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.
