Post by stevedtrm on Sept 6, 2016 13:35:21 GMT
ACRONYMS:-
PLP - Parliamentary Labour party
NEC- National Executive Committee
CLP- Constituency Labour Party
BLP- Branch Labour Party
1) Conference is the supreme body of the labour party.
2) The local CLPs send delegates to conference who are elected at CLP meetings.
3) The National Executive Comittee generally controls the party and its staff on a day to day basis in all the national and regional offices.
4) The only meaningful tool conference has to control the NEC is by approving rules or sometimes orders, motions or policies which the NEC is bound by law to follow.
5) The senior member of staff the NEC appoints or has the power to dismiss is the general secretary.
6) MPs are selected by the CLP they seek to represent but the NEC must approve all MPs
7) the NEC has subcommittees which are responsible for discipline and suspending, investigating and expelling people from the party.
8) The NEC has a procedures subcomittee which controls elections for leader.
9) the party membership elects the leader of the party by one member one vote ballot.
10) Local labour parties are CLPS, which are usually split into branches by ward. These branches send delegates to vote at CLP meetings for CLP elections and motions.
As you can see above, apart from MPs which respresent Labour in parliament, the NEC has so much power to control Labour, that there is no comparable internal organisation.
It is critical that we work to elect fair and just people to the NEC.
Seven.
PLP - Parliamentary Labour party
NEC- National Executive Committee
CLP- Constituency Labour Party
BLP- Branch Labour Party
1) Conference is the supreme body of the labour party.
2) The local CLPs send delegates to conference who are elected at CLP meetings.
3) The National Executive Comittee generally controls the party and its staff on a day to day basis in all the national and regional offices.
4) The only meaningful tool conference has to control the NEC is by approving rules or sometimes orders, motions or policies which the NEC is bound by law to follow.
5) The senior member of staff the NEC appoints or has the power to dismiss is the general secretary.
6) MPs are selected by the CLP they seek to represent but the NEC must approve all MPs
7) the NEC has subcommittees which are responsible for discipline and suspending, investigating and expelling people from the party.
8) The NEC has a procedures subcomittee which controls elections for leader.
9) the party membership elects the leader of the party by one member one vote ballot.
10) Local labour parties are CLPS, which are usually split into branches by ward. These branches send delegates to vote at CLP meetings for CLP elections and motions.
As you can see above, apart from MPs which respresent Labour in parliament, the NEC has so much power to control Labour, that there is no comparable internal organisation.
It is critical that we work to elect fair and just people to the NEC.
Seven.