What an incredible day! I woke up to heaps of messages of “well done” and “congratulations” and all I can say is: Thank you. Thank you for everyone’s support and encouragement. Yesterday, I was able to speak at the House of Commons and represent Hackney’s Young People. 1/3
Grateful and honoured to serve as the newly elected Chair of London Young Labour 🌹♥️
Deeply thankful to all CLPs who put their trust in me and nominated me! As the first Turkish Chair of LYL, this honour is magnified 🇹🇷♥️
It is time to rebuild and revitalise LYL! 🌹🌟
Congratulations
@Sud3nazTop
on being elected as the new chair of London Young Labour! 🔥🌹
With a GE looming & Sadiq Khan up for re-election in May, building a vibrant youth movement in our capital is crucial. With Sudenaz as Chair, we're set to be well-organised for this.
It’s just horrible seeing transphobic women calling us allies “anti-feminist” for supporting our trans community. I am a PROUD feminist because feminism is about EQUALITY and as feminists we should fight for trans rights too. Trans women are women too 🏳️⚧️✊🏼
big big congrats to
@BrunoDent_
for becoming the new Chair of London Labour Students! As the new Chair of London Young Labour, i cannot wait to work with you and get London ready for the mayoral and general elections 🌹🌹
Additionally, big congrats to everyone else!
Presenter barbie at Hackney Youth Awards last night 🩷
It was an honour to co-host the awards night, and i am so proud of all of the young people who attended. Inspiration and talent runs deep in our community 🩷
Honoured to have been invited to witness the Mayor of London’s signing in ceremony! Cannot wait to work further with
@SadiqKhan
to further improve the lives of young Londoners and bring a Labour government. Bring on 4 more years! 🌹🌟
It’s finally polling day! This year’s local elections are very important, it’s not just about marking a ballot, but about marking our future. Polls are open from 7am till 10pm - let’s get voting! 🌹🌟
I am so excited to announce my 4 main pledges for London Young Labour!
With crucial elections ahead, we must build a vibrant youth movement in our capital. This can only happen by empowering and engaging our young Londoners back into politics.
Scroll to see my pledges! 🌹⭐️
Honoured to be the newly elected Chair of London Young Labour and introduce myself on the
@LDNYoungLabour
twitter! Feel free to reach out (especially CLP Youth Officers as i will be working with you guys!) 🌹🌟
My name is Sudenaz Top and I am honoured to have been elected as your new Chair of London Young Labour!
As a young Turkish woman who is passionate about youth engagement in politics, I can’t wait to work with you all and get London election ready. The work starts now! 🌹🌟
London Labour Conference 2024 🌹🌟
Amazing energy at conference this year, thank you to all who congratulated me, it’s now time for London to bring both elections home 🫶🏼🫶🏼
I’m happy to announce that as Hackney’s Young Speaker and Member of Youth Parliament, I will be going to the Parliament this Friday and joining the
@UKYP
debate in the House of Commons - representing Hackney’s young people! 🤍😊
This General Election gives us the chance to bring change to our country, for our people.
A vote for Labour means a vote for a government of service, a government on the side of working people.
Young Labour and Labour Students are ready to deliver, bring on 4th July! 🌹🌟
City Labour Students x Islington South & Finsbury Young Labour Canvass and Pub Quiz with Emily Thornberry 🌹🌟
Thank you to everyone who came, it was a very fun evening having you all with us!
Fab evening campaigning for
@Dan4Barnet
at High Barnet with London Young Labour.
We got some great responses on the doorstep, it is very clear Chipping Barnet is on the way to having a Labour MP!
Our next campaign day will be at Hitchin with
@EastYoungLabour
🌹🌟
Fabulous time at Silverstone today with the
@LabourParty
hearing Starmer’s reassuring speech that Labour is focused on delivering positive change in the UK and focused on creating a government of service not self enrichment 🌹🌹
Hackney is still and will always be labour ❤️🌹
Congratulations
@carowoodley
, for winning the Hackney Mayoral By-Election. Honoured to have supported the election of our first female mayor with
@HackneyLabour
🌹🌹
Fabulous canvass session with
@Organise24
for
@Jess4Lowestoft
this morning at Lowestoft! Loved speaking to Jess who helped re establish LYL in the past, in such a crucial election year it’s even more important to be on the doorstep ❤️🌹
Another fantastic
@LabourStudents
campaign at Westminster! 🌹❤️
@RNBlake
is an absolute star and as Labour Students we are delighted to support her into winning Westminster in the next general election. We won westminster council last year, who says we can’t have a Labour MP? 😁
Today i’m crying from happiness, not heartbreak for Türkiye. Today we are one step closer to a Türkiye that Atatürk imagined when he first created the republic.
