The results are in & I’ve been elected as a London-wide Assembly Member!
This is such an honour & a privilege & I'm immensely grateful to every single person who’s made this possible. THANK YOU!
Congrats to all who took part in this election. Excited to get to work! 😊
My congratulations to
@JanetDaby
- I look forward to campaigning for you in the forthcoming by-election!
Janet's campaign was hugely impressive. My team gave it absolutely everything. Lewisham East is hugely fortunate to have her as their next MP! 👏🏽
Everything this mans says is divisive, disruptive & dripping in racism.
I’m going on the Daily Politics show this morning to explain why we all need to be on the streets today at 2pm & 5pm protesting Trump - see you there?
@UKStopTrump
I'm so proud to have been placed in the top two places for the London wide list for London Assembly elections on 7 May!
Thank you to all CLPs, unions, and members who have placed their faith in me. Your support humbles me 🙏🏽
Congratulations to all selected, and all who ran 🌹
Great to join
@Keir_Starmer
&
@SadiqKhan
for their Lewisham visit to
@StoreEvelyn
where our fantastic volunteers &
@LewishamMayores
work hard tackling food poverty
On May 6 we have a chance for Labour to win big in London & lay the ground work for the Labour Government we need🌹
#LocalElections
tomorrow! Are u ready to
#VoteLabour
across London? Solidarity to all Labour candidates!
#LewishamForTheMany
campaign has been an incredible journey! Campaigning for Mayoral Candidate
@damienegan
, Lewisham Labour Candidates & PerryVale team: John, Susan & myself!
Proud to be shortlisted as a Labour Councillor candidate in
@LewishamCouncil
the borough I’ve grown up in. Good luck to all the candidates. Excited to talk about politics for the Many not the Few.
#Lewisham
#Councillor
#Labour
Green New Deal now; reskilling our workers; decarbonising our economy; racial justice and class solidarity now; create Green Jobs and a future where the Global South no longer has to clean up our mess! Climate Justice now! ✊🏽
Lewisham councillor says youth strikers are inspiring councillors to do better: “They are cutting through the noise. Theyre saying its not enough just to declare a climate emergency we wanna know what you’re gonna do about it.”
Solidarity with
@lilymadigan99
who has faced appalling attacks in her campaign to be Lewisham Deptford's Women's Officer. There is no place for transphobic abuse in any inch of our society ✊🏽
Excited to announce Ive been shortlisted as a potential Labour candidate for London Assembly! I’ll be on the ballot this Oct when Labour members decide who our next Assembly Memebrs will be. Thank you all for your support so far! Updates soon! Sign up here
"Our members were told they would never win this fight..." 🙅🏽♀️
Massive congratulations to United Voices of the World the union and all involved in this momentous campaign ✊🏽👏🏽🙌🏽
@UVWunion
If you’ve got an hour or two this week to keep Lewisham East
#Labour
and get our brilliant candidate
@JanetDaby
elected - then join me canvassing! You can find a timetable full of the canvassing sessions in Lewisham East here:
Hope to see you there!
Great to be out canvasing with our brilliant Labour Candidate
@JanetDaby
for
#LewishamEast
this morning.
#LabourDoorstep
keen to come out and support us on 14 June! This is a short campaign so we'll need all hands on deck, get down to a session if you can:
The average London tenant spends 43% of their income on rent - we need rent controls now 👏🏽
Labour in City Hall will fight for rent controls across this City 🏘
Here’s what else I’ll fight for if elected 6 May 👉🏽
Use all your votes for Labour on 6 May
So proud to be elected as
#Labour
’s new Councillor Candidate for
@perryvalelabour
a brilliant branch - can’t wait to work with you all! Thank you so much to all who helped me get here. Excited to be joining the team w/ John Paschoud &
@susanmariawise
! Bring on 2018 elections!
Only just resurfacing after a whirlwind two weeks of inductions & signing into the
@LondonAssembly
!
Still feeling immensely grateful for all the support and love this year.
Looking forward to my first Mayor's Question Time tomorrow with
@CityHallLabour
🌹
The countdown has begun! Less than 2 weeks til Lewisham East elect their new MP, let’s make sure it’s our brilliant
@JanetDaby
for
#Labour
!
Janet will make an excellent MP, join us to get the message out:
Or do a spot of leafleting with the family!
