Unite should change its name to the National Union of Willy Wavers
Yesterday the Labour Party officially confirmed what everyone else in the Labour Party already knew: the Unite trade union has been trying to stitch up the parliamentary selection in Falkirk. Hundreds...
View ArticleJohn Smith, Tony Blair and why Labour's latest grubby selection battle...
You cannot beat a good old-fashioned Labour selection row. They are even more fun than an Australian Labor party leadership coup. But by far the best selection rows are those laid on by the Scottish...
View ArticleEd Miliband and Len McCluskey are squaring up for a battle over the soul of...
The scandal over the Unite union’s botched attempt to hijack the selection in Falkirk continues to develop this morning. According to The Times, the NEC report into efforts by the union to pack the...
View ArticleWorried about entryism, Ed Miliband? Try open primaries
A common reaction, when you put the idea of open primaries to someone for the first time, is fear of sabotage. 'Supporters of the other party would be free to choose our candidates – they could...
View ArticleEvening Briefing: Sunshine wins the day?
This is from the Telegraph Politics Evening Briefing, available by email to anyone who signs up here. THE FAL(KIRK) IS GOING TO KILL YOU Labour's internal conflict worsened. The row over allegations...
View ArticleEd Miliband can pretend that Falkirk was just 'a few bad apples', or he can...
This weekend Ed Miliband is fighting for control of his party. And at the moment, it’s a fight that isn’t going all that well. Miliband’s first big problem is that he has not yet been able to settle on...
View ArticleThe public still thinks that Ed Miliband is weak
From my Morning Briefing email. Sign up here An afternoon in the furnace of Centre Court and Andy Murray's triumph brought only momentary respite to Ed Miliband yesterday. The 'who runs Labour?'...
View ArticleAfter Falkirk, time is running out for the political elites in all the parties
Unite, the trade union, has apparently been trying to fix the Labour party selection contest in the Falkirk parliamentary constituency. Lots of people seem outraged that the organised labour interest...
View ArticleEd Miliband's proposed reforms will wreck Parliament
In old libraries, you'll often find leather-bound nineteenth-century Hansards: records of parliamentary debates. Think what those volumes tell us about the quality of contemporary political discourse....
View ArticleDoes Labour have a corrupt relationship with the unions?
Ed Miliband's plan to weaken the link between Labour and the trade unions has divided his party. On this week's Telegram, Blairite Dan Hodges describes Miliband's radical move as the right response to...
View ArticleEvening Briefing: Why growth alone won't win votes
This is from the Telegraph Politics Evening Briefing email, your essential guide to the day at Westminster. Sign up here. GROWTH AND EXPENSIVE LIVING George Osborne had a big night out yesterday. He...
View ArticleEd Miliband and Len McCluskey are squaring up for round two
The Labour Party have just announced – or more accurately dumped out late on a Friday when they hoped no one was watching – that the Labour official Karie Murphy, and Unite official Steve Deans, have...
View ArticleFalkirk's sordid cover-up damages the credibility of the unions, the Labour...
Last month the Labour Party announced that it was halting its inquiry into the selection scandal in Falkirk. Over the weekend, thanks to the leaking of over a thousand emails to the Sunday Times, we...
View ArticleWho runs the Labour Party in Scotland?
From my Morning Briefing email: subscribe here A simple enough question. In the old days the answer was easy: Gordon Brown. Nothing would happen in Scotland without his say so. But he's adjourned, and...
View ArticleCock-up *and* conspiracy: what do Labour and Ed Miliband think they're doing...
Has Ed Miliband fallen and hit his head? Have his communications team collectively fallen over and hit their heads, in some outlandish spin-doctors' head-hitting accident? Has Len McCluskey sent round...
View ArticleEvening Briefing: Why David Cameron fears the NHS
From the @TelePolitics Evening Briefing. ***One-click sign-up*** A BATTLE WITH HISTORY Senior NHS people have been defending the pay of NHS managers. Sir David Nicholson, the NHS's chief executive,...
View ArticleWhy Falkirk is a 'cesspit' for Ed Miliband
The Falkirk Wheel stands as an impressive feat of modern design and engineering. An enormous but perfectly balanced structure, it has been a popular tourist attraction since it was opened by the Queen...
View ArticleAs the Falkirk scandal spreads, Labour insiders are saying: you can't trust...
Can you trust Ed Miliband? Twenty-four hours after the revelation that he acquiesced – to give his actions their most charitable interpretation – in a deal with Len McCluskey to enable Unite to rig the...
View ArticleLabour is lining up scapegoats for the Falkirk scandal
Falkirk refuses to go away. This morning the Telegraph’s Steve Swinford reports: “The Labour Party has signed up more than a dozen 'phantom' members in a constituency at the heart of a union vote...
View ArticleLabour 'approved' Unite's Falkirk skulduggery, says report. So much for...
The Sunday Times has this morning released some more of the leaked emails relating to the Falkirk scandal. Or, in this instance, it has released an entire report, namely Unite’s own internal “rebuttal”...
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