Our local Lib Dems have a woke bro problem. I suspect it's because the relative weakness of the party, and the loss of senior statesmen from the internal mechanisms of the party, has made them vulnerable to people who, twenty years ago, would have been in the SWP.
It's one thing that's not much mentioned about Labour either: the extent to which their woes are directly connected to infiltration by individuals that are not from their traditional activist pool.
The LibDems historically did well in local government because they were local people who were perceived to be a safe pair of hands and relatively free from ideological excesses. Nick Clegg destroyed that perception when he formed a government with Cameron, and the party collapsed, leaving desperate for candidates and members. That desperation was, and still is, dangerous.
The core issue, to my mind, is one that affects all British political parties: the wrong types of people are getting involved in party politics, and because the political scene doesn't really work for ordinary people with jobs and families, those people are then being given candidacies and senior roles in parties.
And when I say "wrong types of people", I mean people with dubious, unclarified backgrounds; people with particular agendas; people who just want to be MPs for the ego of it; people who want the extra cash a local council position gives in allowances etc.
It's frightening how bad the situation is, really.