Month: April 2015

It is surely hard for any Labour member – okay, Ken Livingstone excepted – to shed a tear for former Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman. The man who was yesterday unceremoniously turfed out of office, after anunequivocal judgement against him in an electoral court, has become the subject of arguably the worst scandal in local… Continue reading Lutfur Rahman: now let’s see Labour’s ways of working change

Happily, Labour has had a very good fortnight. Since my last election piece two weeks ago, Miliband’s personal ratings have jumped up and the Tory campaign has blundered from unforced error to unforced error. Bookies and polls now put him as neck and neck with Cameron as next PM, not lagging way behind as before.… Continue reading Reaching out to centrist voters now is good tactics. Strategy it ain’t

For regular readers, you will probably understand why the guilty finding today of an election court on the Mayor of Tower Hamlets is such good news (his office did, after all, report me to the police, one presumes in the hope of having me charged and arrested – I can now leave readers to draw… Continue reading Lutfur Rahman. Yessss.

As I wrote my last piece a week ago, things were looking pretty rocky for Labour. But, as if to give me a bit of come-uppance, we immediately proceeded to have a very good week. First there was a poll which, in the wake of the TV debates, saw Miliband’s personal polling jump from -49%… Continue reading Tory fumbles put Labour back in the race

Carter USM’s 1992 album – at least one good thing that happened that year. The short campaign has finally kicked off. Not that that usually makes much difference, and particularly not when we have all known the date of the election for the last four years. Perhaps fittingly, no party’s campaign has so far exactly… Continue reading Labour: on the verge of a historic victory, or partying like it’s 1992?