Committee Election Results

Manchester Labour Students has elected a new Committee, the results of which are as follows:

Chair (MMU): Lauren Cooper

Chair (UoM): Andrew Campbell

Secretary (MMU): Josh Terry

Secretary (UoM): Talia Akhtar

Treasurer (MMU): Luke Pollard

Treasurer (UoM): Hannah Spector

Labour Party Campaigns Officer: Bill Martin

Students' Unions Campaigns Officer: Fin McGoldrick

Political Events Officer: Elsie Wraighte

Social Secretary: Francesca Lemanczyk

Membership Officer: Tamoor Tariq

Publicity Officer: Ben Furber

The liberation positions are yet to be decided, these will be elected at the respective liberation caucuses.

For the full election results take a look here:

http://www.manchesterlabourstudents.org/elections/0910%20Committee%20Election%20Results.pdf

Last Call for Committee Nominations

Calling all MLS members:

Nominations will close for the Committee elections to be held next week, tomorrow at 5pm. So if you’ve been thinking about standing and are currently on the fence – now is the time to make your mind up.

There are lots of positions to choose from (http://www.manchesterlabourstudents.org/elections), so if you think you’d be good at any of them, please stand! You’ve got nothing to lose and a great experience to gain.

To nominate yourself simply email me (richard@manchesterlabourstudents.org) the position you want to stand for and if you like, a Manifesto as well as long as it isn’t more than a side of A4.

Manchester Labour Students contribute to Glasgow NE Victory

Labour have won a stunning victory in Glasgow North East following an excellent and honourably fought campaign in the Scottish constituency. Willie Bain was duly elected with a solid majority of 8111 votes, a 59.39% share, which represented a 1.89% swing to Labour.



Talia Akhtar & I joined Labour Students from all around the country to spend a week in the constituency during polling week to deliver leaflets and knock on the doors of local constituents to deliver the Labour message. We campaigned with councillors, MPs, MSPs and the odd celebrity in Eddie Izzard - everyone helping to fight SNP cuts and elect the only local candidate. It was hard work but rewarding that we could contribute to such a successful campaign.

Congratulations to the new Labour Member of Parliament for Glasgow North East, Willie Bain.

Labour Students Political Weekend 2009

Last week Manchester Labour Students joined members from Labour clubs from all around the country to descend on the Forest Pines Hotel & Golf Resort outside Brigg in North Lincolnshire for Labour Students Political Weekend, the first national event of the academic year. Travelling from Manchester meant we didn’t have to wake up at 4.30am like Labour Students from our devolved nations so we arrived ready & raring for a weekend of speakers, policy debates & the legendary Saturday night social.

The weekend kicked off with a welcome from National Chair Joseph Sherry, followed by a session with the quite hilarious Ian Cawsey, the local MP for Brigg and Goole and member of the Parliamentary rock group ‘MP4’. Other speakers on the day included Special Advisor to Gordon Brown, Kirsty McNeill, & Vernon Coaker MP who is currently Minister of State for Schools and Learners at the DCSF. Ellie Reeves fromthe Labour Party National Executive Committee and her sister Rachel Reeves, Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Leeds West also spoke to us in a session on their experiences in the Party & then joined our female members at the Women’s Reception. The Women’s Reception was my personal highlight of the weekend as it was great to see a record number of female members at a national event (plus the free wine is always a treat). The Saturday night social kicked off with a quiz (at which Manchester failed abysmally) followed by a three course meal & the legendary disco.


On the Sunday, after an incredible cooked breakfast to aid our recovery from spending the previous night dancing to Things Can Only Get Better, there were sessions on joining a Trade Union, holding our NUS group to account & an introduction to the Cooperative Party from Cooperative Youth Secretary Joseph Russo. Each member also chose a policy group to debate in where we discussed policy ideas for a Labour Fourth Term.

The weekend was a great success & opportunity to meet up with like-minded individuals from universities all around the country & hear speakers who were inspirational in encouraging us to fight in our constituencies for a Labour Fourth Term.

NUS Delegate Election Results!

Tonight saw the close of UMSU's delegate elections for NUS Conference 2010. The full results will probably appear on the UMSU website tomorrow.

Nevertheless I'm really happy to say that the two Manchester Labour Students candidates Mel Haslam and John Gilchrist both secured a place!

Mel managed to top the ballot getting more 1st preference votes than any other candidate securing 90 votes, 20 ahead of the person coming 2nd place.

Thank you to everyone that voted for Mel and John and also congratulations to Josh Barth as well who won the by-election for EPS Faculty Officer on the UMSU Exec this evening.

NUS and Manchester's students will be better off in having Mel and John representing students issues on conference floor.