Picture from last nights telephone phone canvass of marginals using the Labour Party software “Dialogue” with our candidate Lyn Brown and Newham Mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz. There were a few “teething problems” but when it was up and working you can contact m…Read more…
My Labour Movement Week – 28 October to 3 November 2019
I thought that I will do a weekend summary of the stuff I have been doing during the past week but have not posted upon.
So this week we had a visit to to Lyn Brown MP and staff to discuss housing policy; there was an important visit to Newham by…Read more…
Newham Fabians London Labour Policy Conference
This photo college is from yesterday’s all day event in the Old Town Hall in Stratford. This the Fabians at their very best. Great speakers (apart from me – obviously), fair but effective Chairs of panels and genuine questions and real debate about the…Read more…
West Ham Labour campaigning for London Mayor, Sadiq Khan & getting ready for the next General Election
A busy long weekend delivering leaflets in various parts of the borough for the re-election of Labour London Mayor Sadiq Khan in May next year and promoting Labour to our residents.
Saturday and Sunday in West Ham ward with activists and with local Cl…Read more…
JC thanks West Ham CLP & its MP Lyn Brown
Video of Jeremy Corbyn thanking West Ham Labour & Lyn Brown MP yesterday for mobilising activists to campaign for Faiza Shaheen at Chingford & Woodford Green Labour. Jeremy also slated the government for doing nothing t…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…
Silvertown TNT explosion 1917
This evening I attended a seminar on good design in planning in Royal Wharf. On route I came across this stone memorial and notice board marking the entrance to the former munitions factory that blew up in the first world War. It killed 73 workers and …Read more…
Iftar at Forest Gate Mosque
Picture from tonight’s breaking of the fast at Forest Gate mosque. Guests included Newham Mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz (whose father prays regularly at this mosque) and West Ham MP, Lyn Brown. As well as Councillors and local Labour Party activists.
We were a…Read more…
UNISON Labour Link campaigning for Labour in Kent Council elections Thursday 2 May
On Thursday I went to support Labour candidates standing in the local elections in Kent. There were no London Council elections this year. Our West Ham Labour MP, Lyn Brown (a long standing UNISON member and Shadow Finance Minister) came along with Car…Read more…
Lyn Brown MP speech at Workers’ Memorial Day event 2019 – Remembering Lyra McKee as well as Godfrey Nicholson, Frederick Elliot, Robert Underhill and Thomas Pickett
“Thanks so much to John for organising this as he does every year, and to everyone who has attended today. It is always a powerful demonstration of how much the labour movement and our heritage means to us today.
On Worker’s Memorial Day every year w…Read more…
Workers’ Memorial Day 2019 – UNISON Wreaths at Clasping Hands Statue, Three Mills Green, Newham
Today we remembered four local workers who in 1901 selflessly lost their lives, while trying to rescue a colleague who had collapsed from poisonous fumes, whilst inspecting a ventilation shaft in what is now “Three Mills Green park”.
This annual…Read more…
Sri Lanka – United We Stand
“This morning we supported a community vigil on the steps of Newham Town Hall to remember those killed in the Sri Lanka terror attacks and show united we stand with Sri Lanka and all those affected.The vigil was followed by a silent walk to St Michael’…Read more…
John McDonnell MP at West Ham Labour dinner
Picture collage from last Thursday West Ham Labour event. Many thanks to everyone involved. We had solid 250 tickets. It was a great night out and we have raised loads for money for the CLP. Read more…
West Ham Ward #Labourdoorstep with Lyn Brown MP 23 Feb 2019
Picture college from recent canvass session. Our MP, Lyn Brown was on one canvass team and our East London GLA Assembly member Unmesh Desai, the second. It was a really busy canvass session and I met many residents and picked up lots of casework a…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…
Dinner with John McDonnell – Thursday 7th March 2019
An evening with John McDonnell MP
West Ham CLP fundraiser/social – Thursday 7th MarchDear Member
We’d like to invite you to a really special CLP event – a fundraising dinner with John McDonnell MP, at the invitation of our MP Lyn Brown. J…Read more…
West Ham All Saints Remembrance Service Sunday 11 November 2018
On Sunday I represented the Mayor and Newham Council at the 1918-2018 Remembrance Ceremony at West Ham Parish Church All Saints with Chair of Council Cllr Joy Laguda and our Director of Finance, Michael O’Donnell. With our local MP Lyn Brown, we each l…Read more…
West Ham Plays Away at Sunny Solidarity Saturday in Chingford & Woodford Green
West Ham CLP came over today to their nearby sister constituency of Chingford and Woodford Green to support Labour candidate, Faiza Shaheen, who is standing against sitting Tory MP, Ian Duncan Smith.
While driving on route I passed the famous Walthams…Read more…
Decent Life Chances For Everyone
The Social Mobility Tsar Should Aim To Get Decent Life Chances For Everyone”Today, we have more families than ever reliant on food banks and charities tell us that holiday hunger for kids is rife
Recently, the Social Mobility Commission chief, Dame Ma…Read more…
July 19th – Pension Board, LAPFF AGM, UNISON HAB, West Ham Labour GC (Sarah Jones MP Shadow Minister Housing)
Belated report on a busy Labour movement day last Thursday 19 July.
I started the day with a quarterly meeting of the London Borough Tower Hamlets Pension Board as an UNISON appointed representative.
The £billion plus fund is doing well and we are pl…Read more…