Nominations have been closed for 39 weeks, so when is the election?
If you know, you know.
A comment last week called this, "An odd little consequence of the miners' strike. Take out the NUM, and who do they even ask to suggest names?" There is something in that. Durham City has its posh university, its teaching hospital, its public school that even in its present form dates from 1414, and its role as a major centre of the Church of England. The less coaly south of the county has a bit in the way of squirarchy and that sort of thing.
But the old coal and steel belt? Without the NUM, then where do you even begin to look? And the NUM went away a long time ago. Once you have taken out the people with potential conflicts of interest, the already overcommitted, and the emphatically retired, then even out of, say, 90,000 people, you can arrive at one name. This I know, because twice in six years, that one name has been David Lindsay.
When will the election be?
ReplyDeleteWho knows? Perhaps they will reopen nominations after a year?
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