Tony Lloyd MP telling University students what labour have done to fight aids

A quick round up

Last chance for Burnley . . . .
Accomodation has now been booked for Burnley this weekend; but get in touch if you still want to come. It promises to be a top weekend.

Social in Rusholme . . . .
This Sunday there is a fundraising curry in Rusholme with Gerald Kaufman MP and Shahid Malik MP. 7pm at the Sanam restaurant on Wilmslow road. Get in touch if you want to go.

Super Saturday
Next Saturday there will be key seat campaigning in Manchester, get in touch to find out more. As well as the Burnage social in the evening. Tho, I appreciate the NOLS lot from Manchester will be fighting the good fight at national council. As I am a delegate I will be tied up in London but get in touch if you are around that weekend.

Youth conference
Basically Youth conference encompassing Young Labour and Labour Students is to be held in the New Year in Glasgow. This is the sovereign body of Young Labour and will elect the NEC Youth rep. Standing so far is Stephanie Peacock, the Young Labour womens officer. Check out her manifesto at http://www.steph4nec.co.uk/ I'll hand over now to Neil Bibby the chair of Young Labour who can tell you more about Youth conference.

I have great pleasure in confirming that the National Youth Conference will be taking place in Glasgow between Friday 16th and Sunday 18th February.

The venue will be the Crowne Plaza Hotel next to the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre on the River Clyde. This area is at the heart of the Clyde regeneration project and is a symbol of the work that a Labour Government and Labour Council have done in the City.

For more information about Glasgow please visit www.seeglasgow.com At the conference there will be a chance for young members to hear from high profile politicians, take part in policy forums and debates, sign up for training sessions and go to the many social events which are planned across the City.

I hope you will be able to put this event in your diary as it is sure to be a fantastic weekend. Any young member can attend Youth Conference but there may also be the opportunity to attend as delegate. Each CLP can send a delegate. Young Labour Groups, Labour Student Clubs and Trade Unions can also send delegates and they will be notified as to how many by the Labour Party. If your group is not notified by 10th December please call the Labour Party. Registration for the event will be available online in the next couple of days. I hope to see you all in Glasgow.

Regards, Neil

Neil Bibby Chair, Young Labour National Committee

Burnley - a special plea from your youth officer and the national secretary of Labour Students

Basically on 2nd/3rd of December loads of people in Young Labour will be going over to Burnley to campaign against the BNP and return a labour council accompanied by Kitty Ussher MP. It is 10:30-5:30 on the Saturday and 10-4:30 on the Sunday. There is no obligation to go for the whole weekend but accomodation and food will be provided free of charge courtesy of the top people at UNISON labour link. Also there will be a 'red' social on the Saturday night at Burnley FC. It promises to be a great weekend, with plenty of young people for an incredibly worthy cause. If you want to go you need to get back to me ideally by Monday. Email me at gortonclp_youthandstudents@hotmail.co.uk or give me a call or text on 07810 011771. I'll now let Kiran Mahil an ex Gorton CLP member and the current national secretary of labour students explain why this particular regional event is so important.

As Labour people, we believe passionately in equal rights for all. We believe that every citizen has the right to be treated with respect and that discrimination in all its forms is wrong. However, there are some that do not share these values; in fact they threaten their very existence.The BNP, with their divisive message are gaining electoral successes in some areas, particularly in the North West. That's why Labour Students have planned a campaign weekend in Burnley on 2-3 December to ensure that the local residents are aware of the positive work that Labour is doing in their area.

So lets have a high turnout from Manchester and show the BNP that them and their divisive message are not welcome in the North West.

Youth report for November

Very briefly . . . .

• Thanks to all those who turned up to campaign in Fallowfield and Whalley Range. It was much appreciated. Oh and there is campaigning in Rusholme at 10am on Sunday morning. Get in touch if you fancy it.
• There will be a further post on this but on 2nd/3rd December we will be fighting the BNP and campaigning to return a labour council in Burnley
• We are looking at setting up a phone bank in conjunction with Labour students at the USDAW offices on Wilmslow road
• There are loads of Youth conferences coming up in the new year, which we are working flat out to organise. These are Northern labour students conference, Northern Young labour conference, labour students annual conference and annual youth conference.
• If you are a student there are now facebook groups for the labour party, labour students, manchester labour club, young labour, Rusholme branch labour party, labour students womens campaign and labour students disabled students campaign so click on the links, join and get involved.

Thats all for now. Take care and let me know if theres anything I can do. Oh and watch out for info on Burnley.

All the best, Adele, Gorton CLP Youth and Students officer

Thank you/organising in Rusholme

Just a brief round up to let you know what is coming up. I will publish my Youth report after the CLP GC on Tuesday. That reminds me if anyone has anything at all that they want bringing up just leave a comment or drop me an email.

