Labour Movement for Europe
The Labour Movement for Europe[1] was set up as a campaigning organisation inside the Labour Party.
Aims
LME reports it aims are:
- 1. The nations of Europe can achieve most economically, politically, environmentally and culturally, not just as occasional allies but as permanent partners striving to establish, maintain and enhance our shared prosperity, social justice and personal liberties.
- 2. The nations of Europe should cooperate through the European Union so as to ensure the security of their citizens, to tackle international crime and to protect their borders.
- 3. The European Union needs reform in every age so as to ensure that it is always as efficient, effective, transparent, democratic and accountable to the peoples of Europe as possible.
- 4. The European Union must play a strong role in the wider world so as to extend human rights, economic justice, the rule of law and international peace and security.
- 5. Britain's destiny lies as a fully engaged member of the European Union.
- 6. The democratic pursuit of social justice in this country can never be divorced from the wider international campaign for a fairer world order.[2]
Relations with Britain in Europe
Some reports relay the earlier history of the group, reporting a 2 Sep 2003 Financial Times story of the acrimony between the Labour Movement for Europe - "a body of about 160 MPs committed to early entry into the single currency" and Britain in Europe "the main campaigning body'.[3]
The London & South East 'branch' was run by Dr. Nina Fishman of The New Politics Network (which was established in 1999 after the collapse of the Democratic Left, the organisation which Fishman ran and which retained the funds of the Communist Party of Great Britain) and Henning Meyer who works with Stephen Haseler at the European Research Forum at London Metropolitan University. The site provides little other than links to similar sites from Norway and so forth.[4]
People
- Margaret Ramsay[5]
- Lord Kinnock Patron
- Chris Bryant MP, Chair
- Wayne David MP, Secretary of LME
- Barbara Follett MP, Treasurer
- Richard Corbett MEP, Chair in the European Parliament
- Baroness Royall, Vice-Chair
- Lynda MacDermott, National Officer
- Jonathan Roberts, National Officer
- Vicky Mills, National Officer
- Maureen Tomison, National Officer
- Terry Ashton, National Officer
- Baroness Royall 2006 Vice-Chair
Local spokespeople
- Anna Chester - Chair of Yorkshire and Humber Branch
- Gordon Adam - Chair of North East Branch
- David Schoibl - Chair of London/South East branch [6]
Notes
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ About us, accessed 16 September 2008
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ London and the South East, accessed 16 September 2008
- ↑ Bradford university Researcher becomes peer News and Views, October 1996, accessed 16 September 2008
- ↑ LME spokespeople circa March 2007, retrieved from the Internet Archive 16 September 2008
