The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy (CLPD) has now received evidence from a number of CLPs which makes it clear that the NEC’s emergency ad hoc fast-track parliamentary selection process needs to be revised to fully reflect the views of each CLP’s members.
 
CLPD is calling on the NEC to revise the long-listing process to ensure that all those with support in a CLP are included ahead of those totally unknown to that CLP.
 
CLPD is also calling on the NEC, at a minimum, to allow each CLP to add an extra person to the shortlist in order that a positive and democratic response is made to the justified criticisms and to ensure that our Party is united at all levels and thus can be totally focused on winning the General Election.
 
CLPD urges all CLPs and Branches to urgently send a motion along these lines to Jeremy Corbyn, the General Secretary and to their Regional/Scottish/Wales Director.
 
 
A model motion that can be considered is set out below.

Model motion

 
This CLP notes that the recently adopted fast-track parliamentary selection process is a cause of concern in a number of CLPs, as it does not fully reflect the views of members in those CLPs.
 
We call on the NEC to revise the long-listing process to ensure that all those with support in a CLP are included ahead of those totally unknown to that CLP.
 
We also call on the NEC, at a minimum, to allow each CLP to add an extra person to the shortlist in order that a positive and democratic response is made to the justified criticisms and to ensure that our Party is united at all levels and thus can be totally focused on winning the General Election.
 
We agree to send our motion to Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party General Secretary and to our Labour Party Regional/Scottish/Wales [delete as applicable] Director.