Today I am announcing my plans to reform and unite our party into a more open, respectful, creative and engaging movement. [Thread] cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce547k…
We must recruit a truly representative set of candidates for future elections. Labour must be at the forefront of championing diversity and bringing people into politics who have not previously considered becoming involved.
We should provide better access for disabled members. Too many people are unable to participate in party activities as much as they would like.
We need to become campaign innovators. Our greatest campaigning asset is our network of committed staff, members and activists. But in many other ways we have not run the campaigns needed to win elections.
The selections for Labour candidates needs to be more democratic and we should end NEC impositions of candidates. Local Party members should select their candidates for every election.
We should establish an assembly of members and trade unionists to look at how we can develop policy in a more democratic way. All party members and every part of our movement should have input into Labour Party policy.
We need a transparency revolution. There should be no power without accountability, and true accountability requires transparency.
The NCC should be scrapped and an independent body to deal with complaints should be created. When complaints are made all involved including the complainant must have confidence in the system.
We must never forget that we are the party of the Labour movement. In the era of austerity, the relationship between Labour Unions and the Labour Party has never been more important.
I’ll be hosting an online video conference call tonight at 7.30pm to discuss these ideas. Please join me. cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce547k…
