NEC approves rule stipulating that only motions deemed ‘contemporary’ can be debated, it is understood
Debates sought by local Labour parties on issues like Brexit and electoral reform at the annual conference starting this weekend could be quashed by the leadership, after a series of rule changes passed on Tuesday.
The national executive committee, Labour’s governing body, voted on Tuesday to approve a series of rule changes, including one that requires motions for debate at the conference in Liverpool to be deemed “contemporary”, it is understood.
The Labour Party is becoming more and more of a lost cause – they’re not interested in any input from local Labour parties, only dictating to the diminishing membership their right-wing stuff from ‘above’. Time for a revolution, or a mass departure of local CLPs from the party. The body needs a new head.
It seems UK Labour is hell-bent in losing a good number of members who voted Remain and who still believe that Brexit was, and remains, the biggest self-inflicted injury too many ill-informed members of the electorate have ever perpetrated upon this country.
I was a Labour member and left the party, partly because of the way in which it was refusing to face up to the damage that is Brexit. I cheered Starmer to the rooftops in Parliament Square when he addressed the Rejoin march demanding a second referendum, but it seems he has walked away from his belief and the hope he raised in his listeners’ hearts.