Save the Labour Party (STLP) has sent an open letter to Gordon Brown encouraging him to involve Labour Party members in addressing questions about his Leadership. STLP has already called for an emergency meeting of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee, which is not scheduled to meet until 21 July.
Salient extracts include:
Remaining party members will appreciate the opportunity to have their say. You have a chance to confound your critics by demonstrating in a practical way that you are a democratic socialist, and not just clinging onto power thanks to quirks in our British constitution....
.....As
the next step we hope you will agree these matters are ones for the
Party as a whole, and not just the PLP. We hope you will support an
extra NEC meeting now to review the election results, strategy and
organisation and for you to share your agenda and discuss how we can
better involve the wider party. In the meantime, you might consider
announcing at the PLP tonight your readiness to face a challenge if
your opponents can muster the necessary 71 signatures for an
alternative candidate, and that you would be happy for CLPs, TUs and
socialist societies to submit nominations for you continuing (or
others contesting) as Leader and Harriet Harman as Deputy Leader.
Provisions for this already exist under Rule 4.2.B.ii.
It either this or a lingering sense that we are being told to accept he is the best man for the job of Prime Minister.
