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ALB, I find that this article is more or less a hatchet job from someone who is committed to representative democracy and not delegatory form.
But even KS does legitimately raise the issue of micro-management.
His model of political parties is not ours and we would also be heavily criticized by him on much the same grounds as he accuses SA/KS of. I wonder what he would make of our knowledge test before any applicant is accepted, for instance.
I have a strong feeling that for the author, that our claims of Party control of our elected members and SA’s would be a distinction without a difference for him. For him it is his smoking gun.
The lesson is that we ourselves will have to face similar attacks. As would the overlap in the general politics when we share the similar language as SA.
I had little complaint about KS’s letter to AOC, a letter AOC totally ignored going against KS advice and endorsing Pelosi.
We also had experience of Trots in politics, the SSP at Holyrood. Also Militant in control at Liverpool and Lambeth(?). Our issues was less about Party procedures and processes but much more about policies (plus questions over personality over-riding Party rules.)