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Starmer and Labour are going to expel 1000 members from the party.

There were a lot of never were and never will be "members" who paid a few quid just before the last leadership election to join and to be able to vote. Many were found to be members of other parties too (ood a thunk it?) and were rightly kicked into touch. I'm sure they all joined at the last minute with the future of the Labour Party at the heart of their intentions.  Have they paid again this year?

If the "purge" is catching those of similar intentions I won't lose any sleep over it. Nor will I if it's catching arseholes who should form a party of their own that has nothing to do with Labour values and they are basically Klingons that are realistically just ass wiping bad.

A lot of people were kicked out who were anti-semitic.

The leadership rules have been changed at conference to stop someone like Corbyn becoming the leader again. You have to be a member for more than 6 months to vote in leadership elections now and the Labour MPs have more say than the members on who the leader will be.

The leadership election you refer to where people of other parties paid £3 to vote in the leadership election was back in 2015 when Corbyn got elected as leader and I think the 2016 leadership challenge as well.