And now over to Mr Smooth
THE award for most unashamed bit of bragging of the election, locally, has to go to Oliver Cooper, the winner of the Hampstead Town by-election and Camden’s newest [...]
May 2015
What happened when Will Blair went to vote…
WILL Blair? Will blared at more like. Ok, that’s a bit laboured, but there was a thick-of-it timing to the polling station ‘walk-in’ shot we tried to film [...]
Agent: Ronnie Carroll (deceased)’s campaign was ‘very low key’
THE story of the election candidate who died during the campaign and still ended up with 113 votes has tickled the diary columns. This being Ronnie Carroll, the two time [...]
Morning update 07.05.15: The big day is here; Daily Mail forgets past advice
THANKS ELECTION day is here. First off this morning, just a thanks to all the people who have followed the campaign blog updates over the last month or so, and those who have [...]
CLL, ‘the only other candidate on the panel with a womb’
CLAIRE-LOUISE Leyland, the leader of Camden’s Conservatives, has often urged councillors at the Town Hall to be… well, a little more polite to each other at [...]
In pictures: the election count in 2010
IT seems like yesterday, and at the same time it seems like so long ago. As we all get ready to go counting at the Somers Town sports centre tomorrow night, a quick look back [...]
Natalie Bennett: First Past The Post will be ‘certain loser’ of election
IT was quite the opening gambit from the crowd at the Primrose Hill Community Centre hustings last week, a chap at the back telling all the panelists that they could not win [...]
Morning update 06.05.15: Reporters cram in for the count; Tulip’s purple book
[INSERT RUBBISH JOKE ABOUT GERMANS PUTTING THEIR SUN TOWELS OUT FIRST] ONE day to go and bless the press officers at Camden Council, who are submerged in an [...]
Morning update 05.05.15: Do Labour regard Hampstead and Kilburn as a marginal?
NORTH BY NORTH WEST WITH all the is-it-a-marginal-or-not chat about whether Chris Grayling knew what he was saying last week about the Tory view of Hampstead and Kilburn [...]
Labour AGM: Meric moves up; Maeve takes on Abdul
MERIC Apak will join the Labour cabinet Town Hall. As suggested on these pages before, he is the only Labour councillor to have put himself forward for a promotion at next [...]