Why should I/you join a political party?

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@daneel

If the Labour party sees your posts here, the NEC will ban you for being an entryist

If they do that then I know that they aren’t the party for me, and I will move on.

@daneel

I guess there’s also the thought that voting is the least you can do, and if you want to sway the party in a direction, showing up and volunteering (which probably means fundraising more than anything, I guess) might have more influence…

Pretty much this, and I have concerns that Momentum are too authoritarian and I want to offer an alternative left wing view to that.

Tom Watson’s talk at EMF in 2014 has had some influence.