Your Party Members Have Just Hours Left: The Democratic Window Is Slamming Shut

If You Want a Democratic Party, Participate Now, or Forever Hold Your Peace

Your Party members have entered the most critical 36 hours in the party’s short existence.

The founding documents have been published. The amendment portal is open. And the clock is ticking, loudly, mercilessly.

This is not a drill. This is not a rehearsal. This is the moment that decides whether Your Party becomes a genuine democratic movement owned by its members, or another stage-managed Westminster project, designed in committee rooms and simply rubber-stamped by exhausted grassroots volunteers.

Because the truth is stark: Members now have less than 14 hours left to submit any amendments. After 8am tomorrow, 27 November, that window slams shut.

Once it’s closed, that’s it. No second chances. No slow deliberation. No renegotiation months down the line. Whatever structure is in those documents at 8am tomorrow is the foundation upon which everything else will rest.

A Democratic Process on Fast-Forward

Let’s be honest: the timetable for establishing the DNA of this party is absolutely absurd.

Date	Event
Tuesday 25 November	Documents published, amendment portal opens
Thursday 27 November, 8am	Portal closes (Only 48 hours for members)
Thursday 27 November, midday	“In-order” amendments published; priority ballot opens
Friday 28 November, 3pm	Priority ballot closes

This entire constitutional process, something that normally takes months of consultation in any democratic organisation, is being compressed into three days. Ordinary members have been given barely 48 hours to read, understand, and amend documents that will determine:

• How the party is run.
• How policy is made.
• How MPs are held to account.
• How your rights within the party exist, or do not.

If this is the birth of a “new politics”, it is an alarmingly premature one, and one that seems engineered for chaos and confusion, not for consensus.

Most Power Structures Are Already Ring-Fenced

This is the harsh truth:

Most of the structural decisions about Your Party’s future have already been made.

The centralising forces running this process have already hedged their bets. The leadership describes a period of “collective deliberation” that produced their own roadmap amendments. These amendments get automatic priority. If your amendment overlaps with them, yours is simply thrown out.

Translation: The most important decisions about the party’s power structure were already made behind closed doors. Your amendments must fit around those pre-approved decisions; you cannot challenge them head-on.

And the restrictions go much further:

• You cannot add new sections.
• You cannot propose an alternative overall power structure.
• You cannot amend the political statement.
• You cannot challenge the temporary “stewardship period.”
• You cannot request faster elections or alter the CEC timetable.

This is democracy surrounded by hazard tape. It is an invitation to tinker with punctuation, not to challenge central authority.

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The February CEC Elections: A Black Box Until Then

One of the most concerning elements of this rushed agenda is the delay of the foundational elections. Under the current structure:

“CEC elections have been brought forward by a month… This is the earliest timeline organisationally possible… Amendments seeking to accelerate or alter this process will not be in order.”

Meaning: MPs and a five-person sortition committee, not elected members, will run the party until at least February. Members have no route to challenge this, and crucial decisions taken in that period will shape the party long before the elected CEC even takes office.

This isn’t a transitional structure, it’s a temporary monopoly. With no ability to amend it, members must ask a crucial question: Who benefits from this delay? Because it certainly isn’t the grassroots that deserve transparency and accountability from Day One.

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If You Want Democracy, You Have Until 8 AM TOMORROW

This is as real as it gets. You have just over 14 hours to propose amendments.

Not theoretical democracy. Not poetic democracy. Not democracy as mere branding.

We are talking about actual member power, the kind that shapes constitutions, checks central authority, and prevents MPs from becoming de facto proprietors of a new political force.

If you don’t act now:

1. The organisational structure will solidify as written.
2. The current balance of power will be locked in.
3. The leadership will be able to point to this rushed process as “member-led” while pointing out that no significant challenge was mounted.

The next real opportunity to change the fundamental rules governing you could be years away. Movements are shaped at birth. Parties are captured at conception.

Your Party is being formed right now, and the window for shaping it is shrinking by the minute.

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What You Can Still Do… Tonight

Do not assume others will do it. Do not assume your concerns are already included. Do not assume the founding documents have your rights baked in.

Before the deadline at 8 AM tomorrow:

1. Read the organisational strategy.
2. Identify clauses that centralise power and lack accountability.
3. Draft short, specific amendments that force accountability and member sovereignty.
4. Submit them before 8am Thursday.
5. Prepare to vote in the priority ballot at midday tomorrow.

Tonight, right now, at 6pm on 26 November 2025, the choice is brutally simple:

Submit amendments and fight for a democratic party, or wake up in a party designed without you.

The window is small. The hour is late. The clock is ticking. If members don’t seize this moment, others will, and they already have a head start.

What Members Should Demand… While There Is Still Time

If you want Your Party to be democratic, not another centralised Westminster vehicle, consider amendments in these areas:

• Stronger decentralisation and member control
• Clear rights of recall for the CEC and leadership
• Greater transparency and reporting requirements
• Guarantees of open selections and member-led policy
• Explicit protection against factional capture
• Limits on MP dominance over party structures
• Mechanisms to expand member oversight throughout the year
• The right to free speech and opinion within Your Party

These are not luxuries; they are the difference between a movement and a managerial product.

The Clock Is Ticking

Your Party was born promising a new politics.

Whether it becomes one depends entirely on what happens right now, in this narrow, inconvenient, rushed, bureaucratic window.

If members do not seize this moment, they may wake up after the conference to find the party they dreamed of has already been designed without them.

Democracy dies not only through suppression, but through scheduling.

You have until Thursday morning.
After that, the design becomes the destiny.

Act now. Write amendments. Vote in the priorities ballot.
Make Your Party your party, before someone else does.

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The referenced founding documents and amendment portal can be found here: https://www.yourparty.uk/founding-documents-evolutions-amendments/