“Over the years we have come across as graceless, voracious, crass, always on the take,” he wrote. People do not want to join the party because they “think we’ll beg and steal from them. And they’re right,”.....
“It is certainly not a question of him ruffling feathers or people being upset at what he said, and he wasn’t spoken to by anyone higher up in the party about its contents. The report was for members, it was a local initiative done with the full agreement of the national party.”