(Monday) The misreporting in the NEC Report about the Nottingham scandal is most serious for its constitutional implications. (See Report p.8,) The NEC claimed that under Clause VIII, section 4, they could take disciplinary action without telling Conference. The claim was false; all disciplinary action, by rule, must be reported back to Conference, When this issue was taken to Court, the NEC found it members, agreeing to pay £310 as their legal costs. Not a word of this is in the Report. Worse, the NEC is still, apparently, claiming powers it has not got. To accept this Report would thus jeopardise democracy in the Party, and would bring in question the right of Conference to know of any disciplinary actions which are taken, It must be referred back and with it, the whole disgraceful farce of the explusion of Ken Coates, who has still had no redress after two years of campaigning.
The WeekThe Week Vol. 8, No. 15, c. 12 October 1967
Nottingham Scandal Affects Whole Party
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