If you have a CLP meeting coming up, please consider using this model motion.
Suggested Model Motion of Support for CLPs
This branch/CLP believes:
- that being a Labour MP should not be a job for life;
- that candidates should be selected openly without restrictions before each general election;
- that all individual and affiliate members should be able to participate in the selection of candidates;
- that the existing system of trigger ballots prevents this from happening and creates unnecessary antagonisms, turning what should be a normal open process into an implied vote of no confidence in a sitting Labour MP;
- that a fully democratised Labour Party based on the principle of One Member One Vote is the best way to ensure the election of a Labour government with the strength and resolve to create a fair and just society for the many, not the few.
Therefore this branch/CLP:
- resolves to support the Labour Open Selection Campaign, calling for Open Selection of MPs;
- agrees to make a donation of xxx to Labour International CLP's campaign fund;
- calls upon the NEC to endorse and support the LI Rule Change motion from 2018 and to reintroduce at as an NEC rule change at the next Labour Conference;
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Conference delegates are often discouraged from debating key proposals on the basis that if they lose the vote they will be off the agenda for a number of years, which forces them to act primarily on the basis of political calculation rather than open debate and discussion. This rule change will mean that popular, important debates on party reforms desired by the members or trade union affiliates are no longer prevented.
O the irony of those calling for people’s vote ….yet dismissing this.
Bravo.
Members agreed that more transparency was needed and that OMOV was an absolute necessity, but the removal of the trigger vote was seen as a step too far.