Labour: beware of part two!
31 January has been set as the deadline for consultation over part two of “Refounding Labour”, the Labour leadership’s botched promise of a review of Labour Party structure. Part one ended with the Labour Party conference in Liverpool at the end of September being presented, at only a few hours’ notice, with a slew of rule changes from the leadership, and instructed to vote yes or no to the whole package with effectively no debate, while rule change proposals from local Labour Parties were ruled off the agenda on spurious grounds. However, the unions stood firm on most of the bad changes...