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The Labour Conference Decision on Shortlisting Panels Should be Respected
CLPD
The NEC is taking control of Labour’s by-election process in Old Bexley and Sidcup, despite a rule change passed by Labour Party conference which explicitly gave local CLPs control over Westminster by-elections and snap elections.
See here for a model motion opposing the NEC decision. Yellow Pages
Report from Labour Party Conference
Elaine Bolton
This conference was intended to break the Left of the party. So why have I come home more hopeful than before? Report from Labour's Annual Conference 2021 by CLPD EC member Elaine Bolton.
Gemma Bolton's NEC Update
Gemma Bolton
See here for Gemma Bolton's report of the NEC's meeting 17th September 2021 See more
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Johnson thinks he has a winning formula – an interventionist, left of centre approach to the economy and a tough, right of centre approach to law and order, immigration and culture wars.Larry Elliot
Guardian, 7 October 2021
"There are many reasons why our Party should continue to fully support First-Past-The-Post, and reject the entreaties of those pressing for Proportional Representation. In the North West in the Euros, we had a very clear lesson as to the damage PR does to Labour. Under FPTP we had 10 out of 10 MEPs. Under PR we went down to only two MEPs and a far right/neo fascist was elected MEP. I joined the Labour Party because I believe it offers the best way forward for the mass of the people. That obviously means winning the maximum number of seats,not losing seats!" CLPD strongly believes that Annual Conference must endorse First-Past-The-Post. Failure to do this will give a huge boost to the Far Right, to the discredited Lib Dems and to the non-socialist Greens.Andrew Gwynne MP
, 1 September 2021
"Belief in the sanctity of the rule of law and civil liberties runs across...parts of the Labour left...but the supposed mainstream tends to either scoff at such ideas or meekly look the other way."- John Harris
Guardian, 2nd August
"The main progressive political party in this country is pandering to the worst kind of regressive politics. The failures we see notched up daily by Starmer's team aren't just political - they are moral"- Aditya Chakrabortty
Guardian, 8th July