Today we are building towards a society that is no longer polarised, that works in peace and harmony 🇹🇷♥️
Great time canvassing for
@Gvkitchen
with
@Meg_HillierMP
and
@rosie_wrighting
in Wellingborough earlier today (even in the storm). Lots of great responses with high chances of constituents voting labour. Let’s make Wellingborough red! 🌹❤️
Amazing day at Nottingham with Young Labour and Labour Students reps for our YL & LS committee induction day! It was great to meet all reps in person and canvass for
@ClaireWard4EM
, East Midlands is definitely in safe hands 🙌🏼🌟
Thank you to
@GMBMidlands
for having us! 🌹🌟
National Labour Students Win ‘24 Conference 🌹♥️
Lovely conference with many Labour friends, all working for a Labour win and Labour government in 2024! 🌹⭐️
With 27 CLP nominations, i am now nominated and on the ballot running to be Chair of London Young Labour!
Thank you so much to all CLPs who believed in me and endorsed/nominated me - i highly appreciate you all! Time for the elections!! 🌹♥️
Lovely morning in Lambeth, hearing about the
@MayorofLondon
‘s plans to reduce and prevent crime.
As a young person who has worked with the MET police and Hackney’s Gangs Reduction Unit, i’m happy that
@SadiqKhan
is investing in our young people and youth hubs to achieve these 🌹
Very happy to announce that I have recently founded and become the president of the City Labour Party Society!
Can’t wait to meet other Young Labour members and supporters in my university and host events and socials for the society! 🌹🤍
When you empower and engage young people into politics, you energise politics. As London Young Labour, we have so many stars in our city but we must re-energise our branch!
For change, nominate Sudenaz Top for Chair of London Young Labour at your next CLP meeting 🌹⭐️
Thank you to 21 london CLPs (including Walthamstow and Hackney South who are not yet on this list) for nominating me for Chair of London Young Labour.
Your support and courage is so appreciated and if elected, i cannot wait to work with you all in creating a thriving LYL 🌹♥️
So proud to announce that I am officially on the Young Labour elections ballot!
Thank you so much to all 9 London CLPs (and the others i know of who are not updated on the list) for your support and belief in me! With your courage, London Young Labour will be thriving soon 🌹⭐️
It was an honour to host London Turkish Community’s iftar last night and break fast with our young people, our Turkish ambassador, businesspeople and academians.
herkese hayırlı ramazanlar diliyorum 🌙🤍
This is a message to
@IslingtonBC
: How could you let a SINGLE MOTHER AND 2 CHILDREN live in a 1 BED HOUSE which is now growing POISONOUS MUSHROOMS? My aunt in law and 2 cousins (13 and 9 year old boys) have been dealing with mold in their house for years (1/7)
Thank you to Mayor
@PhilipGlanville
and Deputy Mayor
@AnntoinetteBra1
for letting us come to your cabinet meeting and present Hackney Youth Parliament today. It was lovely to meet the council! Looking forward to working with you all in improving Hackney for young people ☺️🤝
As Chair of London Young Labour, i cannot wait to work more closely with
@SadiqKhan
and our wonderful London Assembly members to not only bring a Labour government but to also connect our young members with their representatives. Looking forward to this third term! 🌹🌟
#keepkhanandcarryon
!! A big thank you to all of our young Londoners who have been out on the doorstep or phonebanking for
@SadiqKhan
- you’ve all done amazing and deserve a well rest (before general election work starts!), here’s to a third term! 🌟🌟
WE DID IT!! Officially a Member of Hackney Youth Parliament!!
I want to thank everyone who have voted for me, campaigned for me and shown their overall support along this journey. I appreciate each and every one of you and cannot WAIT to work with you in developing Hackney ♥️♥️
Proud of all of our Labour Students and clubs who have united and released a statement and proud to be the Chair of one of the clubs. Transphobia does not and should not belong in the Labour Party. Together we are stronger. Solidarity 🏳️⚧️❤️
🚨 New:
@LabourStudents
groups at dozens of universities have released a joint statement condemning the national party "in the strongest possible terms" - after Rosie Duffield said Labour had dismissed claims of transphobia and antisemitism against her.
💥LABOUR STUDENTS LAUNCH💥
We are Organise Labour Students — the campaign to energise Labour Students and create the radical change students need, from the cost of living to trans liberation.
Join us today, and help elect the reps that will get Labour Students Organised.
Hackney Youth Parliament at
#HackneyYouthAwards
♥️
Absolutely loved seeing so many young people receive awards tonight. Special congratulations to a member of our team, Dylan, who received the senior Inspirational Young Person Award. Well done to all who were nominated! 🎉🎉♥️
Getting AAB and my family still being so excited and supportive and saying that they’re so proud of me for being the first in the family is making me feel better about my grades and emotional
Parks in Hackney are beautiful spaces however there needs to be more developments to make them safer and better. There also needs to be more communal spaces for young people to sit and enjoy time with friends. Share your ideas with us to develop a better Hackney!!
