Harsh words from Labour foghorn and Lord Ashcroft lunch partner John Spellar for one Indy columnist last night. Spellar let rip at the party’s loony left at a Progress/Labour History event:

“It’s perfectly true that the organised evil, the militant socialist workers and the communist party are nothing like as strong as they once were but the sort of mindset is still there. There’s some teenager who seems to have a column in The Independent who says ‘Labour finally has some real competition on the left.’ Well whoopee.”

Ed and co have clearly twigged that if they want to win in 2015 doing the opposite of everything Owen says would be a good start…