish Executive Committee Niall Christie, CEC Scotland representative

Timeline Following the first iSEC meeting after the Scottish conference, an email was sent to central Your Party emails on Wednesday 18/02 containing everything needed to proceed with Holyrood election plans, and begin the process of electing an SEC. A follow-up was sent on Friday 20/02 along with private messages to several members of the “HQ” team. Further follow-ups were sent to both candidate “slates” on Saturday 28th, along with several CEC members individually. We were informed by “HQ” that this matter had been passed to the CEC for a decision, but found that it was absent from the agenda.

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Interim SEC Update I think there may have been some miscommunication with Niall on the first CEC meeting, as I was expecting Niall to bring a paper. Apologies for any lack of clarity on my part. We have, however, discussed the open letter as an Officers' Group. Accordingly, in response to your questions, I can say yes to the first question, that we will of course work to support the decision made by Scottish members to stand candidates. On your other questions, I have been advised that there are some legal and regulatory issues to be worked through. I have asked staff to prepare a briefing for us on these issues as a matter of urgency. I will come back to you as soon as we have looked at this and have responses to your requests.

It would also be good to have a call then, so we can discuss these issues in more depth. It would also be good to meet some of you! In the meantime, it would be helpful if you could reshare a summary of your current plans for the elections and the requests of Your Party. Yours in solidarity, Jenn Forbes Your Party Chair

Interim SEC Update Sunday, 15 March, 2026 Following a meeting of the ISEC on Sunday evening, we have agreed the following, which has been sent in response. Hi Jenn, Thank you for your email, and congratulations on your election! With so much to be getting on with UK-wide, we appreciate you taking the time to contact us and the clarity you have offered on the communication issues that have arisen within the CEC. You may not be aware, then, that we have already crossed the line at which the UK party’s commitment to our autonomy is no longer enough to honour the will of Scottish members.

Interim SEC Update The deadline for candidate nomination is just 2 weeks away, and it is now increasingly unfeasible for us to complete the democratic processes that would be required to do so. We have also already passed the deadline set at Conference for the formation of an Election Organising Committee and will soon run into similar issues for the election of a full Scottish Executive Committee. On all 3 occasions, we and our members have been ready to act with plenty of time to spare and have been held up by a lack of action or communication from the UK party. We understand that the time available for the CEC to make these decisions would have been incredibly tight in even the most generous circumstances, which is why we took every measure available to provide such.

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ISEC update Your Party Scotland Interim Scottish Executive Committee responds to Central Executive Committee Chair

Interim SEC Update Monday, 16 March, 2026 The following email to the CEC chair was agreed by the interim SEC prior to the calling of a meeting of the CEC on Sunday, 22 March, 2026. We have now been informed that the work of Your Party in Scotland, including the Holyrood 2026 elections, is on the agenda. We are including our agreed email as we think it should inform the discussion on Scotland next Sunday. However, we don’t think the CEC holding a meeting with just ten days until the candidate deadline changes our plans. It has now been more than four weeks since we requested that a single email, which had been drafted, be sent to members in Scotland which would have allowed for a democratic process for selecting candidates to take place.

Interim SEC Update The lack of engagement on this issue, and the late return to this with days to go until candidate deadlines, is inexcusable. This late intervention is entirely inadequate. In lieu of leadership from London we’ll be going ahead with our plans for regional meetings in the coming days to engage members’ opinions on the election and what steps we take next. While we now believe it to be impossible to run a democratic and meaningful selection process (and election campaign) as a result of the silence and indecision from London, if members decide to run, we fully expect the CEC and Officers Group to work flat out in the ten days following their next meeting to implement the decisions taken.

Interim SEC Update Saturday, 14 March, 2026 On Saturday the Interim Scottish Executive Committee (ISEC) received the following from Your Party CEC Chair, Jenn Forbes: Hi there, Niall. Thank you for getting in touch! As I'm sure you can understand, I and the Officers are just getting to grips with the huge amount of handover information - obviously this handover is a necessity but it is unfortunate that our own elections and the May elections were so close to each other. Let me first of all reassure you of Your Party's ongoing commitment to the autonomy of the Party in Scotland under this CEC. Congratulations on all your collective work in bringing the party to this point.

