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It's a message from Andrew Feinstein on Twitter (although I've used a "nitter" link) from the end of October, saying that he and 2 other people at MOU have resigned as directors, and explaining some shenanigans over the "Your Party" membership data.
I don't fully understand all the ins and outs of the original connection between MOU and "Your Party", but evidently MOU was something else originally and then got lumbered with looking after YP money and membership data.
Main takeaway, it does seem that the "Your Party" contingent are remarkably bad at admin!
I don't feel personally worried about it, in fact it might be a good thing if "Your Party" properly falls over and everyone joins the Greens.
#YourParty #AndrewFeinstein #UKPol

So the temporary placeholder name "Your Party" is made permanent.
None of the options on the shortlist were good. Most of them just as grammatically inconvenient as the dumb placeholder name.
The people who decide on the short-list, who can be a member, whose votes counts and what the options are, have quite a lot of power.
Zara Sultana boycotted day one over who sets the rules and who can be involved. If Your Party have a governing body with power to override conference they end up like the Labour party and just are easily taken over and usurped by a cabal of thatcherite neoliberal capitalists.
They did allow the dual membership system and a wider governance, so Zara won on who gets to be a member and who gets to be in charge. Which is probably good.
Coz as the terrible name shows, if you put the idiots in charge you'll get idiocy not good collective decision making.
For now the membership appear to have won, and I hear are they are all very excited and fierce and canny and not likely to let the old guard just set up another dictatorship from the top.
They currently have half the membership count of the greens, less than a quarter that claimed by Reform. Lets hope they can get some attention towards something other than how billionaires think the country should be run and focus on the people.
Here's hoping they can inflate that number by draining the Labour party and Reform members who just want change really rather than actually liking anything said by Farage.
#yourParty #ukpol