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Well, setting up entities designed to circumvent political funding rules has quite a long history in the US - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee#Super_PACs
And while it is indeed the way the world currently works, the general feeling is that it hasn't done American politics any particular favours.
We don't have anything like the scale of the money problem in UK politics as there is in US politics, but fundamentally it's hard to see the difference between Jeremy for Labour Ltd and a Super Pac. It's not a healthy avenue to go down.
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Why is it different from https://www.savinglabour.com or Angela Eagle's now defunct organization and what will be Owen Smith's when he gets it going?
Cheers.
One thing which complicates things is Momentum not being a political party. It's more akin to a pressure group, I suppose. So, in that case, I wonder if this is a perfectly normal organizational structure? Would it be more unusual to have a different structure? Openness and accountability certainly sounds good, but is it particularly possible/easy to achieve, or is this just how things work?
I do wish Buzzfeed would hire some better editors. Their "exposes" are often terrible.