It’s not a great surprise that Ken Livingstone is a member of Momentum, the Corbynite grassroots organisation that is definitely not at all like Militant, and definitely not going to campaign for de-selections in constituencies. He revealed his membership on BBC News, saying ‘I mean, I’m a member of Momentum. Our task, the first thing we’re focusing on, is getting those two million voters who have been kicked off the voting register by the government’s new rules, getting out to them, getting them back on that register. It’s a campaigning organisation, not some nasty bit of work like the old Militant.
Seb found the same when he spent an evening eating curry with Momentum in Oldham. But ConservativeHome’s Mark Wallace last night attended a Momentum meeting in Lambeth, and found leaflets on each chair from the Socialist Party calling for deselection of MPs.
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