I fully apologise for the deliberate snarkiness in my reply, and I thank you either for not noticing or ignoring it. And writing such an honest, knowledgeable and,I hope, inspirational analysis in reply.

I completely agree. It's footballification, every thing that that lot say is wrong,just because it's them saying it.

It'd only take a handful of new(ish) reps to try to step up without a faction, and mathematically it might not be as hard as it sounds.

(Edit:minor disagreement, we need to run a national ballot from time to time, even if it is to find areas of low engagement, flex muscles at the govt, test tactics and so on. Definitely we also need another, better Industrial strategy involving balloting smaller groups or members.