Socialist Unity Platform emergency motion to YP conference

For a reconstituted, democratic conference!

1. Conference believes

a) There is a desperate need for a proudly socialist and thoroughly democratic, member-led mass party of the working class, demonstrated by the 800,000 people who signed up when the party was announced.

b) There have been serious causes for concern in the run up to the founding conference. Whilst notional commitments to grassroots democracy and accountability are welcome, the founding process so far has failed to live up to these ideals; with a fundamental lack of transparency in the crowd editing process, a restriction of debate in regional assemblies, and no real mechanisms for members and proto-branches to make meaningful contributions to the founding documents. In addition to this, the departure from the party of nearly half of the Independent Alliance MPs signifies that a democratic change is necessary.

c) Conference is the sovereign body of Your Party and can decide to change the agenda of this conference.

2. Conference therefore decides

a) To hold a reconstituted conference in June/July 2026, with delegates elected by party branches and delegates elected by members at-large not covered by those branches.

b) Branches shall be eligible to submit and move motions and amendments, including on issues voted through at this founding conference. Individual members may also submit motions and amendments, providing they receive at least one hundred (100) signatures of their fellow party members in support. The individual member shall be able to propose a delegate to move the motion or amendment on their behalf should they themselves not be a delegate to the conference.

c) All questions are to be decided by a simple majority, including any changes to the four founding documents.

3. Conference further decides

a) To hold an interim CEC election before the end of January 2026 via online voting, in an all-member ballot, based upon the principle of One Member One Vote. The voting method used shall be Single Transferrable Vote under the Droop quota (most commonly known as Scottish STV), so as to ensure proportional representation and pluralistic leadership within the interim CEC. Alongside providing political leadership, this interim CEC will be tasked with organising the reconstituted conference in the summer and shall be dissolved at the close of said conference. Members of the interim CEC will be ineligible to run in the next election for the CEC.

b) To elect seven (7) returning officers by simple majority on the conference floor to steward these elections and that they be given the necessary tools such as access to membership data and requisite funds. The returning officers elected by conference will be ineligible to run for the interim CEC.