Sounds the same as in Denmark, parties aren’t really accountable to anyone but the party leadership and since advancement inside the party is based on nepotism and ass-kissing, no-one rocks the boat too much when leadership decides to pivot.
It’s just wild to me sometimes that there’s no real way to do something like a vote of no-confidence among rank and file members, outside of the party getting their status/funding revoked by the state on account of not receiving enough votes. (Of course the lib response is to ‘change it from the inside if you don’t like it’, but that runs into the same issue again: if the internal party structure and culture promotes sycophants and weasel behaviour, nothing will change)
And now I realize yet again that I’m basically just rehashing what is to be done in a confused and less eloquent manner
:ultra-keir-starmer-in-a-maoist-beret: “I welcome the Starmer proposal to minecraft all the leftist elements in the party, but I call on them to go further. We must root out even the soc-dems and the lib-dems, perhaps even the slightly left of centre technocrats. Even the right-wingers in favour of modest social spending should be cast out.”
Sounds the same as in Denmark, parties aren’t really accountable to anyone but the party leadership and since advancement inside the party is based on nepotism and ass-kissing, no-one rocks the boat too much when leadership decides to pivot.
It’s just wild to me sometimes that there’s no real way to do something like a vote of no-confidence among rank and file members, outside of the party getting their status/funding revoked by the state on account of not receiving enough votes. (Of course the lib response is to
‘change it from the inside if you don’t like it’, but that runs into the same issue again: if the internal party structure and culture promotes sycophants and weasel behaviour, nothing will change)
And now I realize yet again that I’m basically just rehashing what is to be done in a confused and less eloquent manner
Liberal politics is a fuck
:ultra-keir-starmer-in-a-maoist-beret: “I welcome the Starmer proposal to minecraft all the leftist elements in the party, but I call on them to go further. We must root out even the soc-dems and the lib-dems, perhaps even the slightly left of centre technocrats. Even the right-wingers in favour of modest social spending should be cast out.”