Report on my CLP EGM
@ 2005-11-28 - 13:05:11My local Labour Party had an interesting EGM on Thursday night. It would appear that our membership has declined from over 400 in 1997 to around 180 now. Unsurprisingly, most of the members seem to have left immediately after the Iraq war/tuition fees period. This seems to have left us with quite a right wing rump of memebers, certainly compared to what the CLP (Constituency Labour Party) used to be like in the 80s and 90s. Most people at the meeting were remarkably uncritical both of Tony Blair and of the local Labour councillors, who recently voted with the Tories to get rid of all the council's old peoples' homes.
Still, the meeting was quite small (only 10 turned up) and they hope to organise more political discussions at which hopefully more people (including maybe some more left wing people) will turn up.
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Romford CLP?
I note that a large number of long-serving (and I don't just mean those who are over 80) Councillors in Barking & Dagenham are standing down and/or moving away at the local elections - the local CLPs say though that they "still intend to stand a full set of candidates in each ward" (that they even have to point this out suggests a major problem). UKIP - who don't have a party organisation in the borough as such - claim that they will be doing the same - standing on a 'save the pound' and 'community politics' á la Libdems (bins and dogshit) programme (plus some mild-ish racism no doubt).
Happy new year, Dan!
2006-01-15 @ 20:47
Jesus sounds like an appalling waste of time. I'm as big a fan of the tedious political meeting as the next man but a local Labour Party meeting consisting of 10 right wingers seems like pointlesness above and beyond the call of duty.
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