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Party D evelopment and Election Review . General Members Meeting 26 June 2011 . 4. step process. May 2010 – May 2011. STEP 1. The Workers Party. Build the Party. AF 2010. Build The Party. STEP 2. Our current position. aging membership declining profile falling vote - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Party Development and Election Review
General Members Meeting26 June 2011
4step process
May 2010 – May 2011
AF 2010
Build the PartyThe Workers Party
STEP
1
Build The Party
STEP
2
we are where we are...
Our current position
• aging membership• declining profile • falling vote• no candidate in the 2009 Euros • did not contest the 2010 Westminster Elections - the first time since 1974
• Recognition of the current situation and its implications
• Commitment to turn that around
• Understand the need for things to be done differently
• Willingness to implement change
• Robust processes to deliver
A light bulb moment
Recognition of the current situationand its implications
Commitment to turn that around
Summary
An interim Party Programme
Structure to deliver it and to help Build the Party
Have the ‘difficult conversations’
Re-establish a class based presence by next May
Business Committee
Presence & Profile
Organisational Structure
Strategic Approach
STEP 3
STEP 4
Recognition of the current situationand its implications
Commitment to turn that around
Summary
An interim Party Programme
Structure to deliver it and to help Build the Party
Have the ‘difficult conversations’
Re-establish a class based presence by next May
Business Committee
Presence & Profile
Organisational Structure
Strategic Approach
STEP 3
STEP 4
CUTS DEMO: October 2010
REGIONAL CONFERENCE
CUTS DEMO: March 2011
MAY DAY 2011
Photograph of the DayNorthern Ireland Ireland UK GlobalEU England
Active Discussions
•NILTS, sectarianism and perpetual civic adolescence.
(18) •Whitey Bulger: “That’s our shipment. That’s ours!” (3) •NI Police Ombudsman: “we have no evidence of a deliberate action…”
(43) •All Aboard for the Dock Church? (3) •Euro crisis: Come on in, the water’s lovely…
(7) •The SDLP’s clearest future is ‘as a social-democratic and
labour party’ (88) •“They’ve hit homes with paint bombs, pipe bombs and petrol bombs.”
(250) •“We lived in peace for a few years, and then all this is coming back”
(76) •HET Report on Kingsmills (109) •Sinn Féin rejects HET findings on Kingsmill massacre (76)
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So where do we go from here?
Before we go anywhere, let’s take a reality check
There are no ‘quick fixes’
There are no knock out blows
There are certainly no ‘silver bullets’
We can’t chase every issue
We can’t plaster over the cracks
We’re out of condition!
So where do we go from here?
Recognise of the current situation & its implications
Commitment to turn that around
An interim Party Programme
Structure to deliver it and to help Build the Party
Have the ‘difficult conversations’
Re-establish a class based presence
Lets finish what we started
What should the Party look like in 2015? how many members, its geographical spread,
a secured space in political life, organisationally and financially robust ?
Recognise of the current situation & its implications
Commitment to turn that around
An interim Party Programme
Structure to deliver it and to help Build the Party
Have the ‘difficult conversations’
Re-establish a class based presence
Lets finish what we started
Constituency Branch(Basic unit of Party Structure)
What should structures do?Northern Ireland Executive
Business Committee
Research & Policy
Development
Communications & Media
Membership, New Members
& Party Development
Culture & Arts
Fundraising & Finance
South Down Constituency
South Down Constituency
Newcastle
Rowallane
DownpatrickBanbridge
West Belfast Constituency
Upper Falls
Lower Falls
Court
Dunmurry Cross
Party Development and Election Review
General Members Meeting26 June 2011
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