I think not implementing what we believe in because we don’t have members that understand what ppsuk is about is a poor excuse.  How will we ever get members that understand that we are about implementing the nested council (in society as a whole) if we don’t first implement the nested council (in our organisation)? I cant think of any better way to learn about what the nested council means than actually participating in it. 
Im not sure about the communication failure of which you speak, but i think there has been a failure to create the nested council structure within ppsuk.  Instead of having a load of regional chapters that are federated through the nested council we have a load of isolated and marginalised regional chapters and a load of projects that only deal with one issue (meaning that people have to join every single project when all they should have to do is join their regional chapter).
The projects should be scrapped and regional chapters asked to elect delegates.  Until we do this we are not practicing what we preach and therefore cannot expect people to understand what we are about.

“I think not implementing what we believe in because we don’t have members that understand what ppsuk is about is a poor excuse.”

Just out of interest do you hold the same view regarding setting-up a nested council structure on an international scale?  Do you also think that IOPS members should already be doing this?  Or is your criticism specific to the UK - and if so why?

“How will we ever get members that understand that we are about implementing the nested council (in society as a whole) if we don’t first implement the nested council (in our organisation)?”

The idea is to implement the nested council structure within our organisation - but we cant just do this without first identifying a group of people who understand and are committed to this vision and can actually make it real and meaningful in some sense.  


“I cant think of any better way to learn about what the nested council means than actually participating in it.”

That is probably true but to get things started we first need to identify an initial group of people - this is what we have been trying to do over the past couple of years (with some success).  Maybe you think we already have that group of people inside PPS-UK?  If so let me know who they are.  


“we have a load of isolated and marginalised regional chapters”  

In reply I would point out that these chapters are only isolated (in as much as they are) because they choose not to communicate with each other and not because of some feature of PPS-UK that blocks them.  There is NOTHING stopping members of local chapters communicating with each other and setting up meetings at the regional and National level - in fact our site facilitates for this.  

So why doesn’t this happen?  As I have stated my answer is that most members don’t -

1) understand what PPS-UK is about.
2) commit time / money to the organisation.

Now if we could identify a group of people here in the UK who do understand and are committed to participatory vision and strategy then we could start to do what we all want which is to establish a functioning self-managed organisations inspired and informed by our shared vision of an alternative society.  

To my mind the logic - that we first need members who understand and are committed to ParSoc before we can have a functioning organisation - is pretty straightforward.  PPS-UK was set-up to help identify such people in order to facilitate the creation of a functioning organisation.  To some extent this has been successful - I now know a number of people here in the UK who understand and seem committed to parsoc vision and strategy and we are all getting to know each other.  However, along the way, we also seem to have attracted members who dont understand what PPS-UK is about and that have no commitment to the organisation.  That is the problem I think we need to address and I think we should do this by clarifying our organisations identity and membership expectations.  Hopefully this will draw in more of the kind of people we need to move towards a functioning organisation.  

But if members of PPS-UK (like yourself maybe?) would like to try a different approach at moving the organisation forward then feel free to experiment and good luck!