One of the many, many, many stupid things about this idea is that it assumes our information environment is in some way sensible, not dysfucntional, toxic and churning out industrial quantities of disinformation every day. Which would of course get loads worse if ever this crackpot idea got implemented. It wont't be but still.
No it isn't. It's assuming that the Labour Party members (on £3 a month or whatever it is) have a better handle of national security issues than people whose actual job it is to think about this stuff, full time, read security briefings etc.
There is a strong argument for bombing ISIS in Syria and I would support efforts to have those political discussions with people and forcing our leaders to take that and Yemen seriously.
If you start with a position that war is generally the worst way of resolving disputes and that we cannot ultimately trust the state to reflect our interests and those of ordinary people in other countries, then starting a discussion about how we might put the brakes on all this is at least worth a go.
This is lovely in theory but with the cast of characters involved and the previous positions they've taken on literally everything, no. Just no.
If the Labour Left/leadership had ever taken credible moral stances on events that conflict with their campist geopolitical biases I might go with it (see Paul Mason on Syria for an example of what I'm on about). Was reading a book on Corbynism at the weekend and the authors (Matt Bolton/Harry Pitts) pointed out the reason for the importance of STW on the Left is in part because all of these people were shut out of having any say in domestic politics under Blair. They also point out that Iraq is a kind of ultimate trump card for deploying in any argument about foreign policy. Any intervention ever gets the "BUT IRAQ" treatment. It's also given them an unhealthy glow of righteousness that fed into the cult of Corbyn.
You can't concede a monopoly of violence to the state, based on an argument that the alternative is that a few hundred weird lefties will then run everything. That isn't going to happen either.