Please check detail and comment before 11am tomorrow to allow for reasonably prompt distribution to rest of group -
Attendees :
Mark French
Stephen Farnsworth
Ajith
Yetunde
Lilia
Iris
Kaz
John
Ed
(Can I have your surnames please)
Apologies
Muhammad, Liz, Ruth
Key dates for your diaries :
Next momentum meeting is 24 July 3pm in St Stephens Church hall Silver Street EN1 2BA
NEC voting commences 20th July for committee so L members should be receiving their papers soon
Next CRP meeting is 7th September, time and venue to follow
This Saturday there's an anti racism March and a local academy March ( I don't know the details )
Ed has completed time stuffing envelopes for labour and highly urges us all to volunteer and get involved in labour activities, make friends , learn what we can about all that we can
Mark is trying to get hold of 140 names of JC supporters from Robin Jackson for us to interact with and hopefully mobilise to join us
For future reference only we asked if anyone had any local / other press contacts ?
The group overall believe we should work diligently but relatively quietly to keep infiltrators / unwanted attention at bay , however the group want to encourage others to join and get involved so we are aware a certain amount of profile is required but we agree we need to stay political and never personal in our communications. We also recognised that we may be infiltrated so would encourage each other to stay professional and in JC message
Ajith recommended we get a stall at Enfield town market , the group over all felt this could be a good idea and further investigation was needed within group as to what we hope to achieve , literature to hand out etc ( Maria McCaul to get rough costs for stand , printing etc )
There are 12 positions on CLP Up for election ( see what'sapp for link) we urge each other to think about going up for election for this and for all places in party
There are 850 known Labour Party members in Nr Enfield and people in the group may have contact details for some of these ( Mark & Iris). For future discussion, what to do with these
The group discussed LP wards and how to activate them in future
Joan R was discussed with regards to us being aware of how she was elected ( a done deal ) her position on policies and how angry we are with her disrespect for the membership who voted her in . We discussed her support from the Kurdish Business world in Enfield and the negativity from her camp for local Turkish business and we agreed that we can better influence what we want from her ( stay or go ??) once we get established in our group, grow our numbers , get our people on CLP . We are aware and need to be cautious with her as her supporters guard her zealously ( we used word thugs )
Some of us new to labour have not heard from Gina - local Labour Party contact
07581207891 - ginaneeds.labour@gmail.com
We again reminded each other to keep our language on all occasions professional , political and positive to JC , ignore negativity on social media as it'll take us off message and could give ammunition to trolls and press to critics us
We need to support the 40 , link sent via whatsapp with positive messages and improve their profile via their social media
We talked about Tom Watson and how only way to get him out was for his position to Be challenged , more needed in this
We discussed having a momentum / JC supporters picnic to allow local informal discussions (Steve Farnsworth and I are involved in subject of using local green space for local activities so can help with location if necessary)
Objectives-
Increase our reach , getting hold of the 140 and mobilising them
Meeting again in two weeks ideally with an increased group
Deciding a name for our group
Plan the market stand
End
Comments very welcome
- Maria McCaul
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