Heriot Watt Open, Edinburgh, Scotland, March 30 2013

Heriot Watt Open, Edinburgh, Scotland, March 30 2013
Round 1: THBT the salaries and the continuation of employment of teachers should be dependant on the academic performance of their students
Round 2: THBT: The international community should support a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict
Round 3: THW: Ban Political Opinion Polls
Round 4: Infoslide: From 1918, the labour party’s constitution declared that the Labour party would strive: “to secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange and the best attainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service” (clause 4, part 4)Clause 4 as a whole was the symbol of the Labour Party’s commitment to “public ownership” and the Party’s principled opposition to market capitalism. Clause 4 was abolished under the leadership of Tony Blair at a special party conference in Easter 1995. Motion: THBT the Labour party should not have revoked Clause 4
Final: THBT the Democratic Party should give up their attempts to regulate firearms and openly seek the complete abolition of firearms (approximate wording)