[Individual-members-EL] EL Indivual Members

[Stephen Spence]

Dear All,

 

CONFIDENTIAL TO THIS LIST

 

I would like to advise you that I am in ongoing correspondence with Waltraud
of the EL Statutes Commission trying to get a trying to get a date to meet
in Brussels about individual members.  I am proposing, following up Nobert's
letter, a European wide individual members branch that can meet a couple of
times a year, with a Branch Executive, a seat on the Executive Board, the
Chair able to attend the Council of Chairpersons, and the Branch able to
send delegates to the EL Congress based on the number of members.  In
essence I am suggesting an Individual Members Branch should be treated like
a Member Party.  I will let you know how these discussions progress.  I am
happy to do this work but if there ever becomes a need for something to be
said about it publicly I will need someone to do this, as I can only do this
in a private capacity, behind the scenes, due to my public trade union work.

 

For individual members in the UK I would like to know your opinion on an
additional matter.  I am wondering whether it might be possible for
individual members of the EL to run as 'Left Independent' candidates
affiliated to EL in the 2014 European Parliament.  Where there is no UK
registered political party running as an 'independent' is an alternative
option.  I had thought as the 'European Left' is registered party at the
European level it might be possible to use that name but I can't get any
clear advice on that, and I think there were have to be a UK registered
party to do it.  So the 'Left Independent' idea came into my head.  Does
anyone have a view?

 

Best

 

Stephen  

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