Tom Heavey.

Your Party Is Dead, Long Live Your Party: The Second Chance Why Your Party’s Dual Membership Ban Could Save the Left Labour Heartlands warned from the beginning that Your Party would be captured if it could not find its own identity. Everything we feared came to pass. And now, in the wreckage of Sunday’s CEC vote and Scotland’s resignations, something unexpected has appeared in the dust: the possibility of the party we always believed this could be. What the CEC did on Sunday was not a death blow. It was a caesarean. The old Your Party, the version captured by liberal-left identity politics and sophisticated entryism before it had drawn its first independent breath, had to be cut away for the living thing inside to survive. The operation was brutal. It came late. It left scars. But it was necessary, and the CEC had the courage to perform it. When 800,000 people crashed a website to join a movement that did not yet have a manifesto, a structure, or even an agreed leader. They did not sign up for debates about gender recognition at Tuesday night branch meetings. They signed up for a party that would talk to them about the energy bill that had doubled in three years. They did not sign up for the careful policing of ideological purity by organisations with their own competing agendas. They signed up for a party that understood that a former steel town is not failed because its people lacked ambition, but because forty years of political choices stripped it of the industry that gave ambition a destination. They signed up, in short, for something recognisable to anyone who has read Tony Benn, or stood on a picket line, or watched a factory close and wondered why the government that claimed to represent working class seemed always to be standing on the other side of the gates. Read more on "Why Your Party’s Dual Membership Ban Could Save the Left" labourheartlands.com/your-pa… #yourparty @thisisyourparty @jeremycorbyn @zarahsultana

Regardless of what you think of any particular party, celebrating the expulsion of hard-working socialists at a time when we urgently and desperately need a strong, united fightback against the far-right is not the good look some think it is.

Our statement on the @thisisyourparty expulsions

This decision is **retroactive**, meaning it won't just apply to new members, but to every member of the Party. CEC has ruled that dual membership was ALWAYS against the rules, and therefore anyone who joined whilst being a member of another party is subject to expulsion 👀

📍Handley Drive, Brindley Ford. Same message here as Chell Green, Silverstone Crescent, Pitts Hill, Fegg Hayes & Wedgwood Farm: nuisance bikes, intimidation, neglected spaces, ASB. Not isolated, a pattern. We need hotspot status & action. We don’t surrender estates. We organise.

Evening Twitter An outstanding day out with our candidate facebook.com/share/1NZSZsjJm… His community survey for Audley is going down a storm. Please RT so we may reach more residents. 👇 forms.gle/p8Wwq6TeM4sbwEfx5 #AudleyMatters

There are just 55 billionaires resident in all of the UK. 55. By comparison there are 123 billionaires in New York City alone. These are literally the most mobile people on the face of the planet. Any tax system that is predicated upon squeezing the hyper mobile will fail.