LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE ON AGENDA 2

This post appeared on Labour Home the other day and has attracted more comments - 90 so far - than the rest of the blog put together. It's here http://www.labourhome.org/story/2008/4/5/111023/9354
The Calder Valley resolution - reducing the leadership threshold from 12.5 to 7 per cent in the event of a vacancy - is clearly going to be a hot topic at Conference. Please lobby for support ......if we had had this threshold last time, then we would have had a contest. Whoever the candidates are next time, this can only benefit the Labour Party .

Call me cynical. But strangely a letter apparently asking my CLP to confirm its leadership threshold resolution never, er, reached our CLP Secretary.
Just as well I was on the case and rest assured our rule change resolution will be ON THE AGENDA at Manchester Conference 2008. If passed, the threshold wil be reduced from the current 12.5 per cent (45 MPs) to 7 per cent of the PLP (about 30) . Can I ask CLPs to support this when they get there. I think we're all agreed that Gordon Brown would have benefitted from a leadership challenge. And that Labour may well pay the price for not having had one at the next General Election.