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'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/ 

The members' 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'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.