As co-chair of another org, am not gonna get super involves in Momentum's internal politics, but sruggling a bit to understand @ForwardMmtm. Seems to have the right values (democracy, community and industrial roots), but not sure what they will mean in practice basically.

I wonder what it will mean both as someone in local govt, and as a member of the organised soft left. I also wonder what more democracy in Momentum will mean re cranks etc.

At the start of Momentum, OL was kindly given a seat on it's NEC.

We walked away pretty quickly as the first meeting turned into a beef about dropping non-violence from the constitution, and Jackie Walker was also v prominent.

We felt it had cast the net incorrectly for its active membership and didn't really have a strategy. It started in a place that made it extremely difficult for people from a soft let or party centre perspective to stay involved - but that should probably have been a key aim?

The organisation as it stands has a lot of extremely ill-disciplined or conspiracy-prone local groups. At the same time it desperately needs democratisation, openness and roots. That is a hell of a contradiction to square. So basically I wanna know what the plan is lol

It’s always had this faction or social movement bridge tension. I feel it can probably only do one of those well. This get down to the nub of it; people from many quarters are saying they want it to change structure, but aren’t really clear what for. What’s the preferred outcome?