Our parks are great - even when it rains! ☔️
Sudenaz from Hackney Youth Parliament tells us why she loves parks and wants more communal spaces in Hackney Central where young people can feel safe.⬇️
Share your idea and help shape the
#HackneyCentralplan
➡️
This little Turkish Girl from Hackney was invited to a VIP session with
@Keir_Starmer
and
@amyhart1707
yesterday at the Annual Labour Conference and had the privilege of questioning the future leaders of our country. Thank you
@mylifemysay
for this opportunity ❤️❤️🥰
#Labour
National Labour Students Conference 2023 🌹🌹
My delegate and I went as 2 and returned with a bunch of other cool labour friends <33 Absolutely loved conference - great panel talks/workshops and great people! Loved representing
@citylaboursoc
- time for national conference! ✊🏼🌹
UPDATE:
thank you to everyone for every interaction - likes, retweets, comments. With your support, we got the message across and in 2 hours the Director of Housing got in touch. After surveying the house this morning, i can confirm she has been REHOUSED. Thank you so so much.
This is a message to
@IslingtonBC
: How could you let a SINGLE MOTHER AND 2 CHILDREN live in a 1 BED HOUSE which is now growing POISONOUS MUSHROOMS? My aunt in law and 2 cousins (13 and 9 year old boys) have been dealing with mold in their house for years (1/7)
Canvassing at Uxbridge today for
@DannyBeales
!! Loved speaking to residents, very clear that many are tired of this tory government. Amazing activists and labour supporters with me today also, enjoyed it all! 🌹🫶🏻
#votefordannybeales
#votelabour
BALLOTS HAVE DROPPED FOR LABOUR STUDENTS!
London deserves a young labour and labour students branch that effectively represents members in the party and values our voices.
As Chair of London Young Labour i can’t wait to work with
@BrunoDent_
to deliver this!
@Organise24
Ballots are dropping now for the Young Labour and Labour Students elections. 🗳
We’re Organise - and we’re standing to energise our movement going into the General Election and stand up for the issues that matter most for young members. 👊🌹
Check out why these people are
Just got the Mayor of London and GLA booklet through the post and some of these candidates are funny. All i want to know is what is all this “woke nonesense” that we’ve apparently been spending on according to some of these candidates? 😭😭😭
was going to sign up to the gym to shape up for summer then realised this GE season would be like gym for me - who needs the gym when you get your steps in with Labour campaigns xoxo 🌹🎀
It’s men like this that makes women in politics want to vomit. I’ve had multiple misogynists who have over the course of 4-5 years have said “you’re so pretty why are you here? why are you in politics?”.
Why do you think???? Can i not be pretty and politically intellectual?
State of this…
Think you desperately need to clarify this one
@ShaunBaileyUK
Are you saying women cannot have political opinions and have bums and boobs?
Because guess what…
Women can have it all, you misogynistic weasel of a man.
As labour students, we have consistently spoken about how the tories have failed our students and young people.
With this
#Budget24
, the tories once again made it clear that we are unimportant. Proud of
@thelewiswarner
for once again being a fab rep for students 🌹🌟
Yesterday morning, we learned that four Hackney residents, including a 9-year-old child, were seriously injured in a shooting on Dalston Kingsland High Street.
My thoughts and prayers are with the injured, their families, and our Turkish/Kurdish community affected by this event.
had to lie to my uber driver last night when he asked “do you live around here?” even had to act like i was looking for a door number after i left because i said it’s a friends house and he stayed and watched me - never felt more unsafe.
@jacaristar
My 5 year old sister acts like she’s older than me. She says, “when you were a baby I held you in my arms” and things like that. When she was 3 we used to ask her how old she was and she’d say 17. It’s so annoying sometimes 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Last week, i was honoured to join Jo Richardson Community School at Barking & Dagenham with MP
@margarethodge
to answer questions from the Year 9 group about youth engagement in politics and topics related to the cost of living crisis and crime 📢✊🏼
i decided not to do a study abroad year due to some personal reasons and the universe gave me much greater opportunities - in times like this it’s incredibly important to remember that when one door closes another opens 💫
It was an honour hosting our sister party
@CHPYouth
in London this week.
CHP Gençliğin Genel Başkanı
@gencosmankillik
ve Dış İşler Komisyonu Başkan Yardımcısı
@yigitkarip
ile yapacağımız işlere sabırsızlanıyoruz 🇹🇷🇬🇧
As well as campaigning and celebrating this week, we had the pleasure of hosting
@CHPYouth
in London, with
@gencosmankillik
&
@yigitkarip
joining us.
