Shameless? Unscrupulous? Partners?
IMAGINE Camden Council’s local elections end with no party claiming overall control. That didn’t take long did it..? A result like that would leave the political [...]
April 2010
YES. We know Blair used to live in Islington…
THE nationals are descending on constituencies like Hampstead and Kilburn, and Islington South and Finsbury for colour pieces, filing sketches from north London as if they [...]
Balls ‘o’ clock
WE were summoned to Marchmont Street for 9.15 yesterday morning to see Ed Balls speaking live. But as the clock ticked towards 9.20, 9.25 there was no sign of the Education [...]
You can vote somewhere around here
BINGO-bango bungle in the election office at the Town Hall. Perhaps a little foggy about those three council wards from Brent that have been tacked onto the Hampstead and [...]
Bandwagons and Boomerangs
THE Evening Standard splashes this evening with another one of its London election polls and this time it predicts Lib Dem Ed Fordham, thanks to some Cleggmania, will win the [...]
Scene of the crime
LOOK at this stunning update on the Straight Choice website, a compendium of the barrow loads of election literature that hits the doorstep every week day hour. It’s a [...]
Where’s Robin?
I’VE looked at this list of General Election candidates, looked again, treble looked and looked again, but this obsessive checking has found no trace of Robin Ellison, [...]
A close shave
A BIT of so-called relief from the early starts and the late nights stalking politicians involved in the election campaign, I stepped inside the Gielgud last week for a press [...]
Top Can-Tan
PARLIAMENTARY candidate Chris Philp must have done the leg work on the beat in Hampstead and Kilburn. Pictured here with Shadow chancellor George Osborne on Saturday [...]
The keys to the squat
..and so the General Election campaign descends simply into an argument over who Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democarats would ‘prop up’ in a hung Parliament. If [...]