Forest Gate North Labour Party Branch Special meeting

Results from the 2nd Forest Gate North AGM/special meeting held last night.

West Ham Constituency Officers nominations. 

Chair: Charlene McLean Plaistow South
Secretary: Alan Griffiths Forest Gate South
Treasurer: John Saunders Stratford
Vice Chair Membership: John Gray Forest Gate North
Vice Chair Campaigns & Communications: Julianne Marriot 

Community Involvement: Shagufta Nasreem Green Street West

Trade Union Liaison: Kim Silver Custom House

Political Education & Training: John Whitworth

Equalities: Anamul Islam Forest Gate North

West Ham Fund Raising (100 Club): John Saunders
Stratford Women’s Officer: Seyi Akiwowo West Ham
Information Technology: Shaban Mohammed Canning Town North
Youth Officer: Iolo Walker
Social Dianne Walls/Conor McAuley: Forest Gate South
Assistant Secretary / Minutes Co-ordinator*: Laura Bell Stratford
Assistant Agent / Phone canvassing Co-ordinator*: Alan Griffiths Forest Gate South
Campaign Co-ordinator / Agent*: John Gray Forest Gate North
Auditor 1 Conor McAuley Forest Gate South: Auditor 2 Robert Gordon Canning Town North Labour

A well run meeting with 30 members turning up. Many thanks to Anam for Chairing and Secretary Heather for arranging. We still have some CLP posts to elect and the motion on paid Mayoral advisers to debate. The West Ham CLP was due on June 23rd but due to the referendum on EU being on this day it has now been put back.

West Ham CLP AGM 2011

I am just back from this year's West Ham Constituency Labour Party AGM.  Via of course "The Goose" in Stratford (unbranded Pilsner lager still at £1.49 per pint!).

This was the sixth Labour Movement AGM I have attended so far this year.  Hopefully the last!  The meeting tonight was well  attended, well run and pretty good humoured.

In the CLP Officers elections the Chair Conor McAuley was re-elected; Alan Griffiths re-elected unopposed as Secretary; John Saunders elected as Treasurer; Winston Vaughan elected as Ethnic Minorities Officer and Yetunde Muda as Womens's officer.   Due to proportionality rules we were not able to elect some of the posts.  We need more women to be nominated.  This will be send back to wards and affiliates.

In the Functional Officer elections I was re-elected unopposed as Campaign Co-ordinator and Agent; John Whitworth as Political officer; David Christie as IT officer; Gerry Carlisle as Disabilities Officer and Kim Silver as Trade Union Liaison Officer (Kim who is on the UNISON NEC was elected 38:1!); Terry Paul as Assistant Secretary; Mas Patel as Assistant Agent; John Saunders as Premises manager and Fund Raiser (the 100 club - the ever so mysterious local Labour Party monthly tote) and Clive Furness as Social Secretary.

There was a contested election for auditors! We elected 2 delegates to Party Conference, Yetundee and James Beckles (and will hopefully also get a young member to attend). 

The trade union delegates "had a huddle" and we elected delegates to EC (including myself) and Local Government Committee (LGC).  West Ham nominations to LGC will be sorted out at the next GC. 

At the end of the meeting we had an extraordinary meeting about Greater London Assembly election candidates 2012.  Branches and affiliates had voted overwhelmingly to support the renomination of John Biggs, Nicky Gavron and Murad Qureshi as our candidates.