The lunatics take over the asylum...

The Young Labour putsch at LabourList is seemingly complete. Given the way that the likes of Alex Smith and Tom Miller have acted behind the scenes in the last few days to ensure that Draper is eased out, it was with a chuckle that TB noticed this on the

front page

of the website:

The guest editorship was planned a couple of weeks back, but given the behaviour of Miller and Smith, apparently paid employees of LabourList, it is hilarious they would be so brazen with their takeover. There has been a flurry of phonecalls and emails doing the rounds from these two in the last 48 hours. Draper has clearly taught the young ones all the tricks of the trade, and they have turned round and stabbed him the back. LabourList risked going down with Draper but it has, for better or worse, been snatched by the junior members of LabourList who have seemingly built a new team of contributors to stamp their own authority on the website.

No wonder they will be toasting their success at the Young Labour Conference this Saturday. Should make for some entertaining stories...