Time
to get your amendments in to the policy process
You have only a few days in which to get your policy amendments in to Labour’s policy process – they must be submitted by constituency party secretaries through the Your Britain website by 13 June. Two weeks later your regional representatives on the national policy forum meet to decide which CLP proposals they wish to take forward to their crucial meeting in Milton Keynes on 18/20 July. Anything agreed at that meeting, together with any minority positions which receive the support of a quarter of the forum will go forward to Labour’s Autumn conference in Manchester.
The Labour Assembly against Austerity have produced 26 model amendments across seven policy areas which you may find useful, and which together constitute a Manifesto for Labour Growth (which you can download here and print for distribution, or just cut and paste the ones you wish to move in your local party). This manifesto includes amendments on the following subjects:
Stability and prosperity
Emergency budget to replace tory austerity with labour growth
Investment in infrastructure
Top rate of income tax
Work and business
abolishing employment tribunal fees
legislating for a living wage
ending the public sector pay freeze
Ban zero-hours contracts
improving trade union rights
reject social security caps
repeal the welfare reform act – abolish bedroom tax
supporting people with disabilities
pension and social security up-rating
state annuities
state pension retirement age
Living standards and sustainability
public ownership of rail
making rail travel affordable
public ownership of energy and making energy affordable
energy efficiency and cutting carbon emissions
Stronger, safer communities
building new council housing
making private rented housing secure and affordable
Education and children
re-establishing local democratic accountability to schools
introducing universal free school meals
cutting tuition fees to improve access to higher education
introducing universal childcare
Health and care
ending the private finance initiative
Britain’s global role
scrapping Trident and backing nuclear disarmament