Last year Labour International agreed a Rule Change motion to introduce a simple and regular selection mechanism for all parliamentary, regardless of whether they are sitting MPs or not. That motion will be debated at this year's Labour Party Conference.
The groundswell for this motion is growing. Momentum has shifted its position recently.
Here is the Rule Change Motion.
If you are a Member of the Labour Party or of an affiliated trade union, you can help us by proposing a motion in line with this policy to your branch or CLP. If you don't have a meeting before Conferece, please try to persuade your Conference Delegates to support it.
Here is the model support motion
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My worries are 1: avoid spurious reselection meetings over 1 or 2 parliamentary votes some people disapproved of 2: keep MPs on track, but don’t hound them over little things.
Our MP comes to CLP meetings every time and we get a report. That is better than the threat of too many selections.
Once a king always a king – once a night is enough!
No, not a job for life: but it is a job for the duration of the parliament.
There is one problem we need to solve:
Elections are (nominally) every 5 years and we can’t remove an MP: only deselect for next election. So reselection could be after say 3 years.
But snap elections can still be called (as we know!), so we need a new candidate ‘up our sleeves’ ready for that.
Is annual mandatory reselection the answer? But if we deselect, what effect will that have for the remainder of the Parliament?
We are now a party going places and can’t allow these upstart trouble MP’S to remain
We need shot of the false-flaggers BEFORE we will get a proper chance to set things right.
It should be automatic to stop it being seen as combative.
BUT… in the words of Mr Spock “This is illogical Captain”.
“Following an election … the procedure for selection of Candidates shall be…”
Following =after. Selection must come before.
The wording needs to be … “Prior to every Parliamentary election…”