Why I am Running for a seat on the South East Regional Board

…and why you should vote to support my nomination at your CLP’s GC

My name is Johnbosco Nwogbo, and I would appreciate your support and vote for my nomination for a seat on the South East Regional Board. I am Nigerian, and I am studying toward a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Sussex. I have been a member of the Labour party for almost one year. My local branch is Hollingdean and Stanmer.

I am a Socialist.

I am running for a place on the SE Regional Board because I believe that at a time when our party is well on its way to instituting the most wide-ranging and far-reaching democratization programme in its recent history, through the Democracy Review, you need a representative on the board who will make sure that the dictates of that review are assiduously carried out down to the grassroots level of our party. Our party is a mass-membership organization. People join it because they want to be part of a movement to change Britain For the Many, Not the Few. The Democracy Review is designed to empower members to do that more effectively, by helping the party form policy as well as determine its direction at all times. I want to help make sure that the Review does not end up being just a piece of document gathering dust on some bookshelf in London; but that its dictates are followed through to the letter. I want to be the membership’s man in the Regional Board.

I am also running because I have noticed that an ethos of community organizing and campaigning has been one of the hallmarks of the membership of the Labour party, both new and old. As an organizer for ACORN Brighton myself, I have often been quite gratified to receive delegations from local LP branches at our picket lines. I believe it is now time for a community campaigning ethos, which members already embody, to be injected into the regional board. It would help, am sure, to have someone at the regional level who knows what it takes to fight to prevent a letting agency from evicting a mom and her kid from their home. And win. It would help to have someone at the regional level who knows what it takes to fight to prevent Universal Credit recipients who run into rent arrears because of delays in payments, from being evicted from their homes. It would help, I believe, to have someone who knows what it takes to organize the only Brighton and Hove Grenfell Anniversary Solidarity Rally and Silent Walk, on the regional board. I want to be your man in the Regional Board, making sure you have all the tools you need to pursue campaigns and win real things for real people in your communities.

I would dearly appreciate your support.

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