I would urge any Labour party members connected with the City of London to heed this appeal from City of London BLP secretary (and NEC member) Peter Kenyon:
This is a call to all Labour Party members and supporters working in the City of London. City of London Labour Party would like to hear from you.
The [...]

That memo from Tony Blair lambasting Gordon Brown, I mean. Let me check the files. Ah, yes, here it is, under ‘Z’ for ‘Zinoviev.
xD.

According to Dave Osler, it’s a Miliband-Johnson ticket.
According to The Times, via Leon at Pickled Politics, it’s a Miliband-Harman ticket.
According to the Evening Boris, it’s Jack Straw and there are ten junior ministers ready to resign.
I’m going to use someone else’s description of rumour as it seems rather fitting.

OK, let’s be honest. It’s not good.
Via Liberal Conspiracy, I see that Lindylooz is using a flood metaphor for the turn against Labour. The only thing we don’t know is how high the tide is; it may start to recede and a few more Labour MPs may keep their heads above water. The question is [...]

Oh, and raising some money for the party, too.

On Thursday July 10, the Labour is having a second sports celebration dinner at Wembley. At the dinner, or online at labour.org.uk/sport, you can bid on exclusive items such as:
Specially commissioned Antony Gormley work of art
A tennis match with Tony Blair
Visit to museum on Robben Island in [...]

One of my friends in my CLP, Dave Worton, passed away recently.
Sadly, I can’t say I knew Dave as well as I would have liked. When I was the CLP Treasurer, Dave was very helpful to me; he often had the tea made by the time I reached his flat on the top floor of [...]

Speaking on the BBC World Service (audio clip here), Frank Field MP (Lab, Birkenhead) said:
With this budget coming up [...] if we don’t get a satisfactory deal I think there’s enough members on the Labour back benches who will, with others, block the budget and that will make his position intolerable at that stage.
If the [...]

Mayor Johnson
The headline news is, of course, the victory of Boris Johnson. It is no secret (at least if you’ve been reading this blog!) that I was and remain a strong supporter of Ken Livingstone and that I have very grave doubts about the Johnson mayoralty. I have tried to draw a comparison between [...]

Jon Cruddas or Oona King?
xD.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who winced when they saw a mention of Charles Clarke on Iain Dale’s Diary, and not just because of the post’s title (Charles Clarke launches grenade at Balls). Mr Clarke is a serial troublemaker who seems determined to cause as many problems as possible shortly before an election. [...]