West Ham Labour Party Executive Committee unanimously supported this motion last night. The Trade Union Bill returns to the House of Lords probably early next year (11 January 2016) and I hope will be sent back to the House of Commons for being an auth…Read more…
LOBOs. Cllr Gray’s Response to Newham Council’s Annual Treasury Management Report 2014/15
I spoke after Cllr Whitworth raised concerns on this item 14 at Monday evening (7.12.15) at Full
Council.
“Thank you Chair. John Gray, West Ham ward, speaking as a Councillor, expressing concerns on behalf of my constituents about Newham Council’s exposure to LOBO loans, in this report referred…Read more…
LOBOs. Cllr Whitworth’s Response to Newham Council’s Annual Treasury Management Report 2014/15
This is the concerns expressed by Cllr John Whitworth during the discussion on item 14 at Monday evening (7.12.15) at Full Council.
“The issue of the servicing and repayment of the Council’s debt is obviously of major importance at a time when we are obliged to make savings in most…Read more…
Sunday Night Live: Syria and Airstrikes
A week on from the Commons vote, which extended Britain’s bombing campaign against ISIS into Syria, this Sunday Night Live special explores where now for the multinational coalition against Daesh.
With on-going controversy surrounding Cameron’s widely challenged claim of 70,000 moderate Syrian…Read more…
Newham Council Motion on Trade Union Bill
This motion was passed unanimously at the Newham Full Council meeting last night. The Tory anti-trade union bill has passed through the House of Commons with some significant changes. It goes to the House of Lords in January. We need to keep the pressu…Read more…
UNISON Pyrenean Challenge 2016 – “there for you”
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LOBOs – Long term pain for short term gain?
I have posted on LOBOs before. I think that this article by Janine Alexander from Collyer Bristow LLP pretty much tells it as it is…
“Many local authorities and housing associations have taken out “LOBO” (Lender Option Borrower Option) loans over the past 15 years. They were particularly…Read more…
Sunday Night Live “21st Century NHS – a state of perpetual upheaval and crisis. Where now for the health service?”
Pictures from last weekends “Sunday Night Live” at Stratford Picture House, E15. The debate was about the crisis in the NHS.
West Hammer Neil Wilson chaired. There was two guest speakers, Nigel Keohane, from the Social Market Foundation and Jos …Read more…
The Drinking Man’s Diet
Off message Friday Fun but if Carling did diets would this probably be the best diet in the world…. ? Picture on right of its author, Robert Cameron, who first published his book in 1964 and is seen here in a “recent” photo aged 93.
“The Drinking Man’s Diet is a fad diet that was made famous…Read more…
Vote Labour in Boleyn (and Oldham West)
Good luck to Veronica and Jim.
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Boleyn Ward By election Super Tuesday
Picture collage from last night’s canvass by East Ham and West Ham Labour activists in the Boleyn Ward by-election. We met up outside the Bobby Moore Statue and also Upton Park station. There was at least 20 canvassers.
I was with the team led b…Read more…
Is this the best response ever to a really stupid letter?
So is this the best response ever to a really stupid letter? 🙂
Hat tip Martin Warne Read more…
World AIDS Day – December 1
What is World AIDS Day?World AIDS Day is held on the 1st December each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died. World AI…Read more…
Redbridge Mayor’s Appeal – Fund raising meal Tuesday 1 December 2015
This is very last minute but tomorrow (Tuesday 1st December 2015) at the Adana Turkish Resturant in Ilford there will be a fund raising meal for the Mayor’s Appeal. Read more…
Amazon is a corporate tax thief who steals from hospitals, schools, the disabled and the elderly
I have “bought” my first Crimbo present. Just donated £3 to”amazonanonymous”.
“Amazon like to hide behind their shiny website, and channel all the cash they make from us into offshore tax havens. Because you can’t find Amazon on the high street, its easy for them to get away without…Read more…
West Ham Labour at Palace of Westminister
Picture collage from last Thursday’s meeting of the West Ham Labour Party General Committee, which courtesy of our MP, Lyn Brown, took place at the Jubilee Room in the Palace of Westminster. Beforehand we went on a guided tour of Parliament, led by our…Read more…
One week left to Vote for Dave Prentis as UNISON General Secretary
Picture of long standing East End Housing Caretaker and UNISON Steward, Peter Sambrook (middle) with 2 colleagues reminding members that only a week left to vote for Dave Prentis as General Secretary.
The ballot closes next Friday 4 December 2015. “Da…Read more…
West Ham Labour Party Christmas Quiz & Social
The highlight of the West Ham Labour movement family year. Read more…
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women: 25 November 2015
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Why union branches have to follow the money…
Picture from last weeks packed Greater London workshop on branch finance in the UNISON centre. NEC Chair of the Finance Committee, Josie Bird, led the training supported by National and Regional officers.
The aims of the training were:-
To understand …Read more…