Great to have chaired my first
@LondonAssembly
Planning & Regeneration Committee 🙌🏽
Fantastic contributions from 13 guests for a two part session on how we ensure our GLA housing design guidance meets the changing needs of Londoners 🏡
The Mayoral & London Assembly elections are just around the corner 🌹- deadline to sign up for an early vote is 20th April
Here's why it's worth signing up by 20th April & getting stuck into the campaign
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Today is polling day! 📅
Don't forget:
Wear a mask 😷
Bring a pen 🖊️
Vote 3 times for Labour 🗳️
With
@SadiqKhan
and a Labour majority on the London assembly we can bring in rent controls and 175,000 green jobs for London.
Find your polling station:
Happy
#InternationalWorkersDay
!
I'm standing for the London Assembly to bring more worker and trade union voices into government.
Trade unions founded the Labour Party and we need to ensure they continue to have voice at the heart of our politics.
1/3
NEW: City Hall will be funding free school meals for every primary school pupil in London.
No child should go hungry in our city.
The Government have refused to act, so I’m stepping up.
Thanks so much for your support
@RLong_Bailey
🌹
It's hugely important we elect a leader that understands the significance of the climate crisis and who will fight to ensure Labour offers a radical vision that protects workers, communities and the environment.
Racist, bigoted and Islamaphobic. Another one of
@BorisJohnson
’s unacceptable & outrageous comments. The fact that this man holds public office shows us there is something deeply wrong with our political system & media which seem completely unwilling to hold this man accountable
Powerful words
@DawnButlerBrent
on racism representatives face “I will stand at the entrance & give the room time to take me in. I am black. I am the MP. There is no one else coming...You have to own the situation,otherwise it will destroy you & who u are”
London comrades! You have the opportunity to nominate me this week in your CLP meetings until 8th Sept so that together we can
#SheikhUpCityHall
& demand a London Green New Deal, an end to institutional racism in the Met police & take the movement into City Hall ✊🏽
I got into work today to see this message of love! I’m still feeling so proud & inspired by the people who ran my campaign with me last week. People power makes a movement.
Now I’m looking forward to campaigning to get the brilliant
@JanetDaby
elected in Lewisham East!
Comrades! Ballots open next week 5 Feb for Labour members in London to decide who they choose to be our GLA candidates 🗳
I’m running to
#SheikhUpCityHall
& open up the halls of power to our movement. Thank you
@OwenJones84
for endorsing!
We need a radical vision for London✊🏽
What would a London Green New Deal look like? The power of
@AOC
leadership has allowed us to dream big, so lets do exactly that. Huge public investments to break our toxic dependence on BP & Shell; build community-owned renewable energy & end fuel-poverty. Let's
#SheikhUpCityHall
Last weekend we had
#LewishamEast
locals, MPs and activists from across London joining us to knock on the
#LabourDoorStep
to get our fantastic candidate
@JanetDaby
elected this Thursday.
Join us for the final weekend of camapging! Sessions listed here:
AND ITS A WRAP FOLKS!!
Voting has closed.
Thank you so much to everyone for your incredible support ❤️🌹
Wow it’s been a whirlwind of a journey but we made it to the finish line!!!
Eid Mubarak to all my family, friends and to everyone celebrating today or tomorrow 🎉🎉🎉
#Eid2023
Throwback photo to a day where I wasn’t working but getting dressed up for festivities instead!
It's been fab weekend leafletting to get
@SadiqKhan
,
@Len_Duvall
&
@LondonLabour
list candidates elected to City Hall on May 6🌹
🗳️Use all 3 votes for Labour 🗳️
Also out leafleting for our fab Catford South Labour Cllr candidate
@jamesroyston
👟👟👟
Spot on Grace. The Health & Social Care act 2012 cracked the NHS open for the market to bid for contracts
The Tories had no mandate to do this & have continued to lie about this back door privatisation: ask any doctor, nurse, social care worker: to truly save our NHS vote Labour
The holy month of Ramadan allows Muslims to demonstrate the true values our religion teaches us of empathy, compassion and charity.
As Ramadan begins, I wish Muslims in London and across the world a happy, peaceful and blessed month.
#Ramadan
I was proud to share a stage
@RLong_Bailey
a champion of the Green Industrial Revolution in Labour.
I’m running to be a London Assembly member to bring those ideas to City Hall
The ballot has dropped TODAY! It’s time to
#SheikhUpCityHall
🌹🌱🌹
I am looking forward to speaking alongside
@RLong_Bailey
today on a potential UK Green New Deal & how Labour is set to lead on decarbonising the UK & fulfilling green, unionised jobs pledge. With the amazing
@faizashaheen
@NatashaJosette
&
@zackexley
.
So much demand for our Building a Green New Deal event tomo - we're completely oversubscribed!
If you didn't get a ticket - we're hoping to livestream it from our facebook.
