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26 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Starmer's rule changes, already watered down, pass by just 53/47... can't see the breakdown but I assume that means constituency vote was even closer or went the other way... huge bonfire of political capital that will only benefit a right-wing challenger ...
2/ ... and given the branch shutdowns, union backroom deals needed to achieve even this, I can see this being reversed fairly easily if the left advances in Unison...
3/ Added to this the Green New Deal motion ruled out of order a week ago just passed. The left needs to create a single Labour entity that new people can join up to and participate in...
4/ ... and TWT shows young people are still drawn to a left-Labour politics (as well as increasingly the Greens)... so the leadership increasingly out of step with their mass base (albeit in step with union leaders who want to let the planet burn) ... a lot to fight for.

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Labour's attempt to ditch one-member-one-vote is, of course, a massive diversion from the important debates: Green New Deal and constitutional reform... but defeating it is vital... 1/ We're not in the 1970s anymore...
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