What better place to start any new role than with induction?
So what might await the new National Executive Committee members, Ed Miliband, Ken Livingstone, Oona King and Luke Akehurst?
I remember my requests in the summer of 2008. I asked for a copy of the budget and management accounts. No I was told. I could have sight neither of the budget or the management accounts - such information was only available to the Business Board and the Audit Committee, but I was welcome to see the Accounts for 2007 as set out in the Conference papers. As for a diagramatic layout of the organisation, its staff and their reporting lines. I was assured one would be available shortly - that was on 6 October 2008 - I'm still waiting.
So beware comrades, there is a shadow management running the Labour Party effectively answerable to no one.