If you are in any doubt about the extent of control freakery operating still in the Labour Party, take a look at the contemporary motions. Gordon Brown had abolished these back in 2007 just after becoming leader – they were the last chance left for conference to vote on policy issues. Until then, most had […]
Posts Tagged ‘Labour Democracy’
Party democracy is being stitched up at Labour’s conference
Sep 22nd, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Two key changes were needed to make good Ed Miliband’s promise of a change of direction at his election to the leadership. One was obviously a shift away from New Labour’s Faustian deal with neo-liberal capitalism and Blair-Brown’s accommodation with the banks, big business and Murdoch press in support of deregulated finance and privatised free […]
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Refounding Labour – avoiding a shabby stitch-up is still (just) possible
Sep 22nd, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Yesterday, we reported on the transparency and accountability in how Refounding Labor has been handled and the shameful farce of putting the whole package to conference as a package with a single debate and vote. Today we discover that there isn’t even going to be a real debate, time perhaps for two or three CLP […]
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Refounding Labour: political homeopathy
Sep 21st, 2011 by David Osler.Interestingly enough, Peter Hain is one of the few people with credibility in public life openly to champion homeopathy. So to his way of thinking, it presumably follows that by diluting the influence of unions in the Labour Party, Refounding Labour will ultimately make them that much stronger. The only snag is that the particular form […]
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Refounding Labour – lacking democracy in process and content
Sep 21st, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Ed Miliband promised change. A real voice for members. A “living, breathing party”. We think he does believe in that, but he hasn’t delivered it in Refounding Labour, not in form or content. Taking it as a whole, which is how party managers are forcing us to take it with just one vote on the […]
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Refounding Labour offers young people nothing
Sep 19th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Last week’s decisions on the final recommendations of Refounding Labour by Labour’s national executive’s Organisation Committee offered absolutely nothing to young people. Not even a passing reference. Not surprising then the Chair of Young Labour, Susan Nash, and the NEC youth and student rep, Callum Munro, have to issue a call this morning for a party […]
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Refounding Labour threatens local accountability
Sep 19th, 2011 by David Gardner.Rumour has it that the NEC is considering abandoning the Local Government Committee and handing over local policy formulation to an as yet undefined group of local officials to include the Labour group leader! A fig leaf of a local coordinating forum would take on the role of panel formulation, candidate selection supervision and election oversight. This […]
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Will Ed order immediate publication of draft new Clause 1?
Sep 5th, 2011 by Peter Kenyon.Today’s Guardian carried a story misleadingly headlined, Ed Miliband seeks to rewrite Labour’s founding principles. I think that should have read return to Labour’s founding principles. But as ever the devil is in the detail. What is the proposed new Clause 1?
