GFTU BGCM Minutes 2017

finish, I have a sonnet. It is sonnet 37. It does not fit exactly, but it is about

families so it will do! “As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child

do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune’s dearest spite, Take all my

comfort of thy worth and truth. For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit, Or

any of these all, or all, or more, Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit, I make my

love engrafted to this store: So then I am not lame, poor, nor despised, Whilst

that this shadow doth such substance give That I in thy abundance am sufficed

And by a part of all they glory live. Look, what is best, that best I wish in thee:

This wish I have; then ten times happy me!” I thank you. Please support.

(Applause)

The motion was formally seconded

Motion 5 was CARRIED unanimously

THE PRESIDENT: We now turn to the emergency motion that we admitted to the

agenda on Sunday in the name of the TSSA. This was on a separate sheet

which was handed out at the beginning of the week.

EMERGENCY MOTION

BRO MANUEL CORTES (TSSA) moved the following motion:

There will be a General Election on June 8 th 2017;

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2

For over three decades, successive British Governments have pursued

policies which have sadly been underpinned by free-market ideology and

neoliberalism.

Conference believes:

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The re-election of a Tory Government would be a disaster for working

people and their families;

2

Labour offers a fresh start away from damaging neoliberalism by

building a new economic settlement which works for ordinary people rather

than the richest 1%.

Conference instructs:

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