Tweet Early reports from the National Policy Forum meeting in Birmingham at the weekend are encouraging not only about the review of policy itself, but also about the reform of the process. We shall bring you fuller reports by tomorrow, but in the meantime there seem to be grounds for thinking things are really getting [...]
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Not got your Labour ballot papers yet? Read this
Jun 7th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Tweet Voting in Labour’s internal elections is due to close at 5pm on Wednesday 13 June. Ballot packs for these elections were distributed to members between Friday 25 May and Tuesday 29 May. Included among these packs were specific mailings for councillors which included an insert for the election of ALC representatives on the NEC. Most [...]
Labour’s policy review – time to get your views in
Jun 6th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Tweet Six new (but very short) policy statements (which you can view or download here) were circulated to local Labour parties, affiliated organisations and other stakeholders after the May elections and the national policy forum meets again in Birmingham on 16/7 June. Although timescales are short, you and your local party do have the opportunity [...]
The policy forum candidates with convenient access to members’ details
Jun 5th, 2012 by Conrad Landin.Three days ago Joan Ryan’s own NPF plug was dispatched directly from a personal email address. It even reached some members who haven’t been on the London membership register for eight months or more.
“Putting members first” – the easy empty rhetoric of Labour internal elections
Jun 1st, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Tweet What exactly does “putting members first” mean? Sure, it gives the impression of warmth towards your voters in elections to Labour’s national executive and national policy forum. But first before whom? Before the public? Who thinks that? We’re not here for ourselves but to bring about social and economic change which will, in our [...]
Labour’s internal election candidates should have an all-member eMail slot
May 29th, 2012 by Peter Kenyon.Tweet Today, Labour’s national executive committee has been meeting. In the wake of complaints about certain candidates for internal elected office having access to all-members contact details, by fair means or foul, I wondered whether consideration was given to a comradely gesture. Bookmarks Hide Sites
Centre-Left candidates for Labour councillor elections
May 28th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Tweet Labour councillors will receive additional ballot papers to elect their representatives on Labour’s national executive and policy forum. In the election for two NEC representatives, Jay Kramer of Hastings Borough Council will contest with Dave Sparks, leader of Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, and Ann Lucas of Coventry. For the four national policy forum places, [...]
Making Labour policy: who calls the tune?
May 28th, 2012 by Ann Black.Tweet Excellent election results and rising polls have brought a mood of unity and created space and time for serious work on policy. Francois Hollande’s victory shows that austerity is not the only option, and Labour must start to develop an alternative agenda, rejecting the Tory politics of resentment and division in favour of policies [...]
Progress candidate who has abused access to membership database should be banned
May 21st, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Tweet Fiona Twycross, recently elected to the Greater London Assembly and sitting member of the national policy forum, has deliberately abused her privileged access to Labour’s membership database for the second election running. She is a candidate backed by right-wing party-within-a-party, Progress, for election as a London constituency party representative, a position to which she was first [...]
At last, let’s have a policy process which empowers members
May 21st, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Tweet Last week we welcomed Ed’s replacement of Liam Byrne with Jon Cruddas and his nomination of Angela Eagle to chair Labour’s national policy forum. The fact was that Liam Byrne had wasted 18 months without any genuine advance in the policy review, and Peter Hain had failed to establish a working model of member [...]
