It includes paying for access:
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Invitation to exclusive 2024 Club receptions attended by special guests
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Bi-annual meetings with senior Labour Party figures
And early access to conferences and receptions. This literally prices the working class out of participation in the party.
This was Corbyns true failing, too nice and trying to be seen as playing the game fairly by their rules, he should have seen the way things were going and purged the shit out of the party, taken the heat for it and then left letting someone else step in a with a cleaner record.
AHAHAHAHAHA IMAGINE TURNING PARTY MEMBERSHIP INTO AN ONLYFANS SUBSCRIPTION SCHEME JESUS CHRIST
Similar to the way people overestimate the number of Muslims in their country - media have completely distorted their perception. Michael Moore talks about this too in one of his films, how people believe, year after year, that crime is rising when it is actually falling - but media coverage of crime was exploding.
Labour make 10x as much as Tories in memberships already btw. Combined with Trade Union donations Labour has more than enough money for British politics. He’s just wanted a certain type of membership.
This, combined with whoring the party out to billionaires, is designed to replace union funding. They're trying to detach from the unions.
I assume that this is about stratifying the membership so that they "know" which parts to listen to. The Labour apparatchiks hate the new members that came in under Corbyn.
Sometimes I feel like br*tish politicians are just trying to be as cartoonishly awful as possible, in a kind of moral arms race to the bottom. It must be some kind of outsider performance art for the elites. There's no other explanation for this.
Wot if your political party followed the Scientology funding model?
Bourgeois libs gonna be boogie libs why is this a surprise?
Labour have never been a socialist party - they've been a captive bourgeois party where some socialists congregate because they think they can vote in socialism
Even their achievements they bleat on about nonstop, like the creation of the NHS forget that conservative parties in Germany and all over Europe brought in universal healthcare
And the reason they did that is because the USSR existed and had turned healthcare into a right. The booj all over Europe post ww2 were forced to throw some scraps to the peasants. And since Thatcher Labour have done as much damage to the NHS as the tories have
succinct and accurate.
the bottom line is that playing politics doesn't fucking work. the only way we'll ever see change is through organization outside of politics. our greatest hurdle is simply countering the propaganda of "VOTE" and actually educating enough people.
we need sit ins on wall street, sit ins in court rooms, general strikes. chapo had hundreds of thousands of people on reddit, i wish we had that following and some kind of clear cut open communication with PSL to make organization accessible in every county of every state here in the US, then we'd actually have something.
we gotta steal some capitalist methods and use them against the system, like an anti-franchise. accessibility is key.
I love that he's a complete milquetoast Blairite neolib yet Boris still just makes Starmer out to be literal Grinch 'cancelling Christmas' boogeymen
The year is 2209, and the Communist Vanguard Party of World Socialist Victory (CVP-WSV) is a merger of the Eurasia-Africa based WSV and the Americas based CVP.
The CVP-WSV primary debates are tonight! Ryann Steve is debating Dichael Obertson on the topic of food assistance for contract-to-hire asteroid miners.
"I'm afraid it's just not fiscally responsible" says Dichael.
Paying for access can signal corruption. But it can also be a total scam.
Spending $2000 to sit at a dinner table fifty feet away from an elected official in hopes you'll get a picture next to someone with power isn't influence.
Might be worth union leadership's time to ask whether they're getting what they're paying for.
