Glad to be Back

You may have noticed that we have been “off line” for a short time, partly out of respect after Holmes lost his seat on the Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Committee and failed to get the Gen Sec nomination of our Regional Council, and partly because we’ve been busy doing other things.
Failing to get the nomination of Regional Council is one thing but loosing his seat on Regional Committee is another. After all how can someone ask those outside the region to support him for General Secretary when colleagues in his back yard refuse to have him represent them on our Regional Committee?
We celebrate our return to the blog with good news – in the last 48hrs Y&H regional nominations for Dave Prentis have reached 31. This is greater that we had anticipated and certainly beyond the number that we had predicted at the outset of the campaign. Holmes has so far managed to secure a paltry 5 nominations with Bannister performing even worse picking up just a single branch.
Despite failing to attract any significant mainstream support in the region Holmes continues to run a narrow campaign pandering to the extreme views of the ultra left. Once an arch critic of the SWP these days Holmes increasingly looks like a fully paid up member of the newspaper selling fraternity. Delegates attending the Regional Council were met with the grotesque spectacle of SWP members with paper in one hand and Holmes election material in the other.
Meanwhile, our candidate has been doing what he does best – leading million voices, highlighting the double standards of MP’s pay and standing full square with public sector workers at home and overseas.