Thread by @tony_nog

#Marr
Please RT this video
1) 150k people now know that the #Brexit company:
Has no members, all you can do is give them money
Has no way of voting on policy (how do you "consult supporters" in any meaningful, transparent way?)
And that Farage is Leader for life

2) #marr a few comments on Farage's words:
"Can you be voted out as leader?"
"Not at the moment"

No, not ever, as per the constitution of the #Brexit company & by design Farage can *never* be voted out, he is the chief executive of the company for life

3) is there any party democracy?
No, Farage got tired of democracy failing to make the "right decision" so he dropped all of it in the #Brexit Company

Also, members vote on policy in a ballot, no-one "consults supporters" in a mystical fashion and calls it democracy

4) #Marr #Brexit company members? No, it's not even clear if its own MEPs are party members.

This is again by design. Apart from centralising control it allows Farage to play to all kinds of suspect people on the right without having them as members who will embaress the party

5) "it's a start up, give us a chance" - well, no it wasn't a start up, the #Brexit company was at least 2 years in the planning but in any case several months on from the euro elections there's still no proper apparatus in place, no manifesto, not even any coherent policies

6) the fact is a company has been created with a locked down constitution which prevents membership (and therefore a proper say on policy) and the leader being voted out, ever.
It is the least democratic institution in the country and yet it's MEPs shout about "democracy"

7) if the "Party Leader" has final say on all policy & decides the "will of the members", if he openly says democracy "didn't make the right decisions", if he cannot be voted out, ever, then this is a dictatorship, there is no other word for it

And no one is talking about it

8) 1 final point - #Brexit party supporters literally don't care about any of this. They shout about "Democracy" but are perfectly ok (or at least not fully aware) with no democracy in the party
"It's just for now"
"He can be voted out if the time comes"
"Manifestos are useless"

9) "I emailed in my thoughts on policy"
"We don't care about any of that internal democracy crap"

This is the incredible failure of #Brexit & our media, this is what Johnson is playing with, a large group of people who are being told it's ok to have a dictator "just for now"
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