NO MORE FRIENDS OF BIG BUSINESS......

Tribune is rallying support for AMICUS senior official Mike Griffiths as new General Secretary and, as far as I can see, he's a far better bet than the opposition. I am not , to use the Mandelson phrase "intensely relaxed" about rich City businessmen having key roles in this Party and I would hope that would be the view of a majority of grassroots activists. Including those who represent the "grassroots" on the NEC.

AN ATTEMPT by Gordon Brown to impose a City whiz-kid as Labour’s new general secretary has opened a battle of wills between the unions and Downing Street.
Support is rallying behind the former party chair and Amicus/Unite senior official Mike Griffiths in a bid to ensure the job goes to an experienced Labour insider.
Mr Brown’s favoured candidate was Paul Myners, a London businessman and chair of the Guardian Media Group and the Low Pay Commission. Mr Myners, whose career has included top jobs at Marks and Spencer and PowerGen and who also chairs the Tate Gallery, donated £9,700 to Mr Brown’s uncontested leadership campaign.
But Mr Myners is understood to have turned down the offer and Mr Brown has turned to another City figure, David Pitt-Watson, the former assistant general secretary of the Labour Party from 1997-99. Mr Pitt-Watson is the founder and chair of Hermes Equity Ownership and previous chief executive of its asset management team.