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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>CONFIDENTIAL TO THIS LIST<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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 <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Brussels</st1:place></st1:City>
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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For individual members in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> 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 <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>
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?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Best<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Stephen <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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