I take it you are not planning
any Labour entryism to vote for a candidate?
Not exact matches
But questions remain over whether they have signed up to the idea of a reformist
Labour Party or are the standard - bearers of a new electronic
entryism.
Labour party representatives have been accusing the hard left of «
entryism» in the run up to the leadership election next month.
However, a YouGov poll out this week showed that Corbyn was well ahead of his rivals, even with long - standing
Labour members, suggesting that any
entryism will not change the final result.
Amid concern about
entryism, Corbyn opponents have described it as a rival conference and noted that it is open to people who are not official conference delegates or
Labour members.
This view is echoed by the veteran
Labour activist Luke Akehurst, who is no friend of the wider left but who has dismissed the current panic over
entryism.
Like many on the left in the early 1980s, Cook had to face up to the implications of Militant
entryism and other threats to the
Labour party's very existence.
Labour has endured assorted periods of anxiety in the past about
entryism from the left before, both indirectly (via Stalinist and later Trotskyist penetration of trades unions) and directly (through local party organisations).
With the
Labour Party in power, and many
Labour members becoming disillusioned, IS started doing more work that was external to the
Labour Party; it ceased to practise «
entryism» as a tactic around 1965.