In Britain and Türkiye, political narratives are shifting, looking forward to working together more!
🇹🇷🤝🇬🇧 - watch this space
As the new
#hackneyyouthparliament
elections are coming, it comes with a bittersweet feeling to announce that my time as the Young Speaker of Hackney and Elected Member of Youth Parliament has officially come to an end 🤍 (1/5)
🚨NEW CAMPAIGN ALERT 🚨
Give An X is a YOUTH movement from across the four nations, LED by young people FOR young people.
We are on a mission to get every single young person REGISTERED TO VOTE.
We
#GiveAnX
, do you?
Congratulations
@FarukDalTinaz
!!
Faruk is an amazing campaigner and overall a great representative and Labour activist. I look forward to canvassing for him in Hoxton East & Shoreditch :) 🌹🌟
Faruk Tinaz is the Labour candidate for councillor in Hoxton East & Shoreditch ward on May 2. 'I'm pleased to be a candidate to represent an area where I grew up and where I and my family still live. Looking forward to working with two excellent Labour colleagues in the ward.'
as a slate, we have had many conversations and one thing i’m very glad we all strongly agree on is that we are all strong allies to the trans community. Especially at a time like this, where we have a clear transphobic gov it’s important to push to trans rights. solidarity 🏳️⚧️❤️
No words could describe how i feel.
@bycLIVE
gave a voice to young people, connected us to the gov and allowed us to hold those in power accountable whilst presenting solutions.
I feel grateful that I was able to experience the BYC and i hope that one day it will be back.
Congratulations
@lundy_mackenzie
on being elected as the new chair of South East Young Labour! ❤️🔥🌹
Winning in the SE is crucial for a Labour victory, and with Lundy as chair we know that young members be organised for that fight.
@RyanTawn123
@sue_myrie
@qxeenie
It’s important to have representatives of the BAME community in the bar, Only 15% of the bar is of an ethnic minority. Even though she got in with her hard work it’s amazing to see that we are slowly seeing some diversity.
Team
@LondonLabour
at the Doorstep in Dalston and Hackney Downs today! Lovely weather and lovely people to speak to 😄😄☀️
Vote Labour for the local elections next Thursday 5th May!! 🌹😌
how many times in your life could you say you met
@campbellclaret
AND he gave you a signed version of his newest book with your full name???? Amazing meeting you, looking forward to future discussions 🌹🫶🏻
@mylifemysay
@TheBodyShopUK
thank you for everything ❤️
Couldn’t think of a better person to be the YL women’s officer than Bella! She is an amazing representative and i am confident that she will be fabulous if elected 💗⭐️
It is both an honour and exciting to be running for Young Labour Women's Officer🌹❤️✨
Have a look below at why you should nominate me through your CLP or
@YoungLabourUK
branch👇
Isabella Simpson
Membership Number: L1954763
As a person who went to a secondary school that provided free school meals, this just warms my heart. My school’s free school meals helped many families and fed many children. Poverty should not be a barrier to educational success and
@SadiqKhan
is tackling this one by one 🌹🌹
JUST ANNOUNCED: City Hall's groundbreaking free school meals programme is to be extended for another year.
No child should go hungry in our city.
The Government have refused to act, so I’ve stepped up.
Honoured to have my university’s endorsement. City Labour Students is one of my biggest achievements, founding the club just 2 months into starting uni. I love you all, thank you for your support ❤️❤️
We are also proud to support our Founder and President
@sud3naztop
in the elections for the role of Chair of London Young Labour. We are confident that Sudenaz will revive London Young Labour in the way she energised Labour Students in City! 🌹❤️ (2/2)
Not a single tory voted against the Rwanda bill. Take that in. As the child of an immigrant, this breaks my heart so incredibly much because it means this government has completely lost its humanity. There is no empathy, no care for these people running from war and prosecution.
absolutely incredible democracy cafe with
@mylifemysay
last night. We spoke about votes at 16 and getting young people involved in politics, which is a campaign by
@bycLIVE
and
@TheBodyShopUK
. It was great to hear so many different perspectives! Thank you for the free products!
The fear that i woke up with this morning. Turkiye had a 7.8 earthquake, hundreds are dead and injured. Many buildings have collapsed. Thankfully my family is well, but please keep Turkiye in your prayers.
#Turkey
#deprem
part of why i’m happy i go to a non-russell group uni for law is we’re a lot more cooperative than what i’ve heard law students are like in the russell group ones - e.g sharing plans/notes/essays to help each other during exam szn
Delighted to finally join
@SocLabLaw
as an LLB Law student at City, University of London! I will also be applying to their fabulous mentor scheme for law students and cannot wait to engage more with lawyers/ law students like myself who support the labour party ❤️