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A Friendly Message To Phil Taylor

July 16th, 2008 5 Comments

Dear Phil,
Thanks for the link, but this isn’t a Labour blog.
Cheers,
Ben
(Forgive that moment of self-indulgence, dear reader. We shall have more on the report later, hopefully, but in the meantime do check out this post from MayorWatch.)
Update: Phil has now clarified his reference:
“the Watch franchise are only not Labour to the extent that they consider [...]

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Ken Livingstone responds to the ‘FAP’ report

July 16th, 2008 4 Comments

As you may have seen, Lee Jasper’s response to the ‘Forensic Audit Panel’ report appears in the comments on the previous post.
This is Ken Livingstone’s response, as issued a short time ago in a news release:
When he came to power Boris Johnson abolished the properly independent enquiry into Lee Jasper headed by Rabinder Singh QC, [...]

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Surprise! FAP report finds nothing, unless you read about it in the right-wing press

July 16th, 2008 7 Comments

In the least gobsmacking news in recent history, the ‘Forensic’ ‘Audit’ ‘Panel’ are today publishing their ‘investigation’s’ findings, which appear to amount to very little, but predictably that’s not how they’ve spun them in advance to right-wing ‘newspaper’ the Telegraph.
The Tory Troll gives the story the coverage it deserves.
Update: Lee Jasper has responded to the [...]

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