Here the South East's elected representatives on Labour's National Policy Forum invite you to submit your policy proposals for a stronger economy
After the General Election, we need to review the policies of the Labour Party and start to build the ideas that will win the next election. The party's policy-making process is being reviewed, and so there are not any formal consultation documents available yet. As NPF reps, we think the party needs to develop strong policies as quickly as possible, and so we will be sending out a series of emails over the next few months to ask your views as local parties and individual members on a range of specific policy areas - the subjects are the ones you told us were the highest priorities when we asked you a month or so ago.
Your highest priority was policy to create good jobs to rebalance the economy and to start economic growth. Below is a list of questions that we'd like to know your answers to and that we hope will help discussions. Please use them in your local party debates and tell us what the outcome is, or send us your own views directly. You don't have to answer all the questions, and please add thoughts on issues we haven't mentioned.
How can we get the economy moving again and get people into good jobs?
• What should be our key message to the public on the economy?
• How can we help businesses to start creating jobs?
• Are there any particular types of businesses we should focus our support on?
• How can we create more good, sustainable, high wage, high skill jobs?
• How can we help to boost exports?
• How can we make the economy less dependent on financial services and retail?
• Do we have the balance right between regulation and support of businesses?
• How should we reform the financial services and banking sectors?
• How can we encourage more small businesses?
• How can we encourage more co-operative and mutual businesses? Should we focus on the financial sector for these, or can they be used in the wider economy?
• What should we do to tackle corporate tax avoidance and evasion?
We will take your views forward to the policy commissions and full NPF meetings. Martin is a member of the Prosperity and Work Commission, and so will use your feedback directly in the work of that commission.
If you want any of us to come to one of your meetings, please email us.
We look forward to hearing from you,
Simon Burgess, Dan Chapman, Deborah Gardiner, Karen Landles and Martin Phillips (Elected NPF reps for the South East CLPs 2010-12)
PS Don't forget our website http://www.npf-se.org.uk/. We've added a new section about Coalition cuts and how to fight them - we hope this information is useful for your local campaigns. There are also two NPF reps elected by the South East Regional Conference (Michael Hassell and Carol Hayton) as well as union, socialist society and co-op NPF reps
After the General Election, we need to review the policies of the Labour Party and start to build the ideas that will win the next election. The party's policy-making process is being reviewed, and so there are not any formal consultation documents available yet. As NPF reps, we think the party needs to develop strong policies as quickly as possible, and so we will be sending out a series of emails over the next few months to ask your views as local parties and individual members on a range of specific policy areas - the subjects are the ones you told us were the highest priorities when we asked you a month or so ago.
Your highest priority was policy to create good jobs to rebalance the economy and to start economic growth. Below is a list of questions that we'd like to know your answers to and that we hope will help discussions. Please use them in your local party debates and tell us what the outcome is, or send us your own views directly. You don't have to answer all the questions, and please add thoughts on issues we haven't mentioned.
How can we get the economy moving again and get people into good jobs?
• What should be our key message to the public on the economy?
• How can we help businesses to start creating jobs?
• Are there any particular types of businesses we should focus our support on?
• How can we create more good, sustainable, high wage, high skill jobs?
• How can we help to boost exports?
• How can we make the economy less dependent on financial services and retail?
• Do we have the balance right between regulation and support of businesses?
• How should we reform the financial services and banking sectors?
• How can we encourage more small businesses?
• How can we encourage more co-operative and mutual businesses? Should we focus on the financial sector for these, or can they be used in the wider economy?
• What should we do to tackle corporate tax avoidance and evasion?
We will take your views forward to the policy commissions and full NPF meetings. Martin is a member of the Prosperity and Work Commission, and so will use your feedback directly in the work of that commission.
If you want any of us to come to one of your meetings, please email us.
We look forward to hearing from you,
Simon Burgess, Dan Chapman, Deborah Gardiner, Karen Landles and Martin Phillips (Elected NPF reps for the South East CLPs 2010-12)
PS Don't forget our website http://www.npf-se.org.uk/. We've added a new section about Coalition cuts and how to fight them - we hope this information is useful for your local campaigns. There are also two NPF reps elected by the South East Regional Conference (Michael Hassell and Carol Hayton) as well as union, socialist society and co-op NPF reps
good result in Cambridgeshire last night, Labour Rural vote rocketing
ReplyDeletewe need to build on this
Its the same issues as urban issues
NHS, Libraries, Transport, housing
with also agricultural wages Board and still the threat to our opens spaces incl Forests
thrown in
It certainly isnt fox hunting, or badgers
We dont want to work for another New Labour Government
We want a radical party committed to putting back the NHS and Transport etc after the Tories/Lib Dems have destroyed it
oh and PR for local elections