get trapped in a silo which prevents me engaging with every sector of society that might agree to join the battle against climate change, left right or centre. This is my emotional response to your offer. However though these are my own feelings and though it may sound hypocritical I support as many people as possible from the left joining Labour at this critical juncture. More particularly I hope Cunliffe sticks with Labour and continues speaking and advocating for the climate and social justice both. If he gets the policies he has been talking about taken up then yes I would join in a flash. And would probably be joined in a flood back to Labour by the movementist activist left. Until then. I hope you will understand me that I feel I must keep my options open at the current time. Though in saying all of the above, I and I am sure many others on the wider left are willing to be convinced. The problem with having open membership to any organisation that issues, makes or filters decisions at the center or top that perculate out or down, is that those occupying the positions of power (which are also the positions that most information flows through) are vulnerable to number's games. (Ie, their power and positions can be usurped) Think of the Greens (or any other org. that adheres to a more or less fixed ideological view). When they first started, what would it have taken for another