nicky, if you're still arguing that Corbyn's election as leader was a thing that had no right to happen-even though it reflected a massive shift in opinions among the Labour rank-and-file- you can't legitimately argue, at the same time, that Starmer has the right to run the party like a Stalinist dictator.
He does not have the authority to bar CLPs from debating either his intransigence about making Corbyn crawl OR or their confidence in him as leader.
Starmer has no greater authority to do anything as leader than Corbyn did.
It's absurd to act as though he "counts" as leader but his predecessor didn't.
And it is now clear that the voters are not turning away from Starmer over his authoritatian bullying tactics and his decision to keep the war against the Left going rather than unifying the party and focusing on what he is supposed to be focusing on, which is attacking the Tories and the Right and no one else.