The results of the NEC Trade Union division were announced this morning, the Bakers Union has been replaced by the Musicians Union. …
The May NEC
I am not sure how well it’s being circulated, but here is Yasmine Dar’s write up of the last NEC meeting, I don’t think we’ll be ending factionalism any time soon. It’s very long and deals powerfully with policy development, CV19 & the lockdown, and factionalism and the leak and leak inquiry. …
New Blood, New Labour
The NEC are considering whether to use STV for the CLP division of the NEC. This is important, and much discussion is to be had about whether and how this will change the power on the NEC and if its desirable. My helpful contribution is that we never use STV because our preferential systems are for single positions, maybe it would be good, particularly now that many CLPs send multiple delegates to Conference, but we are not talking about that yet.
Much more interesting are Charlie Mansell’s comments.
I think 110,000 new membs who voted 86% right in Leadership elections but did not get a vote in last NEC elections (only 432k eligible) plus 20k new membs since April may do that anyway in next NEC elections under FPTP. Sometimes its about not making a situation worse than it is
— Charlie Mansell (@charliemansell) May 18, 2020
The results of the last NEC which were narrowly won by the right may underestimate their support.
Mind you, if we’re having STV for the CLPs we can have it for the ALC positions.
It all reinforces my feeling that the Left need, as a priority, to talk and listen to those who voted for Jeremy in 2016 and for Kier or Lisa in 2019. …
Corbyn sceptics win positions on Labour’s NEC
The Labour NEC by-election results have been announced, the Labour First slate have won, partly because the Left were split between Momentum and CLPD. Here's Sienna Miller, "Corbynsceptics sweep the board in Labour’s ruling body by-elections" at Labour List, and here's a .pdf mirror of Labour's announcement page.
Vote for the #JC9
And the Labour NEC elections (& NPF) open tomorrow, here’s the momentum video, vote for all 9 of those supporting Corbyn on the NEC.
https://twitter.com/PeoplesMomentum/status/1021118935331041280 …
Labour’s internal elections
Lewisham Deptford CLP has a General Committee tomorrow; it will be making nominations for the Labour Party’s national committee vacancies. I have advertised the names, here & here.
Here is a leaflet for the meeting, it can be reused for any London Region CLP, if you can put up with the Lewisham Deptford for Corbyn branding. …
The Left Slate for Labour’s NEC (2018)
The 2018 slate
Hover over the pictures for their headline message; this is available as a leaflet, see here…, published by CLPD.
I hope you’ll nominate them.
The CLGA are supporting Daniel Blaney of West Ham CLP, Membership No: A885633 for the vacant position on the NCC …
Renewing Party Democracy
The LP NEC is having an away day to discuss reforming its rules and internal democracy, mainly in the light of the massive increase in membership to more than half a million members. Here’s my manifesto for a member led party, I hope to supplement it with some ideas on the use of IT to aid in policy development and expressing the membership voice, but in terms of rules reform …
What do with the registered supporters?
Ann Black reports on the September, pre-conference National Executive Committee at Left Futures. These are clearly hard things to write since getting a balance between hope for the future and a description of what’s happening can be hard. I felt the need to comment. on the running of the election where the point needs to be made that barely legal is not good enough. The coming exclusion of registered supporters is a mistake, and the party has changed; most MPs mandate to speak for the Labour Party has expired as has the utility of the National Policy Forum. …
Some thoughts on the NEC and parliamentary selection rules
The Labour List article on the Orgsub’s tuning of the Parliamentary Selection process has attracted some interesting comments which gives some ideas as to how people think in other constituencies, or at least so I assume; you don’t have to be a Labour Party member to comment (or post) on Labour List. …