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A party still needs leadership that guides the core principles of the party. If it's 100% membership lead then what's to stop the membership being made up entirely of far-right people and creating right wing policies? She's one of the founding members so her opinions carry weight.
That is not the ideal that Your Party is set up on. Rules have not yet been agreed. We members get to look at the 4 founding documents and approve or change next week. So exact processes have not been agreed.
But we do know that the foundation is bottom up. Leaders do not get to make policy. Members do. He processes that control that are to be voted on in November. But the membership is clear. Unlike labour. Leaders taking over the party from the majority of the membership will be made impossible. No vote has happened on NATO. So ZSs comment are not in any way Your Party Policy. And no evidence I have seen so far indicates the majority of the membership would vote for leaving.
What's to stop the members from choosing policy that go against Corbyn's and Zarah's vision? That's what I find confusing. The members might make up a load of right wing policies, then what? Who's going to step in and go "actually, that's not what we envisioned, you can't do that."?
But let me ,Ake one thing clear. You would be more then welcome to join Your Party and express these views. You would not be entirely alone. It is a topic discussed a lot. But the majority of members are more worried about the history of every single party being controlled by small groups. Then an oppositional membership in this format.