Hello from Rokhsana Fiaz, your Labour candidate for Mayor of Newham

"Hi, I’m delighted to have been selected your Labour candidate for Mayor of Newham. It was great and really energising to see so many long-standing and new members getting involved so positvely in supporting my candidacy.

During the Labour Party selection process I stood on a platform of a fresh start, a new vision, a different way of doing things locally; with people at the heart of everything we do as a Labour Council by democratising how we do things for and with them.

I also pledged that housing will be my top priority as your Labour Mayor. You can read more about my housing plans below; as well as about me and my plans for Newham on my website here. https://www.rokhsana.org/about/pledges/

As we now countdown to the local elections on Thursday 3rd May, join me and our fantastic councillor candidates to take this winning formula to voters in Newham and win for Labour.
Information about how to volunteer and campaign with us are provided under my e-signature below; and you can also sign up here. https://www.rokhsana.org/contact/

Since my selection as your Labour candidate I’ve been working closely with Carl Morris (our Newham organiser and campaign agent for all the Labour candidates standing) on finalising our local election campaign plans; alongside supporting our brilliant Labour councillor candidates with #LabourDoorstep campaigning activities.

You can follow what’s happening on the campaign trial via my Facebook campaign page here: https://www.facebook.com/Rokhsana4Newham and the Newham Labour Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/newhamlabour/

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So that you know, we’ll also be formally launching the local election campaign on Wednesday 4 April 2018 and you are invited! Please save the date for now as more details will be sent to you very soon.

Finally, I am really looking forward to meeting with you over the coming weeks as we hit the campaign trail to ensure a decisive win again for Labour!

With me as your Labour Mayor and our great councillor team we can show what great things Labour in power, working together with its people, can achieve for the many locally in Newham.

Best wishes

Rokhsana Fiaz
Labour Party Candidate for Mayor of Newham
info@rokhsana.org
Twitter icon: @rokhsanafiaZ
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rokhsana4Newham
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newhamlabour/
Instagram: rokhsana_fiaz
#NewhamRokhs #TeamLabour

P.S. Volunteer and help with the campaign!
We need help with knocking on doors, delivering leaflets, helping on street stalls, talking to Newham voters. If you have some time to spare and want to help please email Carl Morris via morrislabour@outlook.com.

#Labourdoorstop Weekend - Mayoral Candidate Rokhsana Fiaz & Lyn Brown MP lead West Ham Campaign teams (& an evening off with Nina Simone)

Photo collage of a busy weekend for West Ham Labour. Our MP Lyn Brown & Newham Labour Mayoral candidate, Rokhsana Fiaz, were out with local activists across West Ham talking to residents about any concerns and issues. We held stalls and sent door knocking teams in Forest Gate North & South, Plaistow North, Canning Town North & South, Stratford & Newtown and Green Street West.

As part of my campaign to promote getting fit by being a Labour activist, I noted that I walked just under 12,000 steps yesterday! The cake and chocolate biscuits that Lyn bought us at the end of the day probably offset most of this mind!.

After a long day on Saturday I went to the Wansted Tap with a number of other West Ham Labour colleagues to a marvellous tribute to Nina Simone. 

Today (Sunday) I skived off and went walking in Essex but comrades continued to campaign in West Ham ward, Plaistow North, Canning Town South and Green Street West. 

Rokhsana Fiaz Wins - She is the Newham Directly Elected Labour Mayoral Candidate 2018

Fantastic news. Rokhsana beats Robin Wales by a staggering 861 to 503 votes in huge turnout. Will blog further when I can stop the uncontrollable laughing and smiling. 

Just 12 hours to go - Vote Rokhsana as your Labour Mayor candidate #NewhamRokhs

"It's time. Just under 24 hrs to go before voting ends at 12 noon tomorrow (Friday 16/3/18), Labour members can still vote for me as their #NewhamMayor candidate.

If elected in May, I will put people at the heart of everything we do as a council & show what Labour can achieve for the many at local level.You can read more about my vision and plans for Newham via www.rokhsana.org.

