It's a community interest company. It was done that way because the Labour right use "lawfare" so readily and none of us involved (at least so far) have the sort of dosh that allows us to take chances with that. So if we scare the Labour Party enough that they start using court cases to bankrupt us (which is a tactic they have used in the past few years on a few people) nobody ends up with long term problems as a result. OCISA itself gets wound up the moment the election is over. If the candidate wins anu leftover funds go towards staffing and equipping their office in Parliament, if not they get donated to something else via a final vote by the membership. It's not a political party. It's more like an employment agency choosing a candidate for the job of MP for Holborn St Pancras and presenting them to the electorate as a potential employee. The candidate themselves will be an independent and doesn't even have to be a member of OCISA. So long as nobody involved does anything illegal the worst that can happen is that a court case can be brought against OCISA, which would take until after the election, and then it will be already dissolved. We have learned from what has been done in the past to Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone, and Tony Greenstein. None of us have the public profile to raise the sort of money they have had to.