A big thankyou . . . .
I would like to personally thank everyone who turned up to help for the labour students in the community event in Fallowfield and Whalley Range, particuarly those that stayed for the whole day. Your help was much appreciated and our relationship with labour students is looking stronger than ever. I'll attempt to get some photos up on the website soon.

Its all about Rusholme . . . .
This is not just partisan loyalty as I now live there but I have a few events to plug! On Wednesday 23rd November (this week) at 6pm we will be going leafleting in Rusholme so join us and lets kick start the campaign nice and early. Also on the 3rd December there will be a fundraising curry at 7pm with Gerald Kaufman MP and Shahid Malik MP, tickets are £15 and it promises to be a good evening. Also if you are a labour member as well as a student and live in Rusholme we have set up a facebook group so join it by clicking on this link and we'll keep you in touch with whats going on. If this turns out to be successfull, I'll look at doing it for other student dominated parts of the contituency so join and make it work. Get in touch via gortonclp_youthandstudents@hotmail.co.uk or find my phone no in the profile for meeting times and places for any of these events

Anything else don't hesitate to leave a comment or drop me an email. I am here to work for you and mainly make your time in Labour Manchester both a successfull and enjoyable one.

All the best, Adele, Gorton CLP Youth and Students Officer

Manchester Labour Students/Young Labour in the community

This Saturday there will be a campaign day/day of fun in Gorton Constituency held in conjunction with Manchester Labour Students. It would be great to see as many people as possible out helping to keep Manchester Labour whilst having fun at the same time!!

Morning session

Meet in Fallowfield at 10:30am for leafleting or canvassing. The choice is yours.

Afternoon session

Meet in Whalley Range at 2pm to deliver direct mail. (Free food afterwards!)

And later on . . . .

Come and join us at Font bar by Oxford road train station for a 'few' drinks to wind down from a day of campaigning.

Get in touch if you need any more info on gortonclp_youthandstudents@hotmail.co.uk

I can give you exact meeting places and all that as well as whatever else you need to know.

All the best

Adele Reynolds, Gorton CLP Youth and Students Officer

Stoke Rochford Political weekend

2 weekends ago Manchester Labour Students went to Stoke Rochford for the annual political weekend where we met ministers, launched the priority campaign and generally had a good time and wound down after the by election.

Here is Alan Johnson in the process of being extensively lobbied by members of Labour Students on plans for faith schools, grammar schools and of course top up fees. He made some incredibly important points about the Governments plans for widening participation, which will ensure that more people in our constituency will get the chance to go to University.

If anyone would like to get further involved in labour students then check out the Manchester Labour Club website and the national Labour Students website. Feel free to drop Ciaran Waude the national chair an email at ciaran_ward@new.labour.org.uk or email me on gortonclp_youthandstudents@hotmail.co.uk for anything specifically to do labour students in Manchester.

A run down of Labour in Manchester

LABOUR IN MANCHESTER:

Labour representatives have been elected to represent you at every level.

• 4 out of the 5 MPs representing Manchester in Parliament are Labour
• There are 63 labour councillors on Manchester city council
• There are 3 labour MEPs representing the North West region, which includes Manchester.

MANCHESTER GORTON REPRESENTED BY GERALD KAUFMAN MP

Fallowfield - represented by 3 Labour councillors

Gorton North - represented by 1 Labour councillor and 2 lib dems

Gorton South - represented by 3 lib dems (despite the fact lib dems have pledged to axe the new deal which has helped over 1 million people into work)

Levenshulme - represented by 3 lib dems (despite the fact that lib dems opposed the introduction of the minimum wage)

Longsight - represented by 1 labour councillor and 2 lib dems

Rusholme - represented by 3 lib dems (despite the fact lib dems are committed to scrapping the child trust fund)

Whalley Range - represented by 1 Labour councillor and 2 lib dems

MANCHESTER CENTRAL IS REPRESENTED BY TONY LLOYD MP

City centre - represented by 3 lib dems (despite the fact lib dems would axe the pensions credit)

Hulme - represented by 2 Labour councillors and 1 green

Ancoats and Clayton - represented by 3 Labour councillors including the deputy leader of the council

Bradford - represented by 3 Labour councillors

Ardwick - represented by 3 Labour councillors

Moss Side - represented by 3 Labour councillors

Miles Platting and Newton Heath - represented by 3 Labour councillors

MANCHESTER BLACKLEY IS REPRESENTED BY GRAHAM STRINGER MP

Higher Blackley - represented by 3 Labour councillors

Cheetham - represented by 3 Labour councillors

Crumpsall - represented by 3 Labour councillors including the leader of the council

