Save the Labour Party has three main campaigning objectives. They are to:
Rebuild the Party’s commitment to a mass membership which will provide the activity, influence and resources to carry out its programme. (Gaye Johnston’s paper “Has Labour a future without the Party on the Ground?” argues why.)
Ensure that transparent policy-making encourages all members to actively contribute.
Ensure that elections for Party roles and selections for public office are carried out according to the Rule Book and not according to the whims of the leadership, officers or outside lobbyists.
Ensure that transparent policy-
Ensure that elections for Party roles and selections for public office are carried out according to the Rule Book and not according to the whims of the leadership, officers or outside lobbyists.
STLP believes that the Labour Party’s Conference must remain its sovereign policy-making body, while the National Policy Forum is an important process for developing detailed policy and should actively involve Party members through their constituencies.
STLP consistently promotes the value of making policy with the Party’s members and affiliates, rather than in spite of them.
STLP believes that elections to posts within the Labour Party Conference and the selection processes for prospective candidates for public office must be conducted according to the Party’s rules in all cases.
At the end of June 2008, Labour membership stood at only
158,868*
These figures compare with a recent peak of 407,000 in 1997, the year the Labour Party won a majority of seats in the House of Commons.
* Ballot papers issued to fully paid up members for 2008 NEC ballot
158,868*
These figures compare with a recent peak of 407,000 in 1997, the year the Labour Party won a majority of seats in the House of Commons.
* Ballot papers issued to fully paid up members for 2008 NEC ballot