It is quite remarkable to watch over 41 years how OMOV has gone frm a demand of the Campaign for Labour Victory (CLV) which ended up in the SDP to then migrate across the Party spectrum to now a likely long-term demand of the other wing now
https://twitter.com/PeoplesMomentum/status/1440992397178122243
OMOV was in the past seen as a party reform tool by Leaderships. Now it is clearly a more insurgent policy position, but all experience shows it tends to win in the long-term as that is what a membership left or right now expects for its payment
This is significant as in 90's recruiting a large more extrinsically values instrumental big membership was seen as a good thing by Leadership. Now membership composition is much more post-materialist expressive & consequently framing of it looks to return to view in 50's & 60's
Thus membership is "balanced off" by other stakeholders (MPs and TUs) and "need for big membership" is not talked about anymore as it used to be in the 90s by Blair, Brown, Twigg etc. Some are clearly too scarred by 2015-19 to do that any more
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