By now most members will have had a chance to read both manifestos.
It is glaringly evident that CD is a student of the Blairite school of spin. His tone is somewhere between Peter Mandelson and Alisdair Campbell although slightly less appealing than either.
Despite his erudite gilding of his track record he singularly lacks the qualities we need. His manifesto is capucccino flavoured - all froth and no substance.
*** It is time to put a Rottweiler in charge of BALPA***
Maybe Chris Lankey is not such a bad idea