Dennis Skinner was yesterday unceremoniously booted off Labour’s national executive by Labour MPs. Voting for two of the three seats representing backbench MPs and all MEPs (Margaret Beckett was elected unopposed under gender balance requirements) put chalenger John Healey miles ahead on 216, with Steve Rotherham edging Dennis Skinner out by 133 to 121. Dennis […]
Posts Tagged ‘NEC’
Skinner knocked off Labour executive – election interference seems a yearly event
Jul 3rd, 2014 by Jon Lansman.
NEC elections: nominations show a shift to the left
Jun 25th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.The close of nominations for candidates for election to Labour’s national executive revealed that the Left has improved its position compared with two years ago, although fewer nominations were received – 1377 altogether from 288 constituency parties (CLPs) compared with 2105 from 431 CLPs in 2012. Overall, candidates backed by the Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance (CLGA) again […]
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Ann Black’s report from Labour’s June executive
Jun 12th, 2014 by Ann Black.National Executive Committee, 3 June 2014 The NEC congratulated newly-elected councillors and MEPs and thanked members, trade unions and party staff for their hard work. In July David Sparks will become Chair of the Local Government Association, as Labour is now the largest group, and he hoped to welcome Ed Miliband to their annual conference. […]
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Christine Shawcroft reports back on Labour’s June executive
Jun 4th, 2014 by Christine Shawcroft.Short Report of the national executive committee (NEC) meeting held on 3 June 2014 (a more complete report will follow) The most controversial part of this meeting came right at the end when a reference from the Organisation committee was brought up. Several seats where women were standing down at the General Election had come up […]
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Machine politics alive and well in Labour leader’s office
Jun 3rd, 2014 by Jon Lansman.Labour’s national executive met today with a row brewing over a handful of parliamentary selections where the current MP is retiring. It’s a row that exposes the continuing machine politics tendencies of Labour’s leader’s office whose fixers are still are work even if their leader says he wants an end to machine politics. And it also reveals […]
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In defence of slates
Apr 7th, 2014 by Conrad Landin.It’s spring of an even year, and time therefore for an excess of self-promotion on social media. Why on earth, I hear you cry. Because in a few months time ballot papers will hit the doormats of two hundred thousand Labour members, for that most glamorous of glamorous elections: for members’ reps on Labour’s national […]
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Ann Black’s report from Labour’s March executive
Apr 7th, 2014 by Ann Black.National Executive Committee, 25 March 2014 The NEC stood in silence to pay tribute to Tony Benn and other comrades, including Bob Crow whose untimely death had shocked and saddened us all. David Sparks then reported on a successful local government conference. He shared NEC concerns about the effect of continuing pay restraint on staff and the services they […]
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Christine Shawcroft reports back on Labour’s March executive
Mar 26th, 2014 by Christine Shawcroft.Report of the national executive committee (NEC) meeting held on 25 March 2014 We usually have obituaries at NEC meetings, mostly of people I never knew, but this time it was for someone who I knew very well. The Chair asked if anyone wanted to add anything to Tony Benn’s printed obituary, but we’ve all said […]
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Bogus consultation and stage management. So much for transparency
Feb 27th, 2014 by Peter Willsman.In the furore over Collins, there have been three main areas of concern. There is concern over the actual proposals and their implications – those have been addressed on this site by Jon Lansman. I would like to address the second and third of these areas of concern – the way the proposals are being […]
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Ann Black’s report from Labour’s February special executive
Feb 10th, 2014 by Ann Black.National Executive Committee, 4 February 2014 This meeting was called to agree the proposals for party reform which will go to the special conference on 1 March. The paper before us was labelled Draft 18, and someday I would love to follow its evolution through the previous 17 drafts. The final version, after amendment by […]
