There was a good turnout at the All Members Annual General Meeting Held at the Warwick Road Activity Centre in Bletchley. I got the job of ticking in members as they came in from a list given to me by Kevin Wilson and gave those in the Milton Keynes South Constituency a voting form which added to the complications of trying to make sure I gave the voting slip to the right members. Speeches were made by Andrew Pakes PPC for Milton Keynes South and Emily Darlington PPC for Milton Keynes North Cllr Peter Marland Leader of the Labour Group and Guest Speaker Iain NcNicol General Secretary of the Labour Party (who I picked up from Milton Keynes Central Railway Station in the middle of the meeting with Jack Jenkins - Organisor, Iain was asking us questions in the car about the local party, and whether we had a Labour Hall, he also asked me to tell him a bit about myself!)
I drove them both back safely to Warwick Road and dropped them off and spent ages trying to find a parking space!
During the meeting I was tasked with trying to take photographs, but to no avail the room was too dark no matter how I tried I couldn't get a good picture so gave up. Luckily David Baume had a really good camera and seemed to be taking photographs so I did not worry too much and asked him to email some across to me.
When the meeting finished I was also asked to get as many of the Council Candidates together for group photographs with the Parliamentary Candidates I was like a bossy Teacher rounding them up from all corners of the room taking plates of sandwiches and the ladies case their handbags off them and put to one side, again David Baume came to the rescue with his expensive camera.
I also had a chance to grab some sandwiches myself and speak to MEP candidates Maggie Hughes and James Watkins and Emily Westley, when leaving Iain McNicol who was getting a lift in Emily Darlington's car thanked me and one female MEP candidate gave me a lovely hug and a kiss which left me on a high which I never have done before when leaving a Labour Party AGM!
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