Labour’s National executive is still deliberating on Refounding Labour. Labour List reports that “Labour will be recruiting “registered supporters” locally, who will get to vote in the Labour leadership campaign in the affiliates section (often referred to, somewhat inaccurately, as the union section)“. This is wrong in principle. It is a recipe for corruption. And […]
Posts Tagged ‘Refounding Labour’
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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Compass and party democracy – good intentions misdirected
Sep 12th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.On Friday, a letter appeared in the Guardian which argued that the party needed to change and be refounded, power should be handed back to the membership and the NEC should commit to a programme of bold and radical reforms that would re-democratise the party and devolve power away from the centre. So far, so good. […]
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Refounding Labour: new attempt to stitch up constituency parties
Sep 5th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.So far, Refounding Labour has meant proposing to dilute the influence of party members by enfranchising non-members who become “registered supporters”, attacking union influence, seeking to prevent proper debate and decision-making by having just one vote on a single package of reforms, and failing to publish submissions to the review. Now party officials have found […]
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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?
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Ed Miliband and the unions – a losing battle?
Aug 19th, 2011 by Mark Seddon.Ed Miliband has emerged from two national crises with flying colours. He may have been a little late coming to the first – the Murdoch hacking scandal – but better late than never. As it was, he managed to sound both authoritative and urgent when turning his fire on the Prime Minister, David Cameron’s astonishing lapse of judgement […]
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Peter Watt is boring and irrelevant
Aug 18th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.According to Peter Watt, a former New Labour General Secretary who writes at Labour Uncut today, “politics is boring and irrelevant“. What he really means is that the politics and concerns of politicians and activists are boring and irrelevant, that is they are out of step with what real people are thinking. This is his […]
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Refounding Labour: conference timetable stitch-up
Aug 8th, 2011 by Peter Kenyon.According to the draft Labour Party Annual Conference timetable, rule changes and other matters arising from the Refounding Labour ‘consultation’ will be ‘decided’ on Sunday 25 September – the first day. The proposals themselves will be tabled at a deferred Organisation Committee on Thursday 15 September, and decided at the Labour’s pre-Conference executive committee on Tuesday […]
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Ed and the mystery of unpublished Refounding Labour submissions
Aug 3rd, 2011 by Peter Kenyon.Come on. It’s the silly season. How many Labour Party members does it take to publish what they think? More than are currently paid up. On present showing, Labour can’t afford openness and transparency, it’s still paying off its debts. Oh, how Ed must yearn for the days of “Tony wants”, and “Gordon says”. Remember […]
