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My own personal blog. UNISON NEC member for Housing Associations & Charities, HA Convenor, London Regional Council Officer & Chair of its Labour Link Committee. Newham Cllr for West Ham Ward, Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum, Pension trustee, Housing & Safety Practitioner. Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family. Strictly no trolls please. Promoted by Luke Place on behalf of J.Gray, Newham Labour Group, St Luke’s Community Centre, E16 1HS.

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Friday, February 05, 2021

Best of the Handforth Parish Council Planning & Environment Committee

Of course in the past 10 months since lockdown no Newham Council or Labour Party meeting has been anything like this :-)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-55946252

Friday, May 01, 2020

Wearing Red for Key Workers on May Day

This afternoon I took part in a Zoom meeting with the Newham Mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz, our TUC regional secretary, Sam Gurney and Newham Council shop stewards from UNISON, Unite and GMB.

We were all wearing red to mark "May Day" and we wanted to show solidarity and support for all our key workers. It was a really positive and constructive meeting.

Check out my personal thanks to all the carers who look after my 79 year old Mum in her social housing sheltered flat in Ruthin, North Wales.

Thursday, April 02, 2020

Leeds University Reunion 1981-84 (and at 8pm we #ClapforOurCarers)

We live in a very strange and somewhat scary world and in the midst of this international emergency a group of us decided to make the best of a very bad lot to organise a virtual reunion on Zoom and "meet up" after in some cases 36 years apart.

We were all students in Leeds University and most of us at one stage shared a house together (6 Stanmore in Headingley, Leeds) and/or were members of the University Territorial Army unit LUOTC.

Many thanks to Mike (still in Leeds) for organising; Vicki, Claire, Sue, Fiona (in Holland) and Max (in Australia) for taking part.

Apart from it being great to meet up again after so long and share memories, it was also really fascinating about how "C19" had impacted on their lives across the UK and Holland/Australia. Amidst the many happy 1980s reminisces, we are all very aware of the many difficult and tragic situations going on in this country and the rest of the world.

We hope to meet up again online in 3 weeks time and invite others from our memory bank to participate. We stopped at 8pm to "#ClapForOurCarers" but I am not sure that Max could participate since it was 6am in New South Wales.

Finally, apologies to all for the Zoom picture and instead check out this one below (not all of us) #WhenWeWereYoung