Harpurhey - represented by 3 Labour councillors

Moston - represented by 3 Labour councillors

Charlestown - represented by 3 Labour councillors

WYTHENSHAWE AND SALE EAST IS REPRESENTED BY PAUL GOGGINS MP

Baguley - represented by 3 Labour councillors

Brooklands - represented by 3 labour councillors

Northenden - represented by 3 Labour councillors

Sharston - represented by 3 Labour councillors

Woodhouse Park - represented by 3 Labour councillors

MANCHESTER WITHINGTON IS REPRESENTED BY JOHN LEECH MP

The Lib Dems are dangerously out of touch on crime and anti-social behaviour. The Lib Dems repeatedly tried to block Labour’s measures to tackle anti-social behaviour, and would deprive police and local authorities the powers to take on the vandals and bullies. They are more concerned with the rights of the criminals than the victims and LibDem councils have the worst records for tackling anti-social behaviour.

If you ever contemplate voting for them again just remember:-
They voted against dispersal orders - powers to break up teen gangs. They say prison is a waste of time - never send young criminals to court. They opposed fixed penalty notices for drunken louts. They would end all jail sentences for drug possession.

Burnage - represented by 3 lib dems (despite the fact lib dems opposed the winter fuel payment and free tv licenses for the over 75s)

Chorlton - represented by 3 labour councillors including the deputy leader of the council

Chorlton Park - represented by 3 lib dems (despite the fact that lib dems would privatise the Post Office)

Didsbury East - represented by 3 lib dems (despite the fact that leading lib dems are advocating scrapping the NHS)

Didsbury West - represented by 3 lib dems (despite the fact that lib dems tried to block Labour's measures to crack down on Anti-Social Behaviour)

Old Moat - represented by 3 labour councillors

Withington - represented by 3 lib dems despite the fact that lib dem's plans for local income tax would cost a couple on average earnings an average £260 a year more

Youth report for October

Here it is as promised. What has been achieved in the youth section and what is in the pipeline.

What has been achieved over the last month or so

• Campaigning in Gorton South By election - a personal thanks from me and the candidate Julie Reid. Young people in the constituency and Manchester Labour Students put in a mammoth effort leafleting, canvassing and generally working hard. Unfortunately we didn't win but your efforts were much appreciated and you are all fantastic! Bring on May!!
• Conference - this was fantastic and brought so much good publicity for labour controlled Manchester. I attended the launch of the labour students Make Child Poverty History campaign with Jim Murphy MP. This is in conjuction with the Child Poverty Action group and centres around the theme of Make Child Benefit Count. I'll let you know more about what you can do at a later date via the website and email.
• Website - a fairly obvious one but I have set up this website in the form of a blog to communicate with young people and students in the constituency about what is happening within Young Labour and Labour Students. Obviously, confidential information will be continued to be sent out via email.
• University Challenge - work has started on collecting as many signatures and email addresses of labour supporters in our key seats. One of which is Manchester Gorton. Work continues on this and I'll let you know how things go.

What is in the pipeline

• US mid term elections 7th November - Hopefully this is when the Democrats will make sweeping gains in the Senate and the House of representatives. I am working on organising an event that night and will keep you posted as and when details arise.
• Labour Students in the community 11th November - this will involve a clean up and leaflet drop in Fallowfield followed by a famous NOLS social in the evening. More details via email.
• Anti BNP campaigning 2nd/3rd December - campaigning against the BNP with other Labour members in Burnley. Accomodation provided and a social on the Saturday night. Once again more details via email.
• Campaigning in a more general sense - obviously there will be loads going on in Manchester and I will let you know as I get the details. However, this year is the most important year for the party outside the General Election as it sees elections to the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament. Therefore in conjunction with labour students, before Christmas, there is one weekend away in Wales organised and 2 weekends away organised for Scotland. I'll let you know as it gets nearer the time.

If you need anything at all, don't hesistate to contact me by leaving a comment and I'll give you more details of everything we've got planned as soon as possible.

All the best, Adele

Hello and welcome

This is the first post designed to keep you up to date with what is going on with labour in Gorton constituency. To introduce myself I am Adele and am the Youth and Students officer for Gorton CLP. My job over the next few months is to get young people involved in the constituency, campaigning to keep Manchester Labour and to have lots of fun doing it. There is lots coming up before Christmas in what is the most important year for the party in this cycle apart from the general election. Watch out for more updates as tommorow I will be giving my youth report to the constituency. This will detail what is organised in terms of Young people campaigning and events organised right up until the end of December. To get involved leave a comment or drop me an email on gortonclp_youthandstudents@hotmail.co.uk

All the best, Adele