Campaign for LABDUR Democracy
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rank and file seems to be the meantime the Party at that the EC is a little known national level has changed its There is also very little, Leader and now involves all if any, attempt by the mem- sections of the Party in the bers of the Regional EC to College. irrelevancy.
ascertain the view of the organisations who elected them and who they are in theory representing. This reform has also now been agreed to in the Southern Region. Nor do they give any individual report back.
Without minutes of EC meetings or individual report backs the members of the EC are not accountable in any meaningful sense.
Finally, there is the question of the election of the Leader of the Labour Group by the Regional Conference which I understand was agreed as long ago as 1979.
Since then the issue has almost disappeared from sight, despite the tact that in system for electing the Eliminate We should be asking our supporters on the Executive and the Standing Orders Committee of the GLRC exactly what have they been doing to eliminate the undemocratic procedures. exactly what are they doing at the moment and exactly what do they intend to do in the future. Individuals and organisations • should be adding their weight to this.
After all it makes it a little difficult for us to criticise the lack of denocracy at national level if the situation in London is as bad if not worse.