Over 250 Filipino NHS nurses protested today outside the Headquarters of the right wing tabloid newspaper, The Daily Mail. They were demanding an apology from the Mail for racially stereotyping all Filipino nurses as potential “murderers”, following th…Read more…
West Ham Labour nominates Sadiq Khan and Tessa Jowell as their London Mayoral Candidates
Over 80 members of West Ham Labour Party attended yesterday evening’s nomination meeting at Vicarage Lane Community centre, E15. At the beginning, our CLP Chair, Charlene McLean, called out the names of the 8 declared candidates and asked for proposers…Read more…
Join us at Tower Hamlets tomorrow at 12 – Bethnal Green Station
Tower Hamlets Mayoral by-election – Sat 30 May 12pm
Please come and join us to help John Biggs become the Labour Mayoral of Tower Hamlets. We are meeting inside Bethnal Green station (just after the ticket barriers) at 12pm on Saturday. Don’t worr…Read more…
AMNT Summer Conference: London 24 June 2015
“The AMNT summer conference is set to take a historic step in the advancement of the rights of pension schemes to protect their investments by actively directing fund managers’ engagement and voting at company meetings.
This is an extremely important …Read more…
Lyn Brown MP – All-members meeting this Thursday evening – hope to see you there
This has been sent to all West Ham Labour Party members by Lyn.
“Firstly, I want to say a huge thank you for all your hard work and dedication during the General Election campaign. I am truly grateful for the support you have shown me and our party. It…Read more…
Why Coke, VISA, McDonalds, Adidas, Kia & Hyundai are nothing more than human rights abusers
I have just sent this email below to the CEO’s of human rights abusers – Coke, VISA, McDonalds, Adidas, Kia & Hyundai.
The TV news tonight begins with the arrest and charges of FIFA officials with corruption. This is serious but the needless death…Read more…
The Common People (Remember this is what tories do)
There is huge anger tonight inside and outside Parliament about Cameron’s first full Tory Queen Speech. There are also bad tempered (but tiny) protests outside Downing Street and of course lots of noise on social media. People seem genuinely shocked.
Sadiq Khan proposes a London Living Rent
Hat tip Labour List. I will look at all the London Mayoral UNISON candidates Housing policies. A living rent policy would be fantastic. What is the point of a Living wage if you did not have a Living Rent policy?
“Sadiq Khan, who’s in the running to be Labour’s candidate for London Mayoral,…Read more…
UNISON Greater London Labour Link Survey on Mayoral Candidates
This survey was sent out today to 60,000 UNISON members in Greater London Region who choose to affiliate to the Labour Party. I have deleted the link to the survey from this post for obvious reasons. If you are a APF member then please take part in th…Read more…
Weald Country Park Walk (avoiding “Plonkers Lane”)
Off message but this was a lovely 5.5 mile, Essex pathfinder walk only 30 minutes by car from Forest Gate, London. I have been silently suffering for the last week with the “dreaded lurgy” (aka as “Man flu”) so did not feel up to a full Lond…Read more…
Choose the next Labour Leader and London Mayor – Sign up to be a Labour Supporter
It is not the most enticing advert but I assume people are working on it and something better will come out soon.
If you agree with this :-
“I support the aims and values of the Labour Party, and I am not a supporter of any organisation opposed to it.”
Then for only £3 you can become a “Labour…Read more…
West Ham “on the knocker” for John Biggs
Picture collage from yesterday of West Hammers (and a East Ham comrade) “on the knocker” for John Biggs as Labour Mayor for Tower Hamlets.
West Ham Labour Chair, Charlene McLean, led our team “assisted” by her campaign hardened 9 month old baby daught…Read more…
So we have to be “Left” economically and “Right” socially to win in 2020?
Some more thoughts on May 7th and the aftermath.
First check out this post in TouchStone by Newham’s finest, Nigel Stanley, on the post election day TUC survey.
Nigel argues that this evidence (of voters who considered Labour but ended up votin…Read more…
Freedom fighter Denis Goldberg at Community H.E.A.R.T event at South Africa House
The picture collage is from last night’s fundraiser at the South African High Commission in Trafalgar Square for Community HEART and the “Children of a Rainbow Nation”. The development charity Community HEART was founded by former…Read more…
A year on…
Facebook sent a reminder this morning of this picture. I cannot believe it is a year since the Newham Council elections 2014.
I have been a Councillor now for just over 5 years.
It will be good to reflect on what I have done, what I haven’t done and …Read more…
List of London Labour Mayoral applicants
Dear colleague,
Further to my earlier email, the list of applicants for the London Mayoral selection is:
Diane AbbottTessa JowellKeran KeraiSadiq KhanDavid LammyNeeraj PatilGareth ThomasChristian WolmarConstitue…Read more…
West Ham CLP London Mayor Nomination meeting – 28 May
Labour’s London Mayor Nomination – 28 May 2015
I would like to invite you to West Ham Labour party’s all-member meeting on 28 May where we will decide whether to nominate candidates to stand for London Mayor.
After we’ve finished making nominations we hope you will stay and join us for a…Read more…
Red Line Voting
“I’m writing to invite you to play a part in bringing into being, on 24th June, a new asset-owner approach to engagement and voting. It will open the way to restoring asset owner control over engagement and voting policies relating to investments held in pooled funds.
The Association of…Read more…
Collective Bargaining, What’s It Good For?
If you really want to tackle low pay and inequality in this country then find out how by watching this video. Read more…
Do you want to help pick the next Labour Leader (and Mayor of London Candidate)? Sign up as an Affiliated Supporter
“To UNISON Members,
Make sure you have your say in selecting Labour’s new leader and the Labour candidate for London Mayor.
Sign up now as an Affiliated Supporter of the Labour Party.
Any UNISON member who supports Labour’s aims and values is enti…Read more…