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It’s crunch time this evening for the Stop Kev (unsettle Hoey) campaign that is being carried out by the right wing of the @LambethLabour party. Thursday sees the AGM of the Vauxhall Constituency Labour Party, and the vote to see if @kevindcraig remains as the Secretary.

You may remember how a squeaky clean (and recently newly elected) Lambeth councillor was given the task to unsettle the left of the party, remove @kevindcraig, replace him with a Nu Labour puppet and then allow the Poster Boy to take on the power of the fragrant Mss Hoey.

Blimey.

But even with the local branches seemingly turning their backs on the Nu Labour project and endorsing @kevindcraig, the Coup d’Vauxhall is still in the balance. No surprises that the Oval branch backed the Poster Boy 11-3, but a bit of an eyebrow raising moment when Bishop’s ward went the way of the left.

The AGM, being held at the Wheatsheaf Community Centre this evening, will see the branch delegates voting on the decision. This should be a formality, but a last ditch attempt by the squeaky clean (and recently newly elected) Lambeth councillor has now come into play.

Shame on the Stockwell branch, who having voted to back @kevindcraig, is now sending the right wing of the party to try and tip the vote. @RichardAngell and Councillor Bigham will be doing the best for their Poster Boy later this evening at the Wheatsheaf.

The outcome is still far too tight to call. The only certainty is that if the right wing puppet Paul Gadsby is put in place as Secretary, Hoey will start to look wobbly, leaving the path open for the Poster Boy come 2015.