ISSN 0951-8657 Published by Aurora Ltd, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU. All rights reserved. Printed by Eastway Offset (TU all depts) conference has been brought for. planned to allow the proposals to so through as smoothly as possi.
They would remove the right of unions and CLPs to submit resolutions directly to Party conConference would only a new Joint Policy Committee, with ine Cabinet naving an unbuilt majority.
Resolutions would go to the unaccountable and undemocratic national Policy Forum and a series of commissions before even reaching the NEC and JPC.
Conterence would become a series of presentations by ministers instead of a forum at which the movement discussed the priorities of a Labour government and Party.
The NEC would be restruc tured, allowing for direct repreLabour party, the European PLP, the Cabinet and Council. lors, and removing the women's section in favour of quotas.
MPs could not stand for the constituency section as at pres. ent, meaning the likes of Dennis Skinner and Diane Abbott could no longer get elected. It would be downgraded to a purely organisational role, with its policy role taken over by the JPC.
If these proposals go through, they would be very difficult to reverse, since the mechanism to do so would have been remored.