10 May 2007

We need a contest not a coronation

Elaine Smith MSP, convenor of the Campaign for Socialism will tomorrow announce that over 100 hundred Labour Party members from across Scotland have written to all Scottish Labour MPs to ask them to ensure that party members have the right to choose the next Leader of the Labour Party. This can only be achieved if Gordon Brown faces a challenger rather than receives a coronation.

It is inconceivable in face of declining membership and the recent election results in England, Wales and especially Scotland that anyone can believe that the Labour Party can go forward to win another term in office without profound scrutiny of its policy and practice. A contest for the leadership should not be seen as a threat but an opportunity to debate the best way forward to achieve our shared goals of equality, social justice and international peace.

ENDS

Contact Vince Mills: 07814615224 or Elaine Smith: 07713651276


Letter to Scottish MPs

We as members of the Labour Party call on Labour Members of Parliament to ensure there is the widest choice available to party members in the election for Leader of the Party. We feel that in order to uphold the tradition of democracy within the Labour Party more than one candidate should be nominated and every member of the Party should have a vote on the issue. We therefore urge our Scottish MPs to initiate and support action to have an election for Leader of the Party.

Mike Martin
Aberdeen North

Aileen Colleran
Glasgow Central

Alan Tweedie
Edinburgh South

Alex Beresford
Edinburgh South

Alex Falconer
Dunfermline

Alex Joyce
Edinburgh West

Ann Henderson
Edinburgh South

Bill Lawless
Barrhead, Neilston

Bob Thomson
Glasgow South

Bryan Pottinger
Midlothian

Carolyn Manson
Glasgow North West

Catherine Murphy
Coatbridge Chryston & Bellshill

Claire Chalmers
Livingston

Colin Sparrow
Eastwood

Daniel Robertson
Shetland

Dave Smith
Edinburgh North and Leith

David Cartwright
Glasgow North West

David Conway
Glasgow North

David Moxham
Glasgow Central

Dr Asifa Hussain
Eastwood

Drew Smith
Glasgow North

Edith Mcauslin
Dundee West

Elaine Smith MSP
Coatbridge Chryston & Bellshill

Fiona Webber
Kilmarnock & Loudoun

George Grechan
Coatbridge Chryston & Bellshill

Gordon Brown
Glasgow Central

Gordon MacKay
North Ayrshire & Arran

Gray Allan
Falkirk

Harry Hatton
Argyll & Bute

Heather Scott
Edinburgh South

Helen Searle
Edinburgh South

Jackson Cullinane
North Ayrshire & Arran

James Burns
Glasgow Central

Jean Jones
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East

Jennifer McCarey
Glasgow Central

Jennifer Young
Glasgow North

Jim Lee
Glasgow North West

Jim Mackechnie
Glasgow North

Jim Taggart
Argyll & Bute

Julie Sturrock
Dundee West

Kate Arnott
Falkirk

Kenneth Burns
Glasgow North

Lynn Henderson
Glasgow Central

Malcolm Burns
Glasgow Central

Malcolm Clark
Edinburgh North and Leith

Mark Gallagher
Eastwood

Patrick McIlvogue
Inverclyde

Paul Mooney
Inverclyde

Pauline Bryan
Glasgow Central

Robert Bell
Livingston

Rozanne Foyer
Glasgow North

Ruth Aylett
Edinburgh Central

Ruth Sirton
Glasgow North

Simon Macfarlane
Glasgow North

Stewart Daniels
Glasgow Central

Tam Burke
Edinburgh South West

Tom McKeown
Glasgow East

Tony Axon
Glasgow South West

Veronica Bolan
Glasgow South

Veronica Low
Glasgow North East

Vicky Grandon
Glasgow North

Vince Mills
Glasgow Central

Alex Mosson
Glasgow North West

Maureen Mosson
Glasgow North West

R H Jones
Edinburgh South

Mark Grindley
Glasgow Central

Matthew Crighton
Edinburgh

Mike Cowley
Edinburgh North and Leith

Morag Hogg
Paisley South

Neil Findlay
Livingston

Pat Devlin
Glasgow South

J Theobald
Edinburgh South

Keith Smith
Edinburgh East

Paul Krol
Edinburgh South West

Jonny Garner
Glasgow North East

Tom Guthrie
Glasgow North East

James Forrest
Glasgow South

Matthew Kerr
Glasgow South

Tony Beekman
Airdire and Shotts

David Stark
Glasgow North West

Bill Miller
Glasgow South

Kerry Miller
Glasgow South

John McKenzie
Glasgow South

Paul McDermit
Glasgow South

Graham Day
Falkirk

Ali Syed
East Dunbartonshire

Tom Toban
Glasgow Kelvin

David Carter
Glasgow East

Marion Henderson
Glasgow South West

Mary Senior
West Dunbartonshire

Margaret Stewart
Coatbridge Chryston & Bellshill

Billy Stewart
Coatbridge Chryston & Bellshill

Ian Tasker
Paisley South

Lorraine McManus
Glasgow Central

Christ Bartter
Glasgow North West

Ann Carscaden
East Renfrewshire

Jim Sharkey
Paisley North

Frazer Hardie
Glasgow South

Richard Carabine
Glasgow South West

Maureen Sharkey
Paisley North

Eileen Dinning
Glasgow South

David Brocket
Glasgow East

Marlyn Glen MSP
Dundee West

 


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