I think Labour may be screwed - the corporate-brand-speak people have taken over

[muriel_volestrangler]

Exclusive: Labour general secretary unveils new party structure to staff

In the presentation, Evans said Labour would be “voter-centric”, i.e. “serving the needs of voters first”, as opposed to engaging in “transactional behaviours”, i.e. “telling voters what they should think or do, or asking questions on our terms”.

The general secretary specified that this would involve developing “winning, voter-centric policies”. He also stressed that Labour needs to be “lean and agile”, which it will achieve using a ‘hub-and-spoke’ model to “meet the needs” of voters.

On the model, the presentation states: “This helps to aggregate and specialise core functions in the “hub”. The “spokes” – which cover the regions and nations – enable our vital citizen-facing activities to be delivered as close to voters as possible.”

It goes on to say Labour will work “collaboratively” in “multidisciplinary teams”, which will “adopt a product-mindset using agile ceremonies, be empowered to make decisions and encouraged to focus on rapid prototyping, deployment and iteration”.

https://labourlist.org/2021/08/exclusive-labour-general-secretary-unveils-new-party-structure-to-staff/

As a friend (and Labour Party member) said, do "agile ceremonies" involve sticking your head up you own arse?

[ms liberty]

1. Omg...it's hilarious and terrifying at the same time. n/t

[T_i_B]

2. One problem with cutting staff

is that it does no good for staff morale, which then makes it much harder for those same staff and supporters to be motivated to go out and campaign.

I don't disagree with the whole "voter-centric" stuff at all, but it is poorly worded. Management speak is not how you get voters to pay attention.