Sentences with word «entryism»

Mrs Ellman says she has handed over evidence of entryism in her local) Labour Party — and wants to see a crackdown.

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).

Moderate MPs complaining about hard - left entryism should also recognise that many local parties were ripe for «take over».

What happens then to the issues where the Party disagrees with most of its voters 1 Immigration 2 Criminal Justice 3 Social progressivism (in all its forms) The left have avoided the debate with real people by the use of class entryism into the Party and its positions of power.

So many new members have joined the party that it throws the accusation of entryism into doubt.

No, not entryism.

He began saying how proud he was that 560,000 people had signed up to vote in the leadership contest — although he did not mention entryism or the shambles of the registered - supporters provision.

The contest was dogged by controversy, with accusations of left - wing entryism as well as Tory trouble - makers applying to vote, then claims of a purge of Corbynites.

I take it you are not planning any Labour entryism to vote for a candidate?

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.

Lambeth Councillor Alex Bigham sent a dossier to his party recommending that website editor Jason Cobb, be excluded from voting, due to «possible entryism»

He also rejected claims of entryism adding that he was not a member of any rival party or organisation.

Fears of widespread entryism by far - left groups and Tories have been repeatedly spread by critics of Corbyn.

One MP warned of «1980s - style entryism» as the left grew in strength.

• Oh, the irony, Neil Kinnock pleading for entryism to defeat the Labour leadership.

Clearly, this is not evidence of entryism on a significant scale.

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.

Other Trotskyist groups, such as the Socialist Workers» Party, eschewed direct entryism but try to cultivate what Lenin would have called «useful idiots»: fellow travellers on the left at all levels of the party who can be influenced to take particular lines on key issues.

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.

More than 30 years after the heyday of Militant, the phenomenal success of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign has led some to accuse the left of entryism once again.

The biggest complication for those running England's schools is that it is a system with a built - in vulnerability to energetic entryism.

He openly boasted about entryism»

Primaries help the right because they stop the left using class entryism to employ working class conservative votes in support of a socially progressive project they do not wantThey help the right, in other words, because they provide real accountability.

Corbyn today dismissed the suggestion of hard - left entryism and argued that the new supporters of Labour would turn it into a social movement again.

I have got evidence of entryism and a plot against me.

The feared «entryism» has not happened in the US nor did it happen in Totnes.

In the New Statesman, George Eaton noted that the UK Conservative Party (currently in power as the larger member of a coalition) is experiencing such low membership that it is vulnerable to «entryism», joining a party with the aim of changing its direction.

And what's in all this talk of cliques, of entryism and movementism (your own version of what I called above «affective language»), of closed versus open and so forth except so much hot air?

This so - called «entryism» was how local parties fell under Militant control.

With a membership of more than half a million, it is hard to see that as the product of «entryism» (at least in the traditional sense of that word).

The final group, the «Trots» as they are sometimes (somewhat inaccurately) referred to, are accused of seeing Momentum as either a vehicle for influencing the Labour Party («entryism»), or as the foundation for a new party to challenge the Labour Party from the left.

Call it «entryism» by another name, if you like.

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.

Comparisons have been drawn with Militant and the «entryism» of the 1980s.

Even Lord Mandelson accused the unions of «entryism»!

«The entryism I see is lots of young people who have hitherto not [been] very excited by politics coming in for the first time and saying «yeah, we can have a discussion».

The peak of the hysteria around Corbyn, entryism and Momentum was reached on Monday night, with two back - to - back documentaries on Channel 4 and the BBC.

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.

If Corbyn wins the election, the entryism myth will fester in some elements of the party's Blairite rump and their supporters in the right - wing media.

The key complaint is that this left the party vulnerable to «entryism» by political opponents — particularly from wider and wilder leftist movements outside parliament.

Although there has been some entryism, it would be wrong to categorise Corbyn supporters as hard - left trots.

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.

The difference between former trots like Straw or communists like Ried or Clarke, was there weren't part of a organization braking the party rules in entryism

Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show, he said: «The entryism that I see is lots of young people who were hitherto not very excited by politics coming in for the first time.»

These numbers raise all sorts of questions about the health of Conservative Associations in supposedly deep blue constituencies and the degree to which selection meetings, including open primaries, are vulnerable to entryism.