A key reason why I am standing for NEC Youth Rep is because I want Young Labour to become a grassroots, campaigning force for change! In the past Young Labour has been crucial in election wins across the country. This is because when times get tough for our party Young Labour are always the pioneers to take control and get out on the doorstep in their masses. We are the ones who lead the fight back against the cruel Tory government by getting out there and talking to voters. I want to create a campaigning Young Labour as I don’t want to see us lose in 2020. I want our party to get into power so that we can help the people who so desperately need a Labour Government. Too often have I been on the doorstep and I have had people telling me heart breaking stories about why they don’t think they will be able to survive another 5 years of the cruel Conservatives who are implementing the bedroom tax, taking away their tax credits and cutting benefits of those who need them most. These are the people the Labour Party was set up to protect and by getting out on the doorstep we can ensure we are doing everything we can to make that a reality. I have campaigned in all conditions from boiling hot July afternoon’s, torrential rain and thick snow. On all of these campaign days when your natural instinct isn’t to go outside and campaign Young Labour have been there with me and we must build on this tradition. In June 2013 Wirral West selected Margaret Greenwood to take on Tory minister Esther McVey in the general election. From that first campaign day on the Woodchurch estate Wirral Young Labour took the lead in every single campaign event organised until May 7th when we were one of the only seats in the country to have a Labour gain. I was involved in coordinating the Wirral West campaign and organised ’31 Days for 2015’ where members of Merseyside Young Labour campaigned twice every day for the whole of August making thousands of contacts. When we saw we’d beat Esther McVey by just under 600 votes we realised we may have secured that win. This is an example of Young Labour making history. In the 2014 Heywood and Middleton by-election Labour’s Liz McInnes won by only 617 votes after an unsuspecting UKIP surge shocked us. Young Labour members and Labour Students were brought in from around the country to knock doors and convince voters that they could do better than UKIP. Another example of Young Labour changing history. We have the chance to change once again, the Oldham West and Royton by-election is just 3 weeks away, we have 3 weeks to prevent UKIP from taking a solid Labour seat. That is why I want to help get as many young members as possible to Oldham over the next few weeks and on polling day on the 3rd December. In 2020 we must keep hold of seats like Oldham to show that the Labour Party can win and Jeremy will be Prime Minister! So please come along to one of the campaign days and play your part in helping me make Young Labour a campaigning Young Labour that makes a real difference to the lives of those who need Labour the most. If you have any questions about how you can get involved in Oldham campaigning drop me a message on Facebook, Twitter(@Jasmin_Beckett) or email: [email protected]! Jasmin
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Hello everyone!! I’m standing to be the Labour NEC Youth Rep and one of my main aims is to ensure that my manifesto is your manifesto. I want to make Young Labour a more accessible and democratic movement, not one that is top-down and inward-looking! I therefore don’t want to write my manifesto without asking young members what you want from young labour! Every young labour group, labour students club and each trade union youth section is different so it is important that I talk to a wide range of members from different areas to ensure my manifesto takes into account all young member’s views, not just those I know. I want to hear everything from how you would want me to represent you on the NEC, how Young Labour could make it easier for young people to get involved and why you joined the party. Young members with their ideas at one of my Trade Union engagement events!A key thing I have been working hard on is getting more Young Labour members joining trade unions whilst trying to make Young Labour more welcoming and accessible for young trade unionists. I have held consultation events across the country with young members on this topic and already have pages of notes and ideas from members on how I could do this! As well as looking at how we can improve our youth movement we must not just focus on the negatives but also the amazing work various Young Labour groups do across the country! Sharing best practice is something I feel we don’t do enough of in Young Labour therefore I also want to hear the things you think your group does well, so I can look at how we can ensure this is shared with other groups to make Young Labour the strongest left-wing youth movement it can be. In Wirral Young Labour we won the best practice award in 2013 from Iain McNicol for putting on a production of the socialist play ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ raising thousands for charity and our hardship fund. Each week London Young Labour hold policy forums where they debate all types of policy with members across the region. And unless I had visited I wouldn’t have known about the fantastic get togethers East Midlands Young Labour have to engage new members! This must change, I want to ensure we start sharing best practice wherever possible and celebrating the amazing work Young Labour groups do. I have travelled around the country to find out what young members think could be done to improve our movement and I will continue to do this whilst writing my manifesto. If elected as your NEC rep I will make it a priority to constantly meet different Young Labour groups to ensure I am keeping in touch with member’s ideas and concerns! But for those who I won’t get the chance to talk to I still want you to be able to have this input into my manifesto! I have therefore created a survey (link below) with various questions around Young Labour and how we can make it more accessible. Please fill it in and share it with people in your area or Young Labour group so I can get as many people having input as possible — I want your ideas to be at the heart of my manifesto, because your ideas will be at the heart of everything I do as your NEC rep. Any other questions in the meantime please feel free to message me on Facebook or drop me an email at: [email protected] Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HvX4zgdUUDju0uYH0PQ17yi7FwymBCCPCEyMwX_UQP8/viewform Jas |
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