Solidarity with
#Standstead15
who have their sentencing this morning. They are heroes. Spoke at Lewisham FullCouncil about them & how Immigration DetentionCentres are rotten to the core. By committing to shut them down Labour can lead on changing the toxic narrative on migration
“It’s a well known fact all roads lead to Lewisham but not all tubes lines… in fact none do!” 🛤️
Today I asked The Mayor of London:
“How hard are you pushing for government funding for the Bakerloo line extension?” 🚝
.
@SakinaZS
asks about the Bakerloo Line extension and how this could unlock regeneration, house building and jobs.
We need the planned route to be safeguarded and continue to lobby the Government for the proper funding to see this extension realised
Climate Reparations, holding fossil fuel companies to account, Community Organising & a Green New Deal; with the Labour Party conference starting tomorrow - here’s are some of the Climate Justice lessons we can take forward from the amazing Youth
#ClimateStrikes
today ✊🏽🙌🏽
"As Labour conference begins, there are a number of lessons we can learn from their movement..."
@SakinaZS
's five ways the Labour Party could learn from the climate youth strikers:
It’s been our first day in the office today. We wanted to get to work straight away delivering for Lewisham on the promises we made in the election. Here is what we’ve announced today.
#ForTheMany
#Labour
🌹
Im getting geared up to talk about Climate Justice
@TWT_NOW
! Trump's reckless behaviour ripping up the Climate Accord endangers everyone, especially Global South folk. And Important to highlight any future trade with the U.S must keep our NHS protected & resist deregulation.
Today the London Assembly’s Planning Committee has launched our report looking at the Govt’s planning reforms:
Many of the reforms raise concerns for the Committee, & should be amended as the Bill goes to the Lords today. We've offered 11 recommendations.
The Planning and Regeneration Committee has published a report raising a number of concerns with the proposed Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill.
Chair
@SakinaZS
outlines the key issues that the Assembly has raised with the bill 👇
At People’s Question Time earlier this week I made clear:
Tory government after Tory government have made political choices that’s resulted in poverty
And now the Cost of Living Crisis is the result of their political choices
Don’t blame Rory Stewart for quitting a dying, dysfunctional Tory Party; but seriously bizzare he thinks he’s best placed to hear the heart beat of London. To understand what it’s like to struggle & aspire to thrive here; when hes part of the political elite that pushed austerity
As I gear up to restart my
#SheikhUpCityHall
campaign Im proud to join the picket line this morning supporting worker’s calls to be brought in-house
Private companies have no place in our NHS: neither providing hospital services nor precarious contracts to the security staff ✊🏽
The Labour Party is getting ready to govern. Now is the time to remain focused & not be distracted by those who do not want the party to succeed. So I’ve just boarded a shuttle bus full of women en route to
#LabWomen2019
to talk about how Labour will achieve justice for the many!
Arrived at BBC London Radio to review the week in politics..it’s been a bit dramatic as many of you may have noticed! We’ll be discussing Amazon fires, G7 leaders hypocrisy, Boris’s power grab & fracking earthquakes in Lancashire. Nice & light Friday evening! Tune in for 22:15 😎
Brillaint to join Unite members on the picket line this morning striking this week & next for better pay and to be brought in-house ✊🏽
Our NHS workers, from our cleaners to porters to the caterers have been the backbone to our covid recovery - they are heroes & deserve better
So proud of
@CLPLewishamW_P
for passing the Green New Deal motion yesterday afternoon. We need a rapid economic transformation to bring us Climate Justice & racial justice. Brilliant speeches form comrades Paul
@toomanyevenings
and Sam Parkin moving the motion 💪🏽✊🏽
Solidarity with our cleaners, park attendants, cafe workers and everyone striking on Halloween✊🏽🎃
Im ready to
#SheikhUpCityHall
& demand all Londoners deserve proper pay and working conditions!
Here's why 👇🏽
A warm and huge thank you to
@CLPLewishamW_P
@LewDeptLabour
@rnplabour
Chingford & Woodgreen CLP
for nominating me at their nomination meetings for the London Assembley’s list!
I’m gearing up to
#SheikhUpCityHall
but first let’s remove this buffoon from No10 😎
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 the Tory housing crisis is bringing so many people to their knees.
Good to see this leadership from
@SadiqKhan
renewing his call for rent caps in the capital 👌🏽
Fantastic day of campaigning in
@CLPLewishamW_P
. We had teams out in Forest Hill, Sydenham, Perry Vale & Bellingham on this sunny Saturday ☀️
Picked up a lot of case work and pleased to hear a lot of support for a Labour Government on the doorstep🌹
Very excited to be talking at the GLA about how London can lead the Green Revolution away from fossil fuels & towards a future full of investments in vital new green industries & reskilling of workers on their terms.
