Brilliant. Tories justifying tax avoidance by rich. Hat tip Wrexham for Labour Facebook. Read more…
Ed & Education, Education, Education
On Thursday lunchtime I went to see Labour leader Ed Miliband at a policy launch on Education which took place at Haverstock school in Camden, North London. This state run comprehensive was where Ed and his brother David were educated.
While waiting …Read more…
Councillor Dianne Walls OBE
Congratulations to top Labour Forest Gate Councillor and former Newham school head, Dianne Walls, for her award of the Order of British Empire (OBE) last week at Buckingham Place. Well deserved and what a great photograph! hat tip Conor. Read more…
UNISON Housing Association AGM – Stella Creasy MP Speaker
Don’t forget the branch AGM is next Tuesaday 17th February, 6-8.30pm at City Hall, The Queen’s Walk, London SE1 2AA (the London Assembly building).
London Assembly member (and former branch member) Murad Qureshi is hosting the meeting whose them…Read more…
Councillor report to West Ham Ward: February 2015
This is my written report as a Newham Councillor to West Ham ward Labour Party branch which meets every month. The ward thought to save time they would prefer written reports from Cllrs of which they could then ask questions.
Councillor Report to W…Read more…
Union Rights are Human Rights
This is me speaking last week at our UNISON London Regional Council AGM.
The motion was on “Union busting by UK public service providers” (see link for wording).
There a number of completely rogue and fascistic large UK Charities and Housing …Read more…
A day with G Company 7 Rifles on Salisbury Plain
On Saturday I spent the day with 7 other Newham Councillors as the guests of G Company 7th Rifles Regiment, while they were training on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.
G Company is our local British Army reservist unit in Newham, based at Cedar barracks i…Read more…
Protecting our Pensions from Tory Con Trick
UNISON Housing Association delegate, Mitsy Harman, speaking at the regional AGM last week on our motion “Protect our Pensions” (see link here for text). This is an early draft of her speech.
“Council, from April 6 this year, this Conservative led gov…Read more…
Newham Councillors on route to 7 Rifles
This picture is from this morning, just before the 8 of us went off to join our local British Army Reservists – G Company, 7 Rifles in Salisbury Plain.
We got back this evening after a great day with G Company. I will write up a full post tomorrow but…Read more…
UNISON London LGBT “Equality at Work” Labour Link event at House of Commons
This great picture is from last weeks London UNISON LGBT “Equality at Work” mobilisation event at Portcullis House. I chaired the meeting on behalf of London Labour Link. Margret Hodge MP and Stephen Twigg MP were the guest speakers and reminded us tha…Read more…
John Gray? Common as muck
Today is National voter registration Day.
The Labour Party has sent out this on line tool that will work out how many people registered to vote have the same name as you.
Check out http://action.labour.org.uk/how-many-of-me-in-britain
1,346…Read more…
“Stand Up For Labour” Theatre Royal Straford East Monday 9 March
West Ham and Ilford North CLPs are hosting that biggest ever Stand Up for Labour event at Stratford’s famous Theatre Royal on 9 March. You can book your seats here to attend a fantastic night of comedy to raise money for Labour.
Top comedians Sarah Pascoe and Arthur Smith, famous for both stand-up…Read more…
UNISON Greater London Regional AGM election results 2015
The Evil Ones were crushed. The election result in today’s London regional council AGM was the 10th victory in a row for the forces of light and reason against the Ultra left and their supporters.
Clear proof that the mass of ordinary unison members a…Read more…
80 Richest Own Same Wealth As Half The World
How on earth did we allow this to happen? Read more…
Keir Hardie Centenary Year – Monday 9 Feb 2015 at Westminster Hall
I cannot believe it but I have a clash on the 9th and will not be able to make this celebration of Keir Hardie, the first ever independent Labour MP at Westminster Hall.
Keir become the MP for West Ham South on 4 July in 1892
Hopefully, someon…Read more…
Boots the tax dodgers
The latest attempt by the Tories to attack Ed Miliband has backfired.
The Billionaire Italian boss of Boots the Chemist, Stefano Pessina. told the Sunday Torygraph if Labour politicians acted in the way that they spoke “it would be a catastrophe”.
It turns out that the billionaire does not pay…Read more…
London UNISON Regional Council AGM 2015
On Wednesday 4th February 2015 at 10am it is the Annual General Meeting of the Greater London UNISON Regional Council.
It will take place at the Holiday Inn Conference room, Coram Street (across the road from Russell Square tube station). Doors open a…Read more…
Saturday Sectarian: Green Lies & the Green Housing vacuum
I have just enjoyed reading two very different posts on the Green Party and their policies.
The first was from the never shy nor retiring Kitty Jones on
“You’d have to be Green to believe the Green Party: two more lies exposed”.
While the other post by Steve Hilditch “The grass isn’t any greener…Read more…
National Campaign Day with Lyn Brown and Harriet Harman – Sat 31 Jan
“Tomorrow is national campaign day. Lyn Brown MP and Harriet Harman, Deputy Leader of the Labour party, invite you to the opening of the new campaign centre for Bermondsey and Old Southwark – followed, of course, by a canvassing session for Labour’s ca…Read more…
“Rights at Work” UNISON Labour Link event at House of Commons
This is a fantastic picture from last weeks’ London UNISON Labour Link “Rights at Work” event for our members who live in Ilford North CLP. The event was organised by Lilian Greenwood MP (who use to be a UNISON national officer and is a great friend of…Read more…