Your Party has been trying to put on a united front ahead of its founding conference next month - but there has been a major row behind the scenes over control of donations and data, Sky News has learned.

Nothing to see here people. Move along. Everything is under control.

  • FishFace@lemmy.world
    11·
    7 days ago

    Can’t work out whether this is boring teething problems that the media is blowing up because “lol leftie infighting” or a genuine shambles

    • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
      51·
      7 days ago

      I think a bit of both. Honestly all parties have these issues. The Tories are constantly in some form of infighting. The media is much less interested in reporting it.

      But we have to be honest. This really is the first truly democratic party to try and set up. Just how democratic it is intended to be is again ignored by the media. The leadership of the party. Will have 0 right to override the membership votes of conferences. As absolutely every other party dose all the time. “Conference is Sovereign” is a key part of the party’s draft constitution.

      MOU ltd was set up intentionally to limit the ability of any one part of the party controlling the finance and taking control of the party through that.

      It’s hardly a suprise that internal questions and debates about the intents and genuine motives of some members come up. Or that any debates about motives delay data and funds passing out of that company. It was intentionally set up to be difficult if disagreements develop.

      It also makes it the first port of call. If any group is trying to derail this attempt early in the set up. So also the point where any early debate is expected to happen. It is at these early forming points that most new political movements have to fight external influences taking control. So also where care is most important.

      The media is very much using that delays and legal issues to indicate the party is unprofessional. While making no effort to look at the initial plans for the company or why such delays are intended.

      The party is under 2 months old. No party has ever gone from formation to fully working in that time. While modern processing makes such things easier. It also leads to totally false expectations from the human beings involved. At the end of it humans still have to work through disagreements and understanding.

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
    55·
    7 days ago

    Jezza is determined to lose an election for the third time