Rachel North: I burned my mother’s pan. I cooked chicken and bacon for a warm salad for my father and sister when we came back from hospital, and I forgot that I left the pan soaking on a high heat. I was sitting in the study, the one […]

Events in Ealing Southall have now taken an even more bizarre turn, with Iain Dale’s account of the on-off-on-off again alleged defection of Cllr Zahida Abbas Noori… Earlier today I reported that a sixth Labour councillor in Ealing Southall had defected to the Conservatives. I had had this […]

Oh dear… Looks like Cameron’s new acquisition, Gurcharan Singh, has already started leading the Tories up a very well worn garden path of overblown claims of his own self importance: The central office stooge is at it again. Iain Dale posted on his blog earlier today that a […]

Phew, with all the main action in the Ealing Southall by-election centred on dodgy defections, nicking leaflets and astroturf, its interest to reflect on the fact that the most that anyone seems able do when it comes to Lib Dem candidate, Nigel Bakhai, is take the piss out […]

Praguetory’s popped up in comments (with a stammer) to offer some sage advice… As for the impact of the defections, follow the money on the money on the betting markets. Fair enough, given that William Hill have opened books on both upcoming by-elections. For Ealing Southall, you get […]

And the Tory embarrassments keep coming in think and fast (and I’m not just referring to Praguetory here). Lib Dem Voice appear to have caught, Grant Shapps, the Tory campaign supremo in Ealing Southall, engaged in what is probably the worst attempt at astroturfing in history. In a […]

This morning I’d like to introduce you to a guy named Billy Taylor. This is him (pictured below) at the Mayor of Havering’s Charity Dinner in February this year: Now they say that confession is good for the soul, in which case young Billy’s soul must be in […]

I see that ‘Desperate Dale’ has been at the [mad] cow pie again this morning: Five Labour Councillors Defect to Ealing Southall Tories Tom Watson MP, Labour’s by election campaign manager in Ealing Southall, has just had the shock of his life. Five Labour councillors in Ealing Southall […]

Well done to Pink News for winkling an excuse out of Tory HQ for Sayeeda Warsi’s homophobic campaign leaflets at the last general election: Mrs Warsi’s campaign leaflet attacked the government’s gay rights agenda. “Labour has scrapped section 28 which was introduced by the Conservatives to stop schools […]

Well its nice to see the Tories new strategy for community cohesion starting to unfold on last night’s Question Time, even if all it amounts to is not letting Sayeeda Warsi out in public without a Neocon minder, a role covered on this occasion by the utterly charmless […]