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Wednesday, December 11, 2019

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The longest day!

Monday 25 September The longest day! I left the house at 08.45 and arrived back at Thirteen thousand people packed into a large space with no natural light and a lot of noise from 09.00 until 17.30 is not really my scene. But there were lots of high points as well as some low point. Rather sadly a low point came at the start of the day and influenced my mood. The meeting of Labour International, my constituency party, was I think an example of the struggles that are taking place within the party. Change is almost always painful and for many years the organisation of the Labour party has been in the hands of a comparatively small number of people. Now after Corbyn was elected large numbers of people have joined the party, people who want to take part, to make their opinions heard and shape the party. If you have had things all your own way for a long time, then this can be difficult to accept. Some of this was reflected in our meeting yesterday and it left a slightly sour taste i

The challenges of card votes, reference back, and CAC reports ...

One of the lessons learned from this conference is to share how the whole caboodle works amongst delegates before Conference . We'd had a very useful session with information about downloading the Labour Party app and other good things, but when the first day started, I was somewhat overwhelmed by the procedural points. Things I didn't know, but learnt fast: You have to get your hands on the daily Conference Arrangements Committee report at the beginning of each day and then study it assiduously . It tells you which motions will be debated, details of any amendments, and gives a rough timetable. On the first day, they didn't seem to have printed enough copies, so they were gold dust ... Which other documents I need to have to hand. You need to be able to reference other documents, such as the National Policy Forum report, so that you can quickly check what's being referenced from the platform. What referencing back is . This was new. Conference can now &quo

Unite fringe meeting on workers' rights

This lunchtime I attended a fringe meeting organised by UNITE on the issue of "Labour Rights under a Labour Government". It started late but managed to end so I got into the afternoon conference session just before it began with an NEC statement (to be voted on) on Brexit based on the morning's long and detailed debate on this vital issue. But back to workers' rights. Rebecca "Becky" Long-Bailey pointed out that, according to the TUC 3.2 million people in Britain -1 in 10 - work in insecure conditions, and that this is regionally different, i.e. in the north-west far more are affected than in the south-east. Precarious, insecure working conditions mean people cannot plan their lives or their long-term future ,with an obvious affect on people's mental health. Becky also pointed out that we are on the cusp of a new industrial revolution and massive economic change. These changes provide us with the "opportunity to give us the living standards and

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Labour International CLP delegates and members to Party Conference Brighton 2017