A friend has just forwarded an extraordinary splenetic blog piece by the journalist Andrew Gilligan, who is apparently getting his knickers in a twist because the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, recently took a couple of bus load of supporters up to Leicester to help Labour’s by election candidate, Jon Ashworth win the seat. Rahman was of course expelled by the Labour Party after a pretty shoddy campaign of attrition — since de-bunked by the same NEC that disciplined him in the first place. Continue reading
Posted by Fred Kite
Hey Ed, beware false friends offering advice!
Just what does young Ed Miliband think he is doing? It was always going to be a tough fight, but his reaction – and the reaction of his close advisers to his fairly dismal poll ratings has been to whip the white flag further up the pole. Continue reading
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On Ken and Lutfur and winning London
“Under Ed Miliband, Labour lost Scotland. Now under his leadership, Labour has lost London”. This could very well be one of the top lining political stories in a year’s time, and while it is easy to look into a crystal ball and easier still to paint a bleak picture, Labour is facing a much tougher battle that it thinks to depose Mayor Boris Johnson next Spring. Continue reading