There is a clear way for the Labour party to progress; it must open up its primaries to talented regional politiciansWho is really powerful in the British Labour party? Who wins votes,decides policies, commands budgets, or doles out jobs? Who knows how to run something?I relate you the retort.
It is people such as Richard Leese,Nick Forbes, Judith Blake, or Albert Bore,Julie Dore, Peter Soulsby, and Jules Pipe and Robin Wales. You have probably never heard of them,because you mediate important politics happens only in Westminster. The above are Labour leaders, half of them elected mayors, and in Manchester,Newcastle, Leeds, or Birmingham,Sheffield, Leicester, and Hackney and Newham.
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Source: theguardian.com