#ClimateJustice
for the Many
I’m excited to announce 10 ways I plan to
#SheikhUpCityHall
as I run to be your Labour Candidate for the London Assembly. I stand on the shoulders of giants who've fought to pave a radical vision for London & make these
#SheikhUpCityHall
demands possible
A huge thanks to all London Labour members who've voted for me since the ballots opened on 5 Feb & for all your support❤️🌹
If elected to
#SheikhUpCityHall
I'll interrupt the business-as-usual, tinkering-around-the-edges approach to political change ✊🏽
Labour members need to send a clear message: we need bailouts for workers & planet, not billionaires!
Execs are paying millions to shareholders while cutting thousands of jobs. We need public ownership to retrain workers to green jobs
Sign petition here
We’ve kicked off
#PeoplesQuestionTime
in Ealing tonight!
Great to hear
@SadiqKhan
start the night highlighting his
#FreeSchoolMeals
policy that will benefit thousands of children across London 🌹
📺 You can watch the live stream here:
En route to canvass for
@JanetDaby
this morning! Keeping Lewisham East
#Labour
& getting our fantastic candidate Janet elected. Join us if you’re in the area!
@lewishamlabour
Polls are open till 10PM tonight - please message friends and family to make sure they’ve voted 🗳
Use all three votes for
@LondonLabour
so we can get
@SadiqKhan
and a Labour majority in the Assembly 🌹
Final stretch!!
So inspired by the fierce determination of the young people demanding Climate Justice: demanding system change not climate change. Solidarity to every one of you who came out & made London proud of its youth. Today across the UK young people are demanding climate action now!
Proud to second a motion at Lewisham Full Council last night to continue supporting schools providing free schools meals to children's family subjected to No Recourse to Public Funds: a cruel and inhumane part of the Hostile Environment from an institutionally racist Home Office.
We are in a housing crisis & the cost of living crisis has taken us to breaking point
The Renters Reform Bill is 4 yrs late - last year
@LondonAssembly
called on the Gov for quicker action
Today
@Semakaleng
& I will push for better protections for London’s renters in our motion
It’s
#LondonAssemblyLabour
on tour today to support
@DannyBeales
in the
#UxbridgeandSouthRuislip
by-election campaign! 🌹
Second cohort of Labour Assembly Members arriving for 2:30pm session - join them at South Ruislip station to get door knocking in the sunshine ☀️😎
Eid Mubarak to all celebrating today or tomorrow ❤️💕
Beautiful Eid in the Park celebrations in Lewisham this morning followed by a
@Labour4Ladywell
canvass in my full Eid get up!!
The political ambition to achieve climate justice is being spearheaded by Youth Strikers. Theyre building on the fearless energy of decades of climate mobilisations predominantly from Global South communities. Excited to march with them in Brighton tomorrow & speak at their rally
At
@SadiqKhan
's manifesto launch this morning,
@Ed_Miliband
says: we need a Labour Mayor who knows “If we fail on climate, we fail on social justice.”
This manifesto makes clear London needs a Green Recovery with justice at the heart of our transition to a greener fairer future
So much fun canvassing with the
@BarnetLabour
crew in
@ChildsHillLab
ward for the lovely
@anne_clarke
AM today 🌹
A walk across Hampstead Heath afterwards turned it into the perfect sunny Sunday ☀️
Wow looking at the scenes before I speak to the Brighton Strikers - feeling in awe and inspired by their power!!
My piece on lessons we can learn from the Strikers from demanding Climate reparation to a Green New Deal:
My Saturday mornings are normally filled with coffee & phonebanking to get
@SadiqKhan
&
@GarfieldJudith
elected in the most marginal GLA seat in London:
@redbridgelabour
& Havering
Under 1500 votes to take it so let's make it happen!
Find sessions here:
Great evening at Lewisham East BAME Forum. The
@UKLabour
Party membership & leadership must reflect the diverse communities it serves for a healthy democracy to thrive. Let’s continue to build that from ground up & also see more change at a national level.Thanks
@LewEastBAMELab
!
So proud that yesterday 250,000 people from across the UK marched in opposition to Trumps bigoted politics.
We sent a clear message that we stand in opposition to Trump’s ideology of hate & division, and of May’s Hostile Environment.
Onwards comrades ✊🏽
“He creates a politics of division of chaos, and an undertone of racism and misogyny and bigotry in his politics”
@sakinaZS
“Embarrassing to see Theresa May crawling towards Trump”
#bbcdp