Re: Seems like justice has actually been served
It's the same thing that happens to all fringe political movements. UKIP was founded by a bunch of economists who wanted to make economic arguments against the EU. Like the AfD in Germany (though they were only anti-Euro). But economists need someone to hold their hands when crossing roads - so their parties get taken over. UKIP by Farage, and then run as a personal project. Why do you think the Brexit Party was a company with him in sole control? Then once he left, they increasinly were run by whatever loony could get to the top before being toppled. AfD got taken over by the far right. At the BNP I seem to recall someone nicked the money and someone else leaked the membership database.
On the left of politics the Socialist Workers, Communist Party of Great Britain, TUSC and the like are often a vipers nest of horribleness and changing names and committees.
It's the organisations with an actual hope of doing something that are usually a bit more stable and sensible because there are more normal people kicking around. For a given value of normal - in that being a political activist is a pretty niche activity. The influx of people from the far left groups into Labour has lowered the niceness levels of their party's internal politics - though Brown and Blair were originally mates and did that pretty effectively between themselves too - because power is also an incentive to be horrible to people. It's just odd that complete lack of power also attracts some of the more horrible people out of the woodwork.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