Elect me to be your Mayoral candidate and I give you my word that I will deliver for you and all our residents if elected as the Mayor of Newham". #VoteRokhs

It's time for a fresh start. Vote Rokhsana Fiaz as your Labour candidate for Mayor of Newham

It's time. To vote Rokhsana as your Labour candidate for Newham Mayor Dear Member, With less than 2 days to go there’s not much time left to vote for me as your Labour candidate for Mayor of Newham. Voting closes at 12:00 noon this coming Friday, 16th March. Every vote will count in this election so please remember to cast your vote for me if you haven't already to deliver a fresh start, a new vision and a new way of doing things for the residents of Newham. Because it’s time for change.  It’s time for a Labour Mayor that brings our party and our residents together to fight for fairness in tough times. It's time for a determined Labour Newham Mayor to protect local services. Yesterday's Spring Budget won't alleviate pressures on families or our public services which are at breaking point. Ending the financial crisis facing local councils, who are facing a £5.8 billion funding gap, can only be delivered by a Labour government; and with me as your Labour Mayor to protect our most vulnerable and local services for our residents. It’s time to put people at the heart of everything we do as a Labour Council through democratising how we do things for and with our people. And it’s time to be truly radical again - so that we can show what Labour can achieve for the many at local level. Read my pledges here which will deliver more homes for social rent, decent jobs, cleaner air and genuine life chances for all our children and young people. You can also read more about my vision and plans for Newham via www.rokhsana.org. I’m delighted to have the support of the two largest trade unions in the county, UNISON and UNITE, as well the CWU union and Lyn Brown MP for West Ham. They believe in my ability to deliver the best for Newham. They know that as your Mayor I will deliver on my promises on genuinely affordable housing, including many at social rent levels; and protect the land we own so that we can build housing for the people of Newham.   Elect me to be your Mayoral candidate and I give you my word that I will deliver for you and all Newham residents. Best wishes,   Rokhsana

Statement by Cllr Rokhsana Fiaz on plans by the current Newham Mayor to set up a private development company & give it £3 billion of our assets

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My statement on plans by the current Newham Mayor to set up a private development company & then give it our assets, value = £3bn. They could be our libraries, community centres, leisure centres and the council's own office & stop me building homes for our residents

*Alert to Labour Party members in Newham* 

"Earlier this week (on Monday 5th March), I received an email notifying councillors of a new agenda item for inclusion at the Mayoral Proceedings and Cabinet meeting scheduled for Thursday 22nd March. 

The agenda Item was titled: ‘Agreement to Proposed Structure to Hold & Manage Newham’s Property Interests and drive affordable housing delivery’. 

See attached screen shots of the agenda item, which have now been withdrawn from the Council's website. 

I raised this concerning issue on Tuesday night in my role as a Chair of Scrutiny at a Overview & Scrutiny meeting. I'm extremely alarmed that the current Mayor plans to set up a private development company and then give it our assets, valued at some £3 billion. 

They could be our libraries, community centres, allotments, leisure centres and the council's own office. 

I want to know who would be appointed onto the board of this company and why the current Mayor is trying to do this just weeks before he may no longer be Mayor of Newham. 

There has been no consultation with Cllrs or residents, no democratic oversight and this is all during an ongoing QC's inquiry into how a private company Newham set up lost £52m on the Olympic stadium. 

If this went ahead it would stop a future Mayor of Newham using our own land to build council homes and other facilities for our residents".

(John Gray - The Mayor has repeated that if he is re-selected and then re-elected he will continue to create this private company development company. See my Councillor report on the first we knew about this http://www.johnslabourblog.org/2018/01/councillor-report-3117-could-we-become.html)

"I can think of nobody better to be the Mayor of Newham than her" ....Rokhsana Fiaz for Newham Mayor

Great letter of endorsement for Rokhsana Fiaz as Newham Labour Mayoral Candidate by our West Ham MP, Lyn Brown.

After some quite disgusting and frankly vile comments and deliberate untruths by "supporters" of the incumbent, Lyn has obviously felt that she has no choice but to step in and show her support for Rokhsana. 

I #VotedRokhs - Official UNISON Labour Link candidate!

"I've voted - have you? Please share if you've #VotedRokhs so we can show Labour members that it's time for a change, a new vision and a new way of doing things for the people of Newham. Really pleased that I am the official UNISON backed candidate! 
#VoteRokhs

Check out:-

https://www.rokhsana.org/

https://www.facebook.com/Rokhsana4Newham

https://twitter.com/rokhsanafiaz

Eligible members joined Labour Party before July 1 2016. Election finishes Noon Friday 16 March 2018. 

Vote Rokhsana for Newham Mayoral Ballot #RokhsTheVote

I have come back today from UNISON Community conference and have just voted online for the candidate supported by Greater London UNISON Labour Link, Rokhsana Fiaz.

Rokhsana is committed to policies which are very important to UNISON's such as building 1000 homes at a social rent; anti-privatisation of public schools and services and a massive increase in youth provision to counter the knife and acid crime epidemic in Newham.

She is also a tough, intelligent, pragmatic, no nonsense leader, who has the skills and experiences to the job.

It is also about time that Newham (and London) had a female directly elected Mayor (DEM). There is only two female Labour DEM out of 24 in the entire country. 

We also need change in Newham and we need someone who can be a unifying force to unite the Party in order to win in the local elections in May.