Luciana’s six minutes
THREE years or so after being named on Labour’s council election slate in Camden, Luciana Berger made it to Question Time last night. Of course, her very short-lived [...]
Roger Robinson
How much does it cost to screen council meetings?
THE public gallery was virtually empty again at last Thursday’s full council meeting. Why? We regularly hear of the good old days when the public benches were full of [...]
Dear comrades
CAMDEN Labour Group councillors and a few others on a select email list have received another ‘Dear Comrades’ message this week – with three interesting little [...]
Go F*** yourself: A very Camden coup
THEY say in some quarters of Camden’s Labour Party that Angela Mason was quietly doing as much as any councillor to run the Town Hall until she fell to an ambush on [...]
The reshuffle #3
THERE will be no leadership challenge within Camden Labour group at next week’s AGM – Nash is safe and it looks like Theo Blackwell, Tulip Siddiq, Pat Callaghan, [...]
The night the rebellion fell
REGULAR reader of this blog, Peter Brayshaw has upset a correspondent. When a well known housing campaigner wrote to Camden’s Labour group late last week to complain to [...]
Careless snacking costs votes
CAPTAIN Roger Robinson has sent out his orders to Camden’s Labour group: don’t take any chances at the upcoming full council meeting on Monday. As chief whip, [...]
The cabinet, the elections and the expert advisers
CAMDEN’S Labour group met last night and decided that next month they will have elections for the cabinet posts at the Town Hall. There was always a promise from the [...]
Little helpers
THE Labour group in Camden is still mulling over what to do about who gets to hang out in the mayor’s office next year. Deputy Mayor Abdul Quadir is likely to graduate [...]
Blue note
CAMDEN’S Labour Party has often complained of dirty tricks by opponents at recent by-elections. Swamped under the Lib Dem leaflet operation, Labour has struggled to win [...]