
Tonight was the Annual General Meeting of West Ham Labour Party. The Party Rooms in Stratford were packed with delegates from all our wards, trade union affiliates and socialist societies.
Picture left (and congratulations) is of our new Chair, Charlene McLean, seen here promoting the TUC March in March last year.
The Party Rooms themselves were unrecognisable since they had been freshly
painted and re-carpeted. We are hiring the rooms out to a local History society who will be using it as a special museum during the Olympics (I'll post full
details another time).
I did ask the outgoing Chair, Conor McAuley, at the beginning of the AGM if
I could tweet during the meeting and he said there is nothing he can do to stop
people texting or tweeting what was going on. I've used these tweets to make
this post.
Conor is stepping down as Chair because he felt after 6 years it was time to
give someone younger (and skip a generation) the chance to take positions of
responsibility in the local Party. He was given a vote of thanks and applause
for his long service to the Party as Chair.
During reports we learnt that membership has increased by 128 since the last
AGM. Also that during the last election we had delivered the Labour vote (alas
not enough to elect Ken).
I will post full details on the elections when I have checked I have got
everything right. I stepped down from Agent/ Campaigner Co-ordinator since I
have completely over stretched myself and the poisoned chalice (a term that all
agents from all parties will recognise) has passed to Gordon Miller! I am still
a trade union rep on the General and Executive Committee (for my sins).
During AOB the Keir Hardie tour next week was plugged and the coming by
election in Wanstead and Leyton. Afterwards, off to the Golden Grove pub for more politics and of course lots of gossip.
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