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

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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

West Belfast Constituency

Upper Falls

Lower Falls

Court

Dunmurry Cross

Party Development and Election Review

General Members Meeting26 June 2011