Trevor has the distinction of being hand-picked by Tony Blair, like all the candidates on the list, but unlike Labour's constituency candidates who were merely vetted and screened in order to guarantee prostrate obeisance. In common with all Labour's candidates, Trevor's history suggests that he will do what he is told, namely constrain Ken Livingstone. So anyone who has hopes for Livingstone's mayoralty must hope that Labour does badly in the assembly elections and the LSA does well. Moreover, the time is over when socialists could be scared into loyally supporting Labour with the threat of what the Tories might do. The Tories are only going so mental because they can't bear the idea that Labour could move to the right of them.
Labour says vouchers and dispersal, Tories say detention camps.
I fail to see how anyone who saw Jack Straw, playing at being an immigration officer searching in the backs of lorries for a photo opportunity, could vote Labour next week without their breakfast rebelling. None of the mayoral candidates has departed in a serious way from the government's horrible asylum agenda. Even Livingstone has joined in with the paranoid nonsense about beggars. All the main candidates refer to the positive contributions made by immigrants who arrived in the past, with the implication that that's quite enough of that. By contrast, all the LSA candidates have used their platforms to say that refugees are welcome here, and they have met with loud applause at dozens of meetings all over London A Labour vote is a vote for racist asylum policy.