BBC/Mail: Alan Milburn and Alistair Campbell "meet four days a week"

"The Mail on Sunday is pre-occupied by Labour's treatment of Michael Howard.

It says a 'secret hit squad' has been set up to mount personal attacks on the Conservative leader.

This group includes Alistair Campbell and Alan Milburn and, according to the Mail, will meet four days a week between now and the General Election.

The paper reckons there is a whiff of 'low totalitarian gangsterism' about this approach to campaigning, as the election looms."

Four days a week is a lot, considering Alan spends only two days a week in Darlington...

Don't vote Milburn

With this site, I try to be fairly neutral. It was set up as an attempt to get Alan Milburn to communicate better what he does for the people of Darlington, by encouraging him to set up his own blog (or take over this one). Despite a few posts hereby his staff, he's failed to do this. (He has a Blackberryhand-held email device, so he could post from that, it wouldn't take up much of his time).

Don't vote Milburn is a less neutral site...

(The link to here from that site, is slightly wrong; this site is nothing to do with local party workers, other than the posts by Kath.) He's fixed this now.

An election is looming

"This proxy-blog is 2nd in Yahoo and 3rd in MSN for 'alan milburn', but best we can do in Google is 8th (and that's the Voidstar feed) for 'alan milburn mp' - so this weblog needs some serious Google-juice. This blog needs the most love. Please link to it."

Manic is scheming, ready for the election.

I never understood why I'm so far down the listings for Alan Milburn at Google. I was first/second within day of starting the site. So, give me your linkage!

Work permitting, I'll be blogging more here during the election, but if any other Darlingtonians want logins, drop me an email. The link's over on the right.

Alan Milburn and Gordon Brown

Another link-dump, I'm afraid. I'm "busy, busy, busy" at the moment and Alan's busy manouvering for higher office and not appearing much locally, as far as I can tell (though there was a picture of him holding a clipboard in this month's Town Crier).

• Reservoir Dogs II: war, peace and panto
• Warring rivals try some peace, love and understanding, man
• What the three politicians are really telling us

All stories about the really quite pathetic jockeying for position, I'm afraid.