Tribune editor Mark Seddon, watched by Alan Simpson MP important because it enables highlighting Blair's use of the us to reach out to the forces media to circumvent the strucwhe went along with Blair's tures of the movement. change to the constitution. This is becoming a key The minimum wage is far matter. In the workshop more tangible: we all know "keeping the party Labour" people slaving on low wages activists from Edinburgh and know what misery they South explained how new ential. standing orders are being forced upon constituency parTGWU ties in Scotland - with no The Labour leadership's amendments allowed. intervention into the TGWU In the new rules general election has obviously galva- committees, the political leadership of constituencies, are nised the activists. A speaker from Region Five, not noted only allowed to convene three for its left politics, addressed or four times a year, with sothe conference. He made a cials and Bingo sessions replacing meetings. The very political contribution,