* A new group of Labour members has launched a campaign to be elected to Labour’s NEC promising to ‘make Labour working class again’

*. The NEC or National Executive Committee, is Labour’s decision making body. It is currently dominated by allies of Kier Starmer.

*. Restoration are made up mostly of people with real jobs in industry and care, including Scunthorpe Steel striker Thomas Smith, care worker Sam Theodori and media commentator Stella Tsanketidou

*. They want Labour to prioritise working class candidates, fight to save British industry and to end the corruption that has dogged Labour under Starmer.





Labour has lost its way. Nobody knows what the party stands for anymore.

“We told the country we would be better than the Conservatives. Keir Starmer said that we'd end the psychodrama. But ever since winning power we've acted like a continuation of the status quo rather than the change that people voted for in July 2024,”

said Restoration founder David Littlefair. 

LABOUR DIDN’T CHANGE A CORRUPT POLITICAL CULTURE:

“Our leadership rightly criticised the Conservatives time and time again for their clear moral failings, abuse of the system and ‘one rule for them, another for us’ attitude, but we didn’t set a different standard.

They criticised the freebie, and favours for friends' culture that typified the Conservatives whilst being guilty of the same failings.

The promises the leadership made to the people of Britain, around tax and spending, were naive and misguided at best, look cynical and deliberately deceptive with hindsight, and have put us in an economic straight jacket in Government.

LABOUR IS FAILING ABUSE VICTIMS:
The PMs appointment of Peter Mandelson, close friend of the world’s most famous sex trafficker, as our ambassador to the USA, along with his failure to get a grip of the grooming gangs scandal, is an affront to the dignity, and a slap in the faces, of abuse victims up and down the country.”


NEW LABOUR’S ERA OF PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS MUST END:
“It’s simply not enough for Morgan Mcsweeney to go. The Labour Party needs a clean sweep and a new start.” said David.

“The worst of New Labour’s detritus have taken over our Party - with all the factionalism, but none of the focus, vision and moral clarity that typified our previous time in Government.”

“They allowed the Party to become dominated by middle class and upper middle class professionals who sneer at the ordinary working class people who had backed us for generations, the very people our movement is meant to represent, whilst sidelining working class candidates for weak, petty and purely factional reasons. ”

“The Labour Party needs to return to being the Party not just for, but of working class people.”

Speaking of the priorities of Restoration’s NEC campaign, David says

AN NEC SLATE MADE UP OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE HAD REAL WORKING CLASS JOBS:

“Our slate prioritises people that have had or have real jobs in industry, care and retail. Working class representation in politics has utterly collapsed, and Labour only has a handful of MPs that have come from jobs in industry, or keyworkers. Labour shouldn’t be a party of lobbyists and consultants, it should be a party for people with technical and caring jobs in the real economy”

RESTORATION’S 3 SLATE PRIORITIES:

David outlines Restoration’s three campaign priorities:

“We have three priorities that Labour needs to take drastic action on:
1.Ending Labour corruption
2.Saving British industry
3.Regaining working class trust.

1.Ending corruption at the top of Labour:

“We promised to be better than the Tories, but we’ve seen big money donors and lobbyists swarming Labour. We saw Labour Together paying to investigate journalists, seeking to undermine the freedom of the press, and hiding hundreds of thousands in donations. We saw Peter Mandelson appointed Ambassador to the United States of America in spite of every warning and red flag possible, and that's before he was outed selling state secrets. 

This isn’t the sort of Labour party anyone wants or voted for, and the polls show the public now see us more than ever as no different to the Conservatives. 

Vote for the Restoration slate for Labour’s NEC, and if elected, we'll stand up to those that are in hoc to vested interests that don't share our values, and to those who'd sell us out to the highest bidder.”

2. Saving British Industry and Fighting Regional Inequality

“We want and stand for Labour to put serious time, effort and money into Saving British Industry and Fighting Regional Inequality. 

We live in the most regionally unequal country in the developed world, and England is the most unequal country in our union.

This inequality benefits no one, from the leisurely classes, to the Labour they depend on to maintain their lifestyle. What does it say about the Labour Party if fighting this inequality isn't at the heart and forefront of our efforts in Government?

If we aren’t fighting for and putting serious financial resources into the redistribution of wealth from the richest parts of our country into left behind, deindustrialised and neglected areas, in the North and Midlands in particular, and Fighting to defend the last of our nation's industry, then we are going to fail the communities that have voted Labour for generations.

Vote for the Restoration slate who'll stand up for and work to protect British industry.”

3. Regaining the trust of working class voters:

“We want Labour to start celebrating the working class people who made our Party and our movement. We support the dignity of labour - and the crucial work that carers, support workers, skilled workers and tradespeople do that keeps our country going. 

Labour should prioritise apprenticeships over degrees that do not lead to well paid, secure work, and make real and lasting efforts to put more working class people into parliament and into local councils instead of lawyers, professional politicians, and corporate lobbyists. 

Labour must also immediately start a commission to understand and promote Good Work - before AI and computer monitoring destroy the wellbeing of British workers. 

We also believe that for Labour to be seen as authentic, we have to select more blue collar, working class people as candidates for elected office both in local Government and in Westminster

Any Restoration NEC members elected will support the selection of Labour candidates for Parish Councils all the way up to Westminster that have done real, honest, blue collar work, and champion the recruitment of new members from these backgrounds up and down the country.”

Interview David Littlefair or Stella Tsantekidou by emailing us: info@ourrestoration.org.uk