Trump and the Clinton Campaign (24 November): NHS Campaign Day (26 November): West Ham Xmas Quiz (9 December)

Dear West Ham Labour Member

NHS Campaign day - this Saturday
Labour is holding a National NHS Campaign Day this Saturday (26th). Here in West Ham we'll be talking to voters at a steet staill and by knocking on doors in Stratford. We hope you'll join us.

When: 11.30am to 1pm
Where: near McDonalds/Starbucks entrance to Stratford shopping centre

General Council - this Thursday (24th)
(all members welcome from 7.45pm, Harold Rd Centre, 170 Harold Road, E13 0SE)

We've got a busy agenda with two guest speakers coming straight from the Clinton campaign.

Christmas Quiz 9 December - it's a festive fixture in West Ham! Fab food (brought and shared by members), great company (Labour members!) and a fun quiz (with an infamous guess the crisp round). 7.30pm, Vicarage Lane Community Centre, Govier Close, E15 4HW. RSVP here.

Affirmative nomination/trigger ballot
Dates remaining for trigger ballot meetings to decide whether to re-select the sitting Mayor are here.

Phone canvassing
For those of you who don't like the cold we'll also be doing some telephone canvassing - let us know if you're interested.

Hope to see you Saturday or Thursday or at the Xmas Quiz or ...

Julianne

Julianne Marriott
Vice Chair (Campaigns and Comms) West Ham CLP

e: westhamlabour@gmail.com
t: @westhamlabour
w: westhamlabour.org

Michelle Obama speech

I am not the greatest fan of Hilary Clinton nor the USA Democratic Party but this speech yesterday by Michelle Obama to the Democratic National Convention is just incredible and well, well worth 15 minutes of your life to watch.  Much to my surprise I will admit to moist eye syndrome while watching it.  

Curse of Labourhome – Why Barack Obama lost in New Hampshire

Now the dust has settled, it is time to explain what happened. Last week I posted about Money Shop and Payday UK who have high street stores which target vulnerable “customers” with unsecured short term loans and charging up to 1330% APR.

I also posted these items on Labourhome and got some useful information. Labourhome commentator “Rwendland” pointed out that even in the land of the free; many US states limit the amount of interest that can be charged on loans. They are even called usury laws. Other countries also have such laws. In Canada they have a legal limit of 60%.

So there are precedences to ban this vile practice.

“Redrooster” pointed out that there is a UK website called “debt-on-our-doorstep”, this is a bit out of date but it provides a lot of useful information about how excessive interest rates can be restricted by the state.

Finally, Rwendland also posted on Saturday a comment that pointed out that the Democratic front runner at the time, Barack Obama, had actually voted against a poplar congress resolution to “To limit the amount of interest that can be charged on any extension of credit to 30 percent” while his rival Hilary Clinton had voted in favour of it.

Of course, once this disclosure had filtered through across the pond – Obama was history. Such is the power of “Labourhome”.