A very positive canvass last Sunday with Heather and a great team of activists. Simon was out with another group, joined by our Mayoral candidate, Forhad. Thelma was at the other two sessions. As always, it’s luck of the draw who opens the door, …Read more…
Newham Voices: January 2023 “£300 million New Year vote for Custom House”
Great news for Custom House and check out rest of our local news at https://newhamvoices.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Newham-Voices_Issue-25.pdfSupport here https://newhamvoices.co.uk/support-us/Read more…
Avebury rings, Silbury Hill, White Horse Walk & Whatever happened to Custom House Wartime Evacuee Sheila?
Despite the storms, we are back from a lovely weekend in Marlborough, Wiltshire. On Saturday Gill and I visited nearby Avebury World Heritage Site. An amazing experience to see all these simply huge standing stones, some weighing many tons, built thous…Read more…
“On the knocker for Labour” in Custom House with Lyn Brown MP & Unmesh Desai AM
This afternoon I went out door knocking with our MP, Lyn Brown and our East London Assembly Member, Unmesh Desai.
We split into 2 teams. One led by local Councillor, James Beckles, with Party activist John Morris and the other by myself an…Read more…
Custom House doorstep on Labour National Campaign Day
I was out today with comrades in Custom House ward, West Ham. It was a little wet but using the Labour Party Doorstep app on our smartphones meant that we didn’t have soggy and disintegrating paper canvass sheets to record information upon. However, a …Read more…
Labour Unions for Kim in Batley & Spen, Custom House doorstep wash out & great Little Ilford dialogue
My political campaigning life is beginning to somewhat come back to “normal” (whatever that means nowadays).
On Wednesday evening I took part in a Labour Unions telecanvassing session for Kim Leadbeater, the Labour candidate in the by elec…Read more…
Royal Docks & NHS Nightingale Run
This evening I went for sunshine run (aka “very slow jog”) from Newham Dockside Building to Thames Barrier across Royal Docks past the now “on standby”NHS Nightingale (Excel Centre) through Custom House back to Newham Dockside. About 4 miles-ish in aro…Read more…
Custom House Labour Doorstep with Lyn Brown MP & Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz
Picture collage from this morning’s Labour Doorstep in Custom House, West Ham with activists and local MP Lyn Brown, Newham Executive Mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz and local ward Councillors Sarah Ruiz and James Beckles.
Cara, our Labour attack dog was out wit…Read more…
Labour Housing Campaign Day in Custom House with Newham Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz & Lyn Brown MP
Picture Collage from last week’s campaign day in Custom House talking to residents about bread and butter housing issues as well as regeneration and crime.Read more…
Showing solidarity at UNISON stall Newham Council Dockside Building
I stopped yesterday at the UNISON stall at Newham Dockside building to chat with colleagues and especially our top UNISON Branch Chair, Kim Silver. UNISON is by far the largest trade union in Newham (and of course the best) and is also now the biggest …Read more…
Day 2 of Rerun Newham Labour Mayoral Trigger – Canning Town North & Custom House vote NO for an open selection
This is turning into a massacre. Last night West Ham ward 24 to 1 for an open selection. Tomorrow it is Plaistow South and Plaistow North wards.
Hat tip https://twitter.com/newhamselection
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Custom House Ward is 2nd branch to hold Newham Mayoral Trigger – 7.30 Tuesday 30 January at Ascension Church E13
Custom House ward will hold the 2nd West Ham ward Labour Party trigger (out of 10) on the Newham Labour Mayor on 7.30pm Tuesday 30 January in Ascension Church, Baxter Rd, London, E16 3HJ.
I will repeat below my comments about the West Ham CLP wa…Read more…
Re-electing Lyn Brown in Custom House & Forest Gate
A great collage of photos from recent campaigning. Custom House canvass on Sunday morning with Lyn Brown (and Cara) as well as local Newham Councillors, Rokhsana Fiaz and Pat Holland. Lyn had also been that morning to Ilford North with West Ham a…Read more…
A week of campaigning for Sadiq Khan as Labour Mayor of London in West Ham
Some pictures from the door knocking that has been going on by various ward branches in West Ham Labour Party during the last week.
On Sunday I helped out in Custom House. Interestingly, we are also asking residents how they will vote in the European …Read more…
West Hammers out Khanpaigning in Green St, Plaistow & Custom House
It has been a busy weekend for West Ham Labour. Yesterday I was out with a Labour canvass team for Sadiq Khan as mayor in Green Street. See Vice Chair Campaigns, Julianne Marriott, briefing the team beforehand on what to do. Highlight of the morning wa…Read more…
Custom House for Sadiq Khan as London Labour Mayor
Picture from a cold, wet, windy canvass session this morning in Custom House, West Ham. Lyn Brown MP (and her little Labour attack dog, Cara), Local Councillors and Party activists were out knocking on doors, talking to residents and asking them to sup…Read more…
“Five Million Conversations (How Labour lost an election & rediscovered its roots)”
The picture is from last Thursday’s social at Custom House branch, West Ham Labour where the guest speaker was BBC political reporter, Iain Watson. He spoke about his new book on the failure of the Labour Party to win the last general election “F…Read more…
Custom House Labour Branch New Year Social – 14 January 2016
This looks good. RSVP customhousebranch2016@gmail.comRead more…