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“LAPFF’s deputy chair John Gray presents the successful outcome of engagement with Ryanair which is showing signs of progress on labour rights and board independence plus the challenges of engaging with SportsDirect”.
Hat tip Local Authority Pension F…Read more…
You will require a laptop/tablet device and a mobile phone which will be integrated with Labour party activist tool Dialogue.Don’t worry if you have not phone banked before or have trouble with tech issues. There will be others there to …Read more…
Hat tip Newham Council website. “Newham Council Cabinet last night (Tuesday 3 December) voted to adopt a new strategy to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping in the borough.
It is the first time in a decade that Newham has had a dedicated Homeless…Read more…
Firstly, apologies that I will have to leave this meeting early as I have to travel to Bournemouth today to attend a Pension Conference.
NEC 9 October 2019
This was the first full meeting of the new NEC at the UNISON centre. There was still problem…Read more…
Yesterday was quite unusual since I visited two excellent Newham primary schools (for different reasons). Check out previous post on West Ham Primary in the morning.
While after school I went to St Antony’s to listen to their fantastic choir sing abou…Read more…
This morning my West Ham Ward Councillor colleagues, Charlene McLean and John Whitworth went with local residents to support Newham Council Highway officers and school staff implementing the Healthy School Street programme for West Ham Church Primary S…Read more…
This afternoon I went to support Labour Candidate, Emma Whysall, in the most narrow Tory held marginal in London, Chipping Barnet. Emma lost by only 353 votes in 2017 to hard line Tory Minister, Theresa Villiers.
Fellow West Hammer, John Morris w…Read more…
This afternoon I joined Labour Party and UNISON comrades at Palmer Green station to support Bambos Charalambous, to be re-elected for the Labour held marginal seat at Enfield Southgate.
There was a really good turnout of activists outside the station…Read more…
So proud of Londoners and our Police putting themselves in danger and defending us from the hatersRead more…
Picture of local volunteers, Charities, Council & Ministry staff, Councillors and outreach workers in Newham Dockside before the start of the annual national count of Rough Sleepers in Newham 12-3AM.
There were around 40 people split into 10 teams…Read more…
LHG has produced a Guide to Labour’s housing policies, summarising the key policies in the 2019 Manifesto to talk about on the doorstep.Housing is at the top of the manifesto conversation in the media. Make sure you know what we are saying we…Read more…
Any ideas other than the lovely smile of UNISON Housing policy expert Sylvia Jones? Read more…
Hat tip Mayor Roksana Fiaz. “Thrilled that @jeremycorbyn is in Stratford, Newham for the launch of @UKLabour ‘Arts for All’ – a charter for the Arts and cultural sector with @lynbrownmp & @grayee at @stratfordeast . A j…Read more…
Fantastic news. Hat tip Sienna Rodgers Labour List
“Labour has vowed to “put bad landlords out of business” with fresh plans for housing that will see private sector renters offered new rights and a national ‘property MOT’ introduced.Announci…Read more…
A well organised & lively Peace march in Green Street yesterday to celebrate the Birthday of the Prophet Mohammed headed by @NewhamLondon Mayor @rokhsanafiaz & @WestHamLabour candidate @lynbrownmp
The highlight performer at this evening’s launch of Labour’s “Art for All” charter at the Stratford Theatre Royal must be Emeli Sande “You are not alone”. A beautiful song sung wonderfully.
Jeremy Corbyn recited some of its lyrics in his speech at the…Read more…
Before the Peace march our Mayor, @RokhsanaFiaz visited the Green Street #Sikh community centre to an event to mark #GuruNanak550. Afterwards @WestHamLabour Candidate @lynbrownmp also made visit. Both were accompanied by @NewhamLondon …Read more…
Its up in the window! Who else wants one? Read more…
Photos from campaigning in Cities and Westminster yesterday. A large number of West Hammers came to the 2pm session (see middle right) together with Newham Mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz.
A somewhat frustrating canvass since so many gated blocks of flats with o…Read more…
Amidst the madness of the General Election campaign I have to get on with the day job. On Friday I went to meet Residents in Ibex House in Forest Gate with local Councillors Rachel Tripp, Anamul Islam and officers from L&Q Housing Association. Ther…Read more…