The results of the priorities have been published.
Trades unions have prioritised:
- Reindustrialising our communities
- Insourcing and Public Ownership
- Opportunities for young workers
- Rebuilding our economy
- Public Services
- AI
CLPs have prioritised:
- Housing and homelessness
- Violence against women and girls
- Knife crime
- Buses
- Reindustrialisation
- Fairness for older workers
Electoral reform narrowly missed getting prioritised by CLPs
We will comment properly on each on the day it is debated, but it is fair to say that they are generally a bland set of motions. (Deliberately so in most cases – it is worth noting that they were all promoted by the right wing ‘Labour to Win’ faction, whose usual practice is to push entirely bland motions not for the debate but to push out any that might actually lead to real debate – not PR this year, no housing last year, and so on).
‘Housing and homelessness’ does not include the council housing motion (from Horsham and many other CLPs) as it was ruled out by the CAC. ‘Insourcing and public ownership’ does not include the call for public ownership of water (from SERA and a couple of dozen different CLPs) as that too was ruled out. And the union motions are on the whole weaker than last year’s.
Monday morning will take four composited motions:
‘Opportunities for Young Workers’ – calls on the government to “deliver on the commitment to equalise National Minimum Wage rates for workers from the age of 18 as soon as possible”
‘Fairness for Older Workers’ – fine as far as it goes, but weak.
‘Reindustrialisation’ – calls for nothing that is not already in place.
‘Reindustrialising our Communities’ – includes some useful housing policy, including “a large-scale council housebuilding programme, with guaranteed funding to build or acquire at least 90,000 social rent homes each year, using direct employment”, “ending right to buy”, and “greater tenant rights” (unspecified) – as near as conference can get to the ruled out council housing motion.
