1. How much money has been spent on the consultation process?
2. Only one affiliated Trade Union holds its annual conference before the special conference. Surely the NEC's choice of date is not 3. The 'Clause IV" special edition of Labour Party News has 13 articles. Only two of them support last year's conference policy of retaining Clause IV as it stands. Is this demo4. Your leadership manifesto made no reference to your desire to abolish Clause IV. Would it not have been more honest to have 5. It is proposed that there will be just one 'take it or leave it' vote at the special conference. Wouldn't it be more democratic to allow the special conference a range of options? Surely delegates should have the right to vote to retain Clause IV as it stands, to add a new statement to it or amend the proposed new 6. On 12 June 1994 you stated on 'Breakfast with Frost': "I don't think anyone actually wants the abolition of Clause IV to be the priority of the Labour Party at the moment. I don't think that anyone is saying now, looking ahead to the next two years in the run up to an election, that it is what we should focus Why did you say this if you intended to abolish Clause IV.?
7. Why haven't the views of those who wish to retain Clause IV been represented on road-show platforms and in the video?
8. The questionnaire does not include the direct question : 'Do you want to retain Clause IV as it stands'? Why did you vote against this question being included?
9. Was it a dignified act of a confident leader to call MEPs (who support the conference policy of the last two years to retain Clause IV) "infantile and incompetent"? Why are vou using Party funds to overturn conference policy while criticising those who use their own resources to support our constitu10. Why has the special conference been called on the last weekend before local government elections? This is a special supplement to Socialist Outlook newspaper. which appears fortnightly. If you :agree with what we say. why not try a trial subscription - five issues posted to you for just £3.00. Send vour cheque to Socialist Outlook at PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU. Published by Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109 London N4 2UU. Printed by Tridant Press, Edenbridge, Kent.