Exclusive: Your Party CEC votes no confidence but must ask leadership to respect vote
The Your Party executive committee (CEC) no-confidence vote exclusively revealed by Skwawkbox last week took place on Sunday.
The specially-arranged CEC meeting, to hold no-confidence votes in three key officials, was fraught and lasted almost three-and-a-half hours. Yet it ended without a clear conclusion, forcing members to ask party leaders to respect a clear majority vote that just failed to reach the required threshold.
The issue was a vote of no confidence in three figures blamed for the suspension of three well-known CEC members for attending a socialist conference. A number of members left the meeting rather than participate, but the no-confidence motion was supported by a clear majority of those who voted.
Your Party votes fails to reach supermajority
However, the tallies did not quite reach the two-thirds supermajority required to force the removal of the three officials. This has forced the CEC to ask leadership to respect the majority vote, which has rendered the CEC near-unworkable.
After a meeting in which efforts to put off the vote appealed to Jeremy Corbyn’s claimed wishes, CEC members don’t expect a decisive intervention. Your Party’s chaos continues, when the country is desperate for socialist clarity.
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So 3 naive socialists were suspended for attending a rival top down Trotskyist vanguardist meeting, though it is likely one didn’t attend, but I would not have suspended them & would have preferred politically educating them.
What has become tragically obvious is the lack of a real socialist analysis from a significant number on the Left and at times you feel you are sailing this ship alone.
What we need is every branch/hub set up ASAP then the grassroots are empowered but progress is painfully slow.
Your Party needs to represent a Left Wing Democratic Socialism that empowers citizens giving them a say in how things are run so they feel things are theirs – A Transformation WITH the diverse w class and this I believe is our ace card.
‘If I had a magic wand.
650 Your Branches would be arranged.
Then the grassroots would be empowered.
And society would be changed, forever!’
Your post was a paragon of misinformation mixed in with the sort of red baiting that would make McCarthy proud…the three in question are all seasoned political activists, furthermore they’ve been doing their best to ensure that YP does not turn into LP 2.0, despite the best efforts of The Many. Btw the VONC was brought by Laura Smith a member of The Many
Bazza, The branches were set up, the members were empowered, but it seems they were the wrong branches, set up in the wrong sort of enpowermenr and crucially by the wrong people, many if whom have left the party.
The CEC is now clearly in disrepute.
Those on the receiving end of majority no confidence votes must step down as they have proven themselves to be the barrier to the grassroots vision we all signed up for. The autocratic model borrowed from Starmer has and will never work.
Your Party needs more than just the adoration of Jeremy Corbyn to succeed. His acolytes on the CEC cling to Jeremy’s coattails in vain hope and have proven by their actions and performance to date they are disconnected from the ethos everyone else shares
I had a look at the CEC Standing Orders..
17. Suspension of Standing Orders: Specific clauses of the CEC Standing Orders may be suspended for a specific meeting if supported by an absolute majority of all CEC members, defined as 50%+1. A proposal to suspend specific clauses of the Standing Orders may be made as a Point of Order..
The special meeting of the CEC was held last evening under Clause 5.2 of the Standing Orders, which provides that special meetings of the CEC may be convened “at the request of 50% of all CEC or Officers’ Group members, as applicable.”
The meeting was attended by 14 CEC (>50%) members at its peak.
14 members voted to suspend Clause 4 to allow votes of no confidence in Officers to be heard outside an AGM, in accordance with Section 17 of the Standing Orders.
Following debate and discussion:
● 13 members voted no confidence in Jenn Forbes as Chair.
● 12 members voted no confidence in Dawn Aspinall as Secretary.
● 11 members voted no confidence in Cassi Bellingham as Membership Officer.
8. Quorum
A meeting of the CEC shall be quorate when a minimum of 50% of the total members of the CEC as defined by the Constitution, are present. For clarity, this number may vary with the total size of the CEC. Roles not yet established will not be counted towards this total. – therefore 11+ are required.
And as only 11 CEC members were required to be quorate, the Chair, Secretary and Membership Officer are toast!
Under Section 9, the Chair may be removed by a ⅔ vote at a quorate CEC or OG meeting. While it doesn’t specify 2/3 of members present, it does not make sense otherwise.
Well said
Under Section 9, the Chair may be removed by a ⅔ vote at a quorate CEC or OG meeting. While it doesn’t specify 2/3 of members present, it does not make sense otherwise.
Its of little consequence what happens now as the party has already been destroyed by undemocratic power hungry egotists who were determined to not allow any input from socialist grassroots members . YP could have been a beacon of light for the future. Instead they preferred to dash the hopes & dreams of so many socialists. In the process they also managed to damage Corbyns reputation as many of us thought he would never facilitate their behaviour.
Its of little consequence what happens now as the party has already been destroyed by undemocratic power hungry egotists who were determined to not allow any input from socialist grassroots members . YP could have been a beacon of light for the future. Instead they preferred to dash the hopes & dreams of so many socialists. In the process they also managed to damage Corbyns reputation as many of us thought he would never facilitate their behaviour.
I am keeping my eye out for who turns up at my branch set-up meeting. I expect that I will see the same faces lurking in the background. I ask JC in Birkenhead about how he intended the Party to work and mentioned the sell-out of Commonwealth Party to Labour in 1945. The problem for Richard Acland & JB Priestly was that they always wanted to be brought back into the fold. Always hoped that Labour could be saved; I suspect that there are too many from Labour that want a protest movement and to be invited back into the the club. Your Party has to be serious about standing up to politics and stand alone in the face of the establishment not secretly hanker after joining it.
From the Conference debacle onwards we have seen, a reluctance of a certain minority who wnat to run the agenda and are intent on slinceing any opposition. Whether for the many or grassroots, I wish these factions wold just fade way ( to steal the line from the crypto fascist Pop band -who!)
We do not want YP a second copy of diluted Starmer’s Labour Party. YP Socialists can attend any Socialist Party events at any time without prosecuting them. This way, dialogue among Socialist Parties may result in unity and one agreed plan.