After a hiatus of more than two years, East Ham CLP is going to have a meeting. And it’s an annual general meeting to boot!
All 10 of the branch (ward) parties held their own AGMs late last year, under supervision of the London regional office. Local officers and general committee delegates were elected and now – at long last – the CLP is going to elect its own officers.
The agenda has been circulated
East Ham Labour Party – Annual General Meeting 2019
The Trinity Centre, East Avenue, London, E12 6SG
Monday 25 February 2019
Registration from 6:30pm. Meeting to start at 7pm.
- Introductions & apologies for absence
- Election of CLP Executive Officers for 2019/20 (at least half (7) must be women)
- Chair
- Vice Chair
- Vice Chair Membership
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Women’s Officer
- Policy Officer
- BAME Officer
- LGBT+ Officer
- Youth Officer
- Disability Officer
- TU Liaison Officer
- Political Education Officer
- Social Media Officer
- Election of up to 4 Regional Conference delegates (at least half (2) must be women)
- Nominations for Regional Board
- Chair
- Vice Chair
- Women’s Officer
- Disabilities Officer
- Ethnic Minorities Officer
- LGBT Officer
- 2 CLP Reps from Section 5 – City of London, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Barking &
Dagenham, Havering & Redbridge (at least one must be a woman)- 2 NPF Reps (at least one must be a woman)
No doubt rival factions are busy putting together slates and cooking up deals to ensure that the ‘wrong people’ don’t wind up in charge.
There was evidence of this at a number of the branch AGMs. At the Manor Park ward AGM an alliance between Momentum and Sir Robin’s former allies, led by former deputy mayor Ken Clark, backed a mixed slate of Momentum and right wing candidates and effectively blocked supporters of the new mayor.
This unholy alliance was born at the council Labour Group AGM back in May. Momentum-aligned councillors were elected as Group chair and chief whip, while the Walesite old guard held onto the chairs of Council and overview and scrutiny. Subsequently the same coalition has voted together to push for the referendum on the future of mayoralty to be held at the same time as the London elections in 2020, against the wishes of both Rokhsana Fiaz and Sadiq Khan. It is also jointly campaigning against plans to reform the Every Child a Musician programme.
It is worth keeping an eye on East Ham. While the two camps may be happy to ally for now to keep the mayor’s supporters out, there is a bigger prize in prospect and both factions want to grab it for themselves. At some point parliament will vote on new constituency boundaries, with the likelihood that one or both of our sitting local MPs will have to re-apply to be the candidate . One of the safest seats in the country will soon be up for grabs. It could all get very messy.
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