One (?) more thing about the Labour revelations. The culture of sniggering insincerity, backscratching and contempt for people outside the loop is *normal* in British public life. For a sizeable minority being good at your job means making lots of money for doing nothing.

Charities, NGOs, media institutions etc have a layer of senior operators who draw vastly inflated salaries while taking credit for the work done by ordinary staff. The Labour Party is part of a broader picture - organisations with a campaigning mission have been captured.

This process of capture has been part of the hidden cost of the market reforms post-1979. The idea of public service has been rendered incoherent. The weakness of democratic oversight has made the problem much, much worse.

The instant classic text on this is @AeronDavis1& #39;s Reckless Opportunists - a book I tried and failed to find a mainstream publisher for. Publishers too have been hollowed out by a poisonous culture that flatters the winners in the awful scramble. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526127280/ ">https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152612...

The members& #39; ignorance about the nature of the Labour Party is an invaluable asset for those who benefit most from the current arrangements. And in this the party is a microcosm of British public life.

This is why we have to change the distribution of knowledge in Labour. If we don& #39;t then ordinary people will pay their subs, put their trust in the media approved, sensible candidate, and be derided as suckers behind their backs.