This week's Tribune magazine reports efforts to expose actions by paid Labour Party staff in contravention of their employment contracts and the Party's Rule Book.
A DOSSIER of widespread, rule-breaking interventions by Labour officials in the party’s internal elections and policy-making process is to be published this weekend in a campaign to expose “a corrupt and scary regime”.
The move follows an official complaint to Cath Speight, chair of the National Executive Committee, which calls for urgent action to ban the party’s “civil service” from acting as a political machine for rounding up loyalist votes at annual conference and the National Policy Forum.
As a member of the NEC, I would welcome appropriate action to ensure staff act at all times to enable members present and future to participate fully in the activities of our democratic socialist party.
During the past decade over a quarter of a million people have either resigned or let their membership of the Labour Party lapse. We will never know how many have been affected by the behaviour of staff alleged in the Tribune report. But a considered reflection by the NEC on how staff should behave to encourage all those who share Labour values back would be very timely, as well as encouraging remaining members to renew their subscriptions and new members to join.