An update from Your Party's Interim Scottish Executive Committee. (1/4)

An update from the Interim Scottish Executive Committee (SEC) of Your Party.

SEC election timeline 16th March - Deadline for nomination applications 17th March - Voting Opens 17th-30th March - Hustings to take place 30th March - Voting Closes Week of 30th March to 6th April - SEC election results released Holyrood campaign timeline Series of eight regional assemblies to be completed by March 9. If your region votes to stand candidates, the Electoral Organising Committee will assist in setting up selection processes for your region. We will then be opening elections to the Electoral Organising Committee, with representation from each region where candidates will be standing. Thereafter, we will also be opening elections for an Interim Policy Committee to decide on a policy platform for the elections, again with representation from all participating regions.

Interim SEC members. Robert Alfano Max Allen Fred Bayer Frances Curran Tánaiste Custance Ryan Donachie Ellie Gomersall Ruth Glasgow Richard Green Adrian Johnson Owen Maitland Mathilde Mazau Kevin McVey Niamh Morrison Boris Radojkov Cameron Scally

We are also attaching the planned timelines for both for transparency, and to allow planning time for our Scottish members, as well as the names of the current interim SEC. (4/4)

Dear Your Party CEC members, First of all, congratulations on your election. We look forward to working with you all and building a party fit to represent the working class in Scotland and across Britain. As the Interim Scottish Executive Committee of Your Party - as ratified by members at Your Party Scotland’s founding conference - as well as Scotland’s CEC seat holder, we are getting in touch to ask for urgent action to be taken to ensure democratic decisions taken by Scottish members in Dundee are carried through. In particular, these relate to preparations for the 2026 Scottish Parliamentary elections on May 7, where the April 1st deadline for candidate nominations is fast approaching, in addition to elections to Your Party’s Scottish Executive Committee (SEC).

As the interim SEC, we have been in contact with Your Party HQ requesting that emails be sent to members inviting them to submit nominations for the SEC, as well as to attend regional meetings to set campaigning strategy and open candidate selection for May’s Holyrood elections. We are very disappointed that we have not heard back from Your Party’s central team, and would ask for an urgent intervention from the newly-elected CEC members to ensure these emails - which were fully drafted and shared with the central team earlier this month - are sent without further delay. We attach below a planned schedule for both Scottish Parliament selections, as well as the imminent SEC election, and can provide an updated draft email sent to HQ earlier this month to allow for the updated schedule outlined. Finally, we again ask that some members of Scotland’s interim SEC be given privileges to contact Your Party members in lieu of a permanent SEC being in place.

We noted with interest during the CEC elections announcement that it was confirmed members of the sortitioned Members’ Oversight Committee were allowed limited access to members’ data, and we would ask that this approach be emulated for the democratically-endorsed interim SEC in Scotland. We look forward to your response as soon as possible, and note that this letter is being shared openly to inform members in Scotland of the challenges being faced ahead of the 2026 elections and the upcoming SEC elections. Yours in solidarity, Your Party Scotland interim SEC Niall Christie, Your Party CEC member, Scotland

We are now asking Your Party HQ, as well as the CEC members elected this week to take urgent action to ensure members in Scotland can fully engage with both of these processes without further delay. We stand ready to provide all the support necessary from Scotland. (3/4)

This is particularly worrying given the short window to engage with members ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections, with a deadline of April 1 for candidate nominations.

Furthermore, attempts to begin the process of electing a SEC have also not been progressed, despite repeated requests. (2/4)

OPEN LETTER Your Party Scotland Interim Scottish Executive Committee raises concerns to Your Party collective leadership.

Now three weeks on from Your Party Scotland founding conference in Dundee, the interim Scottish Executive Committee (SEC) is increasingly concerned about the lack of communication with Your Party, and the lack of communications to members in Scotland. (1/4)

Tweet from Ryan, @TheOneCalledMe, reads "Ross Greer received 298 votes in the @scottishgreens leadership election last year. Today, @NiallChristie1 has smashed that, gaining almost double that in the @thisisyourparty CEC Elections, Scotland representitive. Proud to call Niall a comrade & friend." Attached are two screenshots, not included here because they just demonstrate the numbers listed above.

Good lord, tremendous work from @niallchristie1.bsky.social and great engagement from @yourparty.scot in general ✊