Who wants to be the next MP for Islington North?
THERE was a bit of an all stand-down moment, locally, when Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership contest last summer. For those north London Labour figures who hold a keen [READ ON]
August 2016
Booing at the Kilburn State: You’re only as good as your worst behaved supporter?
YOU may have heard the joke doing the rounds: How do you get thousands of people to turn up to an Owen Smith rally? Tell them Jeremy Corbyn is going to be there. The response from Corbyn's opponents is usually a 1980s picture of Michael Foot in front of a crowd with a sarcastic comment about the packed out assembly halls which lined his path to government. This has been one of the milder exchanges between two sides of the same party over these last few weeks.
But what of these large rallies like the one at the old Gaumont State Cinema on the Kilburn High Road on Sunday evening? [READ ON]
Labour leadership contest ‘will be close’: Theo urges Gospel Oak members to reject Corbyn
LABOUR Party members in Gospel Oak are today receiving a personal message urging them to vote for Owen Smith from one of their ward councillors. Theo Blackwell, the [READ ON]
The £200 million bin deal headache
IT is often said backstage that Meric Apak wanted the housing portfolio when he was elevated to Camden’s cabinet last May, but the decision didn’t lie with him and [READ ON]
Tulip Siddiq ‘leaning towards’ supporting Owen Smith
HAMPSTEAD and Kilburn Tulip Siddiq, who has been mildly goaded about her apparent non-committal stance on this summer’s Labour leadership contest, popped up on Radio [READ ON]
Yes, I’m a Trotskyist, says former deputy council leader
SUBSCRIBERS will be well-versed in the spat between Labour Party member Neil Fletcher and the council leadership which led to threats of disciplinary action last year. [READ ON]
A voice from the streets, or cult art?
A COUPLE of months ago (and before she became PM), a giant street art image of Theresa May peering over the wall could be seen in Stucley Place in Camden Town. She was [READ ON]
Holborn and St Pancras CLP nominates Jeremy Corbyn
IT’S not like the old days, there’s no need to get a glass and cup it against the wall to hear what’s happening at Labour’s members meetings. Updates [READ ON]
Lib Dem councillor defects to Labour
NOT in Camden. Don’t worry Lib Dems, Flick Rea has not crossed the floor. But over the borough boundary in Haringey, it’s surely a bit of a loss for the party to [READ ON]
Corbyn or Smith: who will Holborn and St Pancras members back?
THESE pages have seized up over the last fortnight – we all gotta have a summer holiday (back Monday) – but tonight’s leadership nomination vote of the [READ ON]
Richard Osley 