Yes, flowers, I am one of the infiltrators. Except we weren't infiltrators to begin with, were we? We were invited in, feted as 'ordinary people', 'the 99%', 'hard-working' mums and dads, etc. That is until they heard what we had to say.
Thanks for the article link. I read it, but disagree with much of what it says. Obviously there are a few loons and crackpots around who the Police need to deal with. However, I think the rebel MPs and right-wing NEC members are (deliberately?) confusing robust debate with harassment. Freedom of expression and assembly, protest marches, peaceful pickets etc. are in the DNA of the Labour movement, and I am proud to participate in them. I don't suppose the Establishment was too pleased when the Chartists assembled on Kennington Green, or the men of Jarrow marched south, but this is how ordinary people make change happen. Ironically, the ban on CLP meetings will make Labour members more likely to resort to these tactics.
Those who assume political office have a duty to listen, not just to people who look and sound like them and say things that they approve of, but to everybody. Not all of us had the benefit of being shuttled from PPE at Oxford into a parliamentary seat. We make our arguments in whatever clumsy way we can.
By all accounts the hours-long meeting of MPs in which Corbyn was serially denounced was a very hostile affair. It must have been extremely unpleasant for him to endure. But I absolutely defend the right of those MPs to put their points across. Free expression is, after all, of paramount importance in a democracy. But it worries me that, in attempting to silence members, right-wingers are treating it as expendable in order to make short term political gains.