Jamie Osborne on Nostr: How to win activists, then throw them away. Our system is so not suited to modern ...
How to win activists, then throw them away.
Our system is so not suited to modern democracy.
#PR #Labour
— ‘A newly recruited Labour activist in the Cornish seat of Camborne and Redruth was contacted about past tweets expressing favourable opinions about senior Green party politicians – and not just ruled out of the local candidate selection process, but expelled from the party …
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it is only our crooked electoral system that endows Labour with its political monopoly’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/11/labour-opposition-power-keir-starmer-party
Our system is so not suited to modern democracy.
#PR #Labour
— ‘A newly recruited Labour activist in the Cornish seat of Camborne and Redruth was contacted about past tweets expressing favourable opinions about senior Green party politicians – and not just ruled out of the local candidate selection process, but expelled from the party …
…
it is only our crooked electoral system that endows Labour with its political monopoly’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/11/labour-opposition-power-